Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-04-23
News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS.


1897.
A WELL, 95 feet deep, at Marshall, Me-,
is said to ebb and flow with the tides.
LoBsrERs and milk caused the death of q
colored man the other day in New Haven.
TIE Freedmen's Saving Bank in Charles
ton received slsl, ,565 on deposit during last
March.
A HOG, 81 months old, recently killed in
Vermont, weighed, when dressed, 9O3
pounds.
A PROCESS of silvering hooks and eyes,
made of iron wire, has been patented in
Bavaria.
Two taxpayers only in Cincinnati return
incomes of 100000. Six report incomes
of $4,000.
THE West Virginia Republicans will
hold convention on May 18th, to nominate
a State ticket.
AFRENcH savant undertakes to prove
that Solomon's Temple was furnished with
lightning rods.
"THERE Is no virtue in resignation" is a
new aphorism, eaid to have been composed
by Mr.. Disraeli.
ALrrrLE boy was shot dead by his broth
er at Geneva. Illinois, few days ago, while
playing soldier.
ROBINS are selling at 80 cents dozen at
Alexandria, Va. Robin pot-pie is, there
fore, very popular.
A YEAR ago a man paid $1,000 for some
land in Omaha. He has just sold it to a
railroad for $4,000.
McCoRMIcK, the "reaper man." reports
an income of s232,3O6 for 1867. No other
income in Chicago exceeds 100000.
THE Feniau Circle of Nashville have
agreed upon Convention in May to raise
$5O0,OOO before making another raid.
THREE great-grandparents and two
grandparents were present at recent
christening party, in Belleville, NJ.
AN Artesian well, on the Colt estate, at
Hartford, has reached the depth of 1400
feet. 1t is to be bored 200 feet deeper.
A WOMAN of St. Louis recently walked
% miles in 231S hours, in an unsuccessful
attempt to walk 100 miles in "a hours.
A vERMoNTER, 81 years old, during last
Marcn, sawed twice, split, carried six rods,
and then piled up nine cords of wood.
A FAMILY in Maine, consisting of seven
persons, measure unitedly forty-two feet
in height or six feet each on an average.
The Baptists have membership of 49,.
600 in Iowa, over 200 preachers, 60 Sabbath
schools and above 5000 Sabbath scholars.
APARrY of sportsmen, through the wag-
gerry of a friend, were recently arrested as
Il h.,.r IL t., T.
A LADY at Potter's Creek, N. j., is re-
ported to be over 104 years old. Her mem
tai and bodily health are both said to be
good.
A PAUrER in the Buffalo Poor House is
subject to cataleptic fits, in which he sleeps
for five days without food or nourishment
of any kind.
The TRUCK horse 10 hands high, and
weighing about 1000 pounds, passed
through Hartford few days ago from
Sprir gfeld, Mass, on his way to New
York.
A LADY died recently in Gloucester,
Mass, at the age of 10l years, months
and days. She retained her health and
her faculties until within few weeks of
her death.
A VENERABLE and stately chestnut tree
measuring twenty feet In circumference, is
now standing In Kennel, Delaware Co, Pa
Although it must be old, it is in very
healty condition, and last year produced
large amount of fruit. There is another
tree still larger standing near Parkerville.
STATE NEWS.
The Barnesuil1e (Ohio) Enterprise says two
or three persons attempted to break into
the postoffice ar that place, last Friday
night. They tried to pry open two back
windows, but the noise awakened the
watchman in the Office, who fired shot at
the operator, which unfortunately did not
take effect.
OK Tuesday. the 14th inst, says the
Woodsfeld Spirit Of Democracy, Mr.. George
B. Lynch, of Antioch. this county, died
very suddenly at Mr.. DORIS hotel OF appo-
plexy. He was at dinner when he was OBJ
served to struggle as though choking, but
the physician, upon examining him, de-
cided differently. In twenty minutes after
the attack he was corpse. Mr.. Lynch
leaves a wife and three small children.
THE Mansfield Eerald of Wednesday says
A man by the name of John Graham, -of
Perry township, was robbed in the vicinity
of the depot in Mansfield, last Thursday
of over sixty dollars. It is the same old
story Of becoming too intimate with a
stranger, who decoyed Graham to a lonely
place, when q third person made his ap-
pearance, and the two attacked him and
choked him, threw him down and took his
pocket book, containing the above sum of
money.
ON Tuesday morning, about half past II
o'clock, says the Dayton Journal of the 22d.
the large bonded warehouse at Lockyille
Distillery, on the canal, few miles north
of the city, was discovered to be on fire.
When discovered, it was impossible
to save any of the contents, or to
prevent the destruction of the building.
The warehouse was rented some time ago
by Abner G. Campbell, but was seized
some weeks ago by the Government Agent,
and the whisky, some three hundred bar
rels, was placed in charge of Robert Gull
lum, as storekeeper. The whiskey was
worth about $4,000. The fire is described
as aterribly grand affair, the burning whis-
ky, which ran out into the canal, making
Q sheet of flame for some distance along the
canal, an6 blazing as high as house top.
The entire apparatus of the distillery
was also destroyed; and the loss of build
Ing and machinery is estimated at from
$4,000 to $1,000. and was mostly insured. |
The fire is supposed to be the work of in