Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-01-04
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News OF Ihs Day
sk arNERAIANsws.
0oLDg closed in New York yesterday at
1885.
RENAN has finished his ''St. Paul."
MAYOR NoRcROss, OF Boston, Is Ill.
SEMIcoLoNviLLE is the name OF town
in Iowa.
Tar London theatres lost $4,000 by. the
cab strike.s iS1' - = W tYe
Fernando wooD pays $1,000 a month
for his housesin Washington 100
TIE NeDburyport Eerald anticipates
Grants nomination By both parties.
CHICAGO has had 33S divorces to 4,1s2
marriages the past year. ,r
DAvENPoRT. Iowa, boasts the finest ope-
IA house In the West. osaa ~
A PARIS vagrant has been arrested for
stealing the blanket, from the boa constrie.l
tor In the Jardin des Plantes.C 9 t'5f5s1
THs late Wm. Lewis, of New Haven,
bequeathed to the Orphan Asylum in that
city $4,000. ----- ------
,AaH. srErarss is now temporarily ! 60 60
journing with friend in the vicinity of
baltimore s1aR sfo ise cs ytilfde no bnA
A CONVICT in the Indiana State Prison
lately set fire to the cooper shop of that
institution, causing a loss of sixteen thou
sand dollars.
THE New York Herald solves the Mormon
diiiculty by Suggesting the purchase of
the Sandwich Islands and che colonizing of
the Saints there.
The Amherst Agricultural School is so
full that the trustees intend U to ask the
Legislature to appropriate $50 600 for new
buildings.
vMoTHER Goose still finds an enormous
sale In this couDtry-upward of 100000
copies being disposed OF every syear for
twenty-five cents each. 8asss os34l
AcLERK who absconded from Providence
a few days ago. besides robbing his associ-
aees, took q package Of 5000 Belonging to
private banking house.
GENERAL KENroN HARPER, founder of
the Staunton CVirginia) Spectator, a soldier
of the Mexican war, representative in the
Virginia Legislature, and afterwards rebel
officer. died on Christmas night aged sixty
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vs7,,.n,as.. STATE NEWS. .-.ais flsasi
THE vote for the Eagle at st. Mary's Fair,
resulted as follows: For Thurman, 527;
Vallandigham. 800; Wade, 127; Cox, ~;
Pughss Emmitt /; Allen, !. 3Ba
The Ironton Journal says: Last Friday
night little child of Mr.. Prosper Jurock
was placed in small rocking chair before
the lfe5Swhen its mother Id passing around
it caught the rocker in her clothes, upset.
tingthe Child into the fire, burning it in q
ashocking manner. Its recovery is doubt
full.
THE citizens of South Salem and vicin-
ity, says the C1sillicothe Aduertiser, enj Dyed
q pleasant time on Thursday evening. De-
cember 10Th. on the occasion of sthestwen-s
ty-fifth anniversary of the wedding OF
Rev. j. A. J. Loves, Principal Of the
Presbyterian Academy of:that place. Old
friends, neighbors and students, to the
number Of two hundred and fifty. gather
ed in and enjoyed social intercourse and a
bountiful COLLATION.. But the most inter-
esting feature of the occasion was the pre-
sentation of suitable evidences Of esteem.
THE Stark Cou,ty, Republican says:. A
young man by the name of Jacob Brenna-
men. living near Canal Fulton, in. tilis
county, met with violent death on the
18th inst, by the .cafeless handling or q,
shot gun. Wishing to ascertain whether
the gun was loaded. he placed his foot up
onthe cock, and while blowing into the
mhzzlei his foot slipped of, letting the cock
down with such, force as to explode Che cap,
discharging the contents of the barrel into
his mouth, killing him instantly.
On Saturday last at the upper depot,
sass theW Wesren eoasasutios,a pretty young
ladyfom Ravenns, in attempting to get off
froha tam without assistance. accident
ally caught her skirt upon the catch to the
brake, and in q twinkling found herself
suspended with feet high above her head,
wholly unable to regain her natural post
tion. Superintendent Rucker, who was
upon the spot, and an eye witness of the
mishap,- came to the rescue and speedily
extricated the unfortunate girl from her
very awkward situation .ssis;saa zss1 si.i :
]. RsGILMoRE edmund Kirke) having
eePoioeCu A.oa1 nis WIFE, JUG parties met In
Newark, Ohio. last, week, to divide the
children. The husband and wife did not
come together until the moment of the sep
aration of the children arrived, when the
scenes was one of dramatic interest and
passion. Two of the little ones were as
signed to the care of the father, and a third
to the mother, who Is Also to be permitted
TO pay weekly visits to the others. The
domestic difficulties, thus in n-some sense ad-
iusted, have attracted considerable atten-
ton in Boston and elsewhere.
HENRY ROBB, of Medina county, Ohio.
was awarded the premium for the best acre
of corn, by the Wayne and Medina. .Agri-
cultural Society. The land was second bot
tom, had been cleared twenty-seven years,
and half tiesfme under plow. 1t had been
in pasture two years before plowing for the
premium crop in the middle of april 1t
was narrowed soon after being plowed, and
again just before planting. 1t was planted
on the 30th of May, and worked five times,
twice in row, with Briggs cuItivator.
The whole expense Of growing, cutting up
and husking was 1875. He harvested .123
bushels of ears, worth so cents per bushef.>
$6l.50, and counted two loads of fodder at