Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-29
News of the Day
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e GoLD closed in Cincinnati yesterday at
145H buying. ~ ~ 9S' s-'. +2 70
Ira ALDRrcH, the black tragedian' left
$4,000. 5ss5-f5 - 5-islI 7.~ i-a t.f rrf7-s l-i
Du CHAILLu is at Saratoga and Brignoli
is at Long Branch.
A THIEF stole $500 worth of false teeth in
New York. few days since. 4 S q 5EIl
CRops at the Island of Saint Croix have
suffered extensively from the drouth.
sssMARRYIsr,' is the new name for big
amist out West. The West is great
country, but terrible on the English lam
guage.
A YOUNG woman of Hartford, while on a
recent somnambulistic tour, fell down
flight of stairs and was badly injured.
THE new sheriff of Wilmington, N. C.,
has appointed two negroes and one white
man deputies, a negro deputy to be the
jailor.
REPORTS from various parts of Holland,
struction Of the crops. .5s o3
TIE first prize for defamation at Har-
ward College this year was taken by col
ored youth, named Richard Theodore Gree
ner.
vLABoRERs are so scarce in Maine that
farmers are willing to pay almost any
price asked to assist them in cutting their
hay.
A GROOM in Englnnd, charged with hav-
ing poisoned race horse at Barnstaple,
has been sentenced to five years. penal SER
vitude.
THE New York dog law contains clause
to the effect that " no boy is permitted to
seize a dog unless he has reached the age
of eighteen.n @
THE Republican Convention in the Sixth
Iowa District, after three days balloting
nominated Charles Pomeroy, lawyer, OF
Webster City, for Congress.
"A LITTLE girl eight years old, named
Kinzella, drowned herself in Indianapolis
because her mother would not allow her to
wear new dress.
A BENEVOLENT gentleman of Massachu-
setts erected church at his own expense,
and gave it to society. with the single re-
striction that Christianity should never be
assailed in its pulpit. ~ ~ -. -
THE Hungarian Diet is about to have laid
before 1t marriage bill similar to that
just passed in Australia. Notwithstand-
ing the hostility of the clergy, little doubt
ia entertained at Pesth that the measure
will pass. ss II. - r
TIE Island Of Barbadoes was visited by
q very severe cyclone on the night of the
10th instant, which caused considerable
damage. Some of the vessels in port collid-
ed and sustained more or less damage, and
some few lives were lost.
ASA PRocroR, of Andoyer, Me-, hitched
his horse to q board fence, and fed him
with hay in big box. There was crack
in one of the boards big enough for his cow
to lick her tongue through at the hay. The
horse bit her tongue off so that he had to
kill her.
DURING a late ascent of Mont Blanc the
stones by which the guide, Edwd, Simon,
was struck and his body carried over the
precipice. 1t was afterwards found, mutt
lated, and carriedinto Chamounix. s
The Syracuse Courier mentions the fact
that two farmers in the town of Camilus,
N. Y, have sold two thousand bushels of
wheat for 50 20 per bushel. The offer of
81 81 was refused last spring, when prices
were going the other way. fj 3as asf oil
TIE trotting horse Ben.l Franklin has
been sold for $S, 500 to h. A. Hall, of Bos-
ton. Last season, with running mate, he
made his mile at the Riverside Park in 2:1s,
and about the same time hitched up with
Jessie Wales he made the fastest double
team time on record. 3e
WILLIAMS COLLEGE is going to have an
art gallery with two large halls for the
open library societies, to be erected just
west of the gymnasium; and the frame
building now on that side is to be removed
and converted into college boarding
house on the common system. t-s.
A MOT of the French Emperor is thus re-
ported: One of the Cabinet said, in his
presence, "If the election takes place next
year, we shall see two hundred new and un-
known deputies in the House," "Very
WE'LL" replied the Emperor, 81 shall be de-
lighted to make their acquaintance"
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