The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-04-08
Butter is selling readily in Dayton at thirty

i've and forty cents per pound.
new daily journal is to be started at st. |
j oseph, Mo-, as the organ of the Free Labor |
party in Western Missouri.
The wind was so strong ut Providence, on
Sunday, that it blew all Of the water out of
the harbor, and navigation had to be suspended
The jefferson Jeffersonian learns that girl,
aged twelve years, resident of Pennington, in
Jefferson County, has recently become mother.
The great billiard match between Seerieter
and Phelan comes off at Detroit on Tuesday
next, the 18th instant.
A war dance, by the Winnebagoes, on Thurs
day last at Washington, attracted a large
street crowd. One of the chiefs was arrested
and spent the night in the guard-houso.
The "Washing- day" has had to be given up,
in Boston, until the serious breach which re-
Gently occurred In the Cochituatc Water-works
is repaired.
The Calhoun Miss. Independent of the 18th
ult. says fourteen persons have lately died in
the southern portion of Calhoun County of
disease resembling black plague.
1t is asserted by statisticans that during the
past fourteen years the number Of criminals has
been trebled. There are now three times as
many crimes committed as in 1874.
The 0berlin Slave Rescue Case was COM
menced in the United States Court at Cleveland,
on Tuesday last, before Judge Wilson. The
trial will occupy some three or four days.
tits stated in the Boston Cultivator that cotton
batting, sprinkled over with pulverized potash,
will drive rats from premises infested by them,
if crowded into their holes.
There are at least twenty applicants for the
vacant Commissionerships Of Patents and of
Indian Affairs, but the appointments will prob
| ably not be made for week to come.
The cause of the disappearance of Mr.. Yea
| ger, the merchant, from Easton, Penn, re-
mains as much mystery as ever. 1t is now
the opinion that he did not visit New Y ork on
| business, as was at first asserted.
The workshops and houses on Punta Arenas,
belonging to the Accessory Transit Company,
were swept away by the sea. Greytown harbor
is rapidly filing up, the entrance being mar
rowed to less than forty feet.
A fire occurred at st. Louis, on Monday,
which destroyed two houses, one Of brick and
the other frame. The loss by tho former is
$1,000, by the latter about 81 900, besides fur
niture to the value of 81 500.
An itinerant knife grinder, at Chicago, on
Monday last, wishing to save his dog, who had
crouched on a railroad track as the train was
approaching, rashly dashed forward, and was
killed by the locomotive, as we'll as the dog.
| A man named Cayler, and his three sons
have been arrested at Dayton, Ohio, charged
with conspiracy to throw a train of cars from
i the track, because of failure at law to get pa,
, for cows that had been killed on the road.
A "gentlemanly" person in Millville, N. Y
prosecuted his neighbor for trespass, the de
fendant being pretty lass of "sweet sixteen,
and the trespass a mark on the plaintiffs fenc
, with q lead pencil.
Mr. Nathan Singer, farmer residing abou
a mile from O'Bannon's Station, in Jefferso
a County, KY, was instantly killed, on Saturda
last, by the accidental discharge of his gu
while blowing in it to ascertain, it is supposed
whether or not it was loaded.
' The Dublin Nation says: "The rumor th,
t DR.. Cullen has been elevated to the College
r. Cardinals, is correct. He is, however, to n
;, main at Rome and be attached to the Propi
ganda. Dean Kieran, of Dundalk, will succee
him in tho Archbishopric of Dublin.
The Neapolitan exiles landed in Ireland a
Il professional men, with few exceptions, and me
Q of liberal education. There are among them
8 lawyers, IL; doctors, z; apothecaries, s; IL,
| taries, 4; gentlemen, IA; clergymen, Z; taverl
> keepers, /; chemists, 2; artists, 8.
On Wednesday night last IN Irish deck pa
senger walked overheard from the steam
Eunice, short distance above Parkersbur
He was most probably drowned, though evel
n effort was made to save him. His name is n
+, known.
@ Mr.. Morphy has just achieved another gre
, chess triumph in Paris. His antagonist WI
= the President of the London Chess Club, ar
IL the result was seven games for Morphy, OIL
y drawn, and none for his opponent. 1t is sa
that he will not visit Berlin.
At the conclusion of the trial of James st
st phens, in New York, for the murder of
r. wife, his little girl, six years old, turned t
h ward him, and kissing him, said: "Come, p
let us go now, it is all over; see, pa! the pc
III pie are going" Every one present was {
to fected.
It. On Tuesday, tho remains of the unfortuna
Pender were conveyed on board the mail boi
10 Telegraph No. 3, to be sent to Pittsbul
- where his friends and relatives reside. He W
III shot down without moments warning. Ale
rs Gilmore was delirious from the effects of t
IN wound in his forehead.
ar At the Indianapolis Bible Investigate
Meeting, on Sunday, gentleman made t
startling statement Ito those that believe
that the Millennium was to commence duri
r the present month, April, 1859, and proms
slf to produce the figures to prove it at the ne
ch meeting.
20 At Cleveland on Tuesday last lad nam
nd VIM. Patrick was sentenced to pay fine
one hundred dollars, be sent to Jail on bre
and water ten days, and give bonds for GO
behavior in two years in bail of two hundi
ne dollars, for assault and battery on his teach
ng Mr.. Ford.
lee A stranger presented a draft or acceptai
er, from the firm of j. r. Henderson & Co., n
Orleans, at the Office of the Allegheny Bank
Pittsburg, on Tuesday, for the sum of So, o
20. which was honored. The draft was forge
and there is no such house as Henderson
ge New Orleans.
ng At a fire in Windsor, Canada, Saturday mig
hn the house of Mrs. Bibb, tenanted by the fu
tive slaves 0ssawattomie Brown piloted fl
Missouri, was burnt. On the plantation
70. their master in Missouri, the fugitives had b
ca in the habit of burning pine-knots for liz
-, and in keeping up the custom in Canada t
'eu accidentally set the building on fire.
Sn' Mrs. Jones, of Fulton County, Ohio,
another lady, and Mrs. Jones' child, were
Sc daguerrean gallery, when the little one ca
ant for some water, and the lady who accompaI
or- Mrs. Jones took up bowl of fluid, suppos
it to be water, but which proved to be pru
acid, and gave it to the child to drink, wi
caused death in a few minutes