Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-12-05


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AaNsw YORKER lately purchased a year
ling buck in Vermont for $1,000, 7
The mission OF Mr., Bright to Ireland L
spoken Of as mistake and afailure.a .''
AAlERfcAN residents in Paris are about to
establish new American club in thateityi
GREENBAoKs are the prime necessity oi
the day in Georgia. ~ Ia Il s,a q si4aqri
SEVENTkEN thousand breech-loade have
been purchased for Canadian volunteers
HON. CHoY Cow CHUNG Is a Chinese
school teacher inSan Francisco, ,Girasa I'd
Mr.. s11DELL is reported tob one Ofthe
richest men in Paris to-day. 81, 't' ..5i 5o
ctic4Go having completed one tunnel
is now resolved on another. .b'
A NEyo oELEANs lecturer says that asub-
marine passage connecting Europe and
America can be made. H gfpdHi At ,Lh
INNew York there is q mania for specu-
lation in uptown real estate-fabulous
prices are paid.
The World says that Mr.. Greeley Is
sound and Jealous on the currency ques-
ton. ~ Y
A MASS Of meteoric iron, Weighing 800
pounds, is on its way from Colorado to
Amherst college IiG Vl2B0enft1Ej5
LONDON steam railways carry passengers
six miles out of t7tOwn and return for "a
cents per week. 1 gaao-'
THE Virginia oyster beds are yielding
largely. a good time for people to feather
their nests. sosieaa .a - ''a. . rail
A AcoNsUMPTIvE gambler in Denver City
has bet 500 against coffin that he will die
before January. y8E y sEs0rs
THE hard feeling of any district in the
South is accurately gauged by its amount
THERE, is a project to build a railroad
from sacramento city to Benecia-54119s
miles. ,#NGU lNiJ aaGl
TIE Great Eastern is to run between
Brest and New York during the Exhibi-
tion in Paris. 5r 3ai Il
G,LoSDoN paper says that the Union
built and cherished by Washington and
his Congress exists no longer.
The 'fdrawing" of the Chicago Opera
House Art Enterprise win positively y"
take place on the 2lst of January.
MAJOR GLENN, a paymaster, was robbed
at Fort Boyes, Oct. 9th, of $4,000 in green
backs and $4,000 in youchers.l ,a
The retrenchment committee have dis /
covered facts duplicating high and respon-
sible parties in the cotton frauds.
MISS GREGG, a sister of Gen. Maxey
Gregg, who was killed at fredericksburg,
accompanies the party Of freedmen Tin the
capacity Of missionary that recently left
Georgia for Liberia. - sE gu II
SCENE Young lovers on the balcony.
Time, evening. Mr.. Billin-"Oh, how
calm, how sweet and peaceful the moon
looksP' Miss Cohen--"Yes; but don't you
think it looks very conspicuous?r-P Punch
NEXT year is the seventh semi-centennial
anniversary of the Reformation. Three
hundred aud fifty years ago, on the Slst Of
October, Luther nailed to the door of the
castle church at Wittenberg his famous
theses.'le 'les h9H q aA ~ "'aoe 4'a
A GOOD dairy cow costs about $40. Her
yearly expenses are, at liberal allowance,
Sl62.5O, while her ten months milk at the
present rate, is $256.2O, leaving profit of
$93.7Q,y The owner of "A cows would thus
net e22l08O lperyearfd 1AhJ ,IaaEil
A CHARLEsToN merchant publishes card
in which he says that he recently paid the
Southern Express Companyat theTate OF
500 per ton for the transportation of bar
rel Of grain a distance Of one days trans
portation by rail. -, ,.,,.., ,v,-
The Oxford Citizen reports ten cases of
cholera and six deaths, in that placeTsince |
Tuesday of last week. The disease has
been confined to the coIored population,
the first case being colored woman from |
Cincinnati. Three eases are now under
the care of the physicians. feo
AN educated Virginia farmer says that
after having bad large experience with |
white laborers, both foreign and native, he |
has come to the coaclusion that the world |
cannot produce more skillfil and efficient |
farm laIOrer tbaus well-trained Virginia
negr0EhO is willing towork. - 86l 4
Col. WIN. P&EsToN JOHNSON, gqs0n of |
Gen. Albert sidney johnson, has been elect
ed Professor Of History and English Litera-
ture IN Washington College, Virginia. He
Is an accomplished scholar, having carried |
off the highest academic hOnors at Yale,
and graduated with distinction in the law
school at Harvard. Gen. Lee is President |
of the college. ~ ta A4 ~
EIs4E white mem disguised as negroes,
lately made raid upon McLeod's station,
near Bowling Green, KY, to plunder the
store of Mr.. Watson! After the store was
plundered, one Of them met aud grasped a
young lady and threatened her with instant
dcath Il she did not tell where 9 the rest
OF Watson'smoney was.o Though fast in
the robbers grip, and hepistol ather head,
she feadily refused to disclose The secret.
Thisyo dashed the robber that he let her
40 And passed on. The girl az the time
had $500 q the money in her dresS-sieeve.
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