Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-08-18
NEWS AND OTHERWISE.


NJ GOLD closed yesterday evening, at 1904
E THE game laws of Illinois expired 70
u this season on last Monday. The Nimrod
can now hold high carnival.
The Omaha papers advertise for brick
LAYERS at So per day. Omaha is a growing
place.
Frank FERRIS, the New York murderer.
who was to have been hung yesterday, has
been resplted until October 8.
By making an average gain over last
falls vote of 140 in each county of Ohio,
the Democracy can this year carry the
State. .-t
BERNARD FKIERx, the New York mur-
derer, was to have been executed yester-
day. The Nsw York Nescs says he awaits
his fate with calmness.
Miss ETFIE PARKHURsT, a Boston gal,
has made up her mind to ''marry no man
who drinks" She don't want her husband
TO "licker."
LITTLE Johnny Glen, the juvenile hero
of Chickamauga, who visited Columbus
over year ago, is going to West Point
His fighting weight just now is sixty-five
pounds. 3-
CAPT. JOSEPH HAzELBAKER, while lying
asleep In bis canal boat, at the foot Of Race
street, Cincinnati, was robbed last Tuesday
morning Of five hundred and twenty-five
dollars.
Rev. II. HUNTINGDON, Chaplain of the
State prison, and Grand Masonic Lecturer
for the State OF Tennessee, has recently fall
en- heir to the sum of $5O0,0OO In New
England.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire occurred In Toledo,
on last Tuesday night, involving large
amount of loss. On the property destroyed
4 there was $l7,5O0 insurance, which will not
4 cover the loss.
q THE negro worshipers Of the Third Dis
trlct delight to call Schenck "the Bluff
Old Veteran" We suppose the circum-
stance which gave rise to this cognomen
was the bIGT he got at Vienna.
The Catholic Telegraph, of Cincinnati, has
passed into the hands of Mr.. Jeup, editor
and proprietor OF the VoLksfreund, who will
publish it hereafter, with Very Rev. Z.
Purcell remaining as Its leading editor.
The negroes of San Francisco have been
testing their right to sit among the white
folks at the theatre. The judge held that
the proprietor has a right to enforce such
regulations as would be most conducive to
the prosperity Of his business.
A DIFFICULTY occurred at the Union De-
not at Hamilton, o., on last Monday night
between detective officer Huffman and one
William Howard. 1t resulted in Howard's
shooting Huffman. The latter died soon
afterwards.
A YOUNG man named Parlott, who served
through the war in the 57th Regt. Owl,
lost his life last week in Auglaize county,
by his clothes being caught In threshine
machine, which drew in his body and man
gled 1t in a dreadful manner.
COLUMBUS DELANo having discovered
that somebody else controlled the Federal
appointments In the Thirteenth Congress
slonal District determined to die game to
the last, recording with bis latest breath
hisfaith In Congress and Radicalism. Good
bye, Columbusl
Mas. JEFF. DAVIS writes to 3 friend in
Charleston thus concerning her husband
s'Mr. Davis is now slowly but surely vast
ing away, and / look forward to his Ma
ker's release, IL man does not soon afford /
him one. It is very kind Of you to ask
what he wants; but beyond cigars
and little Madeira or Sherry wine, he /
seems 10 desire nothing"