Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-05-08
New. of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.


GENERAL NEWS.
COIN closed in New York yesterday at
1885.
HoN. WIN. E. DoDaE has given $lO,OOo
to Lafayette College. at Easton, Pa.
A NEW volume of Heine's posthumous
works has been published lately in Paris.
A MaaNrr1cENr rainbow was visible at
Boston, about 6 o'clock P. M, CD April
3Oth.
The Masson Doree ia to be turned into q
first-class. theatre to be called the Union
Square theatre. ~
The Mayor of Providence haE suspended
a Adjective in that city for attending prize
fight as spectator.
ALrrrLE girl in New Hampshire cut off
her sisters hand recently, while playing
with q sharp hatchet.
The length of the span of the Cincinnati
and Newport bridge over the Ohio has been
finally fixed at 300 feet. ..--.
A BosroN speculator is reported to have
made Sl2o.0OO in buying cotton at IA cents
q pound and selling it at 20 cents.
LADIES now ornament their handker-
chiefs with large monograms in the center,
the letters embroidered in different colored
silk.
A MADISON avenue IN. " residence has
a carpet on the drawing-room, OF velvet'
with a large monogram in the center. 1t
cost $500. r. fsssl III
GENOA papers state that in last March
twelve vessels sailed from that port, con-
veying 1Oe6 emigrants from Northern Italy
to America.
A DEPOSIT of one hundred silver pieces.
chiefly of the coinage of Elizabeth and
Charles l., has been dug up near the Tron-
gate, Glasgow.
FIVE persons have been arrested at Au-
gusta, Me-, for stealing copper and iron
bats belonging to the Portland and Ken
nebec railroad.
THE music In the Boston churches, 1t is
asserted, costs $4,000 per annum. One
church pays its chief artist $500, and ex-
pends on the choir $1,000.
sBRAz1L supplies almost half of the cof-
fee consumed in the world. The quantity
exported increased from 1850 100 bags in
1853 to 2459.753 bagsin 1867. q 'os
AT Burning Springs, West Virginia. the
supply of gas from the oil wells is 80 plen-
tiful that it is used for fuel, both for cook
ing and mechanical purposes.
APAR1s jeweller, it is stated, has receiv-
ed an order for the manufacture of an ex-
act copy of the Queens Necklace" as des-
cribed by Dumas in his novel of that name.
An express robber In Missouri, after
serving two years of sentence of four
years, has been pardoned on the condition
that he would leave the State in ten days.
STATE NEWS.
TIE Dayton and Michigan Railroad Com
pany have veteran engineer in their en-
ploy, one who seems to have been born un-
der "lucky star" John Coleman, run
ming the engine Lima, No. 5. has been
steadily employed on the ''footboard" for
thirteen years, and during that time has
not met with the slightest accident.
ONE week ago, says the Dela,oare Herald,
q team attached to q vehicle containing
several persons, among them a son, BROTH
er and sister, of Hon.. j. r. Hubbell, took
fright, ran away and throw them out
The sister was thrown upon the ground
with euoi, force as to render her insensible,
and her injuries were so severe as to cause
her death in about thirty hours.
DURING the furious wind storm that
passed over this section of the country
last Wednesday, the house of Mr. Oliver
Kyle, in the northeast part of the village
of Miles, was destroyed. The building was
q new one, and only partially enclosed. A
man by the name of Ballard, employed in
the building at the time, doing carpenter
work, was unable to escape, SO sudden was
The crash, and came near losing his life. He
was badly bruised by the debris of the fall
ing building and lay insensible for nearly
two hours, and for a time it was thought he
was fatally injured. The building sustain
sd damages to the amount of four or five
hundred dollars, says the Western Reserve
Chronicle. 84r nr
AS the 9:15 A. NJ. train was coming in
from Cleveland last Monday, says the Lo-
rain Constituttonalist, John Buhr. German,
about u years old, attempted to cross the
East branch railroad bridge, but finding
be could not reach the other end in time
turned back. and commenced retracing his
steps, instead of stepping one side as ne
night have done In safety. Being quite
feeble, he was overtaken by the train and
killed. His body was thrown
With great violence against Judge Burke's
ence, and badly mangled. He resided on
|ugar Ridge, about two miles from Elyria,
nd was township charge. No blame is
ttached to the engineer in charge of the
rain, the accidenr having been caused en-
irely by the negligence of the old man..
Extreme care is necessary on the part of
Dot passengers crossing railroad bridges
D avoid accident where so many trains are |
assing and repassing. The bridge belongs
the railroad company, and they are not
,und TO run their cars with reference to
eir bridge being used by the public as a
ghway. The body of Mr.. Buhr was taken
re of by the township authorities.