The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-11-25
PEN AND SCISSORS.

B-Mrs Sarah Palmer, an elderly woman,
fell into the fire in fit, last Saturday, near
Perrysville, Penn, and was burnt 10 death.
Ns-Alfred McCrabb, of Washington City,
was shot dead in fracas at Montgomery,
Alabama, recently.
@ST The number Of deaths in Baltimore last
week. amounted to sixty six, being decrease
Of five as compared with the previous week.
D-Awful Gardner, the reformed prize
fighter, delivered discourse on Temperance
at New Haven, Conn.,, one evening of last
week.
% In California, woman is not labelled
an "old maid" until past fifty. Up to that
time her chances Of marriage are regarded as
hopefal.
8B- Within year, two of the owners of
the gold diggings in Springfield, Vermont,
have taken out $4,000 and $4,000 respect
lively.
Gg-Gustavus Geary, an Irish tenor singer,
OF considerable reputation, contemplateS max
ing professional tour through the United
States.
19-Lavater says that the creditor whose
appearance gladdens the heart Of debtor
may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot
on storms.
There were All deaths in New York
city last week, being Is more than there were
during the week preceding, and So more than
during the corresponding portion of last year.
GEAn association of the members of the
clergy in England have published an address
in which they pledge themselves to total
abstinence from the use Of intoxicating liquors
as beverage.
GS- Jas. Stephens, formerly Marshal of
Columbus, Ohio, but foI several years past
member of the police force, died in that city
on Wednesday, after short illness, produced
by excessive drinking.
GB-A prize of $500 francs has been pro-
posed by the Paris Academic des Sciences for
the best essay upon the problem of "Sponta-
neous Generation" the very idea Of which, up
to recent date, was secuted by the faculty.
GB- There seems to be prospect Of the en-
tire destruction of the silkworm. The worms
in Italy have for some time been affected with
most destructive disease, and now it is an
nounced that those in India are affected in the
same manner.
GEMr. Henry Halcomb, citizen of
Springfield, Mass, who has hitherto been
highly esteemed, beat his wife's head against
a piece Of heavy oak scantling until the back
of her skull was dashed to pieces, and then
fled.
NS-T Theodore M. Price, a WIRE walker, re-
Gently walked a wire extended from the ga
BILE window of the Union Hotel, in Danville,
Pa, to the Montour House, distance of about
one hundred and thirty feet, and retraced his
steps backward.
G8- A dealer in upholstery recently died
at Lyons, in France, at the age of ninety three,
who served on the jury that tried Charlotte
Corday for the killing of Murat, and who was
for an acquittal in the teeth of the Reign of
Terror.
&@ A gay winter-the gayest of the gay
ever enjoyed In Washington, is expected to
commence with the approaching season.
Most Of the members of both branches will
take their families with them to the Federal
Capital.
GrA lady is said to be beastly beautiful
when attired in full set Of sable, otter and
lynx skins. 1t is q remarkable thing, in con-
neotion with this subject, how much sooner
the weather sets in "bitter cold," TO those furn-
ished with handsome furs, than to those not SO
fortunate.
lS-A crinoline excitement pervades the
eoulisses Of the Theater Royal at Berlin. The
Director has forbidden the ladies to appear in
expanded skirts, which he deems eminently
unfavorable to walking, sitting, or embracing.
A surly critic suggests a similar rule for the
"front of the house,"
G#-M. Roger, the eminent tenor, will soon
resume his duties at the Grand Opera, Paris.
Recovery from his late terrible accident is
now certain, and mechanical ingenuity has
supplied him with an artificial hand Of re-
msrkable naturalness. His benefit is fixed
for the 10th of December.
MS- Leading Democratic Senators are in
clined to separate the printing for that body
from the party press, though an effort will
be made by few Administration men TO Sc
cure it for the Constitution. Mr.. Bowman can
not be elected, but some straw candidate may
who will divide.
@r John &. Rose, formerly connected
with the dramatic company at the Boston
Theater, died in that city on Sunday, aged
hfty-four. Mr.. Rose was born in PaIgrave,
Suffolk County, England, and made his first
appearance on the American stage in New
York in 1889.
NAr The two celebrated violinists, Beriot
and Wienawski, met last summer at Ems.
The latter, after playing on leriots instru-
ment, asked him II he felt inclined to sell it.
"Yes," he answered, "but not for less than
twenty thousand francs" The price will
probably be paid.
A Boy FRIGHTENED TO DEATH.-A death Of
most extraordinary character took place at