Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-01-27

Memphis is $500.
NEW YoRK consumes 10000 bottles of
mineral water daily at this season.
Eaas sell for 25 cents per. dozen, at Sa-
vannab. ss ~ kR
THREE hundred persons are fed daily at
sshe tree soup housein Nashville. Tenn.
TIE Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne railroad
earned $ll, 900 last year.
The receipts of the Chicago City Rail-
road Companies last year were $756,000. I
MINNESOTA has built 116 miles of railroad
during the past year, thus adding. fifty per
,cent. to that previously constructed "
SEVENTEEN hundred and thirty-eight
men are now employed at the CharlestowD,
Mass. Navy Yard. - = : - y
THE Sparta (Wis.) Eagle states that the
Thermometers (spirit) showed AZ degrees
below zero in that region, one day last
oweek. a. sii5rf sssnisn'i I'd T. r5iiaasa at /.
15,24s.752 bushels Of grain were export
ed from st. Louis in 1867, being 100000
less than in 1866.
o5 THs So. Paul Pioneer estimates the capi-
tai invested in newspapers in Minnesota at
$400,0O0-St. Paulnrepresenting $4,000.
AUBURN ERWIN, delegate to the Florida
Convention, has been arrested at Lake City,
Tor stealing a'bottle Of whisky. @
Work on the Cologne Cathedral. sus-
pended three centuries ago. will be resumed
next spring. mo snoiitb3 ebam
A LAMPLIGHrER in Liverpool recently
becaneheir to 800 600, and the excitement
of it threw him into brain fever.
aOsE-FHIRp of the members of the -Geor-
tkias Constitutional State Convention are ex-
rebel soldiers, now Radicals.
oviIN Mobiles Ala, only four deaths occur
red during the week ending on the llth
inst. The population Of Mobile is about
10000.
"A CITIZEN Of New Haven last week
dropped package codtaining $4,000
worth of Government bonds, Fortunately
they were picked up by an honest man
and returned ci emil siaJ III
In France, the law does not recognize
any right in travellers to break their Anecks.
Two persons in that country were recently
fined 16' francs each. for Jumping from a
railroad train while it was in motion.
THE PeppereIl Manufacturing Company,
at Biddetord, Maine, employs 1900 girls,
.aqd hps mann factuted the epast yearl4 450e,-
600 yards Of sheeting and drills. The pay
sEollof the company Ifoots up about $S5, 600
per month. ssszisud sdi ., avoga low CT
THE whole number Of barrels of fish in
spected in Massachusetts, in 1867 was 22l,-
526, of which 2l0, 314 were of mackerel.s OF
the latter Gloucester furnished IO3. .9i7.
Wellfeet 23.546, and Provincetown 1882.
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STATE NEWS.
4 ArObelin, Tuesday morBinx, Mrs. Mary
j. Austin died from the effects of burns
received by her dress taking fire from
e1amp overturned in her lap by little
daughter.
Two wild cats were shot few days ago
near Vinton Furnace, Vinton county
The male weighed thirty-two pounds
These animals are said to have killed some
fifty sheep in that county within few
weeks. z5SSEiiEss
SOME weeks ago emade mention of a
child having been stolen from j. 1. Bowers
of Upper Sandusky. From the Salem Re-
,Hfbhcaa welearn that the child was recov-
cred from a band OF gypsies, near that
place, last week.
WE notice in the papers that Noah Orr,
the Union county giant, is on his travels.
AS a Johnny Bull would say, Noah is
right good un, is Noah. He stands seven
feet three IN his stockings, measures Axty-
nine inches around his breast, and weighs
536 pounds.
On Thursday, says the Chill;eothe ADDER.
,ttssr, on account of some domestic trouble
young woman, living with Mr.. Peter
man, on Main street, by the name of Sallie
Shreckengaust. attempted suicide by tax
ing laudanum. She proved very near sue
cessful, and her life for some time was de-
aspaired Of DR.. French was called In and
Ethe proper restoratives applied, which had
~the desired effect. She has, we believe,
szentirely recovered sai5sflq 1sato va lafF
The express train coming north on the
ID. q M. road, on Monday night last, says
the Piqud journal, narrowly escaped being
thrown from the track between Dayton and
Tippecanoe. Some fiend in human shape
had piled p lot of ties across, the track but
the bungiing and hasty manner in which
sSthe workawas doneicaused the locomotive
to1knock most of them out of the way
The engine was thrown partially off the
track. but no serious damage was incurred
The accident detained the train about two
hours. ogSaAT daTAaa4J8o
WILLIAM H. BENTON. aged twenty-eight
years, an old resident of LaRne,h Mafior
county, Ohio, was killed at LaRue by the
7:40 p. m. train going west on the B. & I
Railroad, on Monday last. 1t appears Mr.
Benton tried to cross the track just as tn,
train started, but failed to reach the plat
form before tho train struck him. His ha
was found on the platform, and mis- bod,
was carried about three hundred yards, t.
the Scioto bridge, where it was found sus
pended across tie of the railway track
His body was terribly mangled, and whe
found life was extinct. He leaves wifi
.zand child eERRES
WILLIAM SPENCER, a young man abou
twenty three years of age, son of Nil
Joseph Spencer, of Chillicothe, while ou
hunting on the 10th instant, got up ON
log. on Mt. Logan, to take look around
While doing this, he placed the butt of hi
gun on the. log, the barrel resting in tn
hollow of his left arm. The gun slippe,
from the log to the ground, striking tn
lock, and discharging the contents into tn
upper portion of Spencer's arm, tearin,
away arteries, tendons and flesh. He wa
SO far exhausted by loss of blood, befor
medical aid could be procured, that re