Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1869-01-12
News and Otherwise.

reported at the point OF death.
THERE was case of highway robbery
near Dayton on Friday morning.
SENATOR MORGAN will not be reelected
by the New York Legislature.
In Knox county the taxes are 10 to 20
per cent. higher than last year.
IT is alleged that Erie will build an air
line from Dayton to Cincinnati.
GEN. ROUSSEAU was in his fiftieth year.
He leaves two sons and two daughters.
THERE is an awakening in Russia in be-
half of a higher grade of female educa-
| ton. it.ssai.
THE GAINESVILLE Courier wants to know
whether water troubles the Journal editor.
1t don't much. d si
REPUBLICAN specials notify the country
that the present session of Congress will
be barren of results. ~
A father and son in Miami county have
| just married sisters-the father marrying
the younger of the two.
PORTSMOUTH makes a strong showing
why the new Penitentiary should be located
at that thriving little city.
The St. Louis morning papers paid S25
each for advance copies of the retiring
message of Governor Fletcher.
The society that hired Theodore Tilton
to lecture before Marysville audience lost
forty dollars on the speculation
A YOUNG lady in New Albany who re-
60 Ilc do
"Captain Jfnks" fifty-tive times. -
A VEIN of black-band ore, three feet
thick has been discovered two and halt
miles north of Liberty, Guernsey county.
IT is said that the Office of General will
not be abolished, and that General Grant is
holdip g on to the place for General Sher-
| man. o
| BUFFERS bill TO repeal the Tenure of Office
Act was put through the House yesterday,
under the spur of the previous question,
by large majority.
THERE is a man in Vincennes, Ind, who
has been married eighteen times,and is the
father of sixty-three children. Evidently,
considerably married. ~.
William county, Virginia, September 16,
1902, and consequently was a little over &c
years old at his death.
| MISS CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG sang at
Cleveland last night, and judging from tie
anxiety that had been caused to hear her,
she must have had a very fine audience.
THE Navajoe Indian Agency, Fort Def
ance, New Mexico, is fiourishing finely
No difficulty in getting along with the
Indians there without the aid of soldiers.
GEORGE BARBOUR, at spelling school
at Silver Lake, Kosciusko county, Indiana,
in an alteration with George Hanes, was
knocked down and stabbed to the heart on
the 9TH inst.
JOHN r. CLYMER, Esq. proprietor of
the Crawford County Forum, was present.
ed a costly and beautiful silver headed cane
by the employees of the Forum Office, on
New Year's>day.
THE delinquent tax list just published in
Washington county is the largest ever
published in that county, and is pointed to
as conclusive evidence that the times are
dull and money is tight.
A PERSON giving his name as j. r. Bur-
nett, has been operating extensively as
United States Revenue Collector in Ma
honing county. He has just been arrested
and taken to Cleveland.
SENATOR HowE's railroad bill, which has
just been reported to the Senate from the
committee on Public Lands, with am end
ments, is characteriz d "another outrage
GUS railroad swindle." The Government
is said to be in the hands of its friends.
| HIGH financial and mining authority
gives the following as the aggregate yield
of mining operations for 1865: California,
$40 OO9, 900; Nevada. SIS 100000; Montana,
Sl2OOO,OO0; Idaho, $6,000000; Oregon, $5,-
100000; Colorado, $4,oOO,OO0; Was hington,
81. 600 900; Arizona. S25O0O0; New Mexico,
$25OOO0. Total, $66, 100000.
A WASHINGTON Republican correspon-
dent likely to know, and who is not sem
sation monger, writes that the shrewder
set of Republicans at Washington believe
that the reputed Presidential talks recent
ly published in the New York World, re-
aliy emanated from Grant, and that he can
talk like racer when he is sure of his
hearers.
WE learn from the Democrat, that the
turnpike stock belonging to Pickaway
county was sold last Monday, as follows :
Circleville and Adelphi Turnpike, John
Karshner, 100 shares, $l,000,' at Glac, $615 :;
John A. Lutz, 200 shares, $4,000, at &c
S1,24O; Circleville and Kingston, Samuel
Evans, 200 shares, 50 600, at 60c, $1,000;
Circleville and Royalton, Daniel M. Pom
titus, Sc shares, $500, at 32c, $1,000.
WE have by telegraph from New York
a cock and bull story that the Congression-
al investigating committee have obtained
polled for the Democratic ticket in that
city 1t the November election. Could they
not just as easily have made it 100000?
The witnesses who swore to this are ad-
mitted to be notorious thieves and bur-
glars Would such men hesitate to swear
to ANYTHING for consideration?
If Democratic editor were to write
that Lincoln was given sucn power that
! athe fathers would not trust General WASH
ingtonn with, and that lin ninety days he
gave us, with the sanction of the loyal
citizens, despotism that would have been
considered oppression in France or Rus
sia." he would be denounced as the veriest
of "Copperheads." Yet it is true, and
Dom Piatt SO writes it down in the Gin
cinnati Commercial, and in this connection
he warns his readers that the Republican
politicians ''are fastening to trust" Gene