Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-01-05
NEWS AND oTHERwIs

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1o6 years old. M
How sweet to recline in the lapse Of ages
lay aged about eighteen.
gAMAE in Chicago who had lost $4,000
ii oil speculations cut his throat.
fRoscoE CoNKLN is ahead in the New
Y,fk Senatorship struggle. .
"A MmEEsorA editor pleads for old-fash-
iJned singing. "u
AN Idaho editor complains Of certain
parties who paid his demands in bogus
gid dust. '".'
Tar whole number Of wrecks reported
IN England during the present year iS
9,ls9. a.r 7.3es y 1oz'
AN electric spark alone Is required from
st. Petersburgh to set all on fire from the
DInube to the Dardanelles.
A APALAnR, Mass, man who recently re-
covered &ll25 In a law suit had to hand ovel
5000 Of It to his counsel for fees.
AT an Episcopal Fair, in Albany, Mis-
Kate Newland was decided by ballot to be
the handsomest young lady In that city.
AN amiable woman in Alton, ILL., at
tempted to cut her husbands head off with
an axe while he was dreaming.
THE military had to keep order at Car
lotta PATHS concert in Montpelier, the
crowd was so great.
ELoPKMBNTs, divorces and crimes are so
numerous that the N. Y. Sun thinks the
whole continent is incontinent.
The health of Chicago shows the deaths
during the past year to have been N0 per
cent. ofthe population.
AFAR young girl in New Orleans was
assassinated in her bedroom with smooth
ing iron by an unknown person.
A LIBELoUs correspondent says that
fully one-half of the houses of ill-fame in
New York are owned By the corporation Of
Trinity Church.
tTHE Louisiana papers say they have
''hog-killing weather" down there. We
hope the Congressional Committee will not
come back packed in pork barrel.
THE man who was slipping from roof,
and stopped at the caves, said, until then,
he never thought he should be glad to find
himselfin gutter.
A NEW YoRK judge has decided that sn
officer OF the United States army may not
treat with contempt writ Of habeds corpus
Issued by State court.
ON Thursday Of last week, Mr.. Perky,
Who lives near Bolivia, Stark county, was
robbed by two foOt-pads within five miles
Of Canton of eighty-five dollars.
i. sA1D poor little girlSin the Fourth
Ward, New York, as she was dying: al
am glad 1 am going to die, because now
nv brothers and sisters will have enough
10 eati"
AMEErrNG has been held in Philadelphia
10 devise means by which Congress could
be prevailed upon to reduce or entirely
obliterate the internal revenue tax Of five
per cent on al domestic manufactures.
TIE Cleveland HsTGld commends Gov
ernor Cox's message for 1T brevity, whilst
the Lender declares that it Is liable and in
teresting, though rather too diffuse and
lengthy" This Is the long and short OF it.
>"WHr win You persist in wearing an
other woman's hair on your head ~ asked
Acid Of his wife. She retorted, "Why will
you persist In wearing another sleeps
wool on your back?" Ffna
DARBY SHEETS, young man living in
Salem, Ohio. whilst out a few nights ago
in company with a lady, was
stopped by hiRhwayman and robbed Of
ssventy-fTe cents, all the money he had.
TIE year 1866, with all its joys and sor-
rows has gone, neversto return-1S67 is
with us, and those Whohave made mistakes
IN the past should now, with the beginning
OF the New Year, endeayor to start in Il
with good resolutions. Fv ~
THnEE convIcts belonging to the West
Virginia Penitentiary, escaped from the
barracks at Moundsyille, about twelve
miles below Wheeling, on last Wednesday,
where they were engaged at work build
Ing the new PenitentIaFy.
CoUNrnRFEtr one hundred dollar bills of
the Ohio National Bank of Cincinnati are
IA cireolatioh. They Arec admirably exc
euted and well calculated to deceive. In
tha worda. tfthe Union. maintain it.p main