The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1869-01-07


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FTty families of Europeans were
recently slaughtered by New. zea.
land savages.
. a George w. Reed, Of Borbon
county, KY, has been chopping off
three hundred turkey heads daily
for some weeks past.
Opium eating Las become very
general in Maine. This is q re-
suit, it is argued, Of the prohibitoy
liquor law.
There is gentleman living in
ChilIicothe who was member Of
the jury empannelled 10 try Aaron
Burr Tor high treason.
The census Of St. Louis, just COM
pIeLed, shows the population of tho
city to be 202, ,4OO, and that of the
county 10 be FL, ,O7l.
Twenty millions of Yedeehed
Government notes we're burned at
the Treasury Department OH
Thursday.
The Executive Committee has.
decided to hold the next annueI
session Of the Ohio Teachers a.
soclation at Columbus, July 9Th.
7lh aud 6th.
The first Strawberries of the
season made their appearance in
the New Orleans market last woek,
selling at three dollars per basket
A largo company OF Pennsylvan-
iOns are ubont to close the purchase
Of 80, 900 acres Of heavily timbered
land, near Norfolk, Va, at 81 per
acre.
\ splendid new counterfeit Of
the $50 greeuback is out in New
York. TIE only defect is the lack
Of buttons on Franklin's vest.
Neally ninety thousand sheep have
been slaughtered during the pres
ent season in the counties compos-
ing the Seventeenth Ohio Congress
sional District.
An estimate Of the amount asked
by differcnt railroad corporations
from the Government by bills how
pending in Congress fixes it at ono
hundred and twenty millions of
acres of land.
A local paper gives an account
of the drowning OF thirty persons in
q large sleigh, which was driven
the other night into hole in Il
frozen lake, noar jackson, Pennsyl-
vania. Ten or twelve women wero
in the party, and no one but tho
driver escaped.
Brigham Young is issuing pa.
per currency in Utah, which re-
sembIes the national greonback.-
The Mormon President finds bank
ing operations very profitable, it is
said.
The battle ground Of Spottsyl-
Tania IL now overgrown with rough
underbrush and scrub pine, which
is iast covering the marks OF war.
The long succession Of earthworks
from which Grants army forced
Gen, Lee, hardly 800 feet apart,
arc nearly obliterated.
During the past year the lumber
statistics of Cleveland were as
| follows: Lumber received, H.
i47, 900 feet; shingles, 80, ,923 600;
lath, 3S,770,OOO. Cfthese amounts
the receipts from Canada were: of
Iumo Der, 5.43l 900 feet; shingles, a.
405: lath $4,000. Tho aggregate
Is smaller than that of last year.
During the past few days several
Witnesses for the Unitod States
have been before the grand jury,
at the instance of the District At
torney. for the purpose OF giving
evidence on which TO base a new
Indictment against John H. Sur
raft.
The receipts Of cotton at New
Orleans for the last two years, up
to Christmas Day, compare as fol-
lows: 1867, number Of bales, 219,-
6l5, 1868, number of bales, 406, ,496;
increase this year, 1S6,SS1. Tho
Now Orleans Times thinks that
receipts of cotton at that port for
the entire season will be between
9O0, 900 and 100000 bales. apd it
expects the crop to fetch more
money than that Of any previous
year.
Upward Of 100000 changed
hands in San Francisco in favor of
the Republicans after the Novem'
her elections. Democratic gam
blers had been persistent aud even
importunatO in offering odds for
Seymour's Electoral State ticket.
Ono authority Gays that nearly
100000 had been stAked on this
result, and that many gamblers
go rn;ned, The excitement after