The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-11-21
PEN AND SCISSORS,

PEN AND SCISSORS.
gs> Theodore Parker Is at present sojourn.
ing at Rome. ~,
&BJohn Chapel was killed Friday neal
Rough Creek, in Charlotte County, by being
| thrown from his horse. .r--
Gg- Forty eight Indian squaws were re-.
Gently arrested in house OF ill-fame in Mon
treal. .....
%-"Doestioks," Thompson, is said to be
an applicant for passage in Professor loves
great balloon.
%S-Our Minister to Spain, Mr.. Preston, is
very shortly expected from Madrid. His
family will pass the winter in Paris. He has
| a congo for six months.
E1- George zorn, boy aged ten years
was killed on Thursday by being run oyer by
the freight train ofthe Louisville and Lexing.
ton Railroad, in the former city.
@-In New York the Russ pavement in
Broadway is being torn up, to be replaced
with the Belgian pavement, or something like
1t.
ES- Jackson, tho "AmsricaN Deer" com
menced at ork, Penn, on Tuesday, the feat ol
walking one hundred and fifteen hours with.
out rest or sleep.
ES-Au "Abolitionist," calling himself T
A. Salvo, was seized at Hamburg, s. G., OIL
the 10th inst, for the expression Of his opi II
ions, tarred and feathered and ridden on a
rail. -.H
GG- One Of the Louisville merchants, a few
days since, received from Barran County, KY,
lot Of ginseng, in most of the roots of which
nails were driven to give additional weight to
the article.
5sThe manuscripts Of swedenborg's writ
ipgs, containing sketches Of his journey in
Holland, in 1T43, and several of his mystical
speculations have been discovered in Stock
holm.
&S-John L. Latimer accidentally cut his
hand while skinning steer which had died
from poison, in Bloomfield, Conn. Tho hand
and arm commenced to swell instantly, and in
spite of medical aid he died last Friday.
&ss- The Rev. j. r. Downey died at Luck
now, India, September 16, after sickness
OF six days. He was one of five missionaries
sent out last spring by the Missiary Society
OF the Methodist Episcopal Church.
pS- Queen Victoria has received mag
nificent present from the Maharajah of Cash
mere, being a shawl tent containing bed
stead of solid gold. The value Of this royal
gift is stated to be about $750,O0O.
Gg-A vessel arrived lately at Puget Sound,
from Japan, with small cargo of Japanese
goods, and was about to load with lumber for
Japan. The people Of Washington Territory
were elated with tho hope Of new, near, and
excellent market open for lumber.
GD- The Vienna Gazette publishes the defni-
tive returns Of the public revenue and expen-
diture for the year 1858. The receipts amounted
to 2S2,5O0,00O horins, and the expenditures to
$4,000 900 aorinS, showinga deficit of 36,5OO,-
600 aorins.
&1- Madame do Puisieux says: "Curiosity
has ruined more young girls than love;" and
Rooheborne remarks that Daughters who
wish to know too much about love, seldom
lose time in wishing to practice it."
g@rMr. Edmond Rufin, jr., Of Prince
George County, Va, last week, had bis barn,
with two thousand bushels of wheat, stables,
calamity Mr.. Rufiin loses about $4,000, on
which there was no insurance.
Gg-L Lombardy, birth place of pawnbrokers,
is now herself in pawn. Austria has ad-
vanced ten millions, English, upon her. Mr..
Punch is horribly afraid that poor Lombardy
will be an addition to the number of his friend
Louis Napoleon's unredeemed pledges.
G3- A Colored child, living near Key port,
Monmouth County, died very suddenly week
or two ago, and subsequent investigation
proved that she was actually whipped to death.
York Applegate, in whose house the child
died, has been committed TO Jail, to answer
the charge.
GS- The effort TO cultivate the Japan plum
tree has proved successful in New Orleans.
The trees are now in bloom, and the promise
is that this variety will eventually become
ono Of the most profitable of the fruit bearing
trees. The first shrub was introduced into
the country from France in 1923, and has
been growing common for about three years
past.
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