Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-24
River and Weather.

River and Weather. ef ,l ID
vkss~-vs PITTSBURGH, August %.
The river is twenty inches and at a stand.
Weather cloudy. Mercury "a degrees.
Suit for Damages. "a
CINCINNATI, August 22.
Charles B. Lewis, local editor of Mich
igan paper, who was crippled for life and
greatly disfigured on the Magnolia disaster,
last spring, has brought suit against the
owners of the boat for $4,000 damages.
I AS Cartle Plague.
The cattle plague. has appeared here
Seventeen cows belonging to one dairy are
stricken and are dying off rapidly. The
plague is supposed to have been brought
here by Texas cattle. W.. sfs5'1
ST. Loufs Items. 3
aai.sa ST. LOUIS, August %.
The Democrats of the Third District
have nominated General James r. McCor-
mick for Congress.
Col. Ingersoll, Attorney General of u
linois, will start for Maine next week to
canvass that State for Grant and Colfax.
The Blair Knights of this city are having
made a magnificent Blair banner and a
Large American flag for presentation to the
Blair Knights OF New Orleans. They will
cost about nine hundred dollars, and will
be taken to New Orleans by committee
presentation.
The Cattle DIsease-Invesfigat
| BUFFALO, August %.
M. r. Patrick, J. Stanton Gould and
Lewis Allen, State Commissioners to in
quire into the cattle disease, met at this city
at eight o'clock. The morning was con-
sumed in consultation with the municipal
authorities. The Commissioners, with the
above named authorities, visit the cattle
yards this afternoon. Commissioners will
be appointed in different parts of the State
to look after cattle arriving from abroad.
Several days will be devoted to a most
thorough examination of the causes of the
disease. .eH
Chinese Embassy. ssf- a-
| -1'. '" 7e'i Boston, Aug. %.
The banquet given to the Chinese EN-
bassy last night broke up at midnight. Ca
leb Cushing and Gen. Banks were among
| the speakers. Gen. Mcdowell and Com
modore Rogers were among the guests =
The Embassy and city government are en-
| joying an excursion down the harbor to-
day in the revenue cutter McCulloch.
| Pedestrianism.
WORCESTER, Aug. %.
John L. Taylor commenced to walk one
| hundred miles in twenty-four hours at 4
o'clock yesterday, on the agricultural
grounds at Fitchburg.
/ Fire.
ROCHESTER, N. Y, Aug. %.
The stove works of G. G.. Curtiss, Main
street, were destroyed by fire last night.
Loss 5000; insured.
Crawford County.
SANDUsKY, o., Aug. %.
The Democratic Central Committee of
Crawford county have issued a call tor
Convention to be held at Crestline, August
26th, to nominate candidate for Congress.
They invite the other counties of the 9th
District to join them. They positively re-
| fuse to support Noble, the nominee OF the
regular Convention. .7s--.-s-.
l. Festival.
eaiT; BALTIMORE, August %.
The Schutzen festival will commence
| here on Monuay next. Arrangements have
been perfected to make it the most enter
| tanning ever held in Baltimore. A grand
procession on Monday morning will in
augurate the festival.
Drowned.
l. PHILADELPHIA, August %.
| Last evening Miss Isabella Smith, aged
| IL, daughter of General Kirby Smith, U.
8. Consul at Panama, was accidentally