Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1867 : Weekly), 1867-09-07

              TATE JOURNAL. COLUMBUS, OHIO: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1867. VOL. LVII. NO. 19. OHIO WEEKLY JOURNAL. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1867. NEWH OF THE WEEK. A r.uii.niNo WO feet by 75, is to be erected In New York for c Colored Hale Orphan Asylum. The ram Stonewall has finally sailed for JeToht colored men have been appoluted as school directors in New Orleans. Twenty deaths by yellow fever were reported at New Orleans for Wednesday last. In May. 80,000,000 pounds of cotton, valued at S,M7,(KI0 pounds, were shipped from Bombay. Gen. Grant has ordered the discharge of about t wenty clerks in the paymaster's department. A Paws dispatch says much uneosiuess prevails on the Bourse in consequsnce of apprehensions of war, and rentes are declining. Dr. T. J. Chandler, of Rochester, Pa., writes to the Beaver Pa.i Arprns that he has an Isabella grape vino which has on it 1,937 bunches of grapes. The Rochester Union says that the grape Ton in western New York promises well. Unless early frost intervene there will be a large yield. A series of fires In Chicago on Friday niu'ht, consumed property to the amount of over $lun,MHi. The Irontou Register says : A Union man ns shot and instantly killed at ('atlettsburgh, Ky., on Wednesday night last. Mr. James Young, of Great Falls, N. II., learning that his wife was sink, ran from Rochester home, six miles. On reaching his house ho tell dead. The Republicans of Maryland have decided to enter upon s. vigorous contest in opposition to tlie now B'.ate Constitution. The Memphis and Ohio Railrad has paid the interest to the State, and the road has been released by Gov. Brownlow. The insurrectionary government of Candid li'is notitii'd foreign consuls of its intention to issue letters of marque for the equipment of privateers. The Pacific mall steamer Montana sailed from San Francisco on Friday last for Panama, with $l,0js,(i7fl in treasure. Advices from Athens state that the Cretan insinmnts still hold out in the mountains, and denounce the false reports of Omn Pacha's success in subduing the rebellion. During the last week eight and a half millions of currency were disbursed, in New York in the purchase of seven-thirty bonds, which were shipped 0 Washington. A San Francisco dispatch says: Political meetings are the order of the day throughout the Htate. Tho contest is the most exciting since litfil. Business is g.-nerally affected by the canvass. The bullion receipts from California and Nevada mines aggregate for the past week t;.W,nnu, The receipts from Oregon and British Columbia for the same time went f W7,000. .1 . Ross Browne, Commissioner for Mining and Industrial Statistics on the Pacific, has just returned from an examination of the resources of Oregon and Washington Territories. The Keystone Base Ball Club of Philadel phia beat the Mutuals of New York last week at ( ara-. item. New Jersey. The Mutuals beat the celebrated nationals at Washington a short time ago. TfivR Surareons In the United States ser vice died during the pat month of cholera and yellow fever i 1 iv "'ni-reni localities m . .-. - wet. Tun whole amount of coin and coin certificates in the Treasury at Washington, on Friday, was 114,:ils,ikio, and the amount of currency: 17 ,oon,ooo, making a total of lfl,348,IHKl. 1 One hundrel and forty members of Maxi- miliin's body litard, sailed for Europe from New York on Saturday. They were tnken thero by a French war steamer, on Thursday, with titty or sixty members of the Foreign Diplomatic Legation in Mexico. Tub Montreal Gazette says: "The coal oil tin' at Middl' ton's store was seen at rhttsburg, a distance of ttfty to sixty miles in a be line. The gn at Fluttsbuiy tire was, jirr amlra, seen from the highlands in this vicinity. The steamship Pereire, which recently won the gold medal at the Paris Exposition for suri-nritv in sneed snd safety, recently madn tho distance lietween New York and Havre in S days 17 hours, the fastest time ever made between those points. Tub Alleghanlans leave New York this week on a trip to Salt Lake nty to sing and jingle their hells for the amusement ot Briicham Young and the Halt Lakers, Brigham having sent them a pressing invitation to that encct. The registration in Georgia has been com dieted, and, contrary to expectations, tho blacks are some two thousand in the majority. It was expected Dint the whites would have a majority 01 thirty tiioii' and. The attempt of the New York gamblers to form ft protective union is likely to fail, it is said, bo. c tuse the hiirher orders of the profession are glad to see the "lower class" put down : and tne suppression so ciety only oppuses me common gamoicrs, Reports continue from rebel sources of the success of the insurrection in Spain, and especially in the province of Aragon. Latest advices report that the insurgents have enptureu ana Hold tne city of fcara-gossa.Sixty-six bales of new cotton had been received in Montgomery, Ala., up to Aug. jsth. The corn crop is safe and largo. The cotton crop has been greatly dam med dunnf tho last row weeks lrom lack of rain and by worms. The Memphis (Tenn.) Post Is Informed by an ice dealer in that place that, owing to the eompara-thely cool weather and the dull timed, the consumption of ice this season will fall several thousand tons short of that of last year. A pew days ago, in Alexandria, Va., While a man was feeding a favorite dog, the animal, in a playful mood, jumped on his master, and ono of its paws scraping over his pocket, struck the hammer of a pistol in the inside of it, exploding the weapon and seriously wounding the owner. A carle dispatch says that the resolutions of the United States Conirresa expressing sympathy for tho struggling Cretans, which Mr. Morris, tne American .uinisier, ncenuy reponourniiictMiniims 'Porte, has created a profound sensation at Constantinople.In Richmond, the pica of a want of Jurisdiction was made by counsel of the party charged with violating the revenue laws, on the ground that the law provides for the same number of inspectors as the State had Representatives in Congress, and as Virginia had none, there could lie no legal inspectors in her limits. Tnn Monroe (Michigan) Commercial says that in the vioinity of Monroe, farmers and gardncra have planted within three years, .17,(Ks) grape vines-llanvofthe viueyardsare now hearing, and the yield, tiothin quantityand quality, surpasses the expectations of the most sanguine. A dispatch from Manchester, England, of Tuesday, says ; The Anti-Hlavery Congress convened ' in this city to-day. Wm. Lloyd Garrison made a speech. Other distinguished persons, including several negroes, also made speeches. Kulogies were passed on the (Government of the United Ntates and Russia for their recent aliolition of slavery. It Is stated that In Patterson, New Jersey, one shop which formerly turned out three locomotives a week now only make three in a month. Tho tlrst locomotive sent South since the war was forwarded from Patterson to Macon, Ha. It is also stated that 3, more hands miirlit he employed at Patterson, in tho una lactones, were me iraue as good as usual. Advices from the Saudwlch Islands are to August 3d. Tho King has convened tho Legislative Assembly for the id of September. Oreat results are anticipated from the treaty nl reciprocity with the United states. The American! representatives have Doen enienained with honor tor the same by tho Minis, ter of Foreign Attain. . Sophie Roisclaire. now under sentence of death in Horol Jail, Canada, for the murder of her husband, was delivered of a daughter on Thursday evening. Aug. 22. Her paramour and accomplice, who was also the father of this child, was executed last nprimr; ann ins execution of this woman was only d' fcrrcd toaw.ut tlusi.vcnt. The receipts from Internal revenue at Washington yesterday wore $1,500,SM. The deaths In New Orleans from yellow fever last week were 120. At Galveston 541. A Berlin dispatch says the Liberals carried the elections for the North Oerman Parliament in all the large towns of the Confederation. Dr. Lf.tterman, late medical director of the Army of the Potomac, is a candidate for Coroner at Ban Francisco. Twenty-seven American and ten foreign vessels bound to and from the United States ports are reported missing for the month of August. The corner stone of a Jewish hospital was laid in Chicago a few days ago. The building will cost $;jo,O0O. The name of the only survivor of the crew of the miniature yacht, John T. Ford, lost in the Eng. hsh Channel, is Armstrong. A sample of pig Iron from Oregon, the first made on the Pacific coast, is on exhibition at San Fran-ciico.Lieut. Wallace, Adjutant of the 10th Infantry, died at New Orleans on Tuesday, of yellow fever. The American Minister at Constantinople has presented to the Sultan the resolutions of the V. S. Congress in relation to the war in Crete. A New York dispatch says Mrs. Jane Walker, wife of a well-known merchant, while in a bath, in Second Avenue, on Tuesday night, fell asleep, strangled, and was drowned. Harriet Craig, a resident of Jersey City, committed suicide with laudanum on Wednesday roorn-inir. because her urhanced husband had seduced and deserted her. A dispatch from St. Louis says the increasing receipts of upper river produce has the effect of animating business. Every boat that comes in has all the freight it wants. Maryland rebels have driven from her own property a Union woman, who had opened on her farm a home' tor disabled white and black Union soldiers.A London dispatch says: the Increasing bitterness apparent in the Prussian journals on the Salzburg Conference causes much anxiety throughout Europe. An order from headquarters of the army revokes General Order No. 4, of 18U7, relative to punish, ment of soldiers for desertion, and restores paragraph 8113 of the revised army regulations. The steamer Nevada has made the run from Oreytown, Nicaragua, to New York, in rive days and twenty-two hours, the fastest time on record. The distance is 2,070 miles The new cable from Brest to New 1 ork, Is to be laid in May next. The Northern route has been selected as the safest and mot practicable. The Great Eastern has been chartered to portorm tne wora. A St. Petersburg dispatch of Monday nn the atoamer Oiiiikcr Citv. with the American ex cursionists to the Holy I .and on board, had arrived at Odessa from Constantinople. James Duncan, commissary to tho rebel Wirz at Andersonville, escaped from Fort Pulaski last week. He was sentenced for fifteen years. He has gone to France. The Memphis (Tenn.) Post savs the total number of children and persons between the aires of six and twenty, in that city, as snown oy me scnooi census is 8,18.1, of whom 4,!hW are white and 3,185 colored. Mr. John Hopkins, the wealthiest citizcu of Baltimore, has presented the Monumental City an amount 01 money sumcicni to erect ana put in operu tion a hospital and school. It Is feared that the potato crop through out Connecticut will suffer severely by the excess of moisture in the ground. A snort crop ot corn 01 ull kinds is anticipated. Northern capitalists have been telegraph ing freely to Washington the past few days, and all on account of Johnson's correspondence with General Grant and the reported troubles in the Cabinet. The Mexican nailers publish an order from Oen. Berriozabal to the Chief of Police at Matamoras. directing the arrest of all Catholic priests crossing over from the American to the Mexican side of the river, and to hold them subject to nisorders. A TEitnniLE tragedy took place at Marlon, Ark., on Friday. An oversoer, named Bradley, got into 11 difficulty with some neirrocs, and shot and killed one woman and two men. Bradley tied and had not ueell lleam 01. TnK American steamer Quaker City has arrived at the 1 nmoa. tm 1 uesday last the excursion-ists were n-eeived by tho Emperor and Empress of Bus. sia, who arc spending the summer in tho Crimea, and were warmly welcomed to Russia by tlieir majesties, A Sanitary olllcer at Washington, a few days ago, compelled the crew of a schooner to throw into the river nearly two hundred unsound watermelons, which were to have been offered for sale ut the Washington markets. The Portland Argns says that the story that Walter Brown luul dislocated his ankle, which would probably inteitero with his match with Hamill, is a mimrd. Uamill has gone to Newburg, New York, where the race is to come on on the nth. . Accounts from Southern Illinois represent the ncarh crop to be enormous in that section. It is no uncommon thing to ship from 10,000 to 20,thK boxes a day over the Illinois Central, besides what find their way to St. I.0111S, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Cairo. Arrangements arc In contemplation for oneniny up trade and commereo between New York and the port of Sierra I .cone, Monrovia, and other parts of the African ouast. It is intended to build steamers for the trade. The summit tunnel on the Central Pacific Railroad, sixteen hundred and fifty-eight yards long is now open from end to end, through solid granito. The track on the eastern slope of the mountain is now being laid. Letters from Victoria represent a strong under current of fcelimr in favor of an annexation with the United Stub. The San Francisco Bulletin says that tho choice is between annexation and tho ruin of the colony. The number of foreign letters sent and received at the New York PostofHee from tho 17th to thc27th August, 1H07, inclusive, was : British, lutyWll; (i.Ttnsn, Kii.Nltl; French, VI.7W; Belgium, 1,751. To-tul, 230,896. The quantity and value of raw and fleece wool and flocks, wante or shoddy, imported in the Uni te 1 States for the year ending June' 30th, was, wool, ri,32 ,i:l pounds, valued at to,770,08:l ; shoddy, 0.080,. in; pounds, valued at lt,-n'. The Philadelphia. Press of Tuesday savs the potato crop of the farmers of Eastern Pennsylvania is being rapidly and severely injured oy tne rot. Thou-sands of bushels arc being daily destroyed by its rapid ravages. A dispatch from San Francisco says: Union journals discuss the issue betwin Grant and the President, sustainiug Grant. The Bulletin calls the course of tho President suicidal. At a public meeting last night the President s policy was strongly denounced. An overland mail from New York hail arrived at San rrancisco. The annual festival of tho Siengerfost of Nort h America, to m Held at Indianapolis on the 3d, 4th, .Uh aud Oth of SeptemtsT, is expected to he ono of the greatest musical festivals which has ever tieen held in the West. All the leading cities in the Northwi-st are expected to Is; largely represented, and many mil. sieal assooiat ions from tho eastern cities are preparing t- participate. A Berlin dispatch savs : The new Amerl cm Minister to Berlin, Hon. Goo. Bancroft, has been treats with unexampled courtesy by the Prussian Court. Yesterday, on invitation of tho King, he accom panied count lUsmarcK to the royal residence at pots-dam: where he was received with unusual attentions, Bnd had an interview of over three hours' duration with tho King and the Prime Minister. In the evening Mr. Bancroft dined with the King, who afterwards took him back to Berlin in tho royal coach. A Montreal dispatch says : Nominations tor membeis of Parliament were made to-day. McGet was hooted and nroventod from sneakinir. Cartor'i friends raised a not at another place, aud Lancelot, litieral, bad to be guarded home by the police. Three men were dangerously beaten, and several others in Jured. The riot in the eastern part of thecity was more serious tnan at nm reported. Troops were caued out, cavalry charged upon the nmii, and two squadrons ha to guard the candidates on their way home, i he casre alties were severe, and number over thirty, but none au, reporiod lauu. The statistics for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1807, show the aggregate receipts from whisky and tobacco largely exceed the receipts from the same sources for the previous fiscal year. TnE Memphis (Tenn.) Post, of a late date, says : The effect of the increased production or corn 111 this region is already beginning to be felt. The demard from the interior has fallen off, and receipts from aboe aresteadily decreasing. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad has been completed to Des Moines, the capital of Iowa. Tile last rail was laid at four o'clock Saturday afternoon. Four miles of the track were laid iu forty-eight hours. A party of divers at Nashville rcceutly hooked on to what they supposed was the safe of a steamer sunk somo twenty years ago. After long and hard labor they succeeded iu raising an old cooking stove. As a box of percussion caps was being ta ken alioard a vessel at New York a few days ago, it slipped and fell into the hold and exploded w ith great violence, seriously wounding two men, one ot tnera angerousiy. The Department of State has received a full report of the proceedings of the recent Monetary Conference at Pans, which agreed on the five Iranc piece as the unit. A reduction in weight ef the United States gold dollar of per cent, is requisite to secure uniiormity with other nations. An agent of one of the Illustrated Police Gazettes went te Hellevue, Iowa, last week, for a photograph of the younir lady whose unfortunate marriage with a swinler. on first siirlit. has been lately chroni cled, but the stern parent knocked the fellow down, und a oig orotnor kicked mm out of aoors. In a circular note the Turkish Government announces to ministers at foreign courts that the war in Caudia has been brought to a close, and a general amnesty grunted to the rebels. The same note promises that many reforms shall forthwith be introduced in the laws and the administration of the island. Out of tweuty-six officers connected with the Custom House at Galveston only throe are fit for duty. Tho others are either sick or dead. The Department has issued instructions for the removal of the Custom House to a point further down the island, outside the city limits, which is said to be free from the epidemic. The fatality of the yellow fever at Galveston is said to be without precedent at that point. A new swimming bath was opened in New Tork on Saturday last, which the Tribune describes as f illows : The swimming tank is of white marble, with concrete bottom, and is 75 feet long by 3.' wide. A con stant stream ot lresliwatsr pom-sin at one end, while the soiled water Hows away from the other. Convenient dressing-rooms for the bathers aud galleries lor spectators surround the tank. STATE NEWS. A farmer of Stark county harvested, this year, 3,200 bushels of good wheat. It grew bu 175 acres of grouud. The Tuscarawas Chronicle says the grape crap of that county promises au abundant yield. There were eight hundred aud sixty-seven cases tried In the police court In Cincinnati lu the mouth of August. The Sandusky Register says that a parcel of the Mansfield rascals have arrived in Sandusky. The amount of ale and beer sold In Stark county during the month of July, was 1,130 barrels, costing at wholesale "f l!2,lw, and retailing for $28,000. The Kenton Republican say." a man in thnt vicinity was kicked by a horse last week and died from the effect of It the follow ing day. The brick wall of an oil-mill store-house In Youngstown burst out a few days ago, aud about three thousand bushels of flaxseed were poured out to the ground. The annual fairof the Zauesvillc Driving Park Association is to commence on Wed nesday the 4th. Premiums $12,000 competition open to all. TnE Portsmouth Tribune says an owl measuring four feet and seven inches from tip to tlpi was killed near that place a few days ago. The Lima Gazette says the corn crop of Allen county will not be over one-fourth of au average. In many fields there will scarcely be a full sized car. . The Sandusky Regtster contains tho following, post marked Elyrla, and addressed to a citizen of Sandusky : Mr. Bryan When you were In company with Mr. Wlckem I traded with you, and there was one sack of flour that you did not charge. I then thought It clear gain ; but I now see that nothing un holy can enter into the Kingdom of God. now, tficreiore, pay it, with interest: and, If we are so fortunate as to meet In Heaven, you will know the author. The Zanesvlllc Times savs : The new dam at that place will be completed about the 20th of September, and from the thorough aud substantial manner In which it has been built, will, no doubt, successfully resist the Invasions ot tne Muskingum, eveu in Its wildest freshets. The dam Is 400 feet In length, 35 feet broad and !!0 feet high, aud has taken at least 10,000 perch of stone, a vast amount 01 tnnoer ana the labor ofma'iy men, as well ns "somo brains." It will cost al)iitt'fl8,000. TiiETuscara was Chronlclesays the panther heretofore seen in mat region, is again ou the move. The Uuronlclc savs : He was seen at the edge of a large forest near the road leading to Uollvar. ihc excitement In the vicinity is really Intense. Women and chil dren are afraid to go away from home, and grown-up men will not venture to travel the roads after nignt. wo are told hy a citizen of Bolivar, tliut a large hunt is being organ Ized, when It Is hoped the ferocious beast will be captured. A dispatch from Mansfield, dated the 28th says that Hryant Murphy, a strident In the law olllce of General Ranning, at Mt. Vernon, accidentally fell from a window of the third story of tho Wlllard House in Mans- field, on Tuesday night, and was so badly In j 11 red that he died at nine o clock tho next morning. He was on his way to attend the commencement exercises at Oberlin, where his father and mother had preceded him, an where his sister Is about to graduate. He was represented as a young man of excellent character, and of considerable promise In the prolesslon he had choseu. . . v The Lancastur Gazette savs :Thc show of fruit at the present time In the orchards and vineyards of the State Farm Is absolutely wonderful. The score of thousands of peach trees are bending their limbs to the ground under the load of thousands Uxm thousands of bushels ot the fruit, notwithstanding the nimble fingers of multitudinous boys are dally relieving them of tons of their luscious product. The Gazette adds that among ail this quautlty of fruit " there is scarce a seolmcn that Is not of sucrlor quality. The sight at the State Farm would well repay a visit by amateur or professional horticulturists from the remotest parts of the State." The Mt Vernon Republican savs: The splendid rains last week have secured to our tiiriners fine crops of corn. Feed is also abundant and this will give us plenty of fall butter. The Palnesville Telegraph reports the robbing of Smart &, Willson'sstore in that place. of mouey, watches, bonds, &C, to the amount of about $4,000. A reward of $1,000 it offered or the arrest of the robbers and the recovery of the money. A Ivelley'b Island correspondent of the Sandusky Register says n man named Jack JlcUreen recently swam from Kcllcy's Island to the Peninsula, a distance of four and a nail miles, lie made the distance in about three hours, without a rest. The Youngstown Iingister savs that a few days ago Mr. James H. Ualley, of Coltsville, was thrown from his buggy, aud the wounds he received In the war were so Irritated by his injuries from the fall us to cause serious Illness. The Cincinnati Commercial says that a "silver palace" day aud night car is soon to be put on the Little Miami, Panhandle and Pennsylvania Railroads, to run regularly eacli day. There is now one on with Monday's aud Wednesday's trains, going cast. The Somerset Advocate says that a citizen of that vicinity reports the loss, last year, of about 40 bushels of potatoes, by rot, while Ills crop was lying on the barn floor, but as suon as he removed the pile to the cellar, the rot ceased. He believes the rot was arrested by placing them lu the cellur. TnE Wellsville Union says that a gentleman who was attending a camp meeting in that vicinity, had his clothes stolen, including coat, vest, pants and overcoat, while he was In bed. He remained in bed till his wife borrowed the necessary garweuts for him. A rouTAHLE saw mill at Alliance, recently, on a trial of its capacity, sawed 10,500 feet of poplar lumber, surface measure, from 18 logs, in four hours aud eight minutes, or deducting one hour consumed Inputting in logs, filing saw and oiling machinery, In 3 hours 8 minutes of sawing. TheJHamllton Telegraph says: The best and largest peaches of the season may be obtained on any market day for two dollars per bushel ; and those of on Inferior qnallty arc held at prices within the reach of all classes of citizens. There will probably be more peaches canned this summer than have been before for ten years past. A writer In the Marietta Register gives, among some other Items of Ohio history, the following : The first settlement was made by New England men, April 6, 1788, among whom was the distinguished Gen. Rtifus Putnam, who died In 1824. Ills descendants, most noble people, still live In Washington county. Hurmar, ou the west side of the Muskingum, was mimed after a German, General llarmar, of New York. Marietta, on the cast side, was named in honor of a German Princess, then the Queen of France, Marie Antoniette. Here live some of tho descendants of the Revolutionary Gen. Ward. Cincinnati, about !J00 miles below, was laid out several months after Marietta. The Guernsey Advertiser has the following: A lead mine is aboul being opened near East Plaintlcld, Coshocton county. The existt nee of lead in abundance, near that locality, lias been known ever since lis first settlement. Quantities of It were frequently sold by the Indians to tne early settlers, but its pre else locality seems to have lieen unkuown to any but themselves. It has now, however, transpired that John McCnne Esq., of Falrvlew, had some forty years ago discovered and marked Its surface cropping. lie lias now made satisfactory arrangements with the land owners, and they will at once uoceed to mining and smelting. I he many rumors of lead being found In this county may prove to be true as the locality of these mines Is but a few miles from us. The Wyandotte Pioneer has the following : On last Thursday, ns Mr. H. Grindlc was plowing in a Held near his barn, ho no-ti'vd his lurtW horse break through the ground with one foot, and on exam ining the spot, found a considerable hole In the ground. He dropiod a stone In the opening, and was surprised In a few moments to hear it touch water. Becoming curious, lie procured a roi, attached a stono thereto, and let it down a distance of sixty-three feet, and found it uiMiut a foot deep. Y hat the shape and size of the hole is we leave the curious to conjecture, but It Is lu- d.'eda curiosity to find a hole only large enough to admit a horse's foot, leading to a l irge cavity below, and tills at tho highest point on West Lime Ridge, about four miles north-west of Curcy. TnE Cleveland Plain Dealer has the following description of a lively scene : Quite a sensation was caused at the dinner table of one of our principal hotels, yesterday, by slight passage at arms between a male giirt-t and one ot the waiter girls. 1 he man ordered chicken. Walter said there was none. -Man called waiter a liar. Walter expressed a dislike at being thus treated. Man then tpit in tcititer't .' and told her that If she said anything moic about It he would boat her. A young man belonging to Fred. Wilson's mlns'trel troupe was an Interested spectator of the scene. This young man had somehow or other got Impressed with the Idea that women wero something more than dogs; and therefore, when the man spit in the girl's face, he sprung to his feet, rushed over to Mm, and seized the fellow by the throat. Although the "slink" would not apologize to tho waiter, at the other's command, the minstrel gave hiin a good choking for his meanness. The Dayton Journal of yesterday relates the following: A letter lrom Darke county, to a Bentlenuin In this city states that David Brown, a colored man, living in Patterson township, Darko county, Ohio, was called out of bed alHJUt ten o'clock babbath even lnir. August 25th, and shot down in cold blood, by some person unknown. It seems that Brown had been, and was at the time, llv lug with a white woman (French) by the name of Lemon, but was not married. Suspicion rests upon two persons for committing the cowardly act, but no arrests have been made yet. It Is qulto evident that tho intention was to kill, as nine were found in dlll'er- eut parts of tho body, one entering tho right aurlclo of the heart, killing him Instantly. "Dave," as he was called, was looked upon us being an honest Industrious negro, and attended to ids own business. Burglars are doing a stirring business in Springfield. The Republic of Thursday re-curds three cases of attempted house breaking, two of which were successful. The Greene County Fair is to comincuca Wednesday, Sept. 4. A base ball tournament, to be participated In by Clubs from Cincinnati, Columbus, Davton, Springfield and other places, Is advertised for the first day. The Guernsey Times is informed bv Mr. Alex. Mehefl'ey, of that county, that about the 15th of May last he sheared six yearling Iambs, and that their fleeces, after being cleansed, averaged pounds each. Mr. M. has five Spring luiubs, uow about four months Id, which weigh respectively 78,82, 01,91, und 105 pouuds. The Geauga Democrat savs : The drouth is beginning to show Its effects in all parts of this county. Pasturage is getting short, nun many ot our farmers fear that they may be compelled to drive away their cattle, as we understand some of the farmers of Port age county arc already doing. The corn aud potato crops arc sufierlng terribly, and, unless rain conies soon, will be entirely de stroyed. The Stark county papers give an account of tho burning of a large barn In that neighborhood, belonging to Mr. John Frauk, involving a loss of $8,000. The burn was worth $4,000, and contained 2,000 bushels of barley, 700 bushels of wheat, and several horses. No insurance. It was supposed to be the work of an incendiary. Several other similar buildings have been burned in the neighborhood lately, with no clue tothe origin of the fire. The Elyrla Democrat has the following: Last Thursday, during the absence of father Molon, the Catholic Priest, in tins village, a German girl from Liverpool, Medina county, named New ucyer, aged uWout sixteen years, came to his residence, aud stated that she was to go to a convent. In the afternoon, Priest by the name of Berrens, also from Liverpool, arrived forlhe purpose of accompanying her. The two went to the Depot, where they had their baggage checked for Toledo. While waiting for the train, the girl discovered her father approaching, accompanied by an olllcer from Liverpool when she escaped unobserved to father Ma-lou's, and secreted herself in the chamber. On seeing the Priest and not his daughter, Mr. Newmcycr became greatly excited, and publicly , charged him with abducting his daughter, for the purpose of accomplishing her ruin. High words ensued, and the sympathy of the bystanders was all in the behalf of the enraged father. Being unable to learn where his daughter was secreted, the father returned to Liverpool. Meanwhile Father Molon was telegraphed to hasten home, but he did not arrive till the next day, just after the Priest and the girl hud left for Toledo. If the Liverpool Priest had noevil intentions lu spiritlug the glrlawuy, he certainly was guilty of very unpardonable conduct in stealthily removing her without her father's consent." TnE Daytou Journal gives an account of the finding of the body of a man In Jetl'ersoti township in thnt county, on Tuesday evening last, under circumstances which proved that a horrible murder had been committed. The man was a stranger In the neighborhood, but had been seen by a number of persons, in company with another man. The Journal says: "The scene of the murder is strikingly lonely an obscure by-lane, overgrown with tall weeds and bushes, adjacent to a woods, and sonic distance from any house. The victim was manifest ly enticed there by his murderer, who, some think, must have known something of the locality. There were evidences of a dreadful struggle, the grass and weeds being trampltd and bloody over n considerable area. A broken tobacco lathe of sufll-clent weight to break a man's skull, was found on tlie ground near the body. It is presumed that the murderer felled his victim with this cudgel by a blow from behind, .ami then stabbed hi in to death. A dirk Rune with a blade about three and a half inches in length, was found on the ground near the victim. The pockets of tlie murdered man were turned inside out, mid tlie murderer had jerked away his victim's watch so vio lently that lie nroke tne ciiain, part, oi which remained hanging in a buttonhole of the vest of tho deceased. But no papers or other articles wero left on the body by which it could be Identified. Thnt lie was murdered for his money, by his eoniuiion, who was seen with him by several witnesses, seems clear. Unfortunately, the description of the supposed murderer is so vague that it win oe almost impossible to Identity him. Deceased seemed alxtut Ally years of age, but his features, when the body was found, wcrc so black and swollen, that no description of them could be made. He was about Ave feet five or six inches In higlit, strongly and well built, with sandy hair, slightly bald and small sandy whiskers. He had on dark brown casslmere sack coat, drab gray pants and vest, call-skin boots, purple socks, and a black silk neck fiamikcrciiiei ; one brownish colored silk bandana (handkerchief). A pocket-knife, witn a small cork-screw attach ed, was found on his person, and a tobacco box. Near the center ol his torchcad there was a small scar. 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