The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-08-22
News and Gossip.

Ds1- 1t is stated that fund Of 800 900 has
already been invested in Massachusetts, for the
benefit Of the children of Horace Mann.
DS- Doctor Elias B. Edmonds, of Lancas-
ter County, Va, died suddenly on the 4th
inst, of apoplexy. 7, r-t
@5- We understand that the former direc-
tors Of the Northern Railroad intend to suo the
New York Times for libel. The aggregate
damages foot up $2OO,OOO. Quite an item.
ND-A ship with yellow fever on board having
arrived below New Orleans, much apprehension
is expressed lest the disease should bo commu-
nicated to the city.
Gij- Mr.. Ten Brock was not the only per-
son upon whom fortune smiled at the Goodwood
races. His friends backed Starke freely, and
bagged $4,000 for their enterprise. m
gsS- Young Carlo Patti, the brother of Mrs.
Strekosch, has just married Miss Efie Germon,
the pretty aud popular actress. The hymeneals
took place at Providence, R. I.
Gg-A correspondent commences letter
thus "1 write from cocklolt of the Amherst
House, in a room about twice as large as q
Saratoga trunk"
E1~ The French Minister of State has just
officially appointed MademOisole Taglomi to
be inspectress Of all the dancing classes at tho
opera, and to perfect such pupils as she may
consider likely to become frst-rate performers.
lns- Wise men and handsome women have
always been in great domand. Beauty is more
priced than wisdom, and accordingly finds a
better market. A pretty face is worth tenfold
more than well.flled head. Yes, indeed!
AMERICANS CAN KEEP A HoTEL.-Messrs. R.
H. Lamont and Joseph Harrison have pur-
chased seventeen acres at Saratoga, with the
view of erecting hotel capable of accommo-
dating twenty-eight thousand guests. This
will do for village Of moderate size.
MS-A Paris correspondent of the Indepen-
dence Beige says he is assured that one of the
last things uttered in the now celebrated in
terview at Villa Franca, was promise made
by the Emperor of Austria to pass some days
next winter at the Tuilleries.
IG-The yincennes Sun says that w. j.
Stevens, ESD late Superintendent on the
Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, will again be
called to fill an important station on the road;
nlsn, that Captain Baldridge will he placed
on duty. ''''>'
gS- At the recent Woman's Rights Conven-
ton, holden at Poughkeepsie, the Rev. Mrs.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell introduced series
Of resolutions, one of which was as follows:
"Rcsolued, That we assert the entire equality,
but not the identity of the sexes"
You can't swallow the "identity" then.
UNITED STATES CONVENTION OF UvIvER-
sALTsTs.-This convention will meet in Roch-
ester, N. Y, on Tuesday, the Goth of Soptem-
ber, and continue in session on the following
Wednesday. Rov. E. II ohapinis the preacher
Of the occasional sermon.
A WHALE CApTURED.-On Saturday last a
hn-baok whale, measuring forty-two feet, got
into shallow water near Lewes, Delaware, and
was forthwith attacked by the citizens, with
every available weapon, and after an hour s
struggle, killed.
The MOUNTAIN MEADOWS CHILDREY.-Spe-
cial Agent Jarvis, who came Eastward with
the children saved from the Mountain Mead
ows massacre, has arrived in Washington.
He left the children at Fort Laramie, and
they will not reach Leavenworth before the
9th of September.
GD-A Washington dispatch says the At
torney General has decided that payments
are to be made from the Treasury for carry
ing ocean and foreign mails, the act for that
purpose being permanent appropriation for
paying contractors out Of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in sums
equal to the amount of receipts for postage.
JEWS IN RUssIA.-The Emperor of Russia
has authorized the Jews to raise fund, the
interest Of which is to be employed as prizes
for the best literary works in the Hebrew
language which shall be presented to the
Academy of Sciences. His Majesty has also
founded five scholarships at the Techno-
logical Institute in favor of young Jews.
The BIGGEST RATTLEsNAKE.-A rattlesnake
was killed lately twenty miles West of Terre
Haute, Indiana, twenty-One feet in length,
eighteen inches round in tho largest part, and
which had one hundred and eleven rattles
This same snake, or one like it, was seen in the
same locality thirty years ago. This monster
was killed with bullet, and is undoubt.
edly the biggest rattlesnake on record.
ExTRAvAGANT DINNERS AT SARAToGA.-0ne
lady is reported to have given dinner to
twenty friends which cost $4OO, and New
York banker paid $3.50 for twenty eight per-
SONS. A Southerner, however, surpassed that
he having paid 81 400 for one dinner, the lar.
dinner ever given at that fashion,
able resort.-Boston Journal. .
RISE IN THE PRICE OF VIRGINIA LAYps.--On
the 5th instant, Waller Taylor sold his tract of
land on Bluestone, in Mecklenburg County,
Virginia, consisting of seven hundred and
seventy-six acres, to Doctor George @. Vsnable,
Of Halifax County, for $I6,5OO. For the
larger part ofthis tract, embracing the dwelling
house and improvements, Mr.. Taylor paid
S4 900 nine years ago; for the residue he paid
S4 500 four years ago. His net profit, there
fore, is $4,000, nearly one hundred per cent.
Wool TRADE IN 0HIo.-During the present
season one individual at Columbus, Ohio, has
purchased four hundred thousands pounds of
wool, at cost of about SlSO,OOO; and it is
estimated that the quantity bought and sold
in the State during the season will reach ten
million pounds, and as tits principally pur-
chased by foreign dealers and manuiactur-
ers, will bring into the State nearly $4, $780,
)O0--a right snug sum Of money, which will
10 some extent compensate the State for the
loss said to be sustained in the grain crops.
WASHINGTON ON VICES AND AMusEMsNTs.-
''Let vice and immortality of every kind be
as much as possible in your bri-
gade; and as q chaplain is allowed to each
regiment, see that the men regularly attend
Divine Worship. Gaming of every kind is
expressly forbid, as the production Of evil, and