Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-05-17
NEWS AND OTHERWISE.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS has been stealing
4 chickens in California.
Miss KATE FISHER is playing at Ports
mouth.
ABOUT 5000 Mormons are expected from
Europe this summer. .......
THERE is said to be a defcitof $4,000 in
the Treasury of the O'Mahony men.
A SOLDIERS League has been organized
at Portsmouth.
THE Stevedore's strike continues at ST.
Louis.
\ A CONVENTION of wool dealers will meet
* in Cleveland on the 23d.
s THE negroes of Portsmouth have had
smallpox visitation.
A MAN, supposed to be T. c. Caskalin, or
Castigan, was run over and killed byscars
at Philadelphia on the night OF the l4th inst.
sn OVER two million dollars will be required
to cover the municipal expenditures OF
Chicago the ensuing year.
The Massachusetts, House, by vote of
l46 to 40, defeated the bill to license and
legalize liquor selling in that State.
The Women's Rights women want Con-
i gress to confer suffrage on them. There is
4 no excitement in this city on the subject.
The Ne,o York Chamber Of Commerce pro-
tests against the imposition of the proposed
tax on cotton.
By the exercise of the small courtesies of
life, you can invariably make yourself
pleasing to others.
RECENTLY, the only sister of the famous
Murat, King of Naples, died in France,
aged 90.
\ The prohibitory liquor law of Massachu-
[ sets is being discussed and cussed in that
State.
In Boston, six year old boy, named
/, Martin Negler, chOked to death by piece
4 of meat lodging in his throat.
\ DIR. ABRAHAM X. THOMPSON, OF Charles
ton, Mass, graduate of Dartmouth Col
lege, and who had attained to the age of So,
died on the 1lth.
The wheat crop in Scioto county, the
Portsmouth Times says, will prove an almost
entire failure in some portions OF that coun-
ty.
CORNELIUS MCCOY (Dem.) was elected
Justice of the Peace last week for the town.
ship in which Portsmouth Is. His majority
was 10.
The Ne0 Orleans Picdyune has been in
formed that seven thousand alligatOrs have
been purchased near that city for shipmen
to Ireland.
JOHN MINOR Boris, who sympathize
with the Radicals, pronOunces the late con
stitutional amendment "passed by th'
House as worse than failure"
WILLIAM CARPENTER, jeweler of Bur-
lington, Iowa, was accidentally killed las
week by a gun-shot, short distance from
Burlington.
Two thousand men are employed on tn
Cedar Rapids and Missouri River railroad
and the number is being increased at thu
rate Of hooper day.
OK the night of the 14th, the house q
LYMAN Burbank, with himself and tw'
young ladies, were burned at Montpelier
Vt.
CHARLES BAITHER, recently elected AS
SCISSOR for the Second Ward of Toledo, com
mitted suicide last week. So rays tn
Blade.
CHARLES ScHoLTz has been lodged In th
Chicago Jail on the charge Of adultery an
of having killed two legitimate childre
Immediately on their birth.
The National Union (Republican) accuse
the Radicals with determination to out-d
the. secessionists in keeping the South ou
of the Union. .'N
HoN. SAMUEL SHELLABARGER Is at HON
on visit. There is disposition through
out the District to give him permission, {
the next election, to remain at home.
An eightinch Dahlgren gun prematurel
discharged, few days ago, at Newpor
Mass, instantly killing Patrick Keatini
who was at the time ramming In the car
ridge.