Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-11-08
NEWS AND OTHERwISE.

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A BOOK Of poems sold at atauction In Lon
don for $4,000.
PRINCE NAPOLEON has been sent OF
yachting again.
TaERR is an anxious inquiry after the
Lincoln memorial fund.
A PAPER printed in Chinese aud Japanese
is published in London.
A WOMAN in England recently died OF e1-
cessive anger. Is.u
Ar banquet to Mr.. Peabody in Balti-
more S72OOOOOO were represented.
NEW JERSEY has the biggest kind OF a
buckwheat crop.
FOURTEEN prisoners were lately burned
to death in Toulon prison.
TIE cholera, after carrying of 400 peo-
ple in San Antonio, Texas, has disappeared,
A GEORGIA planter says he shall realize
five bales of cotton to the hand.
GERMAN farmers pickle their hay, pack
ing it down in salt.
LONDON, ''the largest, richest and nastiest
CITY in the world" amuses five thousand
people at her theaters every night.
FRYE pays his opera artists in London
$35OOO per month, and his orchestra $500
per night.
Two hundred thousand copies Of Tup-
per's Philosophy have been sold in Eng
land.
THE Radicals are discovering that it
would be better to impeach Butler than
the President.
A LONDON omnibus driver discovered a
packet of $4,000 in his vehicle. He re-
turned it to the owner.
THE loss of tonnage by marine disasters
last month is equal to $2,5OO,OGc, exclusive
of cargoes.
THE bulk of Mormon proselytes are from
Protestant nations-no Irishman or French
man is a mormon.
EMERsoN ETHRIDGE is mentioned as
candidate for Governor, to succeed Brown
low.
Nor long since an Amsterdam merchant,
after lavishing fortune on furniture ana
paintings, caused the floor Of one Of his
apartments to be laid with Spanish dollars
set on edge.
SOME pious soul in Baltimore wrote to
Parepa advising her to give up singing and
turn her attention to religion, reminding
her that an opera troupe had been sent to
perdition via the Evening Star.
VERMONT has village with four churches
and only one bell; but as the congrega-
tions without bell refuse to pay for the
ringing, the bell is not rung at all. That's
radical, amt 1t?
ANOTHER matrimonial escapade is cre-
ating commotion in Louisville. A sick
daughter has been spirited away by her
affinity, hearts and hands Joined, and an
angry parent left in the lurch. i
A CONNECTICUT Divine, Of the radical
school, recently preached on a Sunday
morning from the text: "We are the
children of the DEVIL" and in the after
noon, "Children obey your parents" u
SINCE the process of photographing upon
,sIl ( and linen has been perfected In France,
many persons have their portraits upon
Their linen instead of their names or inl-
tial. They are not injured by washing. y
A YOUNG wife, of Michigan, after .
honeymoon of only twenty-four hours,
left her husband, applied for divorce on
the ground that her man was not as rich
as she thought he was" and the Court
granted it.
A VERY interesting libel suit is before the
courts of New York, wherein wealthy
Australian merchant, George Robinson,
who had won the affections of handsome
and captivating Jewish widow with leg
acy of $500,0O0, is charged, just on the eve
of the marriage, OF being transported
English pickpocket. Whereupon he has
had the accusers arrested for libel. The
widow don't believe the charges.
The New Yorkers gave Brignoli tre-
mendous greeting. The Tribune says his
4,eppearance was the signal for the hearth
est and most cordial applause that we ever
saw awarded TO an artist in concert room.
The applause rose and fell, and rose again
and again, SO that Brignoli seemed to be
painfully embarrassed; but it seemed to
cheer him on to bis labors, for he sang his
first song most charmingly. His voice is
as beautiful as ever, but 1t gives evidence
Of more careful and intelligent culture"
Or the town OF Pontotoc, Mississippi, the
founder, General Mackin, says: an one
month after / laid of the town, sold
eighty thousand (sS0OOO) dollars worth OF
lots. In two months put up hotel; good
log-house, with brick chimneys, to accom-
modate four hundred persons with board
and lodging stable-room and lots TO ac-
commodate four hundred horses. In three
months after the laying Off Of the town,
there were forty-fives stores and thirty-three
groceries. Property changed hands to the
amount of 100000 per day for four years.
Such place was never seen before by
the eyes Of man, and viii never be seen
again.n i