Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-11-24
NEWS AND OTHERwIsE.

GoLD closed yesterday evening, at 1855,
MrssrssrPPr hangs horse thieves. /"
THE Hungarian horizon is cIouded.
crKRoYMrr have been liberal patrOnizers
Of Ristori.
yrsrcE is running wild with joy and
enthusiasm.
TExAs farmers are sowing wheat for their
next crop.
Russia is building over dozen rail-
ways.
Tar cards are evidently shuffling for a
deal Of war In Europe.
"MArcHLKss misery I''-Haying cigar
and nothing to light 1t with.
wooD and Weed both watch the New
York Naval Office.
Two newspaper reporters are elected 70
the New York Legislature.
TuToN's scorner stone" issupposed to be
Anna Dickinson's rejected stone."
GEN. SHERIDAN calls Macmillan ian
imperial buccaneer."
GhRRoTIxG Is likely.to be revived In New
York this winter. The car thieves favor It.
cow.MILKING machine is on exhibition
at Philadelphia. Is it pump?
The youngest son of President johnson
has entered Georgetown College, s.
The would-b assassin of the Emperorof
Austria had many accomplices.
HORACE GREELEY scorns horse-races.--
But Horace shouldn't be above the turi.-
Lou. Jour.
WENDELL PHILLIPS wants new nation.
He has worn out the good sense OF the
present one.
AYoUxG lady in New Orleans inquired
for limb.horn bonnets. She was too mod
est to say Legborn. T
YALE has 700 students, fOrty-four profess
sors and tutors, and demonstrators Blaze
away, Yale.
ACCORDING to the agricultural report
for October, the yield Of oats this year is
extraordinary and the quality good.
REv. EFF. PLATT, Pastor Of the First
Baptist Church of Toledo, died in that city,
q, last Wednesday morning.
A Mrs. PRESTON, of Lewisburg, Pa,was
recently burned to death by her clothes
taking fire from the stove while preparing
meal for her family.
Isaac v. FOWLER, who has been an exile
from New York for many years, mas re-
turned. Isaac got into bad box In the NJ
" POstofiice.
Scg,xcK. az Chairman of the Military
COMMITTEES, is sending circular to wound
ed soldiers, containing such questions as
"What is the length of your stump" and
40 on. The length of Schenck's stump "
was about four years.
THERE was a single tow Of coal sent
few days ago from Louisville to New or-
leans by a Pittsburgh firm which contained
325.OOO bushels, or three and quarter acres
as it Law in its original bed. This was tue
largest shipment of coal ever made by
single tow-boat.
THE Courts of New York in suit now
pending for an injunction, have brought
out the fact that the expenses Of the wife
and children of millionaire In that city,
aside from costly furnished mansion, are
500 per diem.
The Ne.o York Tribune says I: "klstorl
conception of the character Of Adrienne
seems to US all wrong. It's a thin, poor,
superficial, and, what is worse, common
Mace understanding Of one Of the loVeliest
and most interesting characters OF the
modern drama"
,ONE night last week three negroes elect
ed an entrance to the dwelling house OF Mr..
Daniel Hammond. living near Smithheld,
Harrison county, Ohio, when all the mem
hers of the family were absent except two
daughters, and outraged the bodies oftbe
two young ladies. One Of them is not ex-
pected to live,
OK last Sunday night, two citizens OF
Chillicothe, John Murphy and John Dunni-
van, we're assisting in putting a locomotive
ON the track Of the NJ. & C. r. r. near Ia
leski, when it turned over, falling upon
Murphy, thrusting an iron rod through his
lungs, killing him instantly, and so serious
" injuring Dunnivan that his life is des-
paired OF.
In Homer, Mich, few days ago,
school mistress named Dyer whipped
pupil who had addressed her without wait
ing for the usual nod Of consent, until she
had used up three whips nearly as large as
aman's finger. She then took ferrule, an
inch in diameter. and scourged the boy
with this until her strength gave way.
The subject of her discipline Is covered
with abscesses from head to waist, and his
arm has been rendered useless.
THE Wheeling Register relates the history
Of Charles Younger, of Mason county, West
Virginia, who, after marrying young
woman there, deserted her and went to
Wheeling. where he married another wife.
Leaving the latter, after time, he return
cd 20 Mason county and murdered his first
wife, in order to avoid prosecution for
bigamy. Her body was discovered partially
buried in piece Of woods, and he was ar
rested. He confesses the crime, but Glazing
that it was done at the instigation Of his
father. 0tS
1yU,,,- ,,r,t,lic achoola at Savannah are