Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-09

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Paragraphs from the BOstoa Post.
New York theatres are to be guarded by
firemen.
Wanted-a good new tune for popular
whistling. -r-.
The N. z. Express thinks Ben Wade's
field is Hayti. '.H> sI
There are ten thousand yellow fever pa
tients in New Orleans.
Mrs. Lincoln's wardrobe goes by auction
unless sold within week.
| Life insurance agents in New Orleans
find the yellow fever an excellent can
vasser.
| It costs more to run the English Gov
| ernment in nominal peace than in actual
fwar. Z. 5ft
| Logan is said to play the fiddle. He GER
tainly draws the lengthy bow.-NeD York
World. s-
Providence had gay wedding on We'd
nesday. A dowry of 100000 was one of
the gayest features. .os
| A Southwestern editor has been to see
the Black Crook, and describes it as a "tru-
ly sublime tragedy" t' 9li o.. -
| The new Austrian uniform is to be red
trousers, high boots, gray blouse, and for
age cap of the latter color.
| A young man in Missouri shot his sister
the other day as fraternal return for q
piece of sisterly advice. ~.
| A good many politicians who pretend to
be making treason odious, are only making
| themselves so.-Lou. Jour. s1HI -
| The fever-stricken Roman Catholic
priests of New Orleans are. to be reinforced
by volunteers from the North.
| A cook in a st. Louis hotel blew up his
establishment by turning off the wrong
cock in the steam cooking range.
| Two clergymen disguised with false
whiskers, &C., were recently found in a
Louisville theatre enjoying the Black
Crook. ... = 7 va.i
| The uniform of the New York Central
Railroad conductors is blue coat, waistcoat
and pantaloons, and blue cap with gold
band.
The Washington newspaper organ of the
Grand Army of the Republic wants Chase
| for President; second choice, Sheridan.
| Thirty-nine sheep and forty head of cat
| tie were destroyed by the burning and
sinking of bark at New York, on Thurs
day. ~
| The Anti Gambling Society of New
York walked up and made haul of some
eighteen or twenty sporting gentry, Thurs
day night. e ,'I77
A German paper tells of one Christian
Segimayer, who is father to fifty eight
children, and remarks, "the man has never
been sick" .t
Gov. Swann's liberality in fitting out
! some of his own militia, has been the cause
of much foolishness among Washington
! "loyalists."
/ The King and Queen of Portugal dis
ported themselves in a gondola at Lisbon,
1 thereby affording immense amusement to
the multitude.
] Two nice young nlinoisians recently
| paid $50 each for the original amusement
of sprinkling cayenne pepper on the floor
of dancing hall.
| A New York florist laments 5000 worth
of flowers which an admirer threw at the
feet-or ankles-of Black Crook beauties,
but never paid for.
4 About one-half the best choir singers in
4 New York are professional minstrels, who
on Sunday substitute the Psalms of David
| for burnt cork ditties. .,
Tennessee negroes are becoming rapidly
civilized. Near Memphis they had case
of Z faithless wife and murdered seducer
in true white folks style. Y H
| A man in New York advertised for a
| wife destitute of all personal charms and
/ of bad temper, and on the following morn
ing received seventy-eight replies.
California yarnists tell of lake in which
raw hides may be tanned in six days, and
a dirty shirt made snowy white by wetting
and twice wringing out. -.....'7
Bradley was pretty badly scared at Sa-
yannah. With the eye of fear he saw, be-
/ hind his sable assailants, wagon ready to
take his body away into some lonely spot
and then bury him out of sight. ol -
4 Two negro base ball clubs, one of New
York and the other of Philadelphia, played
match game at Williamsburg Thursday
afternoon. Darkness and general squab-
BILE ended the game prematurely, E
i An ingenious and drunk individual in
Hollis, N. H., by the name of Dodge, care
fully insinuated his head between the rails
j of fence, Thursday night, and successfuIlv
strangled himself. This was Dodge that
4 few are up to. h itez is .'.,, - :,
j This week Wendell Phillips foams at the
i mouth and gnashes his teeth against the
South, which b blackguards in Latin and
English as, having neither religion nor
i literature" but the 'cowardly cruelty and
4 beastly vices, the bloodthirstiness and bru-
4 tad obstinacy common among savages.n
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