Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-05-25
GENERAL NEW

News OF the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.
GoLD closed in New York Saturday al
1l9A.
ECUADOR has the best of US on financial
economy. The government cuts hand
some plug out of every silver piece in or
der to prevent the expectation of coin.
A FREAK of nature has been seen in Ar
kansas, in tile shape of man with three
ears; one on each side of his head, and
the third, belonging to another fellow,
between his teeth.
Al QUARREL between two negroes on the
precipitous bluff at Nashville resulted in
one of the combatants being thrown over
the cliff He had terrible fall, but struck
upon his head and escaped injury.
SoME people in Hartford, Conn. moved
thereto by floating newspaper paragraphs,
recently collected several hundred cats
wherewith to feed the animals in a menag-
erie now on q visit to that city. The me-
nagerie men refused to purchase, and the
cats had to be turned loose upon the neigh
borhood.
THE Bangor Whig says that a cow case
was disposed of in the Supreme Court, in
that place on Saturday, which has been
, before the court about six years,
during which time one of the contestants
has died and the costs of the suit have
amounted to one hundred and fifty dollars.
The value of the cow was twenty dollars.
NEWMAN HALL writes all the way from
!, England to tell how he stood by the side of
the road and started three cheers for Queen
Victoria, and how "her Majesty very
pleasantly acknowledged his effusion.-
Imagine the,Rev. Newman standing on a
fence and shouting" Hip hip!"to a crowd
of boys.
TIE annual meeting of the Third Army
Corps Union, was held at Trenton, N. j.,
on May 9TH. The following officers were
elected: President, General D. E. Sickles,
NJ; Vice President, General w. j. Sc
well Secretary, Major E. L. Yelling; Di-
rectors, Generals Mott, Biles, McAllister,
Brewster, Fassett, Clark and McMichel.
How is it, asks the New York Ledger. that
prisoner may call as witness his moth
er or his daughter, his sweetheart or his
sister, and the jury will pay all attention,
and attach all bcfitting weight to the tes-
timony; but no jury is allowed to hear one
word which wife can say to establish the
innocence of her husbandf
On Saturday last, as a train on the New
York Central railroad was nearing mile
post, on Green Island, Steph en- Heffernan,
the fireman, saw little child sitting on
the track and apparently paralyzed by
fear. Heffernan, at the risk OF his own
life, climbed over the engine to the cow
catcher, reached down, snatched her from
the track, and lifted her uniniured upon
the engine.
THERE is nothing like our rowdyism in
Paris, and even pocket-pickiDg g, says an ex-
change, is done there with due Difference
to decorum." Mr.. Hooper, one of the En-
glish artisans sent to the Paris Exhibition
to make reports, says, with amusing mai
vete, that he is beginning to learn the
French fashion of raising the hat on enter
ing a shop, and is beginning to be ashamed
of his boorish manners.
ONE of Thad. Stevens admirers writes
that the Impeacher plays faro an hour
every evening for "mental recreation"
and not for love of gambling, as he sell
dom bets more than 500 at time. The
Ne,o Hauen Register thinks this simplicity
is about on par with that of returned
GENTLE from Utah, who, desiring to palli-
ate to family friends that recreant son
had abandoned the religious faith of his
: fathers, remarked, swell, he isn't what
you may call regular Mormon-he has
only three wives"
STATE NEWS.
The Noble County Republican says that
1t is assured that the Duck Creek railroad
will be speedily built. That the Pennsyl-
vania Central has taken the matter in hand
and has pledged itself to put on the su-
perstructure and equipment if sufficient
local subscriptions and donations can be
obtained to secure the right of way and
grade the road. The Pennsylvania Com
pany ask the first mortgage bonds to secure
their investment.
MICHEL LEONARD, brakesman on the 10