Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-10-12
NEWS AND OTHERWISE.

hNAOANO hhoeeNA vi ASNANN ReNoN'
GOLD closed yesterday evening, at l5lA.
YALE College has $50 students.
TENNYsoN is charged with plagiarism.
The population of Paris is 100000.
BLACK HAWK, Colorado, has already had
two snow storms this season.
TOLEDO wants to be a city of the first
class.
THE South Pacific squadron is to be COM
manded by Rear Admiral Dahlgren.
On the Sd, 9,434 mink skins were sold at
Montreal. ~ 20.
NORFOLK, VA, is said to be at stand
still in. every sense Of the word. rr
SIxrY-THREE passenger trains daily ar
rive and depart from Chicago.
THE flood of counterfeit money is pro-
nounced the modern deluge.
A sPRINKLING of snow fell at Montreal
one night last week. I.l.
DIR. FRANKLIN says an investment in
knowledge always pays the best interest.
LORD BRouaHAM is eighty-eight years
old. 49,,
The salt mines of Nevada are said to be
the best in the country.
CHOLERA RACES in Chicago in an epidemic
form.
LADIES in Paris propose to wear Turkish
trowsers this winter. n.. ...
REV. DIR. BALDWIN, a distinguished
Methodist divine, died at Nashville on the
9th, of cholera.
UP to October 1st, the arrival of emf
grants at Quebec this season exceeds the
arrivals last year S,S73.
THE Cincinnati Commercial wants to know
how much the Republicans of the State
made by pandering to Fenianism.
A PERSON who has carefully examined
the subject says no person can repeat his
signature exactly.
IT is said that the negroes are returning
to the old plantations all over st. Mary's
parish, Louisiana.
EVANSVILLE, the Courier insists, is one OF
the most enterprising, go ahead cities of its
size in the State.
S. NJ. Penn, Esq, has been appointed
special mail Agent, in place Of r. r. Sloane,
Esq, removed.
A LADY for wearing the bloomer costume
has been fined and imprisoned in San Fran
CISCO.
A LocKPoRT, N. Y, druggist has been
fined $500 for incorrectly preparing pre-
scription.
A LADY In Newark, New Jersey, did not
like her third husband, and so she has COM
mitted suicide.
Ar the late Wisconsin Methodist Confer
ence, it was resolved The political senti-
ments of this meeting are on the side of
God and Congress.
GEN. HUGH EWING, of Kansas, received
his commission as minister to the Hague, on
the 9th, with instructions to start as soon |
possible.
THE st. Paul and Pacific railroad to st. |
Cloud, the utmost northerly limit of rail- I
road in the United States thus far, has been |
completed.
In Butler, Bates county, Mo-, few days |
ago, woman caught wolf who had been
stealing her chickens, and held him until |
another woman killed him with club.
So LONG ago as 1860 the whole mass OF |
lava elected from Mount Etna was twenty
times greater than the mountain itself. 1t
had destroyed 1900 persons.
VERY unfavorable accounts are being
received of the vintage in the wine grow
ing countries Of Burgundy and the center |
of France.
LAST year 1000 lbs of grapes were
picked from mammoth vine belonging to |
David Smith, in Sanbornton, New Hamp-
shire, and this year l,5OO pounds of grapes
have been picked from the same vine.
"THE saying of White Mountain stage
driver to New Yorker sitting with him,
Il s'pose If went deown to York should
geswk reound jest as yeou folks du up
here,'" is not bad.
IT is stated that the butchers of New |
York realize profit OF So per cent. on
mutton, and 81 per cent. on beef. The best !
pieces are entirely beyond the reach of the
poorer classes.
AwoMAN who had been disappointed in
love has just died in Portland, Me-, aged |
seventy years. What is singular in her
case, she had not spoken loud word for
thirty-fivc years.
IT is said that by adding spoonful OF |
powdered charcoal to the water, flowers |
will last as long as they would on the plant |
without suy need of changing the water,
or taking any trouble at all. Try it.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON claims that the
Southern States were never out of the
Union, and that therefore as States they
have the same rights and privileges as ev-
cry other State in the Union. This, by
Radical journals, is pronounced startling
and original views of the Constitution.''
A FEW days before the election the Gin
cianati Commercial professed total ignorance
as to what the Presidents policy is. It
now says the President 'cannot change the
resolution Of the people, or save policy
more seriously damaged by his injudicious
advocacy Of it, than by any inherent defect
- Al. III