The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1869-11-25
CLIPPINGS.

North Carolina expects to secure
a goOdIy SUPPLY of STAMPS" this
year, from its peanut crop.
The total receipts of conscience
money at the Treasury Depart
ment amount to Sll3,99l 81.
The past summer has been the
season for mad dogs
that ever was known.
The Colorado Chieftain says the
weather out there, for the pas!
three weeks, "has been q disgrace
to the country"
JEFF Davis has been elected Pres.
idont of the Carolina Insurance
Company, of Memphis, and will
reside in that city.
Acolony of eighty German FAM
lies recently purchased an entire
township of Carroll County, Iowa,
at So so per aero.
Cinnamon in this country find
Limberger cheese to equal in fla
vor tho rats and mice OF thoir own
land.
Andy Johnson has been invited
by Mayor Hall TO como to Now
York and speak n piece, while
waiting for Brownlow to die.
A contract has beon entered in.
to for the building of gigantic
bridge across East river, TO connect
Brooklyn with New York.
1t will cost $l5O,OOO, COO to trans.
fer the Capitali from Washington to
the West Ex army contractors
want the work begun.
The diamonds worn by the
"beauty and fashion" of Washing.
ton are said to be worth over half
a.million of dollars.
A woman in Concord, N. H., in
trying to get off prodlgious gap,
stretched her mouth 80 wide as to
tear the corners.
"I'm ruined,' as the old woman
said when her house was on fire;
but it is cold night, and Imay as
,celL lcarm myself"
One man and his children, living
in Monroe township, Putnam coun-
ty, gathered over ono hundred
bushels Of hickory nuts this year.
A Now York belle, who bcstow-
ed her boart and hand upon an
English Lord" found after mar
riage that her "lord' was only Dick
Radford, gambler.
Miss Hattie Pcarco, of Onslow
county, North Carolina, raised tea
this season, and is now making a
good thing of it.
The Supreme Court of this State
will meet ut Columbus, on tho 9th
!, of December. There are two hun.
dred and ninety.6ve cases on the
general docket, and seventeen or
the motion docket.
VIM. p. Messer, of GAINESVILLE
who claims to be more than hal
white, has sued the election judges
tor refusing to receive his vote al
tho October election, laying hii
} damages at one hundred thousanC
dollars. .
William Richards, dry good
merchant at Columbus, has mad,
} an assignment. His liabilities are
reported as heavy. The assets viii
amount to $4,000 or $4,000.
General Rosecraus makes bot
tor thing out of his California spec
; nlations than his Democratic can
didacy. His interests in the Col
, don State are said to bo worth fv
millions of dollars,
\ On All Saints Day (Novombe
y tho receipts of ono street. ca
company In New Orleans wa
4. So, 100. Tho ladies turned out gen
? orally To decorate tho cemeteries
=. in accordance with their annua
Gus tom,
While wheat was being threshe,
| in tho barn OF Michael Ring, il
Perry county, few days ago, tn
/ shat of tho cylinder became heat
, ed, and tho straw taking Gro, th
= barn, with the threshing machine
: wheat and other contents wer
burnt.
Tho word "Ecumonical" come
- from two Greek words, meanin
\ Hho hahtod world and an "Ecu
menical Council" ought to embraC
representatives of the church frol
y !, all parts of the globe. The Pope
4 council aims at that, but will nj
. accomplish il, #H't
The mortality among tho ncgrot
h of Mobile is five hundred por cen
g greater than among tho white poi
Is uIation, Tho births among II
II negroes of that city has fallen G
q fifty per cent. since 1850.
= A pioneer preacher of the Motl
IS odist Protestant Church, Rev. &c,
D. Brown, D. d., Of Springfield, Obi
IS who is 79 years OLD, has travele
l. during tho present year over 81
y thousand miles, and preache
l. eighty.five sermons,
. Tho Ironton (Ohio) Journal soy
q q that Ii. Guthrie, vt the mouth
a Swan Creek, gathered this fall 81
barrels Of apples, Tho steamt
America had ono shipment frol
: him, last week, OF S05 barrels.
Is OBaldwin, the Irish pugilis
10 was lately sentenced, at Lawrenc
" Massachusett to eighteen montl
4. Imprisonment in tho Hou use of Co