Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-10-25
NEWS an q OTllLIi WISE.

PRICE and Shelby would be glad to get
back from Mexico if they could.
THERE is demand for 10000 houses in
New York, for families.
LOVING times these everything as
''dear" as 1t can be.
THE total value of prizes to be given at
the Paris Exhibition is $4,000 in gold.
BETWEEN Gen. Foster and the Mayor Of
Tallahassee there is conflict of author
ity.
KIT CARSON is in command Of an expe-
dition against the Indians on the frontier
of Mexico.
THERE are 10000 widows and 10000 or
phans in Alabama, three-fourths of them
utterly destitute.
TIE Colorado Miners Register says that
the patron saint of Colorado is wilkins
Macawber.
MAMMALIAN paid $4,000 for a message
over the cable to Carlotta. He is dread
full dispenser of spondulics, is Max.
A WALLET containing valuable diamond
ring and ten dollars in money was re-
Gently taken from the stomach of an Ohio
river catfish.
THE mate Of propeller at Chicago re-
Gently threw a sailor overheard for asking
for money due him. The man was drown
ed.
A NEW YORK critic is in raptures at the
manner in which the German tragedian
Dawson eats confectionery in the council
scene in Richard.
THE official majority of Clymer, for Gov
ernor. in Pike county, is 724. This makes
the official majority for General Geary in
the State IL, Pittsburgh Commercial.
THE New York World of Friday says
"Miss PendletOn, sister of George II. Pen |
dleton, is engaged to be married to the son |
of the late Minister Dayton"
A POLICEMAN ordered Michael Keegan,
of Albany, whom he discovered in the gut
ter very drunk, to get up and go home.-
"Devil whit" says Mike. "If you want
me home carry me there"
A FOOLISH and timid Tennessee swain at
tempted suicide on his wedding day. A
stomach pump relieved him and little old
Bourbon gave him pluck to meet his fate
with becoming dignity.
SAN FRANCIsCo photographists are under
arrest for attaching the faces Of visitors
and respectable ladies to the bodies of
abandoned females who make business of
posturing for indecent pictures.
CAPT. JOHN MCKEE, Of Hamilton, Ohio,
is conscientious and honest-he has return
ed to the Pension Bureau $ll9.SO, with the
Endorsement shat the extent of his disa-
bility did not entitIe him to so large PEN
sion."
A WHITE soldier who enlisted any time
from the beginning of the war to June 25
1863, gets 500 bounty by the act of July
26, 1866, and no more. A negro soldier who
enlisted after October II, 1863 gets $500
bounty by section four of the act Of June
IL, 1864.
In 1850 Massachusetts, had 157, Rhode
Island 1873, New York 50 and Pennsylvania
81 inhabitants to the square mile, which
rates applied to the United States would
give 4724OO, ,246 inhabitants Were the
United States as densely populated as
England, we should have 924,0O0,000 peo-
pie.
WHEN the widow of white soldier ap-
plies for bounty, pension or arrears, she
must prove her marriage by the best evi-
dence known to the courts, but when ne
gro woman makes the same application,
she simply has to show that she "lived
with" the deceased negro as his wife.
A MANIAC unperceived jumped upon a
locomotive aud started it out of Chicago at
tremendous speed. The brakeman and
fireman awoke to find themselves dashing
along at fearful rate, and 1t was not until
they knocked the maniac senseless with a
sledge hammer that they were able to re-
verse and return the engine to the depot.
A GERMAN war correspondent says that
his letters were regularly opened, though
he was not in the camp. On one occasion
his correspondent forgot to sign the letter,
and it stood sYours faithfully" Theletter
was sent round to every English Consulate
in Germany, sealed with the Government
seal, and superscribed with an inquiry as to
whether Herr Faithfully was known. The
answers were in the negative.
AcoLoRED cook on propeller in Chica-