Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-12-06
NEWS AND OrHERwIsE.
matter on fourth page.

THE wife Of Senator Howe is dangerous
lynL
EMILE MELVILLE has had benefit at st.
Louis. aG
In the last war the Prussians used eco
CO mon. rf.,
MADAME ANNA BISHOP has been giving
c)ncerts in Manila.
The rebel Simms is writing history Of
South Carolina for use In schools.
No less than 1906 treaties of peace have
been signed within the last 200 years.
RoDERT ANDERSON, mechanic of Al
bany, blew his brains out last Friday.
NIrRo-GLYcERrNE is likely to overcome
the terrors OF He'll Gate. ,sa ag.
The courts of New York on Monday last
sentenced eleven men to the penltentiary.
TIE President has not given permission
to Jacob Thompson to return to this coun-
try.
J. Ross Brown read a lecture on his
European travels, in San Francisco, Nov.
ID.
TIE Senatorial contest in New York is
shaking all the political cliques and combi-
nations in the country. aT
THE school teachers of New York are
dissatisfied with their pay and ask for an
increase.
The Hungarian Parliament, the Oldest
Constitutional body in existence, is now in
session.
The President appointed Thomas E.
Hayden, of Nevada, United States Attorney
for the District of Nevada.
COLONEL LEATHERMAN, of Tennessee, has
left Paris for Washington, on an important
mission to President johnson.
A WEALTHY old gentleman of Buffalo
has been swindeled out OF thousands of dol
lars by fast young man named Guire. {
The story is again started that Grant
will go to Europe when he finishes the re-
organization of the army.
SWEENEY has gone to Tennessee to join
his regiment as Major. His Fenian esca-
pade lost him his Lieutenant Colonelcy.
"EccE HOMO" appears to be at length
definitely traced to Professor Seeley, Of
University College, London.
TEE Round Table sticks to 1t that Ameri-
can women will get drunk, and the Troy
Whig says the assertion is a shameless
libel.
Rev. SYLvKs rER HOLMES, one of the old
est clergymen in Massachusetts,, died in
New Bedford recently, aged seventy-eight
years.
MONUMENT to commemorate Robert
stanbridge, apostle of Methodism in
Maryland, has just been put up in Balti-
more.
LORD SYDNEY GoDoLPHIN OSBORNE, who
IL both lord and rector, is having con-
troyersy with his diocesan, the Bishop OF
Salisbury, on ritualism.
Mrs. SARAH MALN, who has died in
Philadelphia at eighty-seven, was one Of
the girls who cast flowers before Washing
ton on his entry into Trenton.
A DANvILLE paper nominates General
Lee for Governor of Virginia. This is said
to be the only political position he ever as
pired to.
ARUMoR is in circulation in Europe that
Napoleon will announce his abdication on
the successful closing of the great exhibi-
tion.
Mn. EDWARD MoTTEL, a Frenchman by
birth, but for many years'a respected citt-
zen of Charleston, S. c., died there on Mon
day of last week.
THE Chicago tunnel runs two miles into
the lake and is capable Of furnishing two
thirds Of million of people with 81 gallons
of water each per day.
The smiling Sprague is at Lake Geneva
with his family. He will hardly get back
to the Rump in time to do anything but
draw his pay and mileage.
DIR. PETERS, who killed Confederate
General Earl Van Dorm for seducing his
wife, had a quarrel with one Lubby in
Arkansas last week, and cut him 30
badly that he is not expected to live.
JOHN B. ALLEY introduced COlfax to the
Lynnets as the future President Of the
United States. If Colfax doesn't come
nearer being President than Alley did
being Congressman, we can stand it.
AMONG the passengers by the Somerset
at Baltimore, is the Right Rev. W. K.
whittingham, Bishop Of Maryland, who
returns from brief visit co Europe for his
health, which is somewhat improved.
7. MASON JONES, the long-haired Irish
retormer, who read some what he called
s.lackturesp in this country some years ago,
has written book about "Old Trinity
probably T. @. D., which had the honor Of
being the nursing g-mother OF Jones.
MRS. JOHN WooD's London debut was
not entirely successful, although she was
pretty well received. She played Miss
Miggs in Barnaby Rudge. TheTtnes says: !:
miss Mig9s in the drama is not only act
ed but written after an American ideal, and
ismade to do things Of which Mr.. Dickens
Miggs never dreampt. There isno reason to
doubt that Mrs. Wood is very efficient
actress in . certain department--it is GER
tain that the one or two Kisses that were
audible shortly ltoo shortly after her first
apDearance, were sadly in disharmOny