Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1869-01-16
News and Otherwise.


JOHN B. COUGH lectures in Cleveland
lext Tuesday evening. -.s
THEY are having prayer meetings in
liquor saloons in Sullivan, Indiana.
A NEGRO and two white men are aspi-
.ants for the Gallatin, Tenn, Postoffice.
THE leading bankers of the country are
securing safes of Cincinnati manufacture.
The bees are dying out this winter in the
vicinity OF Covington and Newport Indi-
ina.
The Ashland distillery, at Lexington,
KY, averages thirty barrels of whisky q
1ly. .l.a nt 's
A NICE young man and belle eloped from
Lancaster, KY, last Monday, and were
married.
BANNING NORTON, formerly of Mount
Vernon, has been elected Circuit Judge
of Texas.
CUT NAILS heated red hot, and dropped
into cold water, will clinch as well as
wrought nails. ~
THE Methodist Church at Centerville has
just made an accession of fseventy-five MEM
bers to the Church.
THE drainage canals of New Orleans are
in wretched condition. Look out for q
sickly season there.
The Cincinnati Commercial raises its
voice against legislation to coerce people
into total abstinence. @
( Both planning factories at Tiffin have
closed operations for the present, as we
learn from the Advertiser.
Miss CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG Is to receive
from Max Strakosch at the rateof $4,000
for singing one hundred nights.
HENRY McCLoUD, of Grange, Medina
county, few days ago, took himself out
of the world with the aid of rope.
In 1868, as we learn from the Adverti-
ser. there were S64 transfers of real estate
in Ross county and 324 mortgages filed.
.DENN1soN's friends are said to have very
little influence with General Grant. That
will be cherries news to General Comfy.
EDWARD GAGE, an employee on the Lake
Shore road, was knocked beneath a coal
train at Wakeman and killed, on Tuesday
THE bill repeating the Tenure Of Office
act will be taken up in the Senate on Mon
day, 25th. Its passage is considered doubt
full.
]. M. PALMER, the Governor of Illinois,
just inaugurated, put too much State
Rights into his message to suit the Radi.
Gals.
WHY does not the Alaska investigating
committee call Mr.. Martin? He professe;
to be able to prove bribery on sundry per-
sons.
NENDELLEN KUHN, of Tifin, Ohio, will
be thankful to receive information of the
whereabouts of his son, Frank A. Kuhn, 6
boy ten years old.
THE Northwest hopes that sour Legis.
lature will not be caught playing into the
hands of few money sharks" by increas
ing the legal rate OF interest
A SUBSCRIBER of the Seneca Advertise
paid his subscription in gold, last week
claiming that the editor should be paid il
gold as well as the bondholder.
CoRcoRAN, the Washington banker, ha
been allowed s41,0OO by the Gevernmen
for the use of his park as camping ground
during the war. Rather big sum.
THE business men of Tifin are complain
ing of dull times. Wonder if the busines
men of other towns and cities in the State
have not cause for a similar complaint.
THE steamship Gulf City, bound fror
Galveston to New York, went aground Of
Point Lookout on Monday night, and wa
dashed to pieces in few hours. Out G
twenty-five persons on board, only thre
are known to have been saved.
AN ex-barber in Rochester, Ind, is pas
sionately fond of snakes. The other da
while fondling young rattlesnake, It fast
ened its tangs in the hand that sought t
caress it. At last accounts he was in crit
ical condition.
THE Warren Constitution says that dur
ing the recent rise in the Mahoning rive
the railroad bridge on the Mineral Ridg
branch was swept away, and as conse
quence the supply of coal from that sectio
has been temporarily stopped.
Hon. ROBERT HUTCHINSON will please ac
cept our thanks for a copy of the annus
report of the Commissioner of Railroad
and Telegrapbs, the annual report of tn
Auditor of State, and the thirteenth an
nual report of the Board of Commissioner
for Reform Schools.
CoNGREssMEN Bingham, Carey, Clarke
Eckley, Mungen, Plants, Spaulding, IA
Trump and Wilson voted for the repeal c
the Tenure of Office Act, and Beatty, Buck
land, Delano, Garfield, Schench, Shella
barger aud Welker voted against its repea
while Ashley, Eggleston and Lawrence di
not vote. These members constitute til
Ohio delegation in the House.
JOHN c. MCPHERSON, a practicing law
yer in Springfield, Ohio, was Instant
killed by an unavoidable accident whic
precipitated the sleeping car down sixt
feet embankment, last Tuesday morning
on the Panhandle road, near the Cork ru
fill. Henry G. Barnett, a brother-in-la'
of Mcpherson, was at the same time badl
injured.
THE Plain Dealer says that an order ha
been received from Judge Swayne direct
ing the naturalization cases now pendin
in the United States Circuit Court for tn
district to be continued until after tn
decision by the Supreme Court of tn
questions raised in the New York natura
ization cases that were carried up on wr
of error. The same legal questions wi
arise in the Ohio cases.
The Cincinnati Times (Republican) fee
justified in believing that our Sherman
/ Wades, Summers, Boutwells, Washburne