The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1869-12-02

Forty. five miles of the Denver
Pacific Railroad have been com>
pleted, and the track is now being
laid at the rate of q mile and q half
per day.
Buckley has. sped exs Commits
sionor Rollins for libel, laying his
damages at fifty thousand dollars.
The suit is brought in Baltimore,
where Rollins was arrested for tho
same on Saturday.
, Assistant Treasurer Eolger has
announced the Intention OF the
Government to sell eleven millions
Of gold and purchase thirteen mill
lions Of bonds during December.
\ A tPittsburg inventor has con-
structed a stove for the consump-
ton Of .bituminods coal, without
producing smoke. The principle
Of the invention is to produce both
an upward and a downward draft,
meeting in the fire, and causing
perfect combustion, G
The Dominion Government has
dispatches from Governor McDou.
gall relative to affairs in Winnie
peg. He believes tho agitation
will die ont as soon as the proper
explanations can DO made TO the
insurgents. .ss aeR a7.i
General Spinner, Treasurer Of
the United States, has completed
bis annual report. y During the
eight and a half years that he has
been in Office Sl4,OOO,0OO, 900 has
passed through his hands, all ac'
counted for to the last cent.
In Alabama the demand for
lands, especially on lease, is now
greater than at any time since the
close of the war. One tract con-
tanning 500 acres which rented
last year for 81, 900, is leased for
1870 at Sl,700. q
In q trial of the atmospheric car
brake on the Pittsburg, Cincinna-
| ii and ST. Louis Railroad, on Sat
urday, a train Of six passenger
cars, running at speed of forty
miles per hour, was stopped in o
distance of less than six hundred
feet, and in sixteen seconds from
the time the signal was given.
Tho immense sugar frauds Of
New Orleans were in the United
States Court q few days since. II
was shown that on one lot the Gov
ernment had been defraudcd out
OF $4,000 duty in gold, and tho
Jury returned verdict OF con
demnation of the lot.
On Sunday Nov. 2lst, Brigham
Young detailed one hundred ant
ton preachers and elders to g
forth as missionaries to preach th'
doctrines of tho Latter-Day Saints
| They camo as far as Omaha in {
! body and then separated, to g
! East and West. Fifty of then
came East.
: The political situation in Vir
ginia is far from satisfactory
Governor Walker continues to &C
in sympathy with tho general pol
icy he advanced during tho can
vass; but the old rebel spirit i
gradually, in tho estimation o
General Candy, gotting control o
things in many parts of tho State.
81 Awell. dressed man went into {
Milwaukee bank, n few days since
and coolly drew a chock for $40,
100000, signing tho namo of G
Vanderbilt. Ho said he hat
bought the Detroit and Milwaukee,
Railroad. Before counting ou
the money the teller, as is the Gus
tom there. made some inquiries
: and found Mr.. V. was q lunatic :
Tho money was withheld on tina
account. ... ...
Tho valuc Of the imports from
Canada into Detroit for tho yea,
is 100000. This docs not in
cludo articles of less valuo thar
500, which are not entered at tn,
Consul's Office. Tho leading arti
clos imported were cattle, horses
shoep, grain and distilled spirits
! of tho latter there being abou
S67 600 worth imported. The val
10 of the articles imported during
tho previous year was but 500,
. 600.