Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-06-09
News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
GOLD closed in New York yesterday at
1897.
TIE fashionable scarf color is blue.
CHICAGO has 4o3 vessels employed in the
lake trade.
BoARDINa-HoUsEsa are beginning to in
wade Fifth avenle, New York.
A RAINBOW was seen just before sunrise,
in New Haven, few mornings since.
1t Is said that tho New York dandies of
the "nobbiest" class now send to London for
their boots.
CHASE clubs have been organized in va
rious towns West, and Chase club is pro-
posed in st. Louis.
At Ripley, Miss, the authorities have
closed the drinking saloons, refusing any
licenses.
THE Boston free baths, fourteen in num-
Der, were opened on Wednesday, and will
be open daily until the 30th of September
The Congregational Church of Harlem,
N. Y, by vote of four to one, has decided
women to be eligible as officers In the
church.
DEATH OF PoLIcEMAN.-William Lifts,
member OF the Frankford police since
March, 1856, died on Thursday, of con-
sumption.
DISPATCHES received in Montreal from st.
Albins, state that the Fenian arms, stored
there for some time past. have been secret
To ranovod Tn anu,a noint West.
WHEN Lotta was serenaded at her hotel
in st. Louis recently, half dozen politi-
clans appeared at various windows and en-.
deavored to return thanks.
FRANCE pays $3OO00OO for its Legfsla-
ture, and s5000,OO0 for its Emperor. 1t
cannot be denied that the Emperor has
done more for it than the Corps Legislatif.
EVERY man who visits Gettysburg comes
away with q cane from the premises. There
Is danger OF all the trees in that section of
country being carried off.
STATE NEWS.
TIE remains of a man horribly mutilated
were found on the Columbus railroad track
about one mile and half east OF this city,
on Sunday morning, says the Urbana Union.
They proved to be those of laborer on the
road who had started home on the 10 o'clock
freight Saturday night, and who had un-
doubtedly fallen from the car and was run
over by both portion of the freight train
and the night express. His home was at
Cable. The remains were so terribly dis
figured that Ii was some time before the
body was recognized.
On Saturday night last, DIR. Glasgo, of
Mohicanville, son of Mr.. E. Glasgo. of Knox
township, says the Holmes County Farmer,
went out on professional call, was thrown
from his horse, and some time afterward
found In the road In state of insenslbility,
his horse short way off eating grass. DIR.
Firestone, of Wooster, was called, who
found severe confusion of the brain. In
sensibility continued at our latest advices.
and the hopes of recovery are, we regret to
say, very slight.
TIE Liverpool Record says: The Marshal
Of Canton, the other day, arrested sus-
piciously y-acting traveller, who was in pos
session of two horses and buggy. and in
short time the owner of the team, from a
neighboring couty, called upon the Mar
shal aud paid him reward Of 500, which
had been offered for the recovery of the
property and arrest of the thief.
LAST Wednesday morning. says the Lima
Gazette, Deputy Sheriff Pogue and Marshal
Bastable. arrested at the depot, one Mar
celIus Fugate, supposed to be one of the
parties implicated in the recent safe blow
ing at Perrysburgh. Fugate showed fight,
and had no idea of being arrested if he
could help it. On Saturday he was trans
ferred to the Perrysburgh jail.
A YOUNG man named M. McElroy, says
the. Joliet Signal, of June 4th, aged about
20 years, residing with his mother on Mari
eta street, and cigar maker by trade,
who had been In the employ of Worstall
Bros, for some time since, met with vio-
lent death on Second street this morning,
about twelve o'clock. He was standing
upon the north end of the C. & q. platform
when the train from Cincinnati arrived
and as It passed by, he caught the iron rod
hand-hold of the baggage car with his left
hand aud endeavored to get into the car
and was carried within twenty or thirty
feet of the c. o. railroad crossing, when he
fell upon the track, the wheels of the cars
passing over his body just above the hip
joints and seyering the lower extremities
and killing him almost instantly. Young
NcElroy had but few moments before Sc
cured his travelling card from the Cigar
Makers Union and purposed to leave the
city this afternoon.