Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-06-08
News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
GOLD closed in New York Saturday oil
1885.
PAREPA has engaged tn give six conceI !
in San Francisco, and if s19 200 in gold | /,
subscribed, she will add twenty four rel
sentations of Italian opera.
A NEGRO girl in Memphis recently at
tempted to poison her fathers family. 81
alleged as the reason that he would not pei
init her to join the Methodist Church, b,
being Baptist.
A DRUNKEN Sailor, on Tuesday night, tea
through the large plate glass window l.
Hudnut's drug store, in the Herald build-
ing, New York. The glass cost four hum
dred dollarsl
Provost PARADoL is to revise the French
Dictionary for the French Acad emy for
the salary of $500 year. IT he works ac-
cording to his pay, he will make but little
progress in the revisal.
THE Sportsmens' Convention, which was
to have met at Buffalo yesterday, has been
postponed for few days, to enable the
managers to procure the reg uisite number
of pigeons for the shooting matches.
@REv. Mr.. DOWNING fell dead in the pull
pit while conducting religious services in
the Methodist Episcopal Church at West
field, Union county, N. j., last Sunday
He was subject to heart disease.
The Indiana Masons met at Indianapolis,
last Wednesday. Reports for the year
show a decrease ofone hundred and thirty
three lodges, and an increase of one thol-
sand eight hundred and fifty-nine members
over the previous year. The receipts for
the year were $1,44s,0OO, expenditures
$952OOO.
The novel experiment of moving house
by water was tried at Bridgeport, Copnec-
ticut, with success the other day. A large
the draw bridge and down the river, land
ing safely in East Bridgeport, its destina-
tion.
DURING rain-storm last Friday, a
water-spout swept down Moody's Noun
tain, in Hope township, Knox county, Me-,
cutting three ravines down the side of the
mountain, one of them four rods wide and
eight feet deep, and also uprooting in its
course trees ten inches in diameter, and
three feet higher than ever known before.
STATE NEWS.
The st. ClairsUille Gazette says: Two men
in Cadiz, Ohio, have bought whole town
ship, 23,040 acres, in Stanton county,
Nebraska, and will cultivate it as farm.
Their residence will be put in the center,
with streets laid out, and an avenue around
the whole estate, lined with the Usage
hedge.
THE Morgan Herald says: On Sunday eve
ming, May "a, between eight and nine
o'clock, as Mr.. John Crawford, OF Wright
vile, was returning home from Bishop
Vile, when about two miles east of the lat
ter place, three men sprang from the
woods, one of them seizing his horse and
demanding his money. Not instantly COM
plying, the ruffian struck him blow
above the right eye, stunning him, and
then dragged him from his horse. He then
seized him by the throat and choked him.
while the Others proceeded to rife his
pockets, taking his pocket-book contain
ing some $40 in bills and about so cents in
scrip. He also had upon his person q
watch, which the villains failed to discov-
er, or which for other reasons they left un-
disturbed. Suspicion rests upon parties
near Bishopville, who were seen together
during the afternoon of the same day. NOT
far from the place where the robbery was
committed.
The Ne,oark Aduocate says: On Monday
the Catholic German Benevolent Society of
Newark had a festival at the County Fair
Grounds, two similar societies from Column
bus, and one from GAINESVILLE, being its
guests. The visitors were met at the depot
by the home society, preceded by Simp-
sons band, and after forming in process
sion, marched with their fine banners
through the principal streets to the Cath
Ollie Church, where mass was impressively
performed by Rev. Father Lewis. Then
they proceeded to the Fair Ground, where
they spent several hours in pleasant inter-
course and exhilerating sports. In the
evening the visitors returned to their
homes. A finer or more respectable look
ing body of men than those who walked in
she procession as it marched through our
streets would be difficult to find.