Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-11-15

MRS. E. L. DAvENPoRT Is giving "Sun'
day readings" in Boston.
GENERALS GORDON GRANGER and Kirby
8 NTH are In Washington.
BISHOP ODENHEMER is still quite lame
from his accident of last winter.
WILLIAM GILMORE SdMs ls writing a
school history of South Carolina.
THE citizens of Nashville have asked
Gen. Thomas to public dinner.
SOME IDIOT has started another story that
John Wilkes Booth is not otdead.
BIsHoP CoxE read letter on "The
Jesuits" in Buffalo on Friday evening.
T.B. READ has painted fairy scene from
the midsummer Nights Dream"
JULIA DEAN HAYNE has "put by" $50 OOO
in gold out of her profits Of her California
trip.
DAN RICE has been worsted in a conflict
with his "sacred cow" She threw him
over the fence. s
Ir is expected that Lord Monck will
leave for England about the middle Of De-
cember.
MR.. HUME BURLEY, long attached to
the British Legation at Washington, is go
rg back to England.
CAMILLA URso is engaged to play at the
coming concerts of the Chicago Philhar-
monic Society.
BRowNLow's portrait has been painted !
By request!l For the State Of Tennes-
see!!!
JOHN ]. DOUGLAS has been appointed
Postmaster at GAINESVILLE, Ohio, in place Of
Mr.. Moorehead, removed.
ANNA DICKINSON is said to have received
an offer from distinguished Politician
What was offered it is not stated.
PUNCH says man, calling himself gen.
tleman, was lately convicted, on his own
confession, of taking up his residence.
A NEW play has been written for Matilda
Heron, founded on the MAIDS Tragedy"
of Beaumont and Fletcher.
GENERAL GIKRLAY, who commanded the
Austrian army at the outbreak Of the war,
of $50, has had stroke Of paralysis.
Mrs. JAMES HANNAY and Miss Elizabeth !
Taackeray are said to be writing memoir
of the late william Makepeace Thackeray.
ANIndlana newspaper nomInates Schuy- 1
Yer Colfax for President. Colfax approves
of the nomination.
LORD CLARENDON is dying of paralysis
broughton by excessive smoking. He is
descendant of the great Earl.
JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGEi Is still at Niagara,
(on the Canadian side.) Though he Is not
much over forty, his hair has turned almost
white.
AN absent-minded member Of the M. E.
Church In Westerville, Vermont, labored
iudustriously all last Sunday in his potato
field.
The lower classes Of Venetia seem to
think that the moment they become Ital-
ians 'larks will fall from the skies ready
roasted"
In view Of the anticipated impeachment
Of the President and large number Of,
people, the clearinghouse keepers of
Washington have increased their prices.
The Keeble Memorial is to be college
or hall at Oxford, IL possible. Among
the committee are the Archbishop Of Can
terbury, DR.. Pusey, Professor Mansel, and
haIf-a-dozen Lords.
COMMODORE JOHN RoDGERs has been |
appointed to the command Of the Boston |
Navy Yard, in the place Of Admiral
Strlngham, whose term Of service has ex-
pired.
The annual ceremony of crowning the
king of pumpkins took place recently at
the central market in Paris. The happy
vegetable weighed 25s lbs, and measured
ten feet four inches round.
The prominent men Of Georgia, once oc-
cupying high places, are now pursuing the
even tenor Of their ways, rebuilding bro
ken fortunes, and sharing In uncomplain-
ing patience, the common lot Of the South
ern people.
In the associated press reports, in speak
ing Of the disaster to the Inflated Evening
Star, the press agent at New York, allud-
Ing to the conduct of the passengers, said,
''They obeyed all orders firmly and coolly.'
The operator at Chicago made it, "They
obeyed all orders from Ely q Cooley.
EBEN FAIRcHILD, wealthy citizen of
Bridgeport, Conn, lately bequeathed 1880
to his relatives, and the rest OF his property,
nearly $4,000, to the American Coloniza-
tlon Society. The heirs threatened to at
tempt to break the will, but the Society
have compromised with them by paying
them $4,000.
MAJOR GENERAL FRY, late Provost Mar
shal General Of the United States, sailed
from New York on Saturday, 10th inst, In
the steamer Arizona for California, to enter
upon bis new duties as Adjutant General
Of the military district Of the Pacific, to
which he has just been assigned by the Sec
retary Of War.
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