Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-06-09
NEWS AND OTHERwIsE.


CRIME is on the decrease in Louisville.
IT is said that Senator Hendricks con-
trolls the Federal patronage for Indiana.
THIRTY-NINE German families arrived in
Monroe county last week.
A BOTANY BAY convict recently died at
Sidney, worth $5,OOO,0OO.
SUMMER and Stevens are both sick, and
the country is sick OF them.
CITIZENS of New Lisbon contemplate
celebrating the 4th of July at that place.
AHEAvY gale of wind and rain visited
Fort Wayne, Ind, Tuesday night.
GENERAL CAss' health has much i'm
proved lately.
JOSHUA RHODES, Esq, has been elected
President of the Allegheny (Pa) Bank.
NExI Monday there is to be balloon
ascension at Warren, o.
Nor long since the wife Of dentist gave
birth to four children at Franklin, Pa.
LAST Sunday, RoGerick johnson died at
Cleveland from the effects Of dose of bed
bug poison taken by mistake.
THE order of the Good Templars in
America and the Canadas now numbers
226OOO.
THE next annual session Of the National
Typographical Union will be held at Mem
phis.
A FIRE occurred at Chicago on Thurs
day morning, destroying property to the
amount of $4,000.
A COW belonging to John Kemerer, at
Millersburg, yielded milk one day last week
that weighed So pounds. Big yield.
RECENTLY, in England, dog deliberate
ly committed suicide by drowning him
self
The securities of Mr.. Rittenhouse have
refused to make any further payment on
the deficiency, which is $4,000.
AT Chicago and Cleveland there are not
funds enough in the Treasury to transport
Fenians to the front.
TIE recent victorious knight in the
grand Memphis tourney is doing success
full business in draying merchandise.
PRENTICE says that Parson Brownlow, at
present Governor of Tennessee, "is a par
ody-a caricature-a broad burlesque on
all possible Governors"
Col. JOHN NJ. CoNNEL, Of Lancaster, o,
supporter Of the President, has been ap-
pointed Assessor of the 18th District, in
the place of Charles f. Shaffer, removed.
TIE Chillicothe Advertiser favors the 18th
Of July as the time, and Circleville as the
place, for holding the Congressional Con-
vention in the 18th District.
Hon. WILLIAM S. HOLMAN has been
nominated for Congress by the Democrats
in the fourth Indiana Congressional Dis
trict.
On the 4th of May, James Moses died IN
York township, Fulton county, aged 100
years, five months and eight days. A good
old age.
The General Assembly of the Old School
Presbyterian Church does not appear to
have gained much reputation by the expul-
sion of Rev. Mr.. Ferguson.
A DEMOCRATIC exchange says now is the
time to organize. Never was there better
time, nor is there a more effective way Of
organizing than in giving extended circu-
lation to Democratic journals.
A FIVE year old boy named Charles
Dougherty, on Tuesday morning last
about five miles south of Springfield, was
accidentally shot dead by an older brother.
So we learn from the Democrat.
Hon. SAMUEL SHELLABARGER will be
re-nominated in this District, and the An
drew johnson, Republicans dare not op-
pose his election. That's what the Radicals
say.
WE learn from the Democrat that five cit
izens Of Lima accidentally met the other
day and were weighed, their aggregate
weight amounting to 1925 pounds, an
average OF 22616 each.
AS flowers never put on their best clothes
on Sundays but wear their spotless raj
ment and exhale their odors every day, so
let your life, free from stain, ever give forth
the fragrance OF goodness. t-stff
BARNUM, the great humbugger, is an in
huential Republican member of the Con-
nectlcut Legislature. The Republican par
ty is aboutas great humbug as were the
"Fegee Mermaid and Woody Horse" out of
which Barnum made so much.
A NEGRO Sabbath school at Memphis is In
need of suitable books, and it is desired
that friends Of the movement North send
them the books or money With which to
buy them. srJn al
AT Chicago, on Thursday morning, the
steam fire engine Economy, while being
driven to the fire, in crossing the track Of
the Chicago, Darlington and Quincy rail-
road, was run into by a switch engine, kill
ing the horses and driver Of the steam fire.
engine, severely injuring two hremen, and
hurting thscaptain considerably.