Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1869-01-15
News and Otherwise.

News ana OtnerWt9ee
THURLow WEED is expecting death.
DETROIT, Michigan, has hundreds of des-
titute people.
TIE number of spiritualists is increasing
in New York.
MONEY was somewhat easier in New
York yesterday.
PNEUMONIA abounds greatly In Louis
vile, Kentucky.
THE population of Kansas has been
doubled in four years. ''A
GARIBALDIh has written novel, entitled
"Clelia." which will soon be published.
A Masonic temple, costing half a mill
lion OF dollars, is to be erected In Detroit.
AN extensive fire occurred in Philadel-
phia, yesterday morning. Loss about .
quarter OF million. 5fo q bia eu
THE last public school house erected in
Chicago cost $66 753, is five stories high,
and is heated by steam. 7fa
WITHIN the past few weeks nearly 25.000
sheep have been slaughtered near Plym-
outh, Richland q county. merely for the
pelts and tallow. -ae .ez
The tariff men at Washington are re-
ported so much demoralized that 1t is not
likely they will be able to accomplish any
thing this session. t 2+
AN old man by the name of Dorsey fell
dead in the gallery of the Senate of the
United States on Wednesday, while listen
ing to its debates.
So SATISFACTORY was the Sth of January
Festival in Mansfield, that before adjourn
ment they resolved to have areunion on the
next sth of January.
The Cincinnati Commercial thinks that
'sa little bolting" from the Republican eau
Gus nominees for United States Senator
"would be good thing" as
The Deputy U. S. Marshal of Wyoming
territory was shot and Killed in Dupage
county, Illinois, on Tuesday night That
came of not being virtuous.
THAT'S all Sam. Galloway gets" re-
marked a citizen, as he read that Mr.. Gal
loway was among the speakers at Lancas-
trr. "They put him forward to bark"
GENERAL CARL ScHURz was nominated
a candidate for the United States Senate on
the evening of the 12th, by the Republican
caucus of the Missouri Legislature.
THE Senate of the United States has
passed the House bill making an appropri-
alton to remove the remains of Mr.. Cog
geshall, late United States Minister to
Eucador, who died at his post OF duty.
GENERAL GRANT has just found it neces-
sary to authoriz. denial of the converse
tions and reflections upon conspicuous
members of the Republican party recently
published in the New York World as SUBJ
stantially his.
The Senate holds, and has voted, that 1t
would be inappropriate and undignified to
throw the United States Capitol into a
dancing apartment and supper rooms on
the occasion OF Grants Inauguration. The
Senate is clearly right.
IT is stated that proposition has been
made which, in all probability, will be ac-
cepted, that all the European Governments
who have signed the international Cur
rency Convention shall also adopt inter-
national postage stamps.
Hon. AARON TYLER, an ex judge, was
beaten and maltreated by police officers in
the Chicago Police Court on the 10Th OF
December, where he had appeared in be-
half of client, from the effects of which
he died on New Years day.
The Council of Mansfield, some time ago,
passed an ordinance assessing special tax
ION all foreign auction sales" intended as
a protection to the home business men. An
auction firm holding forth in the city re.
sisted the payment of the tax, and on trial
it was decided illegal.
AN exchange is responsible for this: ga
three-year old" neighbor saw drunken
man "tacking" through the street. "Moth-
er," said he, did God make that man p
She replied in the affirmative. The little
fellow reflected for moment, and then ex.
claimed, 81 wouldn't have done it."
The speech of Butler and the letter Of
Hon. Thomas Ewing on the financial
question, have but contributed to perplex
the Republican mind. Day by day, it be.
comes more apparent that Hon. George HI
Pendleton's plan is the only one that will
get the country safely out of its financial
troubles.
FROM the Mansfield Shield and Banner
we learn that the long lost VIM. S. Trim
BILE, who, it was thought, committed sui
eide, in 1865, in some mysterious way
turns up in Illinois, where he is with ar
uncle and partially insane. His farm neal
Mansfield has been sold by the administra
tor, and the effects distributed to the heirs
TIE Attorny General of the United States
has given his opinion, that, by the terms
of the Presidents Amnesty Proclamation
of the 25th of December, "there is extended
Internationally and without reserve to all
and every person who directly or indirect
ly participated in the late insurr, ction ol
rebellion. pardon and amnesty for the of
tense of treason against the United States
or adhering to their enemies during the
late civil war" District Attorney Caring.
ton has, accordingly, entered nolle prose.
qui in the indictments for treason agains
Jefferson Davis and John G. Breckinridge.
Radical Rule I'm New York.
The expenditures of New York city and
county for 1869 are placed at $21, ,473, ,997,