The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-05-21
CLIPPINGS.

Garabaldi ia on his farm attend.
ing to bis health aud writing a.
novel.
II ts SAID that one-sixIh UrIne1
population ofSan Francisco are out
of employment.
The NJ. e. General Conference at
Chicago. has decided, by a vote of
205 10 10, 10 admit the Southern
delegates.
Adjutant Gen Schneider has
collected, since the middle of Jan
uary, soldiers claims to the u
mount Of sl24, 1886.
Gen. Schofeld has issued an or,
der, stating that unless Congress
mikes an appropriation for the
expenses of the Virginia e'cctiou, it
will not be held on the I'd Of June.
Jacob Fcrnance, known as the
"OId PenO," u resident of Kansas
City, il III years old He fought
under Jackson, at New Orleans,
though an old man then.
A widow, named Hutchinson.
living in Cairo, has just recovered
q verdict of s45S3 33 damages
against the Illinois Central Rail.
road for killing her husband in
November last.
The Frankfort (Ky) Common
loeaih OF April II, contains no less
than six proclamations by Gov.
Stevenson, offering rewards for the
arrest of assassins.
1t is estimated that the wheat
crop OF California for the present
year will be twenty million bush
els, barley ten million bushels, oats
two and q half millions.
Gen. Hamilton, just from Texas.
says that at least 250 men have
been murdered in that State since
Gen. Hancock was appointed to
the command Of the District.
Tho poor pittance of seventy
years is not worth being villain
for. What matters it if your
neighbor lies in u splendid tomb?
Sleep you in innoccnce.
1t has been computed that they
are mere Wurtembergers in this
country than there are in Wurtem-
berg, and twice as many Hessians
as are in the dcfunct electorate OF
Hesse.
A lady who changed an for n
y and added an c TO her name,
while abroad, was recently asked
if she had seen the DardanclloS.-
+. 0 yes" she replied, I've dined
with them in Paris"
A number Of letters have been
received from DR.. Livingstone,
detailing his travels, dangers and
escapes in Africa to the first of
March. 1t is thought he may
reach England BY September.
Two ladies appeared on Fourth
street, Cincinnati, on Thursday
last, and promenaded the street
five times dressed each time in q
different outfit of elegant attire.
Was there any sense in that2
Rev. NJ. P. Gaddis, in a Lettuce
upon Woman's Mission, recently
delivered in Cincinnati, said
"Where one woman goes to ruin
from choice, nine others are ruined
by lying, treacherous, deceitful
men"
Gov. Holden, of North Carolina
has rendered TO Robert Douglas,
the eldest son of Stephen A. Doug.
las, the position of Private Secre
tary on his staff, in the new State
Government about to be organized
in that State.
A dispatch from Omaha says the
Union Pacific Railroad is now open
to Fort Saunders, $50 miles west
of Omaha Ten thousand men are
at work, and it is expected that
net less than 300 miles of crack
will be laid this year.
A railroad is projected from
Newark TO Lancaster. From Ian
caster a road is suggested to Mays
vile, Ky, which would give the
most direct route from Knoxville
Tennessee, to the eastern cities
Toledo Com.
The Cincinnati Chief of Polio,
reports that there have been mad,
in that city during tho last year
9.109 arrests, and that she station
houses have accommodated, al
lodgers. during the same time, 33,
702 homeless and destitute people
A man near Portsmouth. Ohio
recently caught ghost in h:'
house, stripped off its white robe
cowhided il, and then kicked it in
to the street. Itwas a neighbol
who desired to purchase the house
and wished to ''haunt" it a littl,
first.
John Quincy Adams once re
marked that gainesville is tb,
Lowell of the West" and Henry
Clay, in one of his letters, said
"The water power furnished by th
James River at Richmond make
the best manufacturing site in tn,
United States, sayo that at zanes
vile, Ohio