Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-12-21
NEWS ANN OTHERWISE.
rApINa matter on fourth page.

READING matter on fourth page
SOUTHERN lands are looking up In price
frR FRHDKRIcK BRUcE has had all hi
spoons stolen.
COMMERCE and trade are at their last gas
In Spain. iagN
lTHE business men Of New Orleans ar
retfenching.
sMuGoLISG is rampant on the Maine Dor
der.
1T is proposed to clothe the Black Crool
ballet girls with furs this winter.
THERE is 1900 acre cranberry farm ii
Michigan.
RIsrom was paid s20OO per night at De-
troit.
CONSPICUOUS badness afflicts the En-
press Eugenie.
The London Pal Mall Gazette has $780,
COO involved In libel suits.
WISCONSIN sold over three million dol
lars worth of butter last year.
TIE Chicago playgoers gave an actress
$1,000 worth of presents at her benefit.
.CNcINNArI is deeply agitated with the
soap-grease question.
NEW ORLEANS is described as very gay
and festive at the present time.
The New Jersey papers talk about a
horse weighing 2,363 pounds.
The Alabama penitentlary is crowded.
with all sorts of people.
BoorY and Beauty-Detroit ladies max
ing their own boots.
Ny& Tpolitlcal meetings in Galveston
sustainTadical rule.
SPEcIE incomes in California have to be
reduced to greenback standard.
MAX now threatens Louis Napoleon with
black mail, publishing private letters, &c.
A MARRIED lady died in New York last
week of sugar of lead and jealousy.
THE Cnabdicating Max is the title given
to the Mexican monarch.
HoN. JAMES GUTHRIE's health continues
to improve.
A WARNING needed at all fashionable as
semblages: look out for paint"
Why is "tilting skirt" like slaughter
pen |? Because lean and fat calves are seen
In them.
PRENTICE compliments the needle wo-
men of Louisville by calling them the sew
ers of the city.
A YOUNG man in Cincinnati fell dead to |
the floor while in the act Of drinking glass
Of liquor.
;oENHTUK WADE says tho constitutional
amendment will be thrust upon the South
by force of arms.
FoRNKY's letter indicates that Mrs. Cat
terthwaite, his washerwoman, is badly of
for soap.
PoLIrIcs and everything else are horri-
bly, dull at Washington to-day-particular-
ly congressman.
WE hope that prices will tumble soon and
be 50 badly hurt that they can never get up
again.-Lou. Jour.
JOHN MoRRIssEY pays three soldiers life
pensions-provided they will neither drink
nor gamble.
OUR city is unusually quiet. The Devil
Is not among us. He is busy at Washing
ton.-Prentiee.
A wBLL.INFoRMED Frenchman recently
sold his young and beautiful wife for five
francs.
SAKE, the poet, Is going to Europe.
The old country will acquire new at
traction.
A PRoFuGATE husband in Louisville
squandered his wife's fortune and then ran
of with beautiful and dashing daughter
Of sin.
IT Is stated that 15,OOO,OOO bushels Of
wheat were destroyed by one insect in New
York, in one year. The zone insect" must
have been big-bug.
AN exchange paper, under the head Of
"good advice" tells the young men to
"wrap themselves up in their virtue"
That would, in our opinion, be rather thin
covering for some of the young men of our
town. 30 Ff1hT
A HANDSOME actress, connected with one
Of the Broadway theaters, recently made
run Of one hundred and fifty-three points
on four pocket billiard table at private
residence on one of the avenues.
Fashion is In full blaze in New York;
dresses are made without regard to cost, I
and the jewelry and laces on many a lady
would pay well for robbing them. The !
perllce" are in an anxious state Of mind
In consequence.
ORIsoN BLUNT, noted New York poli-
tician, dresses In most respects like a car
man, but he is "some" on diamonds.
About $4,000 worth aregenerslly disposed
about his person, and he has $4,000 on his
watch. sls sb ~ vi
HON. L. w. Porter, Of Salem, Colum-
DIa0a county, o. died suddenly at Alliance.
stark county, on Thursday evening, the
18th Inst. Judge Potter, at his death, was 1
.. S, Collector of that District. He was I
IN able lawyer and a good man. {
SOLoN RoBMsoN,s new novel is entitled
what Is DIrt2n II he hasn't found out
lfter twenty years employment in the I
Wy. Tribune Office, he has not need to in '
Iuire. The conuudrum--after failure
here--would stand even ahead of the c
sphinx riddle -uuanswerable. ashville I
g. 1 II