Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-11-06
NEWS AND OTuIEnwISE.


The apple crop is immense in this State
A NEGRO census is being taken in Wes
Virginia.
AUSTRIA is busily preparing for anothe
war.
THE copyright of the Waverly novels Il
iust expiring.
The frost has played the mischief with
the Georgia cotton.
One Pennsylvania farmer beat another
to death last week.
The estimated cost Of the San Francisco
sea wall is $22,OOOOOO. 'i
The statue of Benton will soon be erected
in Missouri Park, at st. Louis. nr M
FEMALE lobbyists are swarming at
Washington.
A POPULAR explosion in Spain is said to
be inevitable. ..,
A STATUE of Lincoln is to be placed in
front of the City Hall at Washington.
The planting community South are with
out capital or seed, and yet are ''seedy."
The old Salisbury prison is offered for
glle by the Freedmen's Bureau.
MRS. Cora HATCH LEAvIrT, spiritualist,
is candidate for the Illinois Legislature.
CHICAGO furnished large portion of the
lorettes lost on the Evening Star.
A VIRGINIA girl, IA years old, is in prison
at Alexandria for the murder of her child.
APPLES and pumpkins never flourish
well the same year-neither do war and
babies.
The purse for the grand ocean yacht race
Is $4,000. The New York yacht club SUBJ
scribe it.
HADN'T men enough to work her, is the
verdict on the Evening Star. Satisfactory
to friends of the lost.
The Demon dance by the Nihlo ballet
creltes devil ofa row among the ''prurient
prudes."
TwENrY-sEvEN families Of Polish exiles
have bought and settled in Spottsylvania
county, Virginia.
RAILROAD managers have decided to press
Congress for an increased allowance for
mail service.
A CONVENTION to provide for the pc
cuniary distress Of the people Of South Car
Olina has been called.
A FRENCH banker was suffocated from
the gas in his room in New York hotel
during the night.
VIRGINIA is chewing the cud Of her large
tobacco crop with unmitigated satisfac-
tion.
PATTI recently declined a professional
tour in this country. She says she isn't
appreciated here.
A KENTUCKY farmer has this year raised
sixty-two bushels of merchantable wheat
from two baskets of "Kentueky white"
Miss NANCY KNOWLES has recovered, at
Garfield, Ohio, verdict Of S2,475 against
w. Cook, for breach Of promise.
"FEMALE influence" is power in WASH
ington and the faces OF some "ladies" are
as well known In political circles as the
statue of Andrew jackson.
JOHN NELSON, Of Montgomery town.
ship, Franklin county. says he DID NOT
discharge Mr.. Kirk because he voted the
Democratic ticket.
Two daughters Of Nat. Gather died of
scarlet fever, at the residence Of their grand !
father, Gov. Magofin, Of Kentucky, on the
23d and oath ult.
Mrs. KEENAN,, in Lowell, Massachu-
setts, got divorce from Mr.. keenan, at
ten O'Clock on Saturday morning, and mar
ried Mr.. Jones at four o'clock on Saturday
afternoon.
A NEW YORK dispatch says: "George
Alison, lamp trimmer in the navy, has re-
Gently fallen heir to 100000 and Hunga-
risn title Of nobility. He is resident of
this city,"
MOUNT STERLING, KY, has young des-
perado who every now and then amuses
himself by shooting somebody. He has
shot some six people during the year, and |
managed to escape every time.
WITHIN ninety days after the surrender
one of the most distinguished officers Of the
Confederate army was running plantation |
in conjunction with an officer Of the Federal |
army OF equal rank. l- o9
A MAN Of "a and woman of 81 years
were lately married in France, and on the
wedding night this lively brace Of patri-
archs danced a jig and promised the priest
to increase and multiply" ~.
Miss ANNIE DICKINSON is now talking i
about = Something to Do" II she would
look into some Of our well-kept homes, and \
observe the fair young mothers caressing |
the smiling cherubs, she might gain a sug-
Restion for her theme.-- Providence Bulletin. |
In Pittsburgh, Pa, few days since, a
lady LEFT her infant Of three days old sleep
ing in her chamber while she proceeded to
attend to some domestic duties in an adj
joining room. Hearing piercing scream
from the direction Of the chamber, she hast
ened to the side OF the crib where she dis
covered to her horror large rat leap from
it and disappear Ia q closet. On exarnin-
ing the child she found that the rat bad
eaten the flesh entirely or three OF the
fingers of the right hand, rendering 1t nec-
essary TO amputate them.
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