Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-10-15
NEWS AND OTHERWISE.


t,lls him he lies. aaI ~.
A KENTUCKY heiress eloped from Gym
thiana with her dancing master.
HOLMES county gives 1868 Democratic
majority, which is a>large Democrats
gain. TR
The Zanesuiae Courier says that Isaac
Hollingshead, of that place, has become in
sane.
LEWIS COOKER, of Marietta, Ohio, aged
Is, was killed on the Sd inst, by the run
ming away OF team he was driving.
The ladies Of Mississippi have organized
a society for the relief of the family OF
Jefferson Davis.
The Democratic majority in Hooking
county is 7O6-a Democratic gain over last
year of $50.
The Radical gain in Carroll county is
about 100 over last year. Eckley runs
about fifty behind his ticket.
THE last seen OF General Sherman he was
footing it softlywlth the fair ladies of Den
yer, at four o'clock in the emorning.-.B Boston
Post.
Rev. PETER CARTWRIGHT writes that he
has spent sixty-two years a regular timer
ant preacher, and during that period re-
ceived but two years salary.
HoN. c. NJ. ATEN writes to the Chair
man of the Democratic State Central Com
mittee, that the Jacobin majority in Colum-
biaDa county foots up 1917.
In his recent diplomatic circular, the
Emperor Napoleon gives it as his opinion
that zone century hence the United States
OF America viii contain 1OO0O0,0O0 of in
habitants."
THE wife of lawyer in New
York city eloped recently with a physi-
clan, and carried with her $4,000 in United
States bonds, belonging to her husband.
Tley are supposed to have gone to Europe.
HIRAM Cook. a young man of Palmer
township, Washington county, while roll
ing logs, on the 1st inst, was struck by a
skid and his left ankle joint dislOcated, and
his thigh broken in two places. He is do
ing well.
A LONDON correspondent says of Charles
Reade: "Mr. Reads is a strange man
sometimes so eccentric in his ways as to
startle the people who are in his company.
have sat with him for an hour, and he has
kept an absolute silence; on other occasions
he has chatted with point and shrewdness
in his talk"
THE augusta (Ga.) Sentinel states that
Alexander II. Stephens does not contem-
plate any lecturing tour, as has been an
nounced by some papers, but designs re-
naming at home during the autumn and
winter, and devOting himself to his pro-
fessiOn. He is in unusually good health.
A QUAINT writer says: II have seen
women so delicate that they were afraid to
ride, for fear of the horse running away;
afraid to sail, for fear the boat might up
set; afraid to walk, for fear the dew might
fall; but never saw one afraid to be mar
ried,, which is far more riskful than all
three put together"
JENNIE HAMILTON, a fast young girl of |
Milwaukee, was lately married to her burg
lar lover, John Craig, by the Chief of Po-
lice, and together they started on bridal
tour to the State Prison, where, after a
honey mo on of two years, they will be set
at liberty to commence the labor of life
and love with new views and better pur-
poses.
The United Brethren having purchased
and refitted the German Reformed Church |
on East Town street, in the city of Colum-
bus, the same was dedicated on Sunday,
October 14th, with appropriate services.
The Dedication Sermon was preached by |
Bishop Weaver, at II O'Clock in the FORE
noon, and was listened to by large con-
gregation.
The Troy Wing says of the current rumor
that Mrs. Senator Sprague (Kate Chase)
has applied for divorce: "The ha6itues of
Washington have for many months been
flmiliar with the scandals that have grown |
out of this marriage and its subsequent de-
velopments. If only half that is said is
true, one party ought to be sent to an Inc
briate Asylum, and the other to a Bagnio
in New York or House for the Magda-
lens"
The latest Radical sensation is a report
that President Johnson's mind is seriously
effected SO much so, In fact, as to promise
arrangement. 1t is promin-
ent feature, in cases of insanity, that the
patient iancies himself perfectly sane, and
all the rest Of mankind demented. The
leading Radicals, being themselves mad as
march hares, might naturally doubt Presi-
dent Johnson's sanity.
The formal opening of the Newsboys'
Home in the city of Cincinnati took place
last Thursday evening. 1t is a substantial
brick building, two stories and a-half high,
eight rooms, situate on the
iouth side OF Longworth street. between
Plum street and Central avenue, and will
with boarding and lodging
III the newsboys'in Cincinnati who have no
iomes. 1t was projected, we believe, by
Rev. Maxwell p. Gaddis, to whom the
lewsboys of the Queen City are under
obligations.
THE Parts True KentackiGB records sew
sral marriages in high life among the Ken
lucky BourbOns, of Confederate fame, to-
Wit: William II. Simms, q Captain in the