Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-05-26
NEWS AND OTHERWISE.

They call the lorettes Of Paris trichina.
In Europe affairs continue to grow more
warlike.
A FIRE at Hudson, Wisconsin, on Satur-
day, destroyed the whole business part of
the town. Loss $350OOO; insured 100000.
A HEN-PECKRD husband declared that
the longer he lived with his wife the more
he was smitten by her.
A DAILY-the Republicdn-has Just been
started in Pittsburg, to support President
johnson. That's right.
A FEW days ago Mr.. Austin Smith, of
Liberty township, Ross county, was drown
ed in the scioto near Chillicothe, while fish
ing with seine.
LAST week, Hon. Samuel Shellabarger
made speech at Xenia. 1t is Radical to
the core. To the President it is not intend
ed to convey any comfort.
The CleoelGnd Leader, which has been
taking note, says the Presidents guillotine
is ''in splendid running order, and heads
are falling thick and fast"
A MERCHANT of Cork has brought an ac-
tion for $4,000 damages against magis-
trate for sending sixty policemen to search
his house for Fenian arms.
GROUND coffee is said to be an excellent
disintectant. In France they use it to
strew on corpses to destroy their offensive
ness.
The local editor of the Madison Qnd.)
Courier has been presented with bunch of
ripe cherries, the first of the season. We
should think 1t was the first of the season.
The statistics of the Sanitary Commis-
sion show that in every State of the Union
more soldiers enlisted at the age of eigh-
teen than at any other age.
A RECENT tourist through the South re-
marks on the lar se number of gray heads
on young shoulders to be seen there, attest
ing the anxieties of the people of that Sec
tlon during the war.
A FEW nights ago, Alexander A. Fuller,
Of st. Louis fell asleep at his window in
the third story of the Southern Hotel, then
dreamed of birds, and In attempting to
catch one he fell forty or fifty feet on to the
pavement underneath. He was badly man.
gled, and his life is despaired OF.
LAST Tuesday there was very destruc-
tive fire at st. Clairsville, by which proper
ty to the amount OF about 100000 was de-
stroyed, on which there was an insignia
cant insurance. We regret that our friend
Heaton, of the Register, was a severe suf-
ferer.
SEcRETARY STANTON made speech the
other night in response to serenade. The
substance Of which is, that some time ago
he was not in agreement with the Presi-
dent; but that he is opposed to the third
section of the proposed amendment to the
Constitution. Stanton won't do for any
party to bet largely upon.
THE Dayton Journal, on the morning of
the 24th, in commenting on the possible
Democratic nominee for Secretary of State,
said that General LeFever stands no
chance, because he was q soldier" The
Journal by this time must have discovered
that'its Judgment in all matters is not in
fallible.
THE Boston Post says living creature |
Of unusual size has taken up Its residence |
in the stomach Of a woman residing In the |
village Of Lancaster, N. Y. The doctors |
are puzzled how to relieve their patient.
The woman shrinks from the trial of tempt
ing the reptile from Its living lair by the
smell Of savory viands, and then seizing il
BY the head and drawing forth It's ugly
length.