Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-11
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GOLD closed in New York yesterday at
14614. i.
- ONE-THIRD of the railroad spikes made
in the United States are turned out at
Pittsburgh, Pa. Three machines are in
use, which produce three thousand to five
thousand spikes per hour each.
The Leaoisto,on Journal says mushrooms
are becoming such popular article ofdiet
in that city that enthusiastic gourmands go
out and search for them with lanterns be-
fore day break.
In London, recently, the Rev. c. j. LIE
Gyt, Ritualistic rector, issued the follow
ing singular announcement: 'sThe incum-
bent begs to express the hope that strangers
who have breakfasted and done the Stand
ard or Times will abstain from communing
at the celebration of the festival"
A RETURNED soldier at Cheshire, Mass,
has built himself a house within the past
six months, entirely unaided. He dug the
cellar, laid the wall, framed the timber, and
did all the work of putting up the build
ing, which is now ready for the clapbords
and shingles, and another three months
will probably see it entirely completed.
YELLOW fever has been reported at In
dianola, Texas, but the following statement
from the issue for July % of a journal pub
lished in that place contradicts the state
ment: "We are fully authorized to say,
from an eminent physician, long resident
of this city, that there is not case OF sick
ness in town of any kind-except a man
who broke his leg"
ALL Northern Europe is languishing un-
der the unexampled heat of the present
summer. During the discussion in the
French Chamber on July 20, the heat was
such that the floor had to besprinkled with
vinegar, and in spite of this precaution,
Gen. Meslin, 50 years of age, who was dec
Grated on the field of Waterloo, tainted and
was carried out.
A PARIS letter says: "The ex-zouave Ja-
cob, whose pretended miracles short
time ago aroused Paris into state OF semi
indignation, still continues to gull good
ly number of the most highly civilized
people in the wurld.' This modern Escu-
lapius has fixed his tripod at Passy, where,
it appears, persons of all ranks and ages
are to be seen crowding for admission to
his presence" ,6... -
DURING the progress of trial in, Algeria
for cannibalism, the prisoners counsel read,
an extract from letter from Marshal Nc.
Mahon, the Governor General, in which he
said that every case of this kind was trace
able to circumstances which generated
mental alteration The lawyer therefore
claimed, on the authority Of The Duke Of
Magenta, that his client was iasane.i The
jury was compelled to take this view, and
the maneater was acquitted. eT1 'sa,i e.
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The Postoffice at Thevenier, in this coun-
ty, says the Galhpolis Dispatch was broken
into on the nightof the fourth. The thieves
obtained gold watch-chain, a lot of post
age stamps, the money in the drawer, and
carried off the key to the mail bags.
"A SHORT time since, says the Portsmouth
Times, a coal boat, containing over 5000
bushels of coal belonging to Jacob Oehl-
slayer, coal dealer, of this city, was scuttled
and cut loose from the shore. 1t drifted
down the river several miles and sunk in
shallow water. The boat was raised and
the coal saved at an expense of $3.50. Five
holes had been bored in the bottom of the
boat. A few days since, complaints were
preferred against Peter Reinhardt and
Fred. Stemshorn, charging them with the
commission of the crime. An examination
was had before Mayor Lynn on Wednes-
day, when the parties were bound over to
court the former in the sum of $1,000 and
the latter in $1,000. They gave the requir-
ed bail.
The killing of young John Champion, at
Oxford, on Thursday morning last, is thus
spoken of by the Citizen: John Champion,
aged about nineteen years, a son of Mr.. J.
H. Champion, jumped on the step of the
rear car, and as the platform was crowded,
he could only get foothold on the step and
hold on by the railing. AS the car was
backing down, young Champion was look
ing toward the head of the train, not think
ing of the platform at Lees warehouse,
which runs out within a few inches of the
cars. A boy on the platform, shouted for
him to look out. The warning was too
young Champion just above the hips, and
tue moving car revolved the body from one
end Of the platform to the other--a distance
of over twenty, ty,feet-crushing it into per-
feet jelly. The groans OF the unfortunate
boy and the crushing of his bones could be
plainly heard by those standing on the 9TH
er side, of the cars. The distance between
the car and the platform was but some five
inches, and SO tight was the pressure that
beech joist, two inches thick, was split ,tp
by the collision. By the motion of the car
the body gradually dropped in the revolu-
tions till every bone from his thighs to the
right shoulder was smashed to pieces
When the car reached the end of the plat
form, the body fell back off the step on the
ground, when it was Immediately cared for
By the bystanders. The poor boy was un-
.ble to speak, and was utterly unconscious,
md after gasping moment in the last
truggle with death, he breathed his last.