Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-05-21


FOR SCHOOL coNMIssIoNER.-
SAMUEL J. KIRK WOOD,- of Seneca.
FOR CLERK OF SUPREME COURT.
JOHN m. WEBB. OF MahoninE.
News of the Day.
AtiFf laa GENERAL. NEWS. q ,'''sA
GoLD closed in New York Saturday at
1899.
GuIzor has announced that he will notre
enter political life.
A FRENcH Catholic Church is to be
erected in Utica, Ny. ~g5f 5fssrf,ssT
ANOTHER new park is proposed in Bos-
ton, to rival the Common, we believe.
FIVE separate thuIderstorms visited WI
mona, Min, on a recent Sunday.
The Emperor of Russia has sent five
valuable horses to the Sultan as e present.
CROP prospects for stone fruit and the
grape in france are good. Grain also looks
well.
IT has cost Chicago bitters manufac-
turer $500 to make his medicine without
license as rectifier of spirits.
New HAMpsHIRE paid s250,0OO of her
State debt during the past year, and, at that
rate, will liquidate the whole in ten years.
A NEW JERSEY paper notices a hens
egg left at its office, which measures 81
inches in circumference.
RUSSIA did four times as much work in
manufacturing material of war last year
as in any preceding year.
A LADY has been expelled from one of
the church choirs, In New York for re-
peatedly reading novels during service.
In Arkansas, white man has been fined
$50 and costs by colored Justice for as
saulting freedman.
A CONVENTION of aronauts. with the
Duke of Argyle as President, will meet in
England this summer. ~.
The French papers announce that King
Theodore, of Abyssinia, killed himself with
ale sabre de son PEREZ" Ffis99i
A SCHOOL teacher in Pittsburgh fell dead
on Wednesday just afters chastising
scholar.
AT Berlin, lately, 1t is reported that
woman seventy two years of age gave birth
to q child.
The British Government has ordered in
quiries, with view to the preservation Of
forest trees in Australia.
The O'Connor Don, member of the Brit
ish Parliament, was lately married to Miss
G. NJ. Perry, at the village of Avon Dassetr,
England.
LAST Friday the schooner Free Demo-
crat was found footing bottom upward in
Lake Michigan, and the crew of five per-
sons are supposed to have perished.
The French Empress has been treated
hom@opathically for sore throat, and
homeopathy bids fair to become fashion,
able in Franae.
Rev. DIR. NEWMAN, of New Orleans, re-
Gently lectured on the "Holy Land'' In
Chicago, and contemporary thinks the
contrast of scenes must have been vivid.
DURING the first week OF May, in Chi
cago, one hundred and ninety-nine war
rauty deeds were filed for record. Real es-
tate to the amount of 81, 1873 526 was sold in
six days.
SENATOR DIXON has received the nomi-
nation for reelection as US. Senator by
the Democrats of the Connecticut Legisla-
ture. 1t is of course only compliment.
A PORTLAND lady who has kept count OF
the quantity she has consumed, has used 30
miles of spool cotton within twelve years
in doing her family sewing.
JOHN L. HAMMOND, an old citizen of Bal
timore, who was formerly in the real estate
business, died in that city few days since,
aged eighty-one.
WILLIAM 81. WEBB, Esq, the shipbuilder,
boasts of having constructed one hundred
and thirty three vessels, of various descrip-
tions.
ANEW York fishmonger, while cleaning
ach small iron key. such as is used in
locking sailors chests.
THE violoncello of Herr Maximilian
Bohrer, the renowned German player, was
sold recently at Stuttgart, to an amateur at
Frankfort for 1000 francs.
A GENTLEMAN of Boston has offered to
build $4,000 worth of tenement houses in
Westboro', Mass, If the citizens will give
him land sat a reasonable price," ,
"THE Origin and Early History of the
African Race" was the subject OF lecture
recently delivered in Boston by William
Wells Brown.
CucUMBERs, celery, string beans, green
peas, lettuce, blackberries, &C., are now
sent from Mobile to supply the Chicago
market, in sixty hours.
The Crawford county (Pa.) Medical So
ciety have instructed their delegates to the
State Society to vote in favor OF a resolu-
tion recognizing female practitioners of
medicine.
TIE st. Louis Republican complies from
large pile of exchanges from the plains ac-
counts of the demonstrations OF small bands
of Indians at various pointe on the frontier.
A PHOTOGRAPHERS In one of the country
towns In Massachusetts, was recently visit
ed by young woman, who asked "How
long does it take to get photograph after
you leave your measure 20 t
In the first edition of the personal Me-
MORALS of Daniel Webster" the following
amusing passage occurs :-"In addition to
the Latin classics, he studied with interest
both Cicero and Virgil"