Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-28

township for $3.50. -
Ursula B. FEEDER and husband to John 6.
Koerner, Oct s27tas 20 acres and IA poles OF
land In Norwich township for 81, $780,
SURPRISE .PARTiEs.- the season of
surprise parties is near at hand, the follow
ing hints may not prove unacceptable to
many. What are now called surprise par
ties became quite fashionable in, England, !,
a>out the year 1S00 when they were CALL
ed .Pic-nic Suppers." The bill of fare was
prepared-each dish being numbered-and
the subscribers to the entertainment drew
lots,candl each was requir edsto furnish the
dish marked against the number he drew.
This may be useful as a hint to persons
getting up surprise parties, which. by the
way, are the most sensible species of enter
tainment now in vogue, becausesthe enter
tainer is required to furnish only the par
lors, and is put to no trouble to prepare for
the guests, while the visitors furnish their
own supper and music, and thus equalize
expenses. And again, people who live in
a ! lea iant house, but who cannot afford to,
pfepare an Entertainment entirely at their
own cost, may thus still receive their
friends occasionally and enjoy social and
festal evening.
THE ARREST OF JOHN DUFFY.-The Re-
publican leaders here have tried every way
in their power to get Judge Pugh in their
clutches. Though they had lawyers at tie
Probate Court to watch all who were natur-
allied, and those lawyers were all satisfied
tto,
good faith, still they are not satisfied. Yes
terday one Of their ,oilttng witnesses, NAM
ed James Smith, a native of Canada, was
taken before United States Commission
er Chittenden and there made oath
that John Duffey had given him, in
Duffey's Hall, on Monday evening, October
18th, certificate of naturalization, signed
byJudge Pugh and bearing the seal of his,
Court without his (Smith) taking any
oath, or even seeing Judge Pugh. That
Smith,sstoryi is bosh viii, we think, ap-
pear on the day of fexamination.A Mr.. Duffey
gave bonds ia the sum of $1,500 for, his ap-
pearance on Thursday morning at ten
o'clock.
THE SECRECY OF THE TELAGRAPH.-The
: following communication was called out by.
asentence published,in Che Journal of Oct.
15Ch: :EfiTSa ,basisseAt 3af ac5sest Hfge6 ,nob
EDITOR STATESMAN lin the State Jour
nal, of Oct. 10th, I find the following:
.When john G.. Thompson stated that
he read from dispatches received from
Xenia and Springfield in regard to voting
negroes audi preventing lrishmen from
y0tiAg,d he stated what he knew to be.a
IT, IL
telegraph otices.' ahIhI
The Sunday Neps commenting on the
above reads severe lesson to telegrapneis
about the ''secrecy of the telegraph."I have
but to say. sir, sthatnoa person connected
with the Journal or. any other newspaper,
nor any private citizen of whatever party
orr belief, can ever learn anything about
private dispatches at the office of the West
ern Union line in this city. We religious
ly preserve secrecy in all matters pertain
ing tar dispatches andzno man can learn
anything of the kilograms passing over
our wires. The statement, of the Journal,
therefore, so far as our Office Is concerned,
is simply incorrect. Yours 4ai9 u ~
sivsn tt1 WESTERN UNION.
GLoor Rkco coRD 41The Attendance at the
Mayor'sN Court yesterday was moi large,
but it was most select. StoS@ 81 e
Alex. Jones, was there in all the dilapi-
dation pertaining to SOLDERING off, after
a. plain drunk. Alex. acknowledged chat
as hister he was a perfect andscomplete
success. He was requested to add to the
city finances. the sum of So. He would
haye,done solwith artistic pleasure, but a
failure to receive bis remittances made it 4
matter of impossibility. SO he joined,the
throng who hammereth. SO .ee3.1 - +
.BSatiuel Cofand, sweet Samuel had been
displayinghis muscle, incited thereto by
the invisible spirit of benzine that Shakes.
peare speaks Of. He bears an average char.
acter for sobriety at home, but tarries toe
long at the red eye, and devotes himsel
with an impetuous ardor bordering on tht
phenonaenals ito, the, business of histins
benzine. He was takeneto the calaboos'
kicking and usquealing like a year1ing colt
He deposited s3,and costs for his fun.y
George Wright was wrong. He got 81
fullthat his skin was as tight as a drum
and every pore sweated whisky. His con
ditiof led him to suppose that he was
half brother TO O Baldyin,s the Irish giant
He knocked away right and left till Wrigh
alone was left. Wright knew he wash
right He was fined So which he paid
and went right away. In this Wright di
right.