Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-01-01
News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
GOLD closed in New York yesterday at
1885. y M J
A FRENCH wit says that the gibbet is a
species of fattery to the human, race.
Three or four persons are hung, from time
to time, for the purpose of making the rest
believe that they are virtuous.
THE schooner Palmerston, of Novia Sco-
tia, went ashore in Squirrel Harbor, Booth
Bay, ON the coast of Maine, and took fire
from the upsetting of stove and was des-
troyed. The mate and two men are report
ed as lost. sr-s,55 x rrr7.- .-eszs
Gov. HUMPHREY refuses to accept the
resignation of Judges Harris and Elicit, of
the Supreme Court of Mississippi, on ac-
count of the diff Guilty of finding lawyers
in the State who can take the test oath.
THE bark Texas, from Bremen, arrived
at Galveston, on the 14th inst, with 200
German immigrants, who intend settling
in the Lone Star State. This is the third
or fourth arrival of German immigrants at
.Galves ton this year. ~,
In Russia, woman claiming to be the
Virgin Mary, ordered the people not to pay
their taxes. They obeyed her until the GO
vernment officers sent the virgin to Siberia,
shut up her temple, and compelled her fol-
lowers to come down with the money,
A YOUNG man who six years ago joined
the Oneida Community, but who has with
drawn, taking with him $500, which he de-
posted in the Community when he Joined
it, now threatens suit to recover $9l50-.
the amount due, as he claims, for six years.
services at $500 year, and the interest on
his $500. There have been several suits of
this sort against other communicable
Separatists, Shakers and similar societies,
bat they have been generally decided
against the claimants.
The Ohio river is once more in a navi-
gable condition from Pittsburgh to the
mouth, although receding at the former
point, with ten feet in the channel. A
large number of coal tugs has left Pittsburg
with more to follow, with nearly 100000
bushels of coal for Cincinnati, Louisville
and lower ports. The steamer GAINESVILLE
has been cut down and sunk by the ice at
Wheeling. The steamer Julia, sunk at
Council Bend, in the lower Mississippi, on
Monday, is valued at 900, and insured in
Cincinnati for $33, $50. The steamer Little
Rock was sunk and burned above Claren-
don, in White river on the 23d instant. No
lives lost. She is valued at $4,000.
The rapidity with which Missouri is be-
ing settled is illu strated by statement of
the Bates County (Mo.) Record. Two years
ago that county had not population of
five hundred souls, nor school, nor an or
ganizsd church. Now it has forty-ffve
public schools in operation, church organ
izations in almost every school district,
and over three thousand one hundred per-
sons, between the ages of five and twenty
one-showing population already equal
to that before the war. Over $15, 900 taxes
have been levied for tuition the.past year,
and about S17,O32 for building school
houses. rv1s
STATE NEWS.
THE Vinton Record says: AS credit to
Macarthur, we can say there has never
been but two games of base ball played in
the town.
Hon. LOUIS SHAEFFER has built an Opera
House at Canton, Ohio, which will hold
1000 persons. Cost $4,000. 1t was OPEN
ed by brilliant assemblage on Monday
night. ias1 cFf.fls -
AT youngstown. on Friday last, little
girl, daughter of F. G. Ewing, of that
place, was killed by a runaway team while
playing in the school yard. Four others
were injured at the same time.
The Hon. Jonathan Kinney, Mayor of
Dayton, resigned his office in order to take
that of State Senator, to which he had been
elected. Capt. F. D. Mitchell has been
chosen by the Dayton City Council! to fill
the vacant Mayoralty.
On Thursday last Mr.. John Damn, who
resides in Russia township, was kicked by
vicious horse in the face, and severely
injured. His nose was broken all to pieces
and mashed fiat to his face, and his face was
80 badly bruised that it will undoubtedly
.disfgure him for lite -Lorain Consultation.
On the 18th ult., while Mr.. Henry Voc
gle and Mr.. Uriah Kaiser, were out gun
ing, and crossing cattle brake three and
half miles northwest of Mansfield, on the
p, Ft. w. & G. railway, Mr.. Kaiser fell.
and his gun striking on one of the brakes,
accidently went off, the whole load of his
gun passing through the center of the
breast of Mr.. Voegle, who was but a few
feet behind him, killing him almost in
stantly.
The Marietta Register says: John Greg
ory, of Ludlow township, who will be SO
years old next week-January 4th-rode
twenty-five miles on horseback the other
~day, coming into town to testify in the
contested election case that he voted the
Union ticket at the last October election.
He is native of Philadelphia, but lived
sabout half century in Augusta county,
Virginia, fifteen or eigeteen years in Mon.
roe county, Ohio, and for the last six or
eight years in Ludlow. He bids fair now
to reach 100 years OF age. His parents
were Germans.
The same paper says: John Stewart, on
the Dana farm, in Waterford township,
raised the past season on II a acres of Mus
kingum bottom, 1,O2O bushels of sound
corn. Hard to beat, considering the sea-
son. The crop was much injured by the
wind.
The Pomeroy Telegraph says: We were
an eye witness to a most marvellous scene
in our County Court room a few days since,
which was nothing less than four lawyers
reading from one Bible at the same time
Two of the parties were sitting down, and
held the book between them, while the
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