Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-09

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FOR CLERK OF SUPREME COURT.
IOuN m. WEBB.os MahOninB.
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GENERAL 1sR1AiL Skws
Com closed in New York yesterday at
14o5s. sSnLs1A wv
A WOMAN in Houston, Texas, has died of
the disgusting habit of "dipping" snuff.
THERE has never been 30 many or SO
heavy fogs ON ehe Maine coast as this year.
SENATOR GRMEs is, under medical treat
1nsnt. at Boston, for paralysis.
ISABELLA PIKE, aged eighteen, commit
ted suicide in Boston, on Wednesday n1gna
by laudnaum.
.0NcrssATr. has 266. .Brownsfamilies, 24o
Of The Jones, 200 Williams, $50 Millers' 3oo
Myers and $50 Schmidts.
THE st. Louis (Mo.) artesian well, the
deepest in the world, has reached depth
of 3147 feel, and no water1syytA
IT is said that the present is the longest
session of the French Chambers on record.
1t has lasted eight months.
GERMAN, named John Shruu, recently
died at Salt sulphur Springs, Virginia, at
the advanced age of 100 years.
The assessed value of taxable property
in ST. Louis county, Mo-. has increased from
s777la,OoO in 1854 to sl44, 100000 in 1858.
HUMAN Bones have been found sixty
eight feet below the surface OF the ground
in digging a well $50 miles west of Omaha.
Rev. G. SHArrER, pastor of the United
P-esbyterian Church in West Deer Town
ship, Penn'a, was instantly killed by light
ming on Tuesday last.
THE Leaoenworth (Kansas) Commercial
says that A. T.. Stewart, Of New York, has
purchased a halt block in that city, and
intends to erect a mammoth dry goods
house, at an estimated cost of $450000.
Mrs. WEBER and her three sons were
terribly burned in Terre Haute, Ind, on
Wednesday, by en- explosion of lime which
one of the young men was trying to slack
ior whitewash. b Igg15l9
ANToNoUsA KAsTANoPoULo is the name
of the Cretan girl who is fighting in the
revolution. She is nineteen years old. can
not read, smokes cigarettes, is rather pretty,
and has five hundred men under her COM
mand.
JUSTICE READE. who administered the
oath of office to the new members OF the
North Carolina House of Representatives
on wednesday, took leave OF them with
the remark, aFellow-citizens, we are at
hOme."
ST.PAUL has just witnessed the christen-
ing of a locomotive, the first for the Supe-
rior and Mississippi railroad, by "a min
clement OF drops from Lake Superior and
the Pacifiea Ocean,o as a western paper
beautifully remarks.
ID STATE NEwS.sssI3srb
THE new Cleveland Directory contains
2S.492 names; whereupon the papers of that,
city claim population of 93.96s. The in-
crease of names since the publication of
last years Directory is 3.3l7, which indi-
Gates an increase of population of 13,26S.-
If these figures are correct, Cleveland and
its immediate suburbs must have one hun
dred thousand Inhabitants. q
LAST Thursday, in Bath, Summit county,
boy, sixteen or seventeen years old, was
killed by lightning, while hoeing corn.
On the same day.. near 0ryille, eight men,
brick-burners, were severely stunned, three,
of them seriously injured, by the lightning
striking the tree under which they were
sheltered. Since writing the above we
learn that while the funeral of the boy was
being attended, lightning struck and killed
oho1r ho
house.
WE are blessed with magnificent wheat
crop in Logan Ecountys osays the Gazette.
Even our farmers are compelled to ''caye"
unto ibis mighty fact, and agree 20 it. They
are entitled toour synpathies, truly, for 10,
the harvest is here, and the wheat is not
down, p but, on the contrary, painfully
erect-heads up. Neither is it-sorrowful
to tell-stricken with trust l" And finally,
there is nary ''weesil, ~ nor yet the ghost
of a "midge," by way of consolation. What
is 10 become of us, Is hard to tell. but there
i. no immediate prospect of starving to
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The Woodsfeld Spirit of Democracy says7
George v. Foreman, arraigned In the Mon
roe County Common Pleas in 1859, charg-
ed with the murder oflMiss Isaphine ALLEN,
of Salem township, was taken sick short
time since and died on Tuesday the 3Oth of
June. He was arraigned at the February
term, 1858, on an Indictment for murder in
the first degree, and acquitted. At the Ju-
ly term, 1859, he war arraigned on an in
dictment for assault with intent to murder
and ocouitted At the Novemher term.