Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-11-01
NEWS AND OTHERwIsE.


THERE have been several cases Of Asiati'
cholera in Washington during the pas
week.
A GRAND Horse Fair commenced at Co
shocton yesterday.
A STATE Temperance Convention Is tC
meet at Columbus, Ohio, on the 10th Of
November.
GENERAL JAMES B. STEEDMAE's friends
are again moving in favor of making him
Secretary of War.
Tar French Minister Is said to be indig-
nant at the title "Buccaneer," applied by
General Sheridan to Macmillan.
KrCARsoN has been commissioned Lieu
tenant Colonel to command battalion of
volunteers organized in New Mexico.
THE Minnesotians, on account OF injury
to their crops by the frost, are already buy
ing corn in Milwaukee, to supply the de-
heiency.
The Bellefontaine Republican reports sew
eral cases of milk-sickness in that vicinity,
and two deaths. Several COWS have died
also.
THE Fenian ex-General, Thomas W.
Sweeny, will, it is said, be restored to his
former rank in the United States army, on
his own application.
LIEUT.. BRAINE has been indicted at New
York for piracy and murder on the high
seas. He is the rebel who seized the steam
er Chesapeake during the war.
Col. WHITING, of Carmi, Illinois, lead
ing Republican, who has been actively en-
gagged in the canvass in Illinois, died at
Carmi. of cholera, on Thursday last.
ISRAEL G. HAsBRooK, formerly mer-
chant in Nashville, but lately senior part
ner of the firm OF Hasbrook q Ritchey'
arEvansville, Indiana, died very suddenly
on saturday evening.
YELLOW fever on the U. S. steamer Bienn-
vile destroyed the lives OF fourteen OF the
crew on her trip from st. Thomas. Eighteen
others are sick. The vessel lies in quaran-
tine off New York.
The hog cholera is very prevalent in the
vicinity of Richmond, Ky. One man, who
had lO5 fine hogs, lost twenty-five within
three days, and other owners have also
suffered severely. At last accounts the
disease was on the increase.
THE trustees of the Painesville Seminary
deny the story Of the seduction of one of
the pupils of that institution-the girl
Della Colwell, who committed suicide at
Detroit not long ago.
They have organized "widows' and
orphans manufacturing company" at
Atlanta, Georgia-not designed to make
widows and orphans, for enough Of that
manufacture was accomplished during the
war, but to provide employment for them.
A YOUNG man named Herring, working
in q field, at Madison, Wisconsin, on Tues
day, was seized with rather vicious spe-
cies of insanity, which prompted him to
cut open his fathers head, and chop off his
brothers arm, with corn cutter.
MATTHEW MARYLAND, of Jefferson coun-
ty, Ind, has succeeded in having allowed
claim for horses taken by Gen. Hobson from
citizens during the pursuit of Morgan
through Indiana and Ohio. The case was
taken up as test one.
The total number of voters registrated
in st. Louis county is about $500. In 1860
there were cast in the county 9,945 votes
for Lincoln, and IL, ,SO5 for all others; total
of 24750. In 1854, there were cast in the
county for Lincoln 14O27, for Mcclellan
aSS2; total, 22,9O9.
The catalogue of Harvard College for the
first term of the year 1s66-67 states that the
number of undergraduates is: Seniors, "a;
Juniors, 80; Sophomores, 100; Freshmen,
12S; total, 4l9. There are resident grad
yates; law is to divinity as 157 is to Is;
while medicine claims the attention Of 54l
young men. The whole number OF students
connected with the University is 961.
goHN GREEN, a colofed boy, sixteen
years of age, has been convicted of the
murder Of Solomon Potter, colored boy Of
eighteen, In Sussex county, Delaware. He
has been sentenced to be hanged on the
14th of December. The cause Of the homi-
eide appears to have been childish en-
couater, in which Green fred pistol, load
ed with nail, at Potter.
The New York Herdld says that move
ment Is at present on foot among the mem-
bers Of several religious societies in that
city with view to raising funds to sue for
an injunction to restrain the various rail-
road companies from running cars on Sum
day, until such time as test case may be
submitted for argument. Whether the
necessary funds for such an object viii be
forthcoming remains to be seen.
a MAN named Martin Tate, living in
Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, three
miles west Of Harrisburg, died Tuesday
night, Of hydrophobia. He had been Bit
ten BY rabId dog. nine weeks ago, and was
under a seemingly successful medical
treatment, when he became unduly excited
on Tuesday at some domestic mishap, took
sick Immediately after, and died in themOst
terrible agonies.