Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-12-03
NEWS AND OTHEnwIsE.


GOLD closed Saturday evening, at l4lN.
WALL street is described as enjoying "a
calh expectation Of failures" A@D' q
The Vermont Solons have voted to in
crease their pay. 80 YoAaopw Ndr OF
l.EE1zABErH CADY STANTON gave the edi-
tor Of the Albany Journal q bottle Of Sooth9
ing Syrup. IL was a ''sarkasm." 3di
hBoNNErs in Paris are now mere leaf.
Bird plumage Is used to trim dresses, and
waists are short as husbands pockets. 70
A PETITION praying for the impeachment
of the President was read before the Anti
Slavery Society In Philadelphia. AlH.-
In Nthe Supreme Court Chambers Of New
York case is now being tried to determine
what constitutes "a man Of color"
The Quartermaster General, who former
ly required enormous appropriations, will
not ask dollar for the coming year
Good.
Mr.. DIAAocK, Wall street broker, has
purchased the old Bowery Theater for $780,
7OO-he outbid a party Of Germans who
wanted itfOr a beer-garden. atts. -gr
The Springfield Republican thinks "it b
fortunate that Gen. Butler is not in posi-
ton to embarrass the Government with any
Of his reckless schemes" ......-. nos
A New York Bridget has notified the
public that she ''shall take the full contents
Of the law" upon certain parties who have
been slandering her.
A SCULPTOR friend, who has strabismus,
consoles himself with the thought that he
can always keep his profession in view
through having cast in his eye.-Puneh.
The Tribune critic ridlcules Ristori's
death in "Adrienne" and makes fun at the
way she turns up the soles Of her dainty
French boots to the spectators.
Hon. w. P. NOBLE, of Tiffin, is named In
connection with the Gubernatorial nomina-
ton at our approaching State Convention.
He is a good man, and would make q good
Governor.
HAVING read Mr.. Swineburne's defense
of his prurient poetics, Punch gives him
his royal license to change his name to
what is evidently its true form-Swins-
born. -T
In his discourse upon ballets and ballet
girls in New York last Sunday, reverend
charIatan said: "Poor dear darling,
charming, enchanting creatures! Who
could help loving them?"
The New York Herald favors Greeley be- /
cause it wants one United States Senator
who can keep sober during the long night
sessions, and who will avoid Forney's
Bourbon bottle" rr
I LUCILLE WESTERN, the actress, played l
the farce of the "Three Fast Men" at the 1
Opera House not long ago. They were
caught looking through the transom of
her chamber at Columbus the other night.
Dayton Journal. s AIT
Two members Of the Vermont Legisla-
ture have refused to take their extra pay
voted by the General Assembly. They are
bjth young men, and as they grow older
they'll know how to put up with such hard
Ships better than they do now. 80
ON Monday last a man called in at JAG
cards large jewelry establishment in St.
Louis, and while the clerks attention was
momentarily called away, he stole $4,000
worth of diamonds and made his escape.
The telegraph announces his arrest.
THREE gay young men Of New York
we're arrested at Columbus night or two
ago, for peeking over the transom of the
chamber occupied by Miss Lucille West
ern. They were only eastern men taking
awestern view.--D Dayton Journal.
THE @Mnsee nlustre Tailleurs" has been
interdicted in Spain because its fashions for
ladies' dresses are indecentl During the
reign Of the last King Of Naples plates Of
fashions were never allowed to be distrib-
uted until some hand had heightened the
dresses. uvolpn 80
AT Hastings, on the Hudson, a beautiful
Irish girl, Mary Hayes, waded out into the
river with her child aged nine months, and
held it under water until it was drowned.
She was making preparations to drown
herself when discovered. It isthe old story
Of mans perhdy and wOman's ruin. 4
WASHINGTON papers say there is great
activity among the hospitable boarding
house keepers In preparing TO welcome
Congress. They are busting their aged
carpets, sweeping off venerable cobwebs,
thinning out their chintzes, purchasing
tough hens, raising their prices for board
aud lodging. pw
iSoME days since the telegraph reported
sister OF Hon., John Morrissey as starving
In Chicago. The Hon. John Immediately
caused inquiries to be made, found that 1t
was indeed sister whom he had not seen
for seventeen years, and caused to be ad-
Vanced to her the sum of $3.50 through
bankers in that city. Probably she will
not starve any more. i
"A WAsn1NGroN dispatch says Enough
has been developed 70 show that no steps
toward the impeachment Of the President
will be made for some time, but the first
aetlon win be 10 press the law limiting the
Executive power Of removal from Office,
all the appointments made dur
Ing the recess Of Congress to be sent to the
Senate within ten daya after the passage OF
The bill. The Senate can then reject such
ls are obnoxious.
The prize money paid our sailors for