Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1869-01-07
News and Otherwise.

THE Springfield Daily Republic has en-
larged its pages. -. -,.lr II. 6ir ~o,
HERvERY, London haberdasher, was
the first advertiser. ~ l'..'5 -i'l's.
RUMoR assigns to Col. Forney the. POST
master Generalship.
The total number of arrests in st. Louis
for 1868. was 12sl9.
In the last thirteen years this country
has lost S339, COZ, 900 by fire. ttJ1 III
Hon. CHARLES REEMELIN was in the city
yesterday, hale and hearty. ,iJs b rod IL
The productions of Springfield for 1858
are estimated at $4,000, 900. -, ~ :.
Two HUNDRED AND FIFTY buildings were
built in Springfield in 1858. y" J. t'sl
On the 4th of January eight burglars
were arrested in Warren, o. 5sA q is8
ONE thousand and .forty-four marriages
took place in Louisville last year. II jr2ai
A LITTLE girl in Essex, Mass, plays over
two hundred pieces on the piano. iest
INoUEsTs were held on the bodies of
eight persons in Muskingum in 1868. 90
The prettiest young woman in Sandus-
ky is engaged. So says the Register. riii.
PIP. STEWART, one of the founders of
the Oberlin Colony and College, is dead.
DRUNKENNESS is more prevalent than
ever in Pittsburgh, and is on the increase.
HELMBoLD has the most elegant turn
out ever seen on the streets of New York.
WITHIN twenty years, only five persons
have perished by earthquakes in California.
For the first time in nine days the sun
shone in Washington on Tuesday after
noon. s.-. H..
A PARTY of colored men have formed
silver cornet band in Salem, Colum biana
county. .- -. t..r4r .-, -..= p.
BLIND Tom is to give the Clevelanders a
touch of his musical quality on Friday and
Saturday nights. .-,aa--..,
TWELVE hundred and eighty marriage
licenses were issued by the Probate Judge
of Cuyahoga, in 1868. IEV|sti-.55s
POSTMASTER LANDER, of Salem, Mass, Is
missing, with $4,000. He belongs to the
. -'tI" =. as.ffs -etfl-s fltl ~ alH
army of patriots. }ts ltH tsllra., :
THE sale of pews in Beecher's Church on
Tuesday night amounted to ninety seven
thousand dollars i ll G..t.ai.s-. t- ...7
WE are now told that the Supreme Court
will not render a decision on the Legal
Tender act until in May. h.esza1 sai} L
THE disbursements of the Congressional
printing office for the year ending Sept.
80, 1868, were 81, 100000. l5s@i.a s2t3atsiit
A RECENTLY married man in Newark,
New Jersey, attempted suicide, because his
wife whipped him for drunkenness. 10
The Odd Fellows of -Gallipolis had a
joyous Christmas eve in the hall of the Or
der with their wives and children.
ONE hundred and thirty-five thousand
dollars worth of bonds have been stolen
from Cambreling &Pyne, Wall street, New
York. s,r -, s;,- ..s1-4F ~ xitt. s-l7s o.
On the 26tn of next April, the fiftieth
anniversary Of Odd Fellowship in the
United States, will be celebrated in Indian
apolis-H SIS r. Z7asja5i7 aG1 szla..-5i o. l.
A COAL black negro is just reported to
have married a beautiful white girl hither-
to in the service OF Prof. Aliens family,
Oberlin. '.'.. ''-s'',
aS1G's'' communication will be found on
the fourth page, Now that he's got his
hand in, can't he write once q week for
publication2 .s,Fg.3gIIsss .:fr5feI 10 a.
TIE Guernsey County Teachers Insti-
tute, held at Cambridge, closed its session
last Friday. 1t was attended by AZ male
and 30 female teachers. iGH-LV -7i-
: MISS CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG gave con-
cert in Buffalo on Saturday night, and the
Commercial Advertiser sounded the high
est note of praise in her behalf.
MENARD, the negro Congressman from
Louisiana, has gone home. having run out
of money and having become satisfied that
his Republican brethren would not give
him his seat.s a1iiV ,i!i r.isG5I 81
A WRITER in the London Times says that
the growth of Democratic sentim ent in
France is suchlthat the Emperor must
either check the press or abandon personal
Government. ~ ro- 90 49,,
The Radicals were triumphant on .th e
4th instant, in the municipal election In
Little Rock. Arkansas, electing the Mayor,
negro City Collector, and the Aldermen,
half of whom are colored. 80 $50 aas =.
JUDGE provinces, of San Francisco, has
lust decided that Cinnamon are not citi-
zens and, therefore, according to the Law of
California, can not, be witnesses where
white men are parties to suit. 4 s.- =, ,t
A GERMAN Lutheran clergyman was
recently stoned in Cleveland because he
refused to include Specification in the fun
eral service over member who had gone
into the saloon business shortly before his
death.
THE GAINESVILLE Courier is perfectly en-
with Bloomfield in Muskingum
county. Itspeaks of it as a ~ uion Village
$50 strong that not Democrat resides in
it," and then narrates that "a youth of Is,
MIR. Alexander Gillis, eloped few nights
ago with a maiden, not exactly fat, fair and
torty' but generally believed to be eight and
forty with the other qualities to be taken
to taste" C., 5,ea -----
THE Philadelphia News thus speaks of
Mayor McMichael (Republican,) who re-
tired from the Mayorality Of the city OF
Brotherly Love on the 1st inst. e Yester-
day witnessed the breaking up of the
meanest and most contemplate despotism
to which our city has ever, been subjected.
A pretender, who has spent well nigh a
lifetime in finding out the ways and means
to make living out of the public, and
who has prostituted every place he eyer
held to personal and family ends, was de-
and thus was our city relieved
from an incubus costing the people certain
Iy not less than six thousand dollars s