Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-05-09
NEWS AND OTHERWIsE-

MEMPHIS Is again very quiet and orderly
ATwo year old child was drowned in a
rain barrel at Indianapolis on Friday last
TIE WERB Sisters are drawing good
houses at Indianapolis.
EVERY Democrat In Logan county 0aght
70 take the Gazette. That's so.
Tuy health of Governor MORTON, of In
diana, is Improving.
A COLLEGE aud ladies' seuainaryis to be
built at Edwardsport, Ind.
THERE is hospital for superanuated cats
In Paris.
The population of Valparaiso, South
America, is estimated at7o,OOo.
AccoRDINe to the JOsraaI they have
pickpocketsa at Dayton.
SECRETARY SEWARD don't write his
speeches. He dictates them
A SHORT time since negro in Arkansas
was attacked and eaten BY wolves.
SOME women never grow old-in their
own estimation.
EX-SENATOR %. L. EULEE has been
elected President of the Florida railroad.
The cattle plague is disappearing in Eng
land.
BUSINESS is unusually dull at Springfield,
Illinois.
BY the recent freshet, over 100000 logs
were lost at Menomonee, Wis.
THE Empress EUGENIA was 40 years old
on the 9TH inst.
THE foundations for a new Opera House
are being laid at st. Paul, Nina.
JOHN IRISH committed suicide at Indian
apolis on Saturday night v
THE river is falling at Pittsburgh. There
is scant five feet in the channel.
The confirmation of Gen. S.E. CAREY, as
Collector of the Second Ohio District, hangs
fire in the Senate.
A FIRE, destroying property to theamount
of 100000, occurred at Cairo on the 9TH
4 inst.
THE National Democratic ticket was tri-
umphantly elected at New Orleans on the
9TH. General II. Hays was elected sheriff.
On Monday morning a destructive fire
occurred at Springfield, Illinois. Property
to the value OF about $25,0O0 was destroyed.
A NEGRO who had an alteration with
citizen named BRowER, at Memphis, on
Monday, was shot dead by BRowER.
KATE WILSON, beautiful girl Of nine
teen, to end Lille of shame, committed
suicide at Savannah, Ga, on the 9th inst.
WITHIN the past two weeks, seven horse
thieves have been summarily killed near
Jerseyville, Ill.
THE Good Templars of Clarke and sew
eral adjoining counties held convention
at Springfield on Monday and Tuesday
The Daton Empire comes to us enlarged
and improved. We are glad to note its
prosperity.
On Saturday, the 10th inst, the Democ-
racy of Licking will elect their Delegates
TO the Democratic State Convention.
On Saturday, MARY SHERMAN, two years
of age, was run over and killed by street
car in Cincinnati.
Two men INDUCED in cutting and stab
bing affair, on Saturday, at Toledo, over
mistress. Neither one seriously hurt.
THE Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot and Union
says that BEN. BUTLER ''reminds one of
Pagan, the Jew, in DICKENS Oliver Twist"
Four hundred and thirty-four thousand
Negroes are being supported by Govern
ment. s~a ~ra.
SoME Southern people who made money
out of the war down South are locating in
Boston.
CARLTON CITF is a nice place. Dancing
schools are conducted on the cash-in-ad-
vance and no-hugging principle.
SEVENTEEN foxes are said to have been
captured recently by party of fox-hunt-
ers in Crawford county.
ABOUT 100000 were realized by the Bal
timore Fair for the benefit Of the Southern
people. Liberal.
IT is estimated that six hundred new
houses will be built during the present sea-
son at Lawrence City, Kansas.
ONE of the milestones erected when BEN
JAMIN FRANKLIN was Postmaster General,
dsstanding in Stratford, Conn.
In consequence of the cheapness of liv-
ing, many American families are settling
down in London, Canada West.
81 AYoUNG man by the name of FORD, son
OF the Street Commissioner, was brutally
murdered at Memphis on Sunday night by
drunken policeman named CoYNE.
., ONE hundred and seventy-fve different
styles of hats, tits estimated, may be count
ed on the ladies any fine day in Broadway.
You are not obliged to believe this.
The ZanesoflIe Courier says an oil well,
promising to be of the first class, was struck
on the Mcdonald farm, owned by the
Woodbury. Company.
HAS made the discovery Republican
journal, that President JOHNSON will make
unreienting war on the disfranchisement
scheme of the committee of Fifteen.
I A REGULARLY organized band of thieves
are said to be now in Monroe, Jisper coun-
= ty, Iowa. Not q very desirable institu-
ton.