Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-03-12
News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.


tGoLp closed in New York yesterday at
1885:
In England, during 1867, the names OF
1,O26,422 living children were registered an
increase ofabout 1900 over the number for
1866. The rate of emigration was 537 dali
ly, and the natural increase of population
exceeded this number by 6l0 day.
sOr the rioters at Wards Island in New
York harl,or, twenty-four have been SEN
fenced to Imprisonment, and all others
known to be engaged in the riot were BAN
ished from the island. The Irish and Ger
mans have since been quartered separate
ly.
LOTTERIES got up in England for chari-
table purposes have been stopped by the
English Home Secretary. The occasion of
the interdiction was an ''annual sale by
ballot for the benefit of the suffering thou
sands of London and the homeless poor OF
Oxford"
AN Arkansas negro expou nding the
Scriptures, had occasion to touch upon an
tediluvian longevity, and in the course of
his remarks said that in those days men
didn't marry before they were 200, and, in
fact were twenty-five years old before they
were BORN.
A RECENT writer upon the subject of
angling has devoted great deal of space
in his work to prove that fishes feel no pain
from fish hooks. He thinks that in this re-
spect they are like insects, who appear
quite Indifferent to mutilations that would
cause instant death to animals.
STATE NEWS.
WE learn that on Tuesday evening oflast
week, at Leayittsburgh, says the Warren
Constitution, a man named Stull, in attempt
ing to get on moving train, slipped feet
foremost under the wheels of the car, and
had both legs literally ground to pieces.
He died on the following morning.
On Saturday night at about 10 o'clock
the ice in the river gave way. under the inn
meuse pressure of water, which had stead
lily been pouring in all day, from every run,
rivulet, and water course, completely fill
ing the channel to overfowing. The
movement of the immense fields of ice, as
they went surging and cracking down the
river, was grand, and occasionally report
as of artillery would be heard, as the cham
mel became filed and the river became
gorged. The ice became blockaded at a
point known as MAC Ripple, about mile
and a half below here, and the solid cakes
of ice, some eighteen inches in thickness,
were piled up to the height of twenty feet,
forming grand spectacle. This stoppage
forced the water back, and in short space
of time the low lands were completely sub
merged, and the water rising rapidly. On
Sunday morning, at an early hour, throngs
of people were assembled on the different
bridges, and river bank, to witness the nov
el sight, and the passing of articles of per-
sonal property down the raging stream,
showed that the loss along its course would
not be trifing. During the day, the ice
had continued to gorge until it nearly came
to the lower dam, when the current
changed, and set in across the pasture fields
below Van Gorder's mill sweeping away
the fences, and doing considerable injury
to Pennock's soap works. At II O'Clock
large addition to the mill on the south side,
fell with crash, the sills having been torn
out by the pressure of ice against it, de-
stroying considerable grain that had been
stored in it, aud setting adritt lot of
empty flour barrels thatwere soon crushed
to pieces. At2P NJ. the gorge broke, and
the channel soon was clean. the water fall
ing rapidly in consequence, and it was
thought that the exhibition was over, but
this morning, (Monday) it is higher than it
has been before, although the principle
damage has been done. We learn that con-
siderable damage was done to the 4. & G.
w. r. r. by the washing away of track
between this point and Braceville. Part of
Packard and Barnum's switch to their roll
ing mill, was washed away by an obstrep-
erous little run, that took this occasion to
swell itself, but can be easily replaced as
soon as the water subsidies. So says the
Warren Constitution.