Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1869-01-13


News and Otherwise.
IRoNToN is to have five instead of three
wards. 81. Il se5
MINERVA, Stark county, wants woolen
factory. -zr
The Cleveland II erald don't like George
Peabody.
The Bank of Montreal has been robbed
of $1,000. e. 49, -.
THE cuyahoga county Jail has forty
prisoners. sg9H
CANTON is to have water-works by July
or August. flra5
THE money market in New York is again
becoming light. 9g 90
THEY have black cherry trees in full
bloom in st. Louis. Gse
S1xTY-FrvE additions have been made to
Columbus since 1850.
ONLY Hamilton and Cuyahoga counties
pay more State taxes than Franklin.
ST. LOUIS wants State legislation to re-
lieve the financial embarrassments of the
city. $50 o.
PANNIERs do not form a part of the
richest evening dresses recently made and
worn.
A FEW nights ago four year old miss
gave concert at Jewett City, Conn. Rather
young.
The fine new residence of 81. G. Nellis,
Painesville, was destroyed by fire on Fri
day morning.
The Auditor of State will please accept
our thanks for a copy of his annual re-
port for 1868.
GREELEY has blown his trumpet. sum-
moning the faithful to stand fast against
the repeal of the tenure of office act.
CLEVELAND has fourteen rolling mills in
operation, and two hundred pudding fur
naces, with capacity of four hundred
tons day.
THE Postoffce in New Lexington was
entered by burglars on Friday night and
robbed of about $50 in stamps and a small
sum of money.
itconsiders reliable authority, that the c.
& q. r. R. has been sold to the Pennsylva-
mia Central r. r.
SD. KIRKwooD, Superintendent of union
schools at Tiffin, was presented Christ
mas gift by the teachers of that place in the
shape of silver plate.
EXCEPTING Hamilton, Franklin county
contributes in excess of what she draws
from the State, more for school purposes
than any other county in the State.
THE ''style'' in cities, on going to business
i in the morning tolerates smoking in the
streets, but not during the fashionable
hours, when ladies are promenading.
GEN. BLAIR has expressed himself again
reiterating the belief that Gen. Grant will
make adictator or emperor out of himsel
before he leaves the Presidential Office.
Nor a Democrat in the House votei
a gainst the repeal of the Tenure of Office
act. Forty-seven Republicans voted against
j its repeal, including most of the carpet
baggers.
Col. MANYPENNY's articles on our In.
dian complications are creating quite 6
stir. No man in the country understands
them better, or is more conscientious In
his statements.
THE Silver Cloud burned to the water;
edge Monday afternoon, three miles above
| Point Pleasant, on the Ohio river. One
deck passenger was lost and the crew made
a narrow escape.
TILToN's argument on American women
runs to this: Men and women should bs
co-equal in society, in the church, in the
pulpit, in the bar, on the bench, in politics
in Office, in business, in compensation anG
in maternity.
IT is announced that Gen. Grant will not
according to custom, ride with Presiden
johnson to the Capitol onthe 45h of March
, on the occasion of his Inauguration. L
> he don't, we suppose the seasons will CONT
and go Us usual.
/ SUCH was the anxiety to hear Miss Kel
logg in Cleveland on Monday night, tina
Chase Hall, for the first time since it wa
dedicated to Music, was completely occu
pied by a splendid audience, and that au'
, dience was enthused to the highest poin
J of satisfaction.
The Washington correspondent of Bricl
Pomeroy's Democrat swears that he re
ceived nothing for writing up the Alask'
purchase; but that his brother received
$1,000 for clerical service to the Russian
legation. Query: Would he have beer
employed had not the correspondent advo
Gated the purchase?
THERE is likely to be conflict of jurisdic
tion between the State of Iowa and tn,
United States. Judge Drummond, of thu
United States District Court for Illinois, or
Monday issued an order for the arrest Of
the Board of Supervisors of Lee county,
Iowa, for refusing to levy taxes to pay Ger.
tain county bonds, payment of which had
been decreed by the Supreme Court of the
United States, but which the Iowa Supreme
Court declared invalid.
The New York Evening Telegram states
that three or four of the witnesses taken be.
fore the Congressional committee of finves.
tigation in that city are notorious English
thieves, counterteiters and burglars; that
they were the parties arrested by the sher-
if at the order of the district attorney, and
that they were subsequently recognized by
the police. "One of them, rumor has it,
says the Telegram, volunteered the intor-
nation that they received $50 apiece for
their information concerning election
frauds"
THE Canton Repository (Republican) OF
the 9th inst has been assured by reliable
informant, who is also Republican, that a
few days previously he met j. Wilkes Booth