Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-12-03
News and Oaherwfse.


HIS. PROPHET, Secretary. ! rr's. III
sa News and Otherwise .
hGoLD closed in New York yesterday at
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Mrs. BNNJAMIN FRANKLIN could not read.
Iowa is to haye s45O, 900 insane asylum.
,.THx CornhillAagazins has been suspended.
5THE Rlads says that Toledo is literally
overrun with beggars. tn hRVsiiaii
RArLRoAD freights are said to be tending
downward. te hss 80"
THk King Of Sweden won't sign any
more death warrants.
THEY enamel the face and turn the hair
yellow, In New York for seven dollars.
The Opera House enterprise has been
abandoned In Pittsburgh. u selbu10F
fFurExN hundred dollars has been raised
in Philadelphia for the Swiss sufferers. p
JuDok DuRRILL, OF Louisiana, has dis
petsed with the iron clad oath.
GEskRAL RoBkar E. LEE has a Bible
class Of $50 members.
TIE valuation of the real estate of Phila-
delpnia for 1869 is s454,156,42s. ~. -,
A Sr. LOUIS husband wants a divorce
because his wife throws the children at his
head.is bsni9pq Eha irItseH ,ll1 ri5.ssH
AMIcaraAxlady has had twenty pound
ovarian tumor taken from her at the Will
son street hospital Cleveland. 2lsit ?.
swHrfE velvet was worn by bride at a
great wedding In Norwich, Conn.,, last
week. = -
Two hundred and twenty three thousand
barrels of salt were received at Toledo the
past season. 5-6e eees IS f.9-s4r
TIE city of New York has over one mil
lion Inhabitants, and half million in her
suburbs. qseA Roi ~ AZ 80 es.1 "a
The Spirit of Democracy pronounces
ball-rooms for Insane Asyiums as sense
less.
The Police Court of Toledo for the
month Of November passed upon 1l3
cases. "a 80.
In Anderson, Indiana, a young man
choked TO death on his Thanksgiving din
ner. So. fye,-.-rz.--,
A LADY in Cleveland, a few days since,
narrowly escaped death from prescrip-
tioh wrongly put up at drug store.
SoMarER,5 after examining the seventy
four passages in the Bible in which the
word eselahn occurs, regards il as IAN ac-
tual appeal or summons to Jehovah" )" aafat Z
The Scioto Gazette (Radical) knows ''of
no better theme for strict Investigation
than the previous administration of affairs
of the new Lunatic Asylum at Athens"
The Harticulturist thinks that apple
trees. in orchards, should be planted only
10by 15feet, and standard pears 10 by 10
feet, dwarf pears 6by s feet, with an occa-
sional evergreen tree. sas' u sSosas ~ q
HoN. SrAsLEY MATHEWS, of Cincin-
nsti, woulG not refuse place in the Cabi-
met as Attorney General, if Gen. GRANT
were 10 offer it to him. ass -. -. =.
The Indian wars for the last forty years
are said TO have cost the country eight
hundred million dollars. Peace could have
besn preserved with them a.or quarter that
amount. -, -,..,,-.,. -. t1 ~ -
A THROUGH freight line from Chicagoto
Liverpool via the Michigan Southern,
Lake Shore and Erie railroads to- Jersey
City, and thence by the Cunard steamship
lime. is contemplated. sqz5g n 8 - a..-ii.o -
HARPER's BAzAR estimates that the year.
ly expenditures of a fashionable young
man tor cigars, billiards, wines, dress, din
ners, fast horses ard amusements, is about
$1,000.
GEN. SHERIDAN reports a victory, by
Gen. Custer's command, over party OF
Black Kettle Indians, by which the Chief
and one hundred and two warriors were
killed, and the whole camp captured. =
MRS. n. p. STOWE seems to think it out
ofplace in people dressing in their best for
church. Itis all well enough for them to
do sefor parties, it would appear; but the
more negligent it is for the House OF the
Lord, the more acceptable to Him. Pshaw.
THE Neu Fork Herald reads in the sus-
pension of Hunnicut's Iabid revolutionary
organ at Richmond, Va, that the day of
the Kul Klux Khan, 'carpet baggers" and
.'scalawags'' in the South is drawing to
close. Heaven; grant it. rfve
The recent cry on the part of Republi-.
cans, that there were great frauds in natu-
ralization, was simply raised to furnish
presext TO so legislate as to make it ex-
lrrmely difficult for men of foreign birth
to be naturaIized.
HARVEY P. PLATT, Esq, Of Toledo, hay-
ing declined the Democratic Senatorial
nomination in the. SD Senatorial District,
James X. Newcomer, Esq, of Fulton, has
been unanimously nominated. We hope
he may be elected, as he will make a most
excellent Senator.
JuDY pictures railway carriage scene
and gives this conversation: Swell-"Aw-
would you pbject-eaw-to having the glass
DOWN." Young lady-.Oh, dear, no; in
fact, was on the point of asking you
either to put your glass down or leave off
staring at me-" Swell-"Aw."
AYxNKEE recently started restaurant
on new plan in San Francisco. He sue
ceeded in employing twelve neat, tidy,
quick witted and good looking girls, and
straightway did an immense business In
four weeks from beginning one morning
he witnessed the marriage of the whole of
them. His establishment is considered bet
ter thana matrimonial agency.
A FELLOW by the name of J. 81. Bing-
ham, engaged in selling the new engraving
of Gen. Grant and family, and claiming to
be nephew Of Hon. John A. Bingham, has
been for week or SO in Newark, and left
between two days withouts set Ing his board
bill,iivery bill and framing bill. His board
bill was contracted with widow who
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