Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1869-01-20
WEDNESDAY moKNING, JAN. 60
NeMs and Otherwrse.

News and Otherwise.
PORTSMOUTH has no bath house.
Iowa is shipping wheat to Liverpool.
OBERLrN has sixteen female theology stu
dents. s.g; .plc os s ~
MONTGOMERY, Alabama, is full of lewd
women.
BLAIR COUNTY, Penn, pays about $500 a
year for fox scalps.
THERE is talk in Mansfield of reviying
the Vigilance committee.
In Peoria, Illinois, coal is delivered at
the door for nine cents per bushel.
FIRE has destroyed considerable por-
tion of the village of Angelica, N. Y.
In Rock Island county, Illinois, nearly
II, 200 bushels of coal are mined daily.
JUDGE VASE, Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of Massachusetts,, Is dead.
NINE hundred thousand dollars remain
delinquent on the St. Louis tax list for this
year. .ssil.>4 aga
A WOMAN in Chicago has just been d.
vorced four times and married the fifth
time. seq Z
THE French possessions on the Western
coast of Africa are suffering severely from
cholera.
SPURIOUS cents, to the amount Of thou
sands of dollars, are in circulation in New
York city. .a .EgHz =
J.. h. WHITMAN has got himself into the
Van Vert county Jail for trading on forged
promissory notes. o
The Illinois Temperance party have
adopted plan for the immediate thorough
organization of the State. -
The Infirmary Director at Cleveland dis
tributed fourteen hundred loaves OF bread
to the city poor on Saturday.
JOHN r. TUCKER is now serving his
twenty-second year as coroner of Ross
county and good officer he makes.
The Missouri Legislature, by the Radical
vote, has elected Carl Schurz United States
Senator, to succeed John B. Henderson.
The New York Tribune finds compensa-
tion tor the lack of Hon. -Wm. Curlback's
ability in his svigorous" Republicanism.
BEAN POD tea, made of either white or
lima beans, .sweetened TO taste and drunk
abundantly, is said to be cure for dropsy.
JACKSON COUNTY, Indiana. is without
representation in the State Senate, in com
sequence of the redistricting the State last
year. sa a"' Il
A SCHOOL teacher in Bridgeville, Guern-
sey county, has been fined $40 and costs
for whipping one of his scholars without
cause. esdE I'D Ha 2 t' 'f7@+a4 atil
THE Republican members Iof the Ne
braska Legislature have trouble in agree
ing upon candidate for the United States
Senate. -s'' ,,,s
Two men who were confined in the Jail
at Sidney, Iowa, on a charge of murder,
have just been taken out and hung by, an
armed mob. .uscl
AFTER awhile, at the rate the Republican
politicians are going on, Congress will be
invoked to build and keep, township and
county roads In order.if7 oi.,o91if ? q - {"
The Cincinnati Enquirer is confident
that our Democratic Legislature will of
course stand by the people in refusing to
enact troublesome and expensive registry
law for no purpose. -3159Es r. - - fi'-i
TIE Cincinnati Commercial says OF SEN
ator Sherman's financial bill, that sit is, if
possible, more empirical than any here
tofore presented" Thereby Sherman main
tains his character. - s.,t0S
THERE is great distress among Republic
cans because they can not have a ball in
the Capitol on the occasion of Grants in
auguration. They'll have bawl enough af-.
ter the inauguration ''tH 20 pa
The Chicago City Council has adopted
bill providing for the issue of 81 100000
water works bonds; sl,0O0.000 sewerage
bonds 100000 school tonds, and s., ,000-
600 bonds for the enlaI gementof the canal.
Do bankers and money lenders petition
the Legislature to legalize abigher rate of
interest than the present rate, because they
want an influx of money SO that they can
lend their money for lower rate OF inter-
est than they now get?
The Cadiz Sentinel favors the cultivation
of liberal feeling in the party, alleging
that if we would do good to our nation and
race, we must attract and not repel. We
must act as reasonable men who have an
object in view. Is the Sentinel wrong
in its view? sac 7s &
{ THE Ohio State Register having been look
ing over the inducements Portsmouth pre-
sents for the location OF the new Peniten-
tiary at that city, says: ''We must confess
they are of such a character as will carry
force and weight with them, and will be
pretty hard to overcome."d
IT is claimed by the Cincinnati Gazette,
If the rate of interest is raised by law to 10
per cent in this State, that the influx OF
money will be so great from the East, that
money will become very cheap. If the ar
gument holds, would not the increase OF
the rate to 20 per cent. make it more plenty.
and consequently cheaper than if the rate
were 10 per cent? seQ
THE Allen County Democrat publishes
the resolutions adopted by the Democratic
State Convention on the Ssh OF January,
1868, and the resolutions adopted by the
Democratic National Convention on the
4th of July, 1868, in relation to the payment