Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-06-12
NEWS AND OTHERwISE.

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( ing the 4th Of July at home.
The State Sunday School Convention
meets at Sandusky to-day.
\ In Southwest Missouri, vigilance COM
mittees are hanging horse thieves.
, The United States authorities have cap
tured forty thousand stand ofarms belong
ing to the Fenians.
JoNNY o'NEIL (9years old) was drowned
on Sunday, in Quarry Pond, at Sandusky,
while in swimming.
"MAcK" says ''the defeat of Ashley either
before the nominating Convention or before
the people is certain" Amen.
BRYAN, of the Madison Democrat, was in
the city yesterday. He brought us good
word from Madison.
WILLIAM NEIswANNER, last week, in at
tempting to cross the Shenandoah at Har-
per's Ferry, was drowned.
RECENTLY, there was a fall of meteoric
stones near Mobile, some of which we're so
let they could not be held in the naked
hand.
IT Is said that there are men forty years
old, at the head of the waters of the Elk
and Buckhannon rivers, who have never
seen a wagon.
DURING a violent thunder storm on FRI
day night at Chicago, the steeple OF Christ
Church was struck by lightning and con-
siderably damaged.
JOSEPH HIGGINS, a brakeman, fell from
the end of a car and was cut in two, near
Galena Junction, on the Chicago and North
western railroad, on Friday night.
THREE prominent Republicans are named
as willing to become JEFF. Davis bondsmen
in the sum of s5O,OOO each. They are Gree
ley, Stahl and Vanderbilt.
d. D. PRATT, dancing master, has been
convicted, in the court at Nashville, of a
rape on Miss Emma Callars, an orphan, and
sentenced by the Judge to fifteen years in
Jne penIJenJIary. n righteous senUence.
THERE are no less than twenty-five diff
ferent manufactures of artificial legs in the
United States-a branch of industry devel-
oped under the administration of the Gov
ernment by the Republican party.
Hon. L. D. CAMPBELL could not induce
the Republicans of Butler county to indorse
the Presidents policy in their county con-
vention on Saturday. No resolutions were
adopted.
SAMUEL COVERT, who has just had Sec
ond trial before second jury at Lebanon,
has a second time been found guilty of the
murder OF the Roosa family in the first de-
gree. -
OK Saturday, the Republicans of Green
County elected delegates to the Republican
State, Congressional and Judicial Conven-
tions, and instructed the Congressional
Delegates to urge the nomination of Mr..
Shellabarger.
On Saturday, fire occurred at Nashville
that destroyed property to the amount of
S6O.00O 1t originated through negroes
carelessness in smoking his pipe among the
mattresses in the large furniture, auction
and commission house of c. B. Nichols &
Co.
Truly does the National Union say, that
because President johnson would not CO.
alesce witch the Radicals Sin their determin-
alton to rule or ruin-to retain the power
forever In theirIown hands-they endeavor-
ed TO pull him down and render him obi
Gus in the eyes of the people"
The ZanesriHe Signal says:
How ARE You, GALLOWAY ?-The Old
School Presbyterian General Assembly, by
their expulsion of the Rev. W. nj. Furgu-
son, didn't win any laurels. Wonder If
they wouldn't promise not to do it any
more" II they could expunge the record?
The States that gave to the country
Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe,
Jackson, Polk, Taylor, General Scott and
Patrick, Henry--names associated with the
greatness and glory Of the United States
are denied representation in Congress are
refused all voice in the administration of
the Federal Government. " H
A FEN1AN meeting, numbering fully five
thousand, was held at Cincinnati on Satur-
day night. 1t was resolved to request the
Congress of the United States to repeal the
neutrality laws, and to procure the passage
of law to recognize the Irish people as
bellfgerents by the nation, copy Of both
preamble and resolutions to be forwarded
to Congress. 1852 .asgfaB1 4
The Plain Dealer wants to know whether
the fact that General Banning once was a
"life-lOng Democrat is the " element of
weakness" that the SGsdtsky Register refers
to. hOf course it is. The Sctoto Gazette,
commenting on the advocacy OF the nom
inatlon of General Banning by the MI. Yer
aonE9 9epubltcan for the reason, among others, |
that she was Democrat in 1860,' says:
"Now we respectfully suggest that this
thing has already been carried TOO far By our
party Hlooks like admitting that we havn't |
man In our party fit for the place." >
ave want to see our party |
show a proper appreciation of those iOho |
stand By Il through thick and thin-sOho be.
Ionged TO q tOheR u wds IN minority, and had |
noofices TO bestow. They deserve the credit |
and ne Offices" ti