Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-05-16
NEWS AND OTHERWISE.


A JOHNSON paper is to be started in
Plttsburg.
The reports of Gems. Steedman and Full
lerton make the Radicals growl.
JOE WOODS, Missourian, was shot and
killed, at Quincy, ILL.,, on the 18th.
H.w.PETTIr, editor Of the IOtOd Home
stead, is dead.
KING and Ferril had prize fight at New
Orleans on the 18th. King was victorious
Ex-GovERNoR HENRY W. ALLEN, OF
Louisiana, is dead.
The Mexican legation at Washington
look upon Santa Anna as nothing but a
French spy.
A NEono woman, sixty years Of age, has
Just been murdered at New Orleans by un-
known parties.
THE Ndc-a- Cheek Press (RadicaD regards
JEFF Davis as "vastly superior to President
johnson.
In street fight, on Saturday evening, at
Mt. Sterling, KY, Orlando Juke shot and
instantly killed Wash. Mcintyre.
A MILLION of dollars has been subscribed
by citizens of Mobile, Ala, for the Central
railroad from Montgomery to Decatur.
Col. GEO. w. RoBEY, of the Ohio State
Journal, is spoken of in connection with
the Wardenship of the Ohio Penitentiary.
CAPT. WIN. RANSOM, Of the brig Fashion,
was drowned at Chicago on the 18th, by
being knocked overheard.
PIKE's Opera House, Cincinnati, real
lied net profit in seven years of $55,-
60269.
THE Medary Monument Fund has reach
ed $1O67.5O. 1t should be much more than
that.
J.H. BAKER, few days since, while at
work in his saw mill, near Celina, was cut
in two with a circular saw.
The river at Pittsburg had risen eighteen
inches within the twenty-four hours end
ing with the evening of the l4th.
TIE exemption Of United States bonds
from all manner of taxation does not grow
in popularity.
"DIsRUPTING committee" the committee
known heretofore as the Reconstruction
committee, is now called. Appropriate.
A MRS DwYER, of Cincinnati, was denied
the Qualification of committing suicide the
other day.
The wife of Robert Allen, of Chicago,
left this world on Saturday through sui
eide.
AN armless Hungarian girl, now at the
Prussian Capital, performs the functions of
her hands with her mouth.
FREDERIcK X. WARD, of Newark, has
been selectedby Mr.. Delano for the cadet
ship at West Point for that District.
n. HoFFMEYER was drowned last week at
East st. Louis. He was connected with the
Alton (Ill.) AnzeiQer.
SHEEP shearings are fashionable. They
had successful one in Erie county last
week.
THE defeat of Senator Foster for re-elec-
tion from Connecticut is attributed to q
conservative wife.
TILTING hoops are now only worn by
few of the demi-nIonde in Rochester, New
York.
IT is the declared opinion of the New
York Times, that it will not take much of
Stevens "management" "to ruin any party
that submits to it.p
TIE PLdiR.D Dealer, in speaking Of the Re
publican party In Congress says: "United
they stagger-divided they don't stand at
ALL" tln.
BUTLER has spoken. Neither the Recon-
struction plan of Congress nor Of the Presi-
dent Is acceptable to him. Fred. Douglass
agrees with him.
A CHICAGO heiress, with the consent Of
her father, eloped with a railroad conductor,
the other day. The objecting mother has
been proplt lated since the marriage.
JoHa MccLARS fell fffom 8 barn st Pleas
ant.Valley, on Friday, and disdon Sunday
from the effects Of the injuries then suS-
tanned. lAl4