Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-10-16
NEWS AND OTHERWISE.

O0rOpsutTe, III lOlO'
CoFFEE beaten in mortar is pronounced
far better than that ground in mill.
LOVE on the brain is adisease that is con-
fined to no particular age or station.
To-Day the State Fair commences at
Dayton. r
QUINCY, Illinois, has population af SO,-
600. ... .-.,
FEMALE pickpockets are very active on
Fifth street, Cincinnati, now.
Col. T. j. ANDERSON assumed the duties
of Postmaster at Newark on the 1st. 1'
The vote for Secretary of State In Mus
kingum resulted: Smith (Rad.) 1852; Le-
Fever (Dem) 4,2O7-Smith's majority, S55.
IT is highly probable that the vote pOlled
in Ohio on the 9th was the largest voteever
polled in the State.
RECENTLY, at sale of large Boston
library, large lot of old manuscript ser
mons sold at half cent apiece.
THE Court Of Appeals in Genoa, Italy,
has given judgment that priests can legally
depart from their vows of celibacy.
No one need be apprehensive that the
President will attempt to force anybody
into Congress.
SETH NJ. PERRY, well-known business
man of Cleveland, died suddenly in that
city on Sunday.
GENERAL BEAUREGARD had an interview
with General Grant at Washington on the
18th.
GENERAL SIcKLEs don't want to be Con-
gresham. He prefers to remain In the
army.
A WAC says that he and his wife always
20 to bed quarreling, "and yet" says he,
with all our difference, we never fall out"
THROUGHOUT Texas concert and tab
leaux exhibitions are being given for the
benefit of Sidney Johnson's family.
The Toledo Blade don't think there were
nearly 500 illegal votes polled at the late
election in Toledo.
THOMAS HEWITT, aged 43, and recently
from Pennsylvania, hung himself to death
at tShiloh, Richland county, on the l2thl
TIE Lutheran congregation at Massillon
propose to erect a new church that is to
cost $4,000.
The Summit County Agricultural So
ciety have Just realized $3,705.16 from their
fair.
HoN. II. T. Blow, member of Congress,
has been made en- heir to $4,000 by tie
death of his father.
THEvote for Secretary of State in Lick
ing county was i: LeFever (Dem.) 4,040;
Smith (Rad.) 3,392-LeFever's majority,
GAS.
FROM January to October 6, 1866, there
were received at Chicago 53O, ,47zOOO feet of
lumber, BIS, 5000 shingles, and S5,7O9,OOO
laths.
Ara Republican caucus held at Maiden,
Mass, on the night of the 18th, Gen. Banks
was arraigned on charges of gross intem-
perance and intoxicatiOn.
The official vote for Secretaryof State in
Ashland county was LeFever (Dem.)
22OS; Smith (RadicaD 2,175-Democratic
msjority-33.
THE Leader says W. w. Armstrong, ESQ.,
of the Plain Dealer, has received notifica-
tion of his appointment as Postmaster at
Cleveland. Hope it's true.
The squirrel hunters of SolOn, o., had a
squirrel hunt on the 18th. One party re-
tnrned with 1856 scalps and heads, and the
other party with 4,l95 scalps and heads.
PERRY SMITH disposed of domestic trou-
bles at Memphis, on the night of the 12tf
inst, by shooting himself through thu
heart.
A TERRIBLE fire occurred at Queb' C, C.E.
on the 18th, by which 1900 houses, L
churches and converts were destroyed
rendering 10000 people homeless.
WILLIAM H. SMITHS (RadicaD majority
in Cuyahoga county is 2934-the vote be-
ing Smith (Rad.) S,63l; LeFever (Dem.,
5,607.
THE Doyton Journal (RadicaD says thai
the question of suffrage was not involved
in the late contest. In this the CleUeIGnC
Leader (also Radically differs from it.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON is pronounced ''de.
void of personal truthfulness" by the Gin
cinnaa Gazette. That's because he is op
posed to the revolutionary schemes Of th,
Radicals.
A SPECIAL to the Cincinnati Gazette iron
New York city states, thatthe Hoffmanite
are betting on his election. 1t would, in
deed, be hopeful omen if New York wer'
to cast her vote against the Radicals in No
vember.
A DANCING MASTER has introduced
new sensation, which is very peculiar, ant
destined to be extensively practiced. 1t
styled kiss Cotillon," in which the gen
tleman always kisses the lady as they SWIM
corners.
A MAN was lately invited to dinner, ant
a dish of ice-cream was placed before him
1t was new dish TO him. He tasted il
then beckoned to the waiter, and said, aud
IDLY, "That is very good pudding, but d,
you know it is frozel'
A YOUNG ensign Of regiment residin,
in lodgings the sitting room Of which wa
very small, was visited by one Of his fash
ionable friends, who, on taking leave, said
swell, Charles, and how much longer d
you intend to stop in this nutshellY ?" I