Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-06-01
NEWS AND OTMERWIsE.

LAST week, lawyer Dy the name OF AL
pey was murdered in Mercer county, Mo.
INFANTICIDE is becoming somewhat COM
mon at Chicago. I'
A TERRIFIC tornado drove over Jackson,
Mss, on Monday. ..F
THE Indiana Sinking Fund is undergoing
Investigation at indianapolis.
The Madison County Fair is to be held
the first week in October.
In Putnam county, the Sentinel says, the
wheat crop will be almost failure.
FISH packing will probably continue
week or two longer at Sandusky.
Two hundred years ago not one in hum
dred wore stockings.
A MUSICAL Convention is in progress
over in London. s
NUMEROUS improvements are progress
Ing finely at London. So says the Demo
crat.
GEN. MORTON c. HUNTER has just been
nominated for Congress by the Republicans
in the Third Indiana District.
4 On the night of the 29th social party
was given at indianapolis, for which six
hundred invitations were issued.
DUNHAM, the wounded Cadiz Bank rob-
Der, is in the Cadiz jail in precarious con-
dition.
BRYAN, of the Madison County Democrat,
is enraptured over the Democratic State
Convention-its character and dOings.
The CleueIdnd Leader (Radical) is opposed
to the denomination of Judge Spalding.
The Judge is not Radical enough to suit it.
A DANDY inquired at fruit stand, "Are
these peaches fit for hog to eat ?" "Try
them and see," replied the apple-woman.
BRIDGET Comfy committed suicide at
Chicago on the Goth. Cause, partial insan-
ity.
Two deaths from cholera are reported to
have occurred in New York City on the
30th.
FoRrY-oNE criminals of various descrip-
tions were sentenced by the Recorders
Court at Chicago on the Both.
GEORGE WASHINGTON EWING who accu-
mulated great wealth in the Indian trade,
died on the SOth at Fort Wayne, Ind.
OK the Both some soldiers of the 10th
regulars in an affray stabbed and seriously
hurt two policemen at Nashville.
Mr.. ASHLEY, the Republican member of
Congress from the Lucas District, is in ia
vor OF Negro Suffrage everywhere.
AN admirable biographical sketch of
General Scott from the Ne0 York World
will be found on the outsideof The STATES
MAN this morning.
JOHN HOLMAN, the Cleveland butcher
who cut his throat insufficiently to cause
immediate death, died at the Newburgh
Asylum last Saturday. 4..
WETHERs, a. fellow who has been lately
plying the vocation of bighwayman, was
captured at Shelbyville, Ky- on Saturday
and lodged In Jail at Louisville.
Col. SAM. PIKE, the veteran of the High
land Democrat, is in extascy over the pro-
ceedings, ticket platform and speeches OF
the Democratic State Convention.
In County Convention, few days ago,
the Republicans of Allegheny county, Pa,
indorsed Thad. Stevens as the right sort of
a man for the leader of the Republican
party.
TIE Urband Union says Joseph Conner
was shot and badly wounded by man
named Ambrose, at st. Paris, on Monday.
A woman was at the bottomof the diff
Guilty.
The Defiance County Agricultural So
clety offers premium of five dollars for
the best worked road district in that coun-
ty.
IT is the impression of the UrbdaG Union,
that the recent Democratic State Conven-
ton 'was one of the largest, ablest and most
harmonious bodies which have ever assem-
bled at the capital of the State"
TaE Indianapolis Herald publishes Hon.
George II. Pendleton's speech, delivered
to the Democratic State Convention in this
city on the oath ult, and pronounces it
eloquent and able"
THE Neto York Herald wants Secretary
Seward to resign his place In the Cabinet,
and thus compel the resignation of the
other members of the Cabinet, and thereby
enable the President TO reorganize it. A
good idea. ~
sON the 18th, the soldiers of Cumberland
county, Penn, met at Carlisle to elect dele
gates to the Pittsburg Soldiers Convention.
They indorsed the restoration policy of
President johnson aud the nomination OF
Hester Clymer for Governor Of Pennsyl-
vanias
SURPRIsE exists in England over decis-
ion just rendered by a full Bench of the
Court of Exchequer Chamber, the highest
judicial tribunal in England, except the
nominal House Of Lords, to which only an
appeal lies as to the Court Of last resort,
that a person may be tried more than once
for his life for the same ofFense. The decis-
ion isin conflict with long-established Gus
tom.