Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1869-01-08
news and Otherwfse.

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In Paris striped flannel is fashionable for
morning dresses. %'7i!; 4
( JOHN Crook has been appointed Post
master at Elkton, Ohio. f.s .sAe
AMONG the early Romans butter was
used only as medicine.
+ LEVI RAIN, of Darke county, is myste.
riously absent from home. :.
THE Patriot says many of the young men
in New Lisbon wear corsets.
Coz. ERAsTUs PLATT, former sheriff of
Mahoning county, is just dead at 20. 7,s
The Republican majority in the Indiana
Legislature is twelve in each House.
If the Patriot reports them correctly, the
ladies of New Lisbon won't !" moderate"
+ ONsLow STEARNs is the Republican can
didate for Governor in New Hampshire.
JOHN B. COUGH lectures in Wheeling on
the evenings of the 18th and 10th of Janu-
ary. ia -f @at' -f-'
HENRY CLAY's son, Theodore, is an in
mate of the Lexington, (Ky,) lunatic asY-
lum. tf st 5E- t
HEIsTER CLYMER declines being the
Democratic candidate for Governor in
Pennsylvania. ,..
THE Grand Jury of Usage county, North
Carolina, has presented the Court and Bar
as nuisance. -.
THE Indiana State Editorial Convention
has adopted permanent organization and
elected officers.
THE publication of the Weekly Guardi-
an (Cathoiic), published in St. Louis, has
been suspended. 3 ,s ..-.
NEW LISBON wants manufactures. 1t is
complained that there is plenty of capital
but no enterprise in the place. 4, 5r.,7s-
IT is estimated by. the Governor that
there are seventy-five thousand children
in Pennsylvania without school facilities.
.AMAN by the name of Whipple was re-
Gently bitten by hog in Sheffield, in ASH
tabula county, from the effects of which
he died. 49, sr..-.-.-, .,,,...,,.'.i.',
GENERAL FULLERTON. Postmaster at ST.
Louis, has just been presented with mag
nificent gold headed cane by the letter car
riers of, that Office. -, $50 ,- .sr-ri.. j. 4
DOM PIATr regards it within the prob
abilities, that General Grant may, before
long, ,"find a, hostile Congress, made up of
Democrats, to contend with" - 49,. +. ;
THOMAS CARL, claiming to be acting in
pursuance of higher authority, undertook
to burn a boarding house in Ashtabula,
o., and got himselfinto Jail by it. a4= Il
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The Greenyille Democrat last week re-
ceived thirty-one new subscribers. Glad
of it, Would that all county Democratic
papers could make the same exhibit. ~ q
A BALT1MoREAN made calls in ahearse in
Washington city New Years day, and
when the potations proved too much for
him he was showed inside and taken home.
THERE is a vegetable butter made in Af-
rica from the fruit of the shea tree, richer
in taste than that manufactured from cows
milk. The Ohio Patriot favors the plant
ing of shea trees in this country ..'
Hon. JOHN SCOTT, of Huntingdon county,
Pa, is the Republican caucus nominee of
the Pennsylvania Legislature for United
States Senate. Simon Cameron is supposed
to have had hand in his nomination. .l..' '''
The Public Debt statementfor the month
ending January 1, 1859, shows an increase
of one million, six hundred and seventy
five thousand, three hundred and fifty-seven
dollars and eleven cents. At this rate, how
soon will the tax burthens of the people
be relieved by the party in power?
THE Secretary OF the Treasury estimates
the deficiencies in the appropriations for
1869 at twenty-one millions of dollars
that is the expenses of the Government are
that much greater than Congress estimated
they would be. These moderate estimates
were made to influence the election.
WE learn from the BarnsviIle Enterprise
that on Friday night last the tobacco fac
tory and dry goods establishment of Mr..
Smith McNichols, in the village of Mount
OFvet, was entirely destroyed by fire. A
few goods and some tobacco were saved,
but most of the stock was lost. The loss
amounts to about 1900. -.sar7 isa
Mr.. WAsHBURNE, of Illinois, General
Grants right hand man, made speech in
the Federal House of Representatives on
Wednesday, in which he gave the Repub--
licans plainly to understand that there
must be economy and retrenchment, and
that General Grant should go into the
Presidency unfettered by any kind of leg
islation. .T'-s- ~ 30 notion no
THE GAINESVILLE Courier very complaeent-
ly states that the New York. Herald looks
over the lobby budget and very naturally
fears that the tax payers and Treasury will
be made to sweat before the expiration of
the present Congress. Is this the enter
tainment to which the people were invited
by voting the Republican ticket at the late
election? a ,e+..;. IN -, -1t,e'-,
A DARKEY in Natchez was boasting to q
grocer of the cheapness of ten pounds OF
sugar he had bought at rival store. "Let
me weigh the package" "said the grocer
The darkey assented and it was found two
pounds short. The colored gentleman |
looked perplexed for moment, and then |
said: aGuess he didn't cheat dis child
much; for while he was gettin' de sugar, |
stole two pair of shoes" 4
AN advertisement in the San Francisco |
Times gives the cost of travel between the |
At antic and Pacific railroad, and Wells,
Fargo 6 Co.'s stages The time between
San Francisco and New York is eleven
days, and the following are the charges
From San Francisco to Chicago, in eurren-
cy, $3.50 25; Toledo, 267 80: Cleveland.
40 25; Buffalo, 274 70; Albany, 2S1 90; New
York, 274 20; Boston, 2s7; Detroit, 267 75;
Bridge, 264 IS; indianapolis,
2e7 o5; Cincinnati, 2eO7e; Pittsburg, 273 %;
Harrisburg, 2s1 20; Philadelphia, .2s2 20;
Isl 20; Washington, $50 20;
Louisville, 272 80; Sacramento to Salt Lake,
in coin, s125 90; Sacramento to Austin,