Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-10-11
NEWS AND OTHERWISE.

rai NEWS AND OTHEHWISE.
READING matter on fourth page. s''.'
GOLD closed yesterday evening, at l5O1S.
Mrs. suRArrs house is said to be haunted.
Bass fishing at Bay is atits height.
The small pox prevails in st. Paul, Min
nesota. -
The Monroe County Agricultural Fair
held recently was success.
GENERAL GRANT has fifty horses in his
stable. t1 ,""
THE King of Denmark wishes to send
Danish emigrants to Florida. H
The Young King of Bavaria is pronounc-
ed "brick." .,.
PARrR1DGrs are said to fill the Virginia
woods.
MEN from New England constitute one
fourth of the voting population Of San
Francisco.
THE election of General Morgan to, Con-
gress from the 18th District is most graft
flying result.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT, jr, and
daughter of General Dix are reported as
about to be married. .....
OK the sth Mrs. j. G.. Erwin, of Chicago,
committed suicide at hotel in Mime
apolis. ,.n
SIR MORTON PETo is accused of "down-
right robbery" by the London Pail Mall
Gazette.
RECENTLY, during the performance,
lady died in one of the boxes of the Opera
Comique in Paris.
LEE KIRTLY, Democrat, on the 9TH
W 3 shot dead by policeman in fracas at
Terre Haute.
OK the 4th inst, Michael E. Hollahan
committed suicide at Mentor, o., by shoot
ing himself.
"PvE buried my best FRIEND" rs the un-
dertlker said when he inferred the quack
doctor.
THE oyster beds in the Chesapeake Bay
promise larger yield this season than
usual.
OK the lst of October the ascertained
public debt of the Federal Government was
$2573, ,336,9n.6S.
GENERAL Tom THUMBS infant daughter
died from Inflammation Of the brain, In
London, on the 26th Of September.
On the 9TH, son of Judge Tabor, OF
Plymouth, Indiana, accidentally killed him
self while blowing into the muzzle OF a
loaded gun.
The Georgia Consatutionalist says that the
tax on cotton will hereafter be included In
the price when sold.
IT is the opinion of the London Times that
this country will be plunged into another
Civil War before the Presidential cleo
tiOn.
The difficulty between the printers and
publishers In Louisville has been amicably
settled by the printers acceding to the de-
mands of the publishers.
PLATTE county, Mo-, continues to be raw
aged by grasshoppers. They are said to be
strikingly similar to the ancient and de-
structive Egyptian locusts.
JoHN B. IDEsoN, well known citizen Of
Chicago, and large dealer in India rubber
goods, died suddenly at Milwaukee on the
9th. if7'
A SEVERE storm passed over Indiana on
the night of the 9th. At Franklin Sec
tion of houses and depot were blowndown,
and one person killed.
OK the night of the sth, at Richmond,
Ind, ON the occasion of a. conservative
meeting, members of the Grand Army of
the Republic attacked and broke up the
meeting. tx OseEs s'tft 8sLFg
"DrD the minister put stamp on you
when you were married, Mary5" "A
stamp, Charlie What for, prayP" "Why
matches amt legal without stamp, you
know srasi E
The Ne,o York Herald thinks that the
best thing Buffers '.Boston friends can do
for him now is to provide q comfortable
and congenial home for him In some lunatic
asylum In Massachusetts," rh
The discovery has been made that an
effectual way to get rid OF rats, is to catch
one, and dip him. all but his head, into red
paint and then let him go. He'll frighten
the rest away.
NEARLY three hundred souls are suppos-
ed to have been lost on the steamship Even
ing Star, that withlna few days fOundered
$50 miles east of Tybee, while on her way
from New York to New Orleans.
TIE, Sandusky Register .(Rep.) says "a
good many ignorant men" voted the Re
publican ticket in that city on the 9th.
Sandusky City is not the only place in
which "a good many ignorant men voted
the same way on the 9th.
"A CANADIAN newspaper contains the
following plaintive advertisement "Will
the gentleman who stole my melons on
last Sabbath night be generous enough to
return me few Of the seeds, as the melons
ara rare varietyG" 1Vg .a .ssA