Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-09-17
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seven head were found to be diseased.
si A German at Newark has tested the merits
Of his new patent coffin by allowing himself
to be buried alive. He was resurrected two
hours afterwards, without apparent exhaus-
ton.
The floor Of yestry in Boston, occupied by
Methodists, began to sink Sunday eYening
during service. The, congregation started in
great fright for the windows and doors, and
two ladies were badly hurt.
A little 'boy named Frank Combs, was
smothered to death, on the LIST, in the ware
house of Strong h Newell, in Dwight, Ill. He
was playing in bin of corn, and drawn down
with the grain when it was let into the bottom
Of the elevator.
Since the organization of the New York
Board of Auditors, April Is, 1861 claims
against the city to the amount of 81, 600
have been presented, of which only $500, 600
wero allowed. Four millions were rejected
and the remainder await further action
The debt statement cannot be prepared for
publication until Saturday or Monday next.
1t will show some increase, mainly attributed
to the payment for the purchase OF Alaska.
Its custom duties for the month have been
comparatively large.
The Washington, ID. @. police, on Friday,
made bonfire ofnearly three hendred thou
sand dollars in counterfeit Treasury notes,
bank notes, currency and counterfeit gold
and silver coin, quantity of speilmark, and
some Confederate money, large lot OF lot
terry policies, and number of Gambling
tools.
The Governor Of South Carolina has issued
q circular rel tive to armed organizations and
the introduction of arms into the state, an
nouncing his disapprovalof both, and calling
on all persons to keep the peace. He says
no will exercise all his authority for that pur-
pose.
The Department of State has been officially
advised that, in consequence Of the. preva--
lence of q contagious disease among horned
cattle in this country, the Canadian Govern
ment has temporarily prohibited the importa-
ton of such cattle into that province from
the United States
The boiler in the steam Touring mill al @.
s. Crane Il Co., in Marshall Michigan, ex-
ploded recently. The entire enain' house
was torn to pieces. The chimney, 1870 feet
high, fell, burying boy beneath. He was
not killed and will recover. The loss will
amount to $4,000.
Secretary Seward sent instructions on
Thursday by the cable to Minister Webb, at
Rio Janeiro, directing him to insist upon the
passage Of the United States steamer Wash
fngton through the allied lines; to ascertain,
b anu Ill Vaso VI iOluo"i, w "Sii'iiN ii'S P'''S
ports o.taH rf
Larldn G. Meade, the Vermont sculptor,
has arrived in Chicago from Florence. with o
design for the Lincoln monument at SPRING
field. Ill. large number Of designs for the
monument have been received by the Nation
al Association al Springfield, and will be dis
played in the Senate Chamber of that city on
the LIST Of April
Al the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Saturday,
the following gunboats were sold: Austria,
for $40, 900, TO Mr.. Bradley, Boston mer--
chant Tullahoma for S24,50O, and the Don
for $4,000, to New York parties. They
we're sold without any ordinance or OUTFIT,
and the prices were considered below their
value.
N"T The director of the Bureau Of Statistics
furnishes the following information relative
to immigration to the United States during
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1868: Total
number Of passengers arrived, 323, 745, OF
which 4,766 were citizens OF the United
States, and 8, ,126 foreigners not intending to
remain in the United States, The returns
are compared with 1866 and 1867, and show a
heavy falling off.
BY direction of the Secretary OF War the
following officers of the Veteran Reserve
Corps are mustered ont and honorably DIS
charged from the service, their services be-
ing no longer required: Lieut.. Col Freder-
ick f. Palmer, Third regiment; Breyet Major
James P. Remington, Captain OF First regi-
ment; Captain Geo i. Judd, Fourth regi-
mont: Brevet Captain A. W. McKulp, Tenth
regiment; Second Lieutenant John NJ Foote,
Twenty-sixth regiment; Br vet Captain James
Walker, Twenty-second regiment; Second
Lieutenant Chas. NJ. Dodge, Twenty-fourth
regiment
Mr.. Seward's renewed offer of mediation
with Spain is likly to be accepted.
II is reported that all the French soldiers
will soon be recalled from Rome.
Oueen Isabella of Spain will form minis
try from the moderate party, with Coneha as
President
Edwin Forrest is at present securing sew
erAl first-class actors to travel with him the
coming season.
The corporation Of Cork passed unsni-
mously, a resolution urging the release OF all
Fenian prisoners.
The winter in Chill was unusually severe,
and several snow slides had occurred. An aY-
alanche buried "a persons.
A Panama letter saws. The natives open
ly declare that annexation to the United
States is the only salvation Tor the Isthmus.
Private advices from Panama state that
fearful earthquake took place in Calas on the
18th inst, which lasted seven minutes. No
lives were lost, but many houses were in
jured.
IL is announced that the new British Parlia-
ment will meet on the 10th of December. The
meeting will be merely for the qualification
Of members and other preliminary business.
The Queens speech will be delivered on the
14th.
Terrible fires have again broken ont in the
woods in the neighbOrhood Of Belle Eyart
aud Sunidale, on the Northern Railway OF
Canada. On Saturday the station at Sunidae
caught fire, and in a short time the entire
village containing twenty-five or thirty houses
was in ashes.
The American yacht Sappho has sent
challenge to the English yacht Aline, which
has been accepted. The Cambria which won
the late race has gone to Spain for some time
and consequently the Aine was challenged,
the latter having been but few seconds be-
hind the Cambria
Casualties.
youug eirlnamed Mary Ann Russell, who
was killed on Thursday night by being run
over on the Hudson River r. r.. at Peekskill,
proves to have been violated by two men and
left on the track insensible. The villains are
still at large.
The steamer ]. X. Robertson exploded her
D0ller DaIuruhy hlICTuOOu uchI oSlnVg Aanu-
ing, illinois, on the Mississippi river. The
engineer and fireman were badly scalded,
the latter, it is thought, fatally.
Great alarm was created in Boston on Sat-
urday by the sudden sickness Of some seven
ty children, caused by eating castor beans,
quantities of which they found and mistook
for peanuts. All are in a fair way to re-
cover.
chandelier was stolen Saturday from the
residence of Mrs. Thompson, on West Thirty
third street. New. York, and on that lady on
toring the room with a lighted lamp in the
evening, an explosion followed, seriously
burning her and shattering the house.
one-armed man, named Thomas r. Will
son, supposed TO belong to Chicago, was run
over in springfield, Ill, and instantly killed,
by the mail train going north on the Chicago
and Alton Railroad, on the LIST. From papers
found upon Ills person, it il supposed that
deceased had formerly served in the Third IL
linois Cavalry.
Monday afternoon portion Of the east wall
Of the buildng on the north side of Columbia
street, west OF Broadway, Albany, N. Y,
which was in nrooess Of demolition fell, car