Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-06-04
NEWS AND OTHERwISE.


FRED. DOUGLASS and Chief Justice Chase
have been dining together. e
They have hog cholera at Rock Island,
Illinois.
TIE Saratoga, New York, races will come
offin July this year.
THE society of Good Templars has been
instituted in Clrcleville.
THE New York law designed to prevent
dead heading over railroads In that State,
is virtually "a dead-head."
Hon. ALEXANDER II. CoFFRoTH has been
nominated for Congress by the Democrats
in the Chambersburg (Pa) District.
Col. WILLIAM SAWYER is advocated by
correspondent of the Celina Democrat for
nomination to Congress.
Iris said that never within generation
has the wheat crop been so poor in Wash
ington county as it will be this season.
THE test oath. as applied to lawyers in
the Southern Courts, has been decided un-
constitutional by Judge Erskine, OF Geor-
gia.
WE have often heard of persons becOm-
ing insane through marriage; but it is now
stated that two lunatics in an Asylum in
England became sane through marriage.
WITHIN the last twenty years, more than
five hundred Roman Catholic missionaries
have gone from Europe, to engage in fe-
male education in India and China.
THE CircleuiHe Union, the editor of which
is Postmaster, is shaping its course to sus-
tain Congress as against the President
The editor thinks he can't be removed.
WE regret the withdrawal of Messrs
Seth S. Snyder and A. P.J. Snyder from
the " estern Standard, which they have al
ways made most excellent Democratic
journal.
MRS. henry SNYDER, of Edgerton, was
so badly burned on the 22d ult., in conse-
quence of her clothing catching fire while
engaged in making soap, that she died next
day.
IT is the opinion of the Cleveland Herald
(Repub.) that "if Congressman say their
prayers-and we hope they do-their daily
confession should be, we have left undone
those things which we ought to hayo done;
and we have done those things which we
ought not to have done.'"
FROM the Marion Mirror we learn that on |
last Saturday Mr.. o. B. Smith, while labor
ing gunder fit, capsized a tea kettle with boil
ing water in it, the boiling hot water pouring |
down his throat, scalding his face, destroy
ing his sight, and literally burning his in
sides out, from the effects of which he died |
ten hours afterwards in most cxcruciating |
pain.
The editor of the Fremont Messenger, in |
commenting upon the recent Democratic
State Convention, says that it was not a
noisy Convention, but it was determined |
one. 1t was evident from the unanimity of
feeling, the unusual presence of leading
men, that the Old Union Democracy is it
self again, and is about to resume its SUI
premacy over the land. $685..
Four years ago the politicians of the Re-
publican party claimed that they had taken
out patent right as the only ''uncondition-
al Union party" in the country. Now
they insist that the times demand the SUBJ
stitution of conditional Unionism for 'un-
conditional Unionism. The patriotism of |
the Republican party is contradiction it
SELF
The Marietta Times says that on last Mon
day morning, Samuel T. Isaacs, boarding
at the Mansion House, in that place. went
to r. Uhl's saw mill, four miles below Ma
rietta, on the Virginia side, 10 take charge
of the engine. While arranging some of
the betting, he was caught in the machine
ry, and one arm was torn off, one leg brok-
el, aud his head badly fractured.
INAsMUcH as the Radicals of Pittsburgh
resolved that they owed "a debt to the de-
tenders Of the flag" that they could mot
repay" and then nominated civilians for
all the important offices, the Cincinnati
Commercial thinks they did so because Of an
" utter feeling of despair of ever being able
10 liquidate this obligation" The soldiers
may take a different view of the matter
at voting time.