Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-09-15
NEWS AND OTHERWISE.

READING MATTER on the Fourth Page.
GOLD closed yesterday evening, at 14477Ss.
SATAN reproving sin-Greeley scolding
Congress for their salary "grab."
THE potato rot is busily at work in Sem
eca county. .tr
A SWEET girl is a sort Of divinity, to
whom even the scriptures do not forbid lip
service. tn
DowN East they put fellow in Jail for
swndling. The audacious chap dried
snow aud sold it for salt.
IT costs the Government fifteen mil
lions Of dollars to collect the internal reve-
nue.. as the thing is now managed.
A YOUNG lady should never forget that
modesty is one of the most enchanting
qualities of her sex. ...t. 1..F
The black soldiers are drawing their $500
bounty. The white soldiers must wait I'M
til Congress can be induced to make an ap-
preparation for them. ft..
DIR. JoBE MORSE, Surgeon in the q. S.
Army, lately murdered near Matamoras,
was formerly of Milan, Huron county,
Ohio.
Mr.. JESSE KELLER, of Seneca county, was
thrown from his horse last week and in
iured SO severely that he died the next
day. ,..
"HAs your sister got son or daughter?"
asked an Irishman of friend. "Upon my
life" was the reply, II don't know whether
am an uncle or aunt" 1.a
The alleged stupendous frauds in the
Navy Yard at New York, involve loss to
the Government Of over one million Of dol
lars. t'
BEN. BUTLER will be in Columbus Octo-
Der 4th. Keep sharp look out for your
silver spoons and ''sich Itke.r Ben. isRreat
on picking up things laying around loose.
THEnegro women Of the South are nearly
all naming their babies after Thad. Stevens.
If they knew how mean man he is they
wouldn't do it. a
ALADY named Hills, residing on Walnut
Hills. Cincinnati, was poisoned to death on
last Tuesday, by taking morphine through
mistake for quinine. ..ra
Col. FRANK S. CURTIS, of Missouri, says:
al have been In tcOenty-Seven battles; led
regiment In nineteen; and yet some call me
"COpperhead"
A Mr.. HILL, veteran Democrat of SO
years, who fought at the battle of New Or
leans, under General Jackson, presided over
the Democratic meeting last week in High
land county.
JACOB GRAFT, who killed his father-in-
law at Newark, last week, has had pre-
liminary examination, and was held to
bail in $4,000, in default of which, he was
committed to Jail.
g. w. SMITH, of Washington, Fayette
county, o. was found guilty on last Mon
day, Of killing an old mau by the name Of
Gray, at that place, over two years ago.
He will be executed Nov. 30. III
THE N. Y. Tribune says: "The Union
party is perfectly willing-nay anxious
that loyal colored men should have voice
In It's conventions" Win the Morning Jour
nal inform US If this be true?
GEE. BUTLER, In a late speech, said tIiab
che preferred white-hearted black-faced
man, to black hearted white-faced man"
We rather think that he prefers Southern
silver spoons to either.
A LOCOMOTIVES on the Little Miami rail-
road ran over the dummy Of the Pendle-
ton and Columbia street cars on last We'd
n6sday, splitting It all to pieces, and the
engineer and boy wasbadly injured. The |
engineer Is not expected to live.
THOSE who serve as appendages. to the |
extremlties of Thad. Stevens kite, talk flip
PANTY about the "btead and butter brig
ade.r These hungry souls are psiiied with |
the thought that they will soon belong to |
the bread and bititer-less brigade.
TIE woman, MOllie Trussel, who killed
her paramour In Chicago last week, is now |
IN close confinement in the county JAN,
awaiting her trial for murder. She seems
quite overwhelmed with mingled grief and |
fear, and at times evidences signs Of mental |
aberration.