Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-05-08
NEWS ANDsOTHERwEsE.T

BUSINESS is dull at Louisville.
FRE1GHr issearee and business is dull a
Pittsburg.
On the 22d inst, the great Indiana Horse
Fair will commence at New Albany. ...
oSIoNs are selling for two cents bushe
in Rhode Island. .aaf- -.rEI
SOLDIERS in Pennsylvania are forming
Clymer Clubs. Do % "' 'Hh
HARRISBURG, Penn, like Columbus, O., Il
now without any amusements.
FoRTY-sIx freedmen arrived at Youngs
town, o. recently. ....... ,........
THERE are thirty seven thousand church
es in the United States. .... s.....
THERE is au aquatic base ball club a
Dubuque, Iowa. arr f.
THE fruits of California are unequalled ii
variety and luxuriousness.
The people of Paris claim they have the
most beautiful carriage horses in the world
DURING the month of April, there were
27S deaths in Chicago.
HERMAN, the prestidigitateur, has gone
toBrazil.
GARRoTERs have again commenced ope-
rations in Cincinnati.
GAMBLING is reported exceedingly dull
in Cincinnati.
AN old bomb-shell exploded several days
ago ON the Chickamauga field.
NAPOLEON BoNAPARTE died at st. Helena
Mavh 1921. He was born the 10Th of Au-
gust, 1853.
WILLIAM HUTcHINGs died in Maine, a
few days ago, at the advanced age of lO2
years. He was a patriot of the revolution.
FIVE hundred men have been set to work
at cleaning up the streets and alleys of Chi
cago.
Two persons who undertook to steal a
ride in an empty box car were killed last
week at Shoals, Indiana, by conductor and
fireman.
THE Government will lose over half a
million dollars by the failure of the Mer-
chants National Bank at Washington.
THIRTY or more colored persons are said
to have been killed during the Memphis
riot.
OK the night of the 4Sh inst, the body OF
a baby was discovered floating near the
light house at Chicago.
IT is stated that well-defined case of
cholera made its appearance last week in
Waterloo, Illinois.
A FRENCH writer says that there are but
four great social ideas, viz: Birth, Mar
riage, Paris and Death.
THE rinderpest is bad enough (says CO.
temporary but orange peel on the sidewalk
is the rinder pest.
The Atlantic House, and nine others, at
the Isle of Shoals, was destroyed by fire
last week.
A YOUNG lady whose father is improving
the family mansion, insists upon having
beau window put in for her benefit.
THERE is a band of Gypsies, numbering
100 settled near Boston. 1t is governed by
aQueen, who was chosen for seven years.
The crop exhibit for Michigan is not very
favorable-the yield not promising to be an
average one. H
MURIATE of lime is recommended as not
only one of the best and cheapest fertilizers,
but as an effectual destroyer of insects,
A Mrs. PORTER, out at Detroit, Iowa, the
other day had trichind taken from one of
her fingers.
The habit of drinking standing is repre-
sented as a great promoter of intemper-
ance.
SOME Englishman, by calculation, pro-
fesses to have made the discovery that the
English coal mines will be exhausted in
three generations from now. Doubtful.
A YOUNG lady who was asked by friend
whether it was true that she was engaged
to certain gentleman, replied, innocently,
'NOt as yeti" .a-s yh#as
IT is suggested by Boston correspondent
that WENDELL PHILLIPs may be elected to
Congress because he is in favor OF the eight
hour movement. Pshaw
FRED. FoUITER, a discharged soldier of
the 9TH Ohio cavalry, was drugged and rob-
bed in negro drinking saloon, in Cincin-
natl, last week.
THE Kentucky devil, which not long
since caused great CONSERVATION among the
negroes in certain parts of Kentucky, has
turned up near Middletown, New York.
A SICK man was burned to death recently
on the occasion of the burning of house,
at BoonsborO, Iowa, where railroad labor
ers boarded. -.--.....-
THERE was double seduction at Chi
cago the other day. Ayoung man seduced
young lady and the young lady seduced
the young man. That's what each party
9laimed. r5G
A FRIEND lately said jocosely to friend
of his that he had been born without shirt
to his back. The result was duel. No
body hurt.
INGERsoLL's Infamous speech on Satur-
day caused quite commotion in the House.
Even opponents of the President were
ashamed of its indecency. 10 TO oil
AMAN by the name Of HAGEMAS, who was
worth from ten to fifteen thousand dollars,
recently committed suicide at Beardstown,
Illinois, because he feared he should starye