Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-01
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GoLD closed in New York yesterday at
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TIE house of Mr. John Black, in Farm
ington township, Clarion county, Pa, was
destroyed by fire on Sunday morning last,
and his little daughter, nine years old,
burned to death, and Mr.. Black also badly
burned in trying to rescue the child. A
small fire had been pu. before the door on
Saturday evening to keep away the 'gnats,
and about two o'clock the next morning
the house took fire, and its contents were
burned to ashes. es5 aI ;,
A L1rcHFIELD, (Conn..) physician gives
a strange incident of the effect of electricity
on the human system. On Sunday, a Miss
Beardsley was returning from church at
West Goshen, when q tree near her was
struck by lightning. She became entirely
deranged, and was taken with violent vom-
iting, and physician was sent for in great
haste. 1t was forty-eight hours before she
recovered from the effects of the shock, and
before her reason was fully restored. ey 3a
The grand caravan which set ont from
Cairo to Mecca with the holy carpet, In the
month OF January, returned to Cairo on the
25th of June. 1t included fifteen hundred
and thirty pilgrims, hereafter having the
right to bear the honorable name of "hadji,"i
and fourteen hundred and eighty-one ami
mails, chiefly camels. There are also thou
sands who made the pilgrimage by the Red
Sea, from Suez to Jeddah; these had re-
turned previously.
A GOLD vein has been discovered in the
to vn of Clinton, N. Y. A correspondent
says the vein is traceable on the surface for
5000 feet, and varies in width from six
inches to one foot. The quartz is blush.
and a portion of it next to the walls de-
composed 1t is well defined, and pitches
at an angle of seventy-five degrees. An
assay of samples of the quartz rock by
Competent metallurgists shows that it con- q
tains sl5. 40 of gold to the ton, and about
20 per cent. silver. - f.44fs.f 4..s-.s
THE visit of the Duke of Edinburg to
the Crystal Palace, in London, on the 4th,
was the occasion of q series of festivities
of unwonted magnifcence. Upward of
$4,000 persons were present. The Duke
was accompanied by the Prince of Wales
and a distinguished party. Both Signor
Mario and Mile Adelina Patti took part
in the concert; and the new song which has
been composed in honor of the Prince was
the signal for an outburst of enthusiasm.
The whole system of the fountains was
put in operation, and late in. the evening
there was display OF fireworks.
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STATE NEWS. ~ .,1 -. : s.4e.
On Saturday evening last, says the
Han,ilton True Telegraph, while Mr.. S. Carr,
the Taird street grocer, was in the act of
stabliug ishorse, in the Second ward, he
was confronted by three disguised men.
one of whom, after the usual salutation,
threw cayenne pepper in his face and eyes.
All three then made rush at him, but he
was too quick for the rascals and escaped
their clutches by the use of q pair of nim-c
BILE legs, although pursued by the trio a
short distance. ~, b,r. =,
Mr.. RICHARD H.. JONES, who was so Sc
verely cut with a razor, in West Zanes-
vile, week ago last Sabbath, says the
Zanesuille Courier, came near bleeding to
death last night. The artery cut had eth
er not been tied, or being tied became
loose, bleeding began very rapidly, and be-
fore physicians summoned could arrive
and take the necessary means to stop it,
the man blei most protusely. He became
8, weak that 1t was deemed by some four
or FIVE physici ms present, hazardous to
con- inue attempts to find and tie the artery
last night, and other means were resorted
to to casck the bleeding until to-day, when
another attempt will be made. si3 70 sssi
OuR Postmaster, Samuel Neel, made a
narrow escape from being killed by light.
ming yesterday morning, says the Van Vert
Times, July 30th. He was at the corner of
the Postoffice building with a pitcher In
his hand and in the act of STOPPING down
to dip some rain water out of barrel, when
the pitcher was struck by lightning and
broke to atoms,and Mr.. Neel's right hand
was very much shocked from the stroke.
Sam, you had better repent. We
learn that the same stroke struck
tree In the yard of Joseph Gleason, Esq,
while George F. Elson was in the immedi-
ate vicinity, the shock of which he felt very
sensibly.yd 6Iil
THE body of James NORM, citizen of
West GAINESVILLE, was found early this
morning, about five o'clock, near the track
at the east end of the railway bridge cross
ing Licking. creek, by two young ladies
going for blackberries. The body was i'm
mediately conveyed to the residence of his
sister. 1t is matter of speculation as to
whether the deceased came to his untimely
end by the hands of an assassin or whether
he was run over by the four o'clock train
going east this morning. or by the nine
o'clock train going west last evening. The
deceased was known to be man of intem-
perate habits by all who knew him, says
the Zanesuise Signal July Both. Il
SOME time during the night last Satur-
day, says the Marion Mirror, man named
Suuires, boarding at Baehner's, fell out of
the second story window on the pavement
below his sleeping room. and was severely
and perhaps fatally injured. He was found
early Sunday morning, senseless and bleed
ing, with his ribs fractured and other in-
iuries. How long he had been there no one
knew, nor how he got there, further than
the supposition that hes had got up in his
sleep and walked out of his sleeping room
window. He is an Englishman by birth,
about 60 years of age, and follows ditching
for living, He was removed to the mar
ket house and placed under treatment of
DR.. Sweeney. Mr.. Squires died last Mon
day evening about five o'clock.