The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-01-16
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ON Saturday night, and is pro.
nouneed the finest in the couniry.
The Republicans of Chicago are
debating the expediency Of cree.
ting wigwam for the accommo.
dation of the National Convention.
1t the decision is against building.
the Convention will meet in Far
we'll Hall.
Governor Flanders, Of Louisiana,
having resigned, General Hancock
has appointed Johnson Baker to the
vacant office.
A frail woman named Rosa Dun.
can was kicked 10 death by her
paramour in ChilIicothe last week.
The murderers name is Alexander
Rogers.
George w. Hutchinson, OF Zanes-
vile, has been arrested az Columbus
for passing counterfeit greenbacks
at q faro bank.
Captain Wm. Reynoldshas taken
possession oil two coral islands in
the Pacific Ocean, in the name OF
the United States.
Patrick O'Conor says no doesn't
quite understand why everybody
is anxious to 90 to heaven, while
nobody is in II hurry about it.
Hdrper's Bazar is edited by Miss
Mary L. Booth, lady of high
literary accomplishments. who has
published several successful books.
Jay Cooke is to dine the Wash
ington correspondents somo even
ing soon, between fve.twenly and
seven. thirty. They will not 20
home till ten forty.
A Christmas tree got up for the
benefit Of u Baptist church in Lonox,
Asitabula county, yielded about
$1,000 worth Of presents. A fruit.
iul tree
The railroad bridge at Omaha
having been completed, the first
train that ever crossed the Mis-
souri,. passed over TO the Iowa
shore on Thursday.
The immigration from Germany
Inst year increased ten thousand. -
That from Ireland decreased three
thousand, and from England two
thousand.
Tho Post Office Department has
on band the photographs of TO-.
900 Union soldiers, that accumulat.
ell during the war in the Dead Let.
ter Department.
A dispatch from London annonn.
ees that DR.. Livingstone, tho Afri-
can traveller, is alivo and well.-
Positive adyices just received from
Africa leave no longer any doubt
OF his safety.
II is now stated that the funds in
the hands Of the State Treasurer OF
Georgia were removed some timo
ago TO New York. to prevent the
surrender OF them to The State Con.
vention in session at Atlanta.
Vermont farmers are disgusted
with the low price of wool md will
quit raising sheep and 20 into the
dairy business, Twenty new
cheese factories win be built next
season. sa..
The editorof the Elyria Demo.
crat, in his last paper, acknowledges
u Now Years present from his liz.
tic grand. daughter, eight years old,
Of u pair OF woolen stockings, knit
by herself.
The FIRST copies Of the agricul.
tural report for 1866 are out. II is
the most interesting and valuable
report ever issued by this Depart.
mont, aud contains several new
features.
On the I'd Of last month the Hoo.
sac mountain had been tunnelled
10 q distance Of 1908 feet. The
distance through the mountain il
25,O3l feet (abOut Al miles), and
thorc remains u distance OF 1888
feet 10 accomplish.
The father of a family, at Wash
Ington, holds u chief clerkship
worth $1,000; two sons have 81, 200
,lerkshipS, and another, one OF
'l,4OO, while tho daughter is pro.
vidcd for with 5000 place ncarly
$1,000 por year TO one establish.
nent.
Tho Springfield Republic gives
he number of Operatives employed
IN the various manufacturing Oh
tablishmcnis,i in that place at about
800. The Republic estimates the
amount paid for labor in thoso es.
in tho course of the
year at about Ss5O,OOO.
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