Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-12

Kelley is going to tell his tale of terror in
Ohio. He turned tail in terror at New Or
leans. 10 ft-aa .e..,. .--.a.G 7rsy. rr
! The New Jersey convention has whipped
the Radical papers up to the negro mark.
The first bale of new cotton has made its
appearance North from Savannah.
Two hundred shoemakers are on strike
in Chicago; but they don't start peg.
New York has home guard of three
thousand lawyers. o ara o-sl itda
Paris, with the pleasant little plum OF $780,,
600 a year.
Ex-Gov. Gilpin, of Colorado, lately sold
a garden patch for S2,700,000. ' rF
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has natural
bridge which it matches against that in
Virginia. f.
Polly Haynes, of Kentucky, has got her
name in the papers by dying at the age of
los. '-'' -
Horses sell for three dollars, and sheep
for twenty cents, in Manitoroc, Wis. 57i
The Republicans of Wisconsin are
warned that they may go too far in the way
oflSunday and lager beer restrictions.
Forney's Press says the ''scenes at
the polls' in Tennessee swere dramatic. 7"
It probably means that the whole thing
was farce.
Helmbold, the druggist, began with
capital of $50. He expended $2l4,0 in adj
vertising, and is now a millionaire.
Seventy-five thousand dollars worth of
liquor was sold in Belfast last year, Maine
law to the contrary Notwithstanding.
A man in Brooklyn pretended to hang
himself for the purpose of frightening his
friends into supporting him in idleness.
He didn't succeed in either attempt.
Greeley's s.reeollections" extend as far
back as 1641, to his mothers marriage. A
good memory the philosopher has.
or something like thirty Thousand COM
plants against the New York street cars
within the past year, none were prose-
cuted.
Whale steak, with snail sauce, is the
new Partisan delicacy. A fillet of rhinoc-
eros, larded with caterpillars would look
we'll alongside of it. se5e
A writer in the North British Revie,o
argues that perpetual motion is impossible.
Sumner tried it in the last session and dis
covered that it was fruitless.
A thief stole a marble flower vase from
one of the graves in the Clinton cemetery
May he repent before he has occasion to
use it himself.
A prisoner for life in Illinois has pat
enJeu a turning machine. AS one good
turn deserves another, the Governor should
turn him loose.
Trouble is brewing as well as beer in
Chicago. The manufacturers of malt liquors
decline to renew their revenue licenses.
The Massachusetts Reconstruction AS
sociation appears to have been absorbed by
the National Republican committee, under
the leadership of Mr.. Schenck, who is here
passing round the Radical hat.
Geo. F. Train says he was present, in
troduced Senator Wade to the crowd, and
heard what he said when ha made his agra
rian speech, and that the correspondent OF
the N. 7. Times reported it correctly.
The sporting men of Washington are
blessing Secretary Stanton for a new sem
saton. Betting is lively. Stanton has ev-
identity good bottom. whatever may be his
speed. 7a o.. Ha -f
The Southern freedmen manifest great
eagerness to get hOmesteads. Some of the
poor whites would be glad to get bed
steads.-[Ex.
But then they have no bureau. -s
An anti-ritualistic member of Parlia-
ment recently introduced a resolution for
bidding clergymen to wear 'any garment
covering or ornament" except surplice
and hood.
The industry of the ladies in Paris sur
passes belief. They dye-their hair; they
enamel-their faces they gild-theii locks
they paint-their. checks; and now they
bronze-their compilations !-[Punch.
The New Orleans Picayune says the
| name of the unfortunate wife of MaKimil-
| ian SHOULD be spelled ''Carlota," and not
"Carlotta." 1t makes a lot of difference
perhaps.
The Pennsylvania radicals think Greeley
has not been playing fair with them on the
Chief Justice question, and are beginning
to cry "Jeff. Davis" at the philosopher
again. .-t.-
| A Brooklynite tells queer story abou
| the lovely wife and daughter of a milkman
who took daily baths in the lacteal fluid tt
| Improve their complexion. The milk was
then watared and sold for fifteen cents {
quart. Itdidn't need any doctoring to giv'
it ''body" after that.
i The freedmen are rapidly becoming ed
/ ucated. A couple of black forgers-no
| blacksmiths-have been arrested at Allan
/ ia, black counterfeiter has been trapped
and black distiller who slipped the reve
/ nue. tax rs adroitly as the most intelligen
whit in New York City.
A blacksmith recently died in Minnesots
aged so years, during which time he hat
cumulated 460 pounds of flesh.
Thad, Stevens says invisible powers ar
against impeachment. How about the pow
wow-ers? asks the Leader.
People are advised "against being burie,
in one county in Kentucky, as the soil is s
poor that it cannot raise them when Ga
briel blows his horn"
J. A New Jersey minister has become in
sanC in consequence of intense study of tn
doctrine of Christian perfection. He won
have many fellow sufferers. srr
Mr.. Potter Palmer, of Chicago, has a stu
| of six horses of Long Branch, five black
and a bay. He drives tour-in-hand tina
excites the envy and admiration of all Lon
Branchers. -l-.. .-l2
A man who tried the Chicago matrimo
nial bureau found his welded happines
cut short in two days by the disappearance
of his spouse with considerable greenback!
The Superintendent of Colts factory i
Hartford has presented Mrs. ingalls,, Bap
tist missionary to India, with navy re
volver. The prophecy regarding those VIII
take up the sword does not, we trust, appl
to pistols.
One of s'Norwood's best chips is the d.
scription of rural rocking chair, one (
the sort which are perfectly safe not to ii
over backwards, but which, from the cor
formation of the rockers are always threa
ening it. Who has not experienced it, an
been encourae ed, as it lurched backward
s'Don't be alarmed; it won't go over"
NIiseries of Tight Lacing.
The Northeastern Christian Aduocate say
While we are growing very sensible indee
in the matter of dress, in the way of boot
balmoral skirts, warm stockings, and hig
necks, we are degenerating in some 9TH
matters quite as important. The corset
not necessary part of woman's wardrob'
and, alas when woman does begin
wear corsets, she will wear them too sma
and with tug at the laces till the breat
becomes short, and she feels it necessary
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