Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-02-03
New. of the Day.

News of the Day.
eU IS 81 erNERAL NEWS.
GoLD closed in New York Saturday at
1407S.
THE Crown Prince of Prussia is at Flo
renee.
quitoes two weeks ago. % -
THERE are 22.693, ,427 acres Of unimproved
land in farms in Texas.
GRANT clubs are being organized, in vari-
Gus portions of Oregon.
The peach trees are blossoming and the
tomatoes ripening in Florida.
THIRrEEN divorce cases are on the docket
Of the Supreme Court of Maine.
A CHILD with six msture teeth was re-
Gently born at North Adams, Mass.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Co. carried
$3.50 through passengers last year. -
The Princess of Wales has recovered suf-
ficiently to be able to go to church.
= Four field marshals have been added to
the British army, making seven in all.
A FAMILY living near Burnt Cabins, Pa.
has lost five children by diphtheria in six
days.
Snow fell for the first time in forty-six
years in Cadiz (Spain) about the middle Of
last month.
THE wife of q lager beer dealer in Louis
willie. gave birth few days since to four
bouncing boys.
e. ALL the, Western papers contain unusu-
ally numerous accounts of burglaries,
thefts and frauds.
GOVERNOR BAKER, of Indiana, pardoned
onehundred and fifteen convicts from the
State prison In 1867.
an A Mrs. HARPER is lecturing in North
Carolina on 'the colored man as moral
and political force."
The four principal gas companies in
New York distribute 2602, 10000 cubic
feet of gas per annum.
THE report of the Street Railroad Com
panies in Portland, Me-, shows q loss Of
$500 during the past year.
NEARLY all the citizens of .Vicksburg
have been enrolled as special policemen to
guard against incendiarism.
% THE eight thousand soldier photographs
in the Dead Letter Office are nearly all in
letters addressed to women.
TIE Wisconsin Democratic Convention
meets ON February 10th, and the Republi-
can Convention on February 2eth.
TIE PORTLAND correspondent of the
Boston Journal says that the Fenian move
meht II Maine is Increasing IN power
THREE hundred and twenty-eight thous-
. and and ninety dead of the. Union armies
now lie buried within the national ceme-
terles.sis.3as issn.H s6s astuassaz In s1F
BALTIMORE proposes to invest 5000, 900
in a new hotel, which the mere hants say
is greatly needed. The sum of $3OO0OO is
already subscribed. -; ,sss....
The Laconia Mills, at Biddeford. Maine,
have manufactured the past year $4,000. 600
yards of sheetings flanneis, &c. They en-
ploy abeut.90e girls3
JeHN MeDEvIrT. the champion billiard
player, has gone to Chicago to live. He
was received by a large procession Of
friends and admirers. .zigsqH fH
THE Scranton, Pa, papers announce that
portions of that city are visibly sinking
into the depths of an old coal mine. Cor
siderable alarm is felt among the inhabi-
tants. "A
ONE hundred Germans have settled In
South Carolina, about twenty-four miles
from Columbia, and are astonishing the
old fashioned planters with the energy
with which they 60 to work.
SOME foolish persous, six months ago,
started by express from Syracuse, NY,
q hen in box, which, after being sent to
salmosteyery city. in the West during the
above period being carried about 25,0Oo
smfles-was received last week In Connec.
/. lticut, and sent thence again. 81, 4e
An important revenue case is pending in
Indiana. The Lafayette and Indianapolis
Railroad has been transferred to the Gin
cinnatiand Indianapolis Company, and the
revenue officers claim more than 500. 600
,Sstax on the transaction, but the claim is
resisted on the ground that the transfer is
Z Of the nature of q lease.
MUCH comment and many s1eadersn
have been expended on the fact that more
than twenty persons are not allowed to as
semble in group in the streets of Paris at
one time. 1t is not long since the police
OF Id disperse or arrest groups of three
persons standing on the pavements or at
the crossings in Philadelphia. and possibly
the Partisan regulation is a similar one.
q <l(}l STATE NEWS. Isl
YESTERDAY afternoon. about AZ o'clock,
a. a man named Maurice Halloran was almost
instantly killed on the Middle Ground. He
was in the employ of the Cleveland & To-
ledo Railroad Company, as switchman,
and at the time of the accident was en-
gagged in braking on q freight train. 1t be.
ing necessary for him to get off the freight
car, he attempted to do so, when his foot
slipped and he fell between two cars, his
body lying across the track. As he fell he
halloed, which attracted the attention OF
the engineer, who instantly noticed Mr.,
HIS disappearance from the top of the car,
aud he stopped the train as quickly as posi-
BILE. On going to the assistance of the unfor-
(. tuhate man, they discovered that his body
had been nearly cut in two by the wheel OF
the car, which struck him near the upper
side of the hip joint, and that in that con-
ditions the wheel sclogged, the body had
been pushed along the track several feet.
It was extricated from the wheel and con-
sveyed to switch-house near the general
crossing, and subsequently removed to the
residence of his father. So says the Toledo
Blade Of Jan. 2Sth.