Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-11-05
NEWS AND OTHERwIsE.


AN Albany mechanic has invented a port
able cotton gin.
The people Of Norfolk, Virginia, want
theater.
THE weather prophets are predicting ex-
treme cold this winter. .iirI .I..f r|
JUDGE SARGENT, Commissioner Of Gus
toms, is seriously i'll with cholera morbus
JUDGE CHASE is confined to his house
with neuralgia.
ALL but 25.000 acres Of the Agricultural
College lands devoted to Ohio have been
sold.
A MAN under the influence of delirlum
tref1ens leaped out of a window in New
York and Killed himself.
THE Knights, Borons, Earls and Dukes of
England loaned hundreds Of millions Of
dollars to the rebels-and lost.
In Eaton, New York, there is cornet
band composed Of twelve men named Lock-
wood-brothers and their sons.
PRENTICE says that the ''oil poured on the
troubled waters" by the Radicals is oil OF
vitriol. Butler carries the bottle.
THE people of North Carolina travel now
exclusively in ambulances-the relics of
the Federal forces.
A SICK student of Chicago lately took
nitric acid in mistake for blackberry cor
dial. 1t cured him, but not in the way he
expected
A WASHINGTON dispatch says: "Gener-
ais Grant and Sherman, and Secretary
Stanton, had long interview together on
Thursday"
THE assessed value of Catholic property
in Philadelphia exempt from taxation and
embraced in 32 churches and hospitals, is
$409175.
In Germany it is no uncommon thing to
see women harnessed to a plow, drag
ging that implement between rows of pota-
toes and corn.
In the last half centuay s0,OO0,000 Bibles
have been distributed among the heather
by the Bible Society-British aud Ameri-
can.
"YoUR milk does not pay any income
tax, suppose, Mrs. Skinpenny." "Why
not, sir?" 81 should think ii was not rich
enough"
Mrs. SILL, an old lady residing near Bowl
ing Green, KY, was murdered by three ne
groes on Saturday night. The object Of the
murderers was plunder. They got but
-sixty-fve dollars. III
The last rebel prisoner was recently re-
leased from prison in Washington: His
friends had mourned him as dead, and the
respect of funeral services was paid to his
memory year ago.
A vENDER of patent tooth-wash was ar
rested in Philadelphia on Saturday. He
was selling crude oil for dentifrice, having
allured the crowd by polishing the teeth of
adventurous boys with nitric acid.
The Northampton (Mass.) Gazette says: A
woolen manufacturer of Massachusetts, said
In Boston, ia 1866: "Before the war it cost
me $50 a yard to make cloth, and l sold 1t
at 81. Now it costs me 81 per yard, and l
sell it at Ss." Won't somebody protect"
him? u
JOHN HUGHES was stabbed In Cincinnati
the other night by a man named Rufen, so
savagely that his bowels protruded through
the wound which the knife made. The
origin of the quarrel is unknown. Rufen
ran and has not been apprehended.
Ina few weeks the Archbishop of Can
terbury will lay the foundation stone Of
new cathedral at Inverness. The building
will probably be completed so far as at
present contemplated for erection, in about
three years.
The Morrov (Warren county, Leader has
changed hands. DR.. johnson, the late edi-
tor, has retired, and is succeeded by j. @.
Freeman. Both have our best wishes for
prosperity and success. The Leader ought
to be we'll sustained by the Democracy of
Warren county.
Texas has exported, within short time,
a million dollars worth Of cattle. Beet
and cotton are struggling for the suprem-
acy in Texas. The money brought into
the State by the sale of cattle is immense,
and increasing too. The war drain of four
wears had but little effect.
The storm which prevailed on Sunday, |
the 2lst of Oct- was especially severe in
the neighborhood of Larkensville, Clay |
county Illinois. The tornado left but one
house standing In the village, and the de-
strnction extended toa number of dwell !
ings outside of the place. The house Of
Mr.. Rusher was blown down, his daughter
killed, and himself badly wounded. The
path of the tornado was short, and Of bat
little width, but Its force was terrific.
THE Chicago Times, speaking Of Election
Frauds, says awe have letter from re-
liable source at Napoleon, Ohio, saying that
a man from Illinois is in that place seeking
10 make arrangements to procure men to
vote at the election In this State. He regis
ters himself at hotels In different places as
Colonel Baldwin, Colonel Marshal,' and
other names. or course heis operating In |
theinterest Of the Black Republican party |
We have heard Of similar movements 10 |
Indiana, and we have no doubt that an ex-I
tensiFe scheme Of colonization is on foot
designed to effect doubtful Congressional
and Legislative districts at our ensuing
election"
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