The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-01-07
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ah% cosi Sov 10 sNatup, ],
J.. D. Cook, of Detroit, chal'
'leuges the checker players. Of
The countryto play for u 900
yoHs o. i3REcKsRIDef is ex.
pected TO reach his home In
Kentucky in . day or two.
IT is officially announced
that the last of the insurgents
in Crete have surrendered 10
the Porte.
2 PEsrDKsT JUAREz, Of Mexico
received General RosecranS
United States Ministers, on the
l0th uIt.
OVER fifteen thousand gal.
Ions OF egg.nog, were consum-
ed In Cincinnati on Christmas
and New Years days. ~
TIE Sheriff OF Coshocton
county, Ohio has absconded,
lesving his securities to pay
from $1,000 to 10000. He had
became dissipated and reckless.
A CHEYENNE dispatch says
that about seventy.seven head
Of horses and mules have been
stolen by the Indians from the
neigh6orhood Of Laports, late.
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Ina recent sermon at the
Tabernacle in Salt Lake City,
Brigham Yonng threatened to
cut the Sisters of from the
Church If they dad not quit
dealing with the Gentiles.
:, henry v ". LosarSs;.iow, the
= Amerlcan poet, has declined
q public dinner at Rome. He
had dined with Hon. VIM. B.
Reading, Of that city, Geo. W.
Ohilds. of the philailelphia
Ledger was among the guests.
EXILE CAsrELLAR, the well
known Republican, says the
Republic has been morally
formed already, in Spain, as
the Republican party carried
allthe great cities in the coun-
try, except Madrid, in the late
elections.
MRS. WATSON, Of New Mar.
kst, N. H., lately set q hen on
twelve egga; after having set q
portion Of the usual period the
hen deserted her nest. Mss.
Watson was not to be beaten
by q hen In any such way as
that. and so she put her eggs
into q stove and gradually
cooked out seven chicks.
TaE great billiard match for
81 900 q side, French carmon
game, 800 points up, came, off
Ut the Academy Of Music, New
York, December %, before q
large and respectable audience.
The game was close and excl
ting, and was eventually won
by Foster, by four points. The
play did not terminate until
one O'clock this morning.
Or the nineteen million acres
Of land in the State of South
Carolina, only one.fourth is un.
der cultivation. The remain
der, some IA, 100000, is mainly
in primeval forest. Fully half
of the 100000 now under
quasi cultivation is for sale,
some Of IL even SO low as 81.
per acre, and ranging from that
up to $50. NJ )
A WIDOW WHITE in Lafayette,
Sussex county, New Jersey,
made q revelation on her
death bed on Dec. 25tb, 10 the
effect that. about seven years
ago she poisoned her infant
child. About . year afterwards,
she dealt out poison TO her
husbands father; he also died;
and that. when her husband re.
turned from the army, she gave
him . fatal dose Of poison. =.
THE large building on Dyer
street Providence, r. l., occu-
pied by the Evening Press and
several other parties, was
burned Dec. 81. Seventy.fve
printers, In the upper story, es.
capped from burning to death
by climbing down o chain 10
the street. The Press's loss is
SSO, ,000-insursd. Loss on build.
ing over $2O,oo0-insured :.
Loss by other parties about
The, lumber regionsin the
northern parts Of Wisconsin
are infested by mice as il .
plague OF Egypt had com"
upon the country. They have
the lumber camps, and
even drove the. horses and cat,
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