Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-03-17

All Sorts Of Shorts.
The bayonets invitation-Come to the
point F
g SENATOR PoMERoY's favorlte drama Is
said to be 1.-THE Love Chase"
WHAT versatileman the Newgate hang
man is. He 'took up" five subjects ut once
the other day.
e THERE are 100000 criminals permanently
resident In London.
0SE Of the charges against Admiral
Wilkes Is that he refused to tell his age.
THERE are said to be thirty applications
for every clerkship in Washington.
The dry goods market has taken Spring
tonic and is Improving.
NEwBuRYroRr is itching for a fine tooth
comb factory.
A PAPER in Paris has appeared, called lie
Gratis. It costs forty francs year. How
are the two facts to be added together? asks
the Home Journal.
AT public ball given by the wife Of the
Prefect of the Seine, at which three thou
sand persons were present. no crinoline was
worn.
AN Odessa lady, called Tambo, has just
had nap of sixteen days to the astonish-
ment of her doctors. She received no sus-
2 tenance during the time.
A YANKEE cock was victor in large
s'chicken dispute" held near Harlem, n. Y,
recently, and it is said won $4,000 for his
THE new Fremont organ in New York is
called The Ne,c Nation-probably because
it will advocate miscege-nation.
Our Lord had an III opinion of whited
sepulchers, and according to our observation
of things at Washington, some whited
houses are not much better.
IA SINGLE firm in Chicago has taken out
license for the sale of goods this year to the
amount Of six millions of dollars.
eg Our military authorities seem to succeed
Z great deal better in scattering their own
4 armies than those of the rebels.
'ss A QUESTION much agitated now is wheth-
er we shall allow the soldiers to vote. We
hope the time may never come when the
= question shall be whether the soldiers will
aiOw us 70 vote.
wore their scarlet iiyeries for the first time
since the death Of the prince consort.
n AN agricultural laborer at Pemberton,
England, recently came into possession of
fortune of thirty thousand pounds, the
suit for which has been pending in chan.
Gerry for two hundred years. -
Tur Chicago Times says Congressman Ar
mold has written home that "material aid"
is necessary to secure the passage Of the
ship canal bill. .sf..... r.fa :
THE performing elephant Juliet died sud-
/ denly at Delavan, Wisconsin, few days
since, from the effects of cholic. She was
Z the property Of j. Mable, the menagerie
proprietor. r
THE Republicans think the Amnesty
Proclamation very generous. Hardly Us
much SO as Mrs. Partington's proposal to
warm the water for drowning the kittens.
PREsiDENr LIScoLS's time, to Judge from
Washington correspondence, is occupied in
levies and leyees.
Y Why should you be justified in picking
the pockets of q vender of engrayings?
Because he has pictures.
DURING a search in house In Gloucester,
Mass, for goods stolen at the late fire, an
undertaken found one of his ready made
collins with the top knocked off and rockers
under the bottom, thus forming very neat
cradle, In which child was comfortably
sleeping.
A LADY clad in the deepest mourning is
q constant attendant of funerals in Phila-
..delphia, where her grief touches the hearts
and her fingers the pockets of the mourn
ing assembly.
Among the inscriptions on the tombstone
: in the rebel graveyard at Bealtonr Station,
Va, Is the following: IA, coward, Ninth
regiment Louisiana volunteers, died Dec. 4,
1861
NEVERTHELESS, Mr.. Chase's chances for
nomination at Baltimore are increased by
his withdrawal Springfield Republican.
What else did he write the letter for? !,
The cx-Queen, Marie Christine, renounces
her intention of residing in Rome, and Of,
fers her palace for sixty-eight thousand
pounds sterling, with furniture. Go In,
snoqayi Sss syEY1s ~ tYfFi T-rr
The few Republicans who have had the
pluck to stand by "Old Abe' draw a long
breath after reading .Chase's letter, though
- isabont as non-eommittal a:billet-doux as
was ever perpetrated.
TIE Rhode Island miscegenatjon parti-
sans are urging the abolition Of schools ex-
clusively for colored children, and recurring
the admission of negroes into all the schools
Of the State. The question Is before the
Legislature. &
A HOTEL at the Reese river mines, Cali
fornia. posts up the following rules: "Lodg-
ers inside arise at 5 A. NJ, In the barn at 6
o'clock, each man sweeps up his own bed, I
10 quartz taken at the bar, no fighting al
lowed at the table, any one violating the
above rules wiz be shot, n, : 3 - 5
The Rev. Mr.. Hammond, revivalist preach
er, IS about TO make atfip to Palestine To
recruit his exhausted energies Exchauoe.|
: Better make trip to Hilton Head to IRE
cruit our @exhaustedn armies.-De Democratic
~ ras suItan 81 Turkey recently 4 went out
TO hunt the wild boar; but the wild boar
turned upon and hunted the Sultan. dis
rcspectfplly Knocked him over. and ,yor,ld
hare made 4 harem full Of widows bad mot
come Of the faithful rescued The Sportsman
ana pat the boars TO flight. BismilIah /
boafs are brutesl ~ !.
Tnr usual style Of the British sovar., t,r.
Is HKin0 Of Great Britain and Irela,,J' 2 RI
defender of the faith,v but since Doctor fs- CO.
lcnso appeared in print, her majesty has an
u0iutcd d1c0mmisslonto find out how ro,,tb
1f 1n1 faItn remains lobe defended "A I
pnocrrpucs have been instituted IN New
IorE "a. sl||scoto the properly Of erdv
wv. Wiley, who went south at fhe kcoi,,'..
<<t4<& - |He war. and has efu.a ,,.,l> 7..-,.