Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-05-07
NEWS AND OTHERwIsE.


NEWS AND OTHERwISE.
ONE negro woman was roasted alive dur
ing the recent riot In Memphis.
THERE was large stock of sugar on hant
at Cuba on the 30th ult.
The Belmont county Jail has now two oc
cupants. co.
A PREACHER cannot preach in Missouri
without taking the test oath.
AN organ is played by electricity at Sa-
Ion, a little town In Provence, France.
AN electromagnetic car brake has been
invented in Paris.
No WHERE else in Salem, Mass, Is liquor
to be obtained than at the liquor agency.
The President will veto the Colorado
bill, undoubtedly.
Mrs. JEFFERSON DAVIS has had an inter-
view with her husband at Fortress Monroe
"BUTTER dish" is term applied to some
of the new STYLES Of ladies' hats.
Ir is stated that Mr.. ADAMS, the Ameri-
can Minister to England, will not resign.
THREE stables were destroyed by fire last
F.idsy at Upper SAndusky.
TIE Red River IS higher than ever before
K lcWn.
Iris almost impossible to get pure ar
tisle CT iOrsign vine in this country.
-LoxEIY prOuen4tes beneath the silVery
rays Of the noon are said 70 Be an excel
Iear way Of eultivssiug the tender passion.
AcAsE Of genuine ancient leprOsy is said
TO be in New Orleans The victim is
young girl.
SESOR CABALLERo. the Oldest Spanish
merchant OF New Orleans, was run over
and killed in that city on the Sd inst
IT was difficult to buy good butter in the
Columbus market on saturday for less than
80 cents pound.
The st. Cldirsrille Gazette pronounces the
wheat crop in Belmont county sad fail
ure.
THE value of the Boston Water Power
Company property is estimated at ST.
100000,
A PREACHER, in his discourse one day,
spoke of the grandmother OF his children
as being the offspring Of them all.
ST1SGLEss bees are said to have been i'm
ported from Honduras, Central America. A
strange sort of insect surely.
The Wyandotte Democratic Union is now
one of the largest, neatest and best Demo-
cratic weeklies in the State.
Hon. LEWIS D. CAMPBELL has been con-
firmed as Minister to the Republic of
Mexico.
SUBSCRIPTIONS of money and provisions
are being raised in st. Louis for the suffer-
iDg in Georgia.
SINCE the 25th of April 1,1S3 nulsances
in St. Louis have been ordered abated by
the Board of Health of that city.
WI CoGGEsHALL, Esq., has been con-
firmed as Minister to Ecuador. 'Taint much
of place to go to.
A FEW days ago, child was poisoned
fatally at Jefferson, Iowa, by chewing |
pieces of an enamelled paper collar.
THE Radicals at Washington are exceed
ingly flurried about Secretary STANToN's
position.
THOMAS BLAINE living in Whitley coun-
ty, Indiana, was recently brutally MUIR
dered.
THE coal-diggers of Nelsonville are on a
strike. They want three and half cents
bushel for digging, instead of three.
A WHALE was encountered off Barren Is
land, 10 the Chesapeake bay, on the 23i Of |
April. .in7.'
UNITED STATES vessels at Hong Kong,
China, appropriately commemorated Wash
ingtOn's birthday.
BISHOP ANDREW, of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church South, who is over seventy
years Of age, has retired from the Eplsco-
pacy.
OK the night of the I'd inst, an old man
named AsHMERE EDWARDS, was murdered
near Mobile, Ala, for money. His head
was chopped open with a Ratchet.
CoUNT GURowsKI, author of" Count Gu
rowski's Diary" died at Washington City
on the 4th inst, Of Inflammation of the
bowels.
SoutRE ISAAC MoKEE, aged ffty-seVen
years, was recently knocked from of raft
while passing through the break OF dam,
at Lock Haven, Penn, and drowned.
JosEPH Faust, aged thirty-two, of West
Brunswick township, Penn, recently was
killed by falling from a haystack and hav-
ing his neck broken.