Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-11-12
NEWS AND OTHERwIsH.

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VIcroR HUGO asks 100000 for his new
novel entitled "93," in ten volumes.
LORD CLARENDON is dying from the ef.
fects of tobacco smoking.
A WOMAN in London is under arrest fol
beating her husband to death.
ENGLAND aud France have bought five
million dollars worth of cotton in Egypt
A GENTLEMAN in New York bar-room
was fatally stabbed by a bystander whom
he refused to invite to drink. .,-.. -.
A"Ho! for Brazil ~ meeting has been
called in Claiborne parish. Better hoe In
Claiborne parish.-N. 0. Pic.
A CONVICT in the Kingston penitentiary
recently stabbed another convict with 8
chisel in the thigh, cutting the main artery
LAMBALLE. the Famous French physi-
clan, has Just died in Paris. His malady
was brought on by professional Jealousy.
THE wine growers of California are loud
in their demands for reduction Of the tax
on manufactured grape brandy.
TIRED OF life a London brewer threw
himself into a huge vat filled with carbonic
acid gas, and will brew no more.
GIN. ByTLER's long practice in defend
ing criminals has given him great advan-
tage in protecting his own character
THERE is Club Housei in Glasgow where
for twelve cents month man can have
access to all the principal papers and mag
azines.
The late opera season in Philadelphia
was a failure, peeuniarily, although the
performances were of admitted excel
lence.
A WESTERN paper says that the grass
boppers have destroyed everything in the
Deer Lodge Valley except the grass Wild
ows."
EIGHT-room houses in perfect order and
in the incest and most healthy part ofLon-
don are rented from $3.50 to $500 per an
mum.
A SAVANNAH landlady recently gave or
ders to her agents to reduce the rents Of
her houses thirty percent. on the LIST Of
November.
A Mr.. CHARLES PLATE, Of Niagara Falls,
had his head cut off and his body severed
transversely by becoming entangled in the
machinery Of saw mill. .,
THE London Times wags its old head at
Sir Morton Peto's explanation Of his rail-
way transactions, and intimates sharp and
discreditable work on the bsronet's part.
The dress OF Her Majesty Queen Victoria
while at Ryde to receive the Prince and
Princess of Wales was white flannel dress
and jacket, both trimmed with Grape.
ALBERT NJ. VAN KLEEcK, for five years
Postmaster of Poughkeepsie, fell in an
apoplectic fit in Main street the other
night, and died in few hours afterwards.
"A TRUNK containing silk dresses, gold
embroidered skirts, and eorsets, supposed
to belong to Millie Fowler, lost on the
Evening Star, has been picked up at sea.
THERE is contribution box at the Corn
Market of Canterbury, England, for the
Canterbury Hospital. On being opened at
the close Of the year it contained the mu-
nihcent sum OF two-pence half-penny.
IT Is said that the eldest daughter Of the
late Gen. Scott died broken-hearted in a
French Convent, because her father would |
not give his consent to her marriage with |
ayoung French nobleman and officer.
THE London correspondent of Chicago |
paper says that the suppositious Yankee
like Artemus Ward stands In England as
the representative of American refinement |
and knowledge. ag
MISS IRVING, a tenderly susceptible |
"young thing" of forty, residing at Calais,
Maine. has sued Willard B. King, OF the
same place-and the same age-for breach
Of promise. The jury did not agree as to
the damages. q
A JoURNEYMAN baker, residing in the |
southern part of Philadelphia, was found |
in the cellar Of his house, on Friday, with |
his throat cut. He was removed to the hos
pital and soon died. The affair Is involved
in complete mystery.
A PARIS letter reports that the Empress
ClrlOtta's insanity Is Of a a'religious cbarac-
ter; that she isalways bewaillng her hus-
bands anti-church measures in Mexico;
and that she had attempted suicide by
jumping from a window. ag4Fs
GENERAL NAGLEE answers the gentle
Schell, who has sued him Ia San Francisco
for 100000 for breach Of promise, by set
ting up, first, that he never promised to
marry her; and, secondly, that he has dis
covered her to be ofa loose character.
TaERE were stories told, jokes perper
trated, double entsndres INDUCED, which
must have offended the modesty Of the
Reverend Mr.. Thompson and shocked the
plety Of the Rev. Or. Stowe, at Faneuil
Hall on Tuesday evening Of last week. eel
der Wright" presided, and he was "all
Wright"