Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-06-23
News of the Day,
GENERAL NEWS.


GENERAL NEWS.
SGoLD closed in New York yesterday at
14O14.
The health of Senator Morton, of Indi-
ana, is again greatly impaired.
IT is stated that the laboring men of San
Francisco have SsOOO,0OO in the savings
banks of that city.
The discovery of a new rifle ball, ''war-
ranted to pierce through any defence at
present known" is announced in Paris.
DIR. CHARLES N. MILLER, a colored grad
uate of the Harvard Medical School, has
established himself in Baltimore.
The New Orleans papers deny report
that the yellow fever has appeared this
season. either in that city or at Galveston,
Texas.
MORE than ten thousand photographs of
O'Farrell, who attempted the life of the
Duke of Edinburgh, were sold in London.
In Lake county, Indiana, where one man
pays an income tax and two own gold
watches, there are torty-one applications
for liquor licenses.
A coNUNDRUM in political economy-the
fact that the greatest gold producing nation
uses green colored rags for circulating
medium.
The Bath (Me.) Times says there will be
at least ten ships on the stocks in that city
within two months and that there will bea
greater demand for labor than there has
been for the past two years.
The Bishop of Montreal, in q recent pas
toral letter, demonstrates against extrava-
gance in dress, which is spreading more
and more, and threatens the ruin of many
families.
The difficulties at the Wilbraham, Mass,
Academy, have been adjusted. and the stu
dents have complied with the requirements
of the executive committee of the board OF
trustees.
AN umbrella loaned in Boston last Friday
was returned to the lender on Monday,
whereupon Boston paper assures its read
ers that +" society is not altogether demor-
allied.
The Pittsburg presbytery has adopted res
olutions denouncing the suspension OF Mr..
George 81. Stuart, by the Synod. Rev. Mr..
Vincent, ofthe First Presbyterian Church,
of Troy, N. Y in sermon last Sunday,
took occasion to censure the action of the
Synod.
IT is stated that in England recently, one
of Father Ignatius' brothers was tied TO
fence and kept four days and nights Sleep
ing on the ground, and with only saucer
before him to drink out of, 0oing penance
for killing aswallow.
The Empress Carlotta, in her insane mo-
ments, imagines that the royal palace wants
cleaning. and she keeps everyb body busy
with soap and scrub-brushes. There are
thousands of American wives who are
troubled with the same fancy.
The Ne~ Bedford Mercury says the ship
wright who has charge OF the repairs upon
the whaleship Lagoda, of that port, says
that he finds, though she is forty-tsoo years
old, nat a rotten timber in her. She is
white oak ship, built at Scituate in 1927.
The new carriages on the Austrian rail-
roads have patent locks on the doors, and
when recently the key of one of them was
lost, no less a parsonage than Francis
Joseph was imprisoned for some little time
to the terror of the negligent officials.
AN old man, named Seaborn Jones, bru-
tally assaulted his step-daughter. at Co.
lumbia. Tenn, lately, and afterward mur-
dered an infant child of his own. A few
days ago his body was found hanging to
the same tree which served as gallows
for the murderer, Walker.
EDWARD c. JONES pays an income tax in
New Bedford, Mass, on s1O7,4Ss. Other
large incomes are Edward w. Howland,
$79,293; William o. Brownell, S3O544;
Francis S. Hathaway, 1888; Thomas S.
Hathaway. s34, ,165; James Arnold, $32, ,736.
There are several others above $4,000.
UNDER the direction of the New Hamp-
shire Fish Commissioners, a number of
lakes in that State have been stocked with
black bass brought from st. Albans' Bay,
Vermont. The fish varied in weight from
oue-half to tour pounds, and not one was
lost in the process of transmission.
On the 9th instant, as DIR. King attempt
ed to drive his carriage, in which were his
wife and two children, and gentleman
from Cincinnati, from ferry boat to the
shore of Crooked Creek, near Plymouth,
Ill, the boat, which the terryman had ne
elected to make fast, foated back, the
whole party wentoverboard, and the lady,
one child, and the stranger were drowned.
AN individual named Flynn, is travelling
through Ireland in the interest of the Prot
estant Electoral Union, with the following
announcement: Subject of the lecturer
Transubstantiation and the mass. The lee
turer will dress in priests robes, aud will
give burlesque OF the mass, with bells,
candles, incense and other fummery.',
Flynn's lectures have, in several towns,
caused disturbances Of the peace.