Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-26
NEW YORK riELANGE.
Arrived.


Arrived.
NEW YORK, Aug 25.
The steamship Harmonic, from Ham
burg, has arrived.
~ Strike.
The journeymen tailors here last night
organized for a strike. - os-l : -
ef zs4G Discharged. iaae,i
Mrs. Jordan was discharged from cnsto-
dy yesterday on the charge of killing one
Nicholson, who marderously assaulted her
and her husband. ...a ~ ~
Nash's harness factory, on Flatbush av-
enue, Brooklyn, was burned last night
Loss $4,000. E ss,,,t...ss -.,4.,--...s +
.saii; Diseased Cattle. /,
Seventeen diseased cattle found their
way to the city. Five were traced TO
butcher ON Stanton street, were they were
cut up and sold to the Inhabitants of the
Thirteenth Ward. One died before 1t could
be slaughtered. The butcher was not ar
rested. The others have not feen traced as
yet, but it is supposed they have been sold
to-citizens as good beef. sdsqg =
$500 Stabbed. grV . Re
Patrick Morrissey yesterday afternoon
stabbed his mother, while in Yorkville
Police Court, where she had just entered a
bing his sister. He was arrested. His sis
ter will die. C7flsGsfA EsG =
Drowned.rf,
Henry King and Jacob Meyer fell over
board during the fight of sroughs on the
steamboat going to the prize fight yester-
day, and were drowned. de7 @
Shooting Affair.
From various accounts of the shooting
affair at the Broadway theatre last night it
seems it was murderous assault upon the
frightened actors and actresses, who offer
no resistance to the roughs employed as
deputy sheriffs tn arrest Hakrins, upon an
Injunction issued by Judge Barnard. Har-
kins escaped by jumping over the orches-
tire and made for the street. As the actors
stood in body the fellows fired two OF
three volleys into their midst The mur-
derous roughs who shot the parties were
all to-day committed to await the result .ol
the injuries of the wounded. ssE -
The Conternpt Case. .-,s5
The examination of councilmen arrested
proceeded with this morning, owing to the
absence of Chauncey Shafer, counsel for the
contestants. Judge Barnard said from The
statements made to him this morning he
did not believe the Board of Councilmer
intended to commit q contempt against the
Court. The case was then continued until
tomorrow. ,--.s,,r 90. VI. .,.-... ,-,..-
Returned.
Henry J. Raymond, Esq., returned in
the steamer Perriere, greatly improved in
health by his European visit.
q TEsE,Z s Crime. - y E - =
The past sixty days have been unusually
prolific of criminal deeds. During that
brief period eleven murders, sixty-twC
besides the usual compliment OF minor out
RACES, have been chronicled.
Dead.
Samuel j. Beebe, one of the founders of q
New York stock exchange died recently
aged 50. .,i- .o-- --.-l.-rss ..,,,-.7
Suicide.
John Hoffman, French chemist, com
mitted suicide yesterday with corrosive
mestic difficulty was the cause. r,.-,.s ,--
Poison. ~ oe -iI
Rumor says the recent death of a keeper
of an uptown fashionable brothel is being
Investigated, and suspicious are entertain
ed that his death was obtained by poison
administered by boarder. niv ssrr.t ss-
..-..,-, Gone to Troy. 7ssf
Jerry Crocker aud Henry Andrews, o.
Hartford, have gone to Troy, where they
will start for this city in light wherries.-
They will row to Peck slip, where they
will ship one of their boats on one of the
Hartford steamers and go as far as Sayshill.
and pull up the river to Hartford, which
they expect to reach Saturday night.
Reduction of Rates. g.
The managers of the New York, New.
foundland and London Telegraph Com
pany announce that on the first of Sep.
tember the tariff of rates will be reduced
Messages of ten words will be sent from
Ireland for $16.65 in gold or S24 25 in cur
rency. -z--7o ey., aaTa1 20 stAa s0E
Defense.
Sheriff O'Brien, in letter to Justict
Shandley, defended the action of his dis
putes at the Broadway theater and ex-
presses willingness to assume all respon.
sibility. He asserts that they were assault
ed by grand mob of carpenters, scene
shifters and actors, and believing them
selves in jeopardy resorted to violence witt
fire arms. sr,s-F.rr zqss rs-FEfs-s
ss-V Fenfan Convention.
The Convention continued in secret ses
sion to-day. The annual report of Chic
Executive Savage was read, and Col. o.
Brien, the permanent President, made al
address. The military members of thi'
brotherhood are also holding convention
with Gen. Dennis Burke as temporar,
chairman. lHH ziil-E 17s-f,.
+ ss5ss The Panic.
There is nothing further in relation t.
the cattle disease. q- r-E -s fasi~r
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