The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-09-26
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

-f NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Is- Mrs. Susan Montevie died in the poor
house in New York last Thursday, at the ad-
vanced age of lis years. She was horn in |
Detroit, Michigan. She was what is commonly |
known as haif-brced, or half Indian and half !
French. She was married in early life to Fran |
els Montevie Frenchuuan, and soldier in
the American ARMY in the war Of 1872. lie
was at the attack OF Mackinaw. When JgIajor
Holmes fell dead upon the field, Mo ntevie
sprang forward and placed tho body III ldcr a
fallen tree, and covered it with bark, o pre-
vent its being scalped by the Indian' l. lie
died some years since. There were Iaveral
children by tho marriage, but we beliov they
are all dead.
&s3- The Wheeling Meltiyenccr sc ys a
steamboat has been built there with a n up
right tubular boiler, similar to those used
upon locomotives, and that great .sal is
thus saved in weight, space and expense.
! With about ten tuns of freight 10 give ht n an
even keel, she will only draw about eight
inches water. steamboatmen, who have
seen her, say that if the tubular boiler works,
| it will introduce an entirely new idea in boat
building, and her coming out is ther cfore
| l0OKcO 10 WlUU COubluCrdUle luL6Tebt. II. b. "a
She is hundred and ten tcot long, and
sixteen and half feet beam, and is built for
a firm in Evansville, Ind. -c
lag- A good story is told by tho New lavon
Register of Bishop, who was sent down to Now
York with one Of his fy-trap machines, as a
"specimen number" A butcher was des ir0us
he should set it going in his shop, and ] the
course Of half an hour something less Il arl a
peck Of flies had been "hived.", Tho bu toler
was pleased, but concluded, as the flies ere
all trapped d, be didn't want the machine. "'V cry
well, - said Bishop, I'm Yankee, and VIC mt
take adva ntage of you by carrying OIL y our
fies," and drawing the slide, he liberated the
whole swarm about the butchers ears, andE eat
a retreat under cover Of little the loue lest
buzzing eyer heard in that vicinity.
ny- The Submarine Telegraph Comp my
of LONDON, now possess ten conducting wires
between England and Franco, besides siT
stretching IA, Belgium, and five to different
parts Of tho north of Europe. 1t is also pro-
posed to lay q cable between tho Channel Is
lands and th Q French coast. Tho cables be-
longing to TIL company have been lately ex-
amined and found to be in excellent order,
notwithstanding they have been laid now for
seven or eight years. 49,. at9.H f.
H. @fs-ln an "Essay Oh Women," writer
remarks that beauties generally die old
maids. They set such price on themselves
that they don't find purchaser till the mar
ket is closed. Out of eleven beauties that
have come out within the last eighteen
years, ten are still single. They spend their
days in working great dogs on yellow wool,
while their evenings are devoted to low spr-
its and French novels.
ne Mr.. Fisher, Of Patterson, New Jersey,
has constructed steam carriage, which prom
ises excelentry. A few few days since, it
steane ed to Acquckanonk, on the common road
Twelve passengers were ON board, and the car
riape went on the level fifteen miles an hour.
One mile was run in three minutes. The
{ builder does not doubt that, when completed,
the carriage will run any wherO. ...-
, Gy- In tho Library Of the Boston Atkeneuyn
there is abook bound in the piece of the SIX il
of one Martin Walton, a deceased highwaymfln
Of Charleston, Mass. The cover is Of on,
. pisse about ten by six inches in size. 1t is a.
: soft as washleather, but much whittier. Th,
book is narrative Of his life, dedicated to th,
: Warden of tho prison, and published in 1887
assy- A fire broke out in one of tho cars o.
ofthe Louisville and Nashville Railroad when
the train was within few miles of Nashville
Thursday morning. The car was filed with
bacon. whi ch was entirely consumed. Sup
. posed to have caught from the sparks of the
looomotiye, The conductor failed to save hs
: bacon.
il ass- Charles Mackay, having spoken dis
( paragingly of tt 'nnyson's "Idyls Of the King
5 is thus hit by Rneh'
i "Tho Ilyls rhymster asperses-
q o Public re- ioice and be glad (!
. If he were not abusing good verses
l. He'd bo busiAv writing some bad"
GaS-Rev. DR.. Bede'l, Bishop elect of tn,
: Diocese Of Ohio, is among the signers of thu
petition in favor of the restoration Of BisIhoI
Onderdonk. DR.. B. was signer before he wal
elected Bishop.
Gn-A "Grecne County Fair Ball'' is to bt
\ given at McMillan's Hall, Xenia, on the eve.
7 ming of Wednesday, tho 2Sth. Menter's Band
we learn, will furnish tho music for the occa
\ sion. tHl Il
&as- "Aint it wicked to rob dis chicken
\ roost, Bob?" said Williamsburg colOrei
worthy to his pal. "DNt's great moral qees
ton, Jim; we baint no time to arguo it now
r. Hand down another pullet." .....-.. ..,
7. @s- A wag has invented new telegraph
He proposes to place line Of women fifty step
8. apart, and commit tho news to the irst
ID them as q secret.
Es- Tho price Of coal in Boston is So a tun
The present comparatively low price is owinJ
to the active competition ameng the dif1eren
- coal mining companies. ... .r.@
. &s-Rev. DR.. p. Anderson, pastor Of tn
y Central Presbyterian Church in st. Louis, ha
n beon elected President Of Oakland College
Mississippi.
\ G1-The Indiana State Fair begins at Ney
or Albany to-day, and continues throughout tn
q week.
&8rThe twenty-hrst annual fair Of tn
= Greene County Agricultural Society commences
at Xenia tomorrow. ' tJ-H .l3,ll -aI
Es-Ths three things most difficult are---t,
keep secret, to forget an injury, and to mak'
good use Of leisure. b .,rl.I..l -ai a,i,.
n. GarCharlton Morgan, Of kentucky, ha
: been appointed Consul at Messina, In th
Kingdom Of the Two Scilies.
- 5ss"Thomas i. Mcagher is to lecture Ii
Boston on the I'd of October on " Jonathan