Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-01-15

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coin. He is not apprehensive that imitation
will follow to an extent that will in the
least work injury to the people, *
News of the Day.
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GENERAL NEWS.
GOLD closed in New York yesterday at
14l35.
.,i8NEw HAnpsHfRE is the birthplace of four
of the Senators, seventeen of the Represent
tatives, and one of the present Councilmen
of theptessnt Massachusetts, Legislature.
The loss by the burning of the Military
Asylum at Augusta, Me-. is estimated at
$l50,OO0. One of the patients froze to death
!. while being removed.
THE banking house of 81. Waskell & Co.,
Dubuqe, Iowa, suspended Son Tuesday.
Their liabilities are $50 600, and their assets
will not exceed $4,000.
u dfs Hartford, Conn. q few days since, a
large wharf rat attacked gentleman in
the street, and the gentleman ruined his
umbrella before he succeeded in killing the
THE first report that two firemen were
rkilIed by falling walls, at the Farrell Hall
fire in Chicago, on Tuesday. turns out to
be incorrect.
A SHOCKING murder is reported from
Shropshire, England. A girl, about ten
years of age was found dead in a hovels
near Longden, vilisgese miles from
Shrewsbury. 1t was clear that the child
ha l bsen murdered, and that the crime had
. been accompanied by circumstances REM
dering it one Of peculiar atrocity.s
GEO. w. WILLIAMS was arrested in Boss
ton, on Thursday, and was bound over for
; trhli In the sum of 60O0, for forging Gov4
ernment stencils. It is alleged that he id
a., the party who made and furnished the rev<
enue stencils which were used in the -ex1
tensive Buffalo and Boston whisky frauds
some months since.
z ma De LEssEPs Is travelling through
France for the purpose of raising money
to enable him to continue the Suez Canal,
as the report prevails that the French Cow
ernment has turned a deaf ear to his APP
peals for fresh supplies in consequence of
! thefresh idificulties which not only delay,
but actually paralyzeA the efforts hitherto
made to complete the enterprise.
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AT Oberlin, the discussion of Masonry in
the churches is to be dropped by common
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Ar Elyria, Dec. 80, an old citizen, AzeI
Washburn. fsthers of G. G. sWashburn, Of
the Democrat, died at the age of ".
The business men Of Cincinnati say trade
has not been as dull there in ten or twelve
). years as It is at present. Some Of the oldest
and largest houses in the city lost from
slO1.le0 slO1.le0 to $500, 900 during the past year.
The Marietta Register says: Of the 81
burials in the Mound and Oak Grove Gem
eteries, in Marietta, in the year 1867, thir-
teen were of persons who died, of fcopsnmp-
tion-one-seventh of the whole-and 32 or
over one-third, were infants under two
years of age. tfss jGsa
sNewton,,yohpsM Miller's house was en-
tered by burglars with yelled faces some
tw6 Weeks since. Miller's sister was
alarmed, called for help, and the burglars
tried to smother her. In the struggleshe
tore off and kept the vefl Of one Of the
menr7 7titnsbaH County Chronicle Es
A coLoRED man, resident of this city,
says the ,Zanesuslle Courier,s named John
Manley, porter, on the steamer Carrie
Brooks, was drowned in the Muskingum
on the last trip of the Brooks. out, on
. Wednesday morning opposite Belleu's coal
banks, about two miles above Taylorsyille.
The particulars we have not learned. Man.
ly will be fecolleeted by our readers as the
extremely tall negro, nearly seven feet
high, who has been about our city for years.
TIE same paper says: Last week the
I Harietta and Gales Fork Petroleum Com
4 spany, of this city, received an order from
Antwerp, Belgium, for 5000 sskilos," net,
a Of ahbricating oil, to be shipped from New
York. The officers of the company may
have discovered what "kilos" means. This
Office has lists Of ''weights and measures,o
European as well rs American, but this is
not among them. The letter making the
order is in, French, and if s,kilosn is con-
traction for French kilogrammes, the order
means 3A8l2 lbs. net or about 110 barrels
of iubricating oil.M sds iss1 -''.7s ~
THE Newark American says. On Sunday
morning last an urchins fished up from the
"feeder" varmint which in appearance
and general make UP differs from any we
ever saw or read about. In length it is
about fifteen inches. Its head and tail re-
semble those of a whale. Upon the side
OF its head are gills ornamented with bright
red plumage, thick and pretty. 1t has
arms upon each of which are four fingers
tiDDed with nails, not unlike those of O
human. In circumference it is but little
larger than lizard of the same length.
AN affray occurred at the saloon of John
Mccormick, near the rolling mill, on Thurs,
day evening last, says the ZanesuiHe Signal,
in which a man named Mat Gray was shot.
As we understand, the facts in the case are
: about as follows: Gray, accompanied by
his two sons, went, late in the evening, to-
HCormick's 3 saloon and demanded admit
tance.s This Mccormick refused, when
Gray made an attempt to break the door
down. Mccormick opened the door and
fired a revolver into the air, for the pur-
pose Of Tightening Gray, and causing him
t. leave the premises; but instead of Gray
becoming frightened, he made an attempt,
as Mccormick thought, to draw a revolver
also, when Mccormick aimed his revolver
atGray's body, and shot him, the bali tax
ing effect in the thigh. DIR. Reamy was
called, and rendered the necessary medical
assistance. The wound, although painful