Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-05-15
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A THIRD party Convention is to be held
In Indiana on the Goth inst.
ABOUT 100000 bushels of grain were re-
ceived at Buffalo on the 10th.
THE official gulllotine is being kept In
motion.
PROFESSOR w. BYRD POWELL died at
Cincinnati on Sunday.
REv. HENRY WARD BEECHER advocates
suffrage for womanhood.
Horace GREELEY don't drink wine, nor
Intoxicating liquors of any description.
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama, is in consterna-
tion over a smallpox visitation.
THE Danish War cost Prussia about $685.
100000.
JEFF. DAVIS received the announcement
of his indictment for treason with indi6er-
ence.
A LODGE of the United Ancient Order Of
Druids is In a hourishing condition In
Cleveland.
SUNDAY afternoon the corner stone Of a
new German Lutheran Church was laid at
Cleveland.
BUSINESS at the Academy of Music,
Cleveland, where Mr.. Ellsler holds forth,
was remarkably good all of last week.
OK Saturday night, fire occurred at
New Orleans, by which, it Is reported,
twelve persons were burned to death.
THE Druids have celebration at Zanes-
VILE on Wednesday. The Grand Lodge of
the order meets there to-day.
In Rome Ca, it is alleged, they. have a
double-heajed, double-beaked and four
eyed chicken.
The racing season has opened at st. Lou
is. GlendOver won the first race; Knight
hood the second, and Muggins the third.
TIE best penance we can do for envy
ing another's merit, is to endeaVor to sur
pass it.
On Saturday evening, r. I. Armstrong,
formerly of Chappell, Bruce & Co, dry
goods house, Cincinnati, was murdered by
man named Merriwell, near Paris, Ky.
THERE are some two thousand Postmas-
ters in the country, and only eight or nine
hundred of them require confirmation by
the Senate.
DIR. B. L. SUAGo, assistant editor of the
Atlanta (Ga.) Era, committed suicide at st.
Louis on the 18th. Cause supposed disap-
pointment In love.
On Sabbath of last week, there were five
persons 1.-TWO women and three men) bap-
tised into the Dunkard Church, near Belle
fontaine. SO says the Gazette.
GEO. METZ, who was soldier in the 18th
Indiana regiment, killed-a Negro at Frank
lin, Tenn, last week, for insulting his wife.
Metz, after all examination before Magis- |
trate, was released.
THE Logan Gazette wants to know wheth- |
er it was not right, shat when Andrew
johnson succeeded to the Presidency he |
should discard the Vice with which the
Abolitionists had invested him?"
THE Holmes County Farmer alleges that
the propritto of the Ohio House has
brought suit against the keeper Of the En-
pire House for enticing the martens from
the former house.
If Republican members in Congress were
opposed to the third section of the proposed
Constitutional amendment, why did they
not do as the Democratic members did
vote against the whole amendment?
The Cleveland Herald (Republcan) says
that "the House has only the credit OF rec
ommending Constitutional amendment for |
the purpose of con rolling the next Presi-
Dental election" That's so.
WITH force, the Urbana Union advocates
the propriety of the Democratic State
Convention nominating Judge Van Trump
as candidate for Supreme Judge. Heis
most excellent man.
FELIX HUGHES, moulder by trade, who
was on his way to Toronto, G. W., to get
married, was robbed of $40 at Buffalo last
week. 1t is said he had worked in COlum-
bus about year.
SOMEBODY says that heaven drops little
fragments of itself here and there along |
our way, by way of assurance that heaven
and love arc one. Heaven certainly cannot
have dropped any little fragments of itself
In on this Republican Congress.
The New York Times, of which Mr.. Ray
mond in Congress, is one of the editors,
said that the proposed constitutional
amendment, for which Mr.. Raymond voted,
''as plan of paciication and reconstruc-
tion, The ,ohOlc thing is soorse than a burIesque."
They have great Board of Health COM
mlttee in Fredonia. They have just pla-
carded that place with the following notice:
"The cholera is coming By order Of the
Committee" What has induced the COM
mittee to order the cholera9
THE Democrats have not One-third Of the
members in Congress, and yet If an objec-
tional measure is passed, the stool-pigeon
Republicans for the Radicals cry out the
Democrats could have prevented it," Do
they think people such fools as to believe
that?
THE wealthiest congregation in New
York city, perhaps in the whole country, is
that of the Ascension (Episcopal) In the
Fifth Avenue. Their aggregate incomes
last year are shown by the official returns
IN hava hnan nearly @I2 000000