The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-08-27
News and Gossip.

NcWS dhu WOSSlps
1SrVessels crossing tho Atlantic continue
to report numerous icebcrgs on the ocean.
Es-The city of Galveston, Texas, was
lighted with gas for the first time on the 9th
inst.
NT Thomas Humphreys, an old citizen of
Princess Ann County, Va, committed suicide
last week. ..
ps~John Hill, for many years City Treas
urer Of Augusta, Ga, died suddenly on the
goth inst. .7e .rn -
NS- Mr. E. S. Boren, who was in prison at
Shreveport on charge Of murder, in killing
Luke Holt, committed suicide on the I'd inst.
Ds- Hans Nichelsen, the oldest and best
Norwegian sculptor, died in Christiania, June
20, 1859, aged seventy.
SHOWER OF FRoGs.-In the neighborhood of
Artesia, in Lowndes County, Mississippi, it
raned frogs last week. The ground was per-
fectly black with them. ~
rs" Advices from the Sandwich Islands
states that Judge Pratt Of Michigan, United
States Consul at Honolulu, has been for some
time past seriously ill with the asthma.
Gg- Grantley F. Berkeley, the spirited
writer Of The Field, @ sporting paper of
London, is coming out to our prairies for
hunt, arriving here about the Sd Of September.
gsj-Mrs. Frances Temple, who cowhided
Russell..R. Rogers near the Boston City Hall,
the other day, has been fined twenty-five dol
lars and costs.
rs" It is rumored in Albany that the Rev.
Mr.. Seeley is to be sued for damages, by q rail-
road empioye, for remarks made by him in
sermon on the recent Northern Railroad dis
aster.
40" The Jews in America number some two
hundred and fifty thousand. They have forty
thousand in New York alone. Two Senators
and four Congressman are of the Jewish faith,
which shows the ancient political talent of the
race.
E8~ A Yankee schoolmaster, named Com
stock, turned drove of cattle into the corn
field Of farmer in Dubuque, Iowa, and during
the confusion which this act created in the
family, ran away with the farmers daughter
and married her.
EXPLOSION OF A POWDER MLL.-On Thurs.
day last the powder of Daniel Allspach,
near Orwigsburg, Penn, exploded from some
unknown cause, and was destroyed. John
Anderson, the man having it in charge, was
seriously, if not fatally injured.
G@-"Dear Charles always gives me q new
dress, or takes me to the opera, when ask
him." said a smiling wife, "and, on my part,
! make no objection to his having latch
key" "Humph" growled her cynical uncle,
Horace, throwing out club to catch q
salmon"
VEGETABLE POP article in the
Placerville (Cal.) Observer says that the pods
Of the bush known as "chapparal" are about
the size of large pea, and that when they
come to maturity, instead Of opening in quiet
sort of way, they do so with report like a
pop-gun, shooting the seeds ten or fifteen feet
into the air.
| ANOTHER DEATH FROM CAMPHENE.-0n Sat.
urday evening Mrs. Orr, young married
woman, residing on Lowell street, Boston,
attempted to kindle fire by sprinkling some
camphene upon it from a can, when an ex-
plosion took place, enveloping her in flames,
from which she died in few hours.
Texas GRAPEs.-In Caldwell County, Texas,
| .bo Wuito R'A"AoBo SiopoS VI tuo COuu-
mon Mustang Of that State, has proved per-
feet success. No larger punches or grapes
more uniformly ripe than samples of these
Texas grapes could be presented. This is a
suggestive fact to our fruit growers.
GS- Among the visitors to the White Sui
phur Springs, Va, are Mr.. Secretary Thomp-
son, Mr.. Ex-Secretary Conrad, Gov. Manning,
Of South Carolina, Prof. Biedsbe, Judge Per
kins; of Louisiana, Ex-senator Bayard, of
New Jersey, and Mrs. Gwin, the wife of the
Senator from California, who is, perhaps, the
most observed among the ladies.
Gs-Mr. A. j. knight, of Belmont, Wiscon.
sin, offers, in the The Spirit Of the Times, To bel
$500 that Wat Jones, of Belmont, can raise q
greater weight, at arms length, than any other
man in tho United States, and $1,000 that
Jones can throw down, out-run, or out-jump
any man in the world. The money, Mr.. Jones
says, is now ready. .t
MANIA FOR TIGHT. ROPE WALKING.-AlI the
little boys in Buifalo-and, we presume, in
other places in the vicinity Of the Falls--who
can fx up q rope, are learning to walk it Ia
Blondin. Those who can't get a rope, wall
board fences, with any piece os board or old
stick they can hold Of as a balance pole.--Buf.
.talO Republic.
The PILGRIMS MoNUMENr.-The Plymouth
Rock states that the cost of the Pilgrim Monu-
ment, when fully completed, will be about
1000, Of which sum about SAL, 900 has been
subscribed The time absolutely necessary fol
Its completion, will be about six years, but thi,
may be prolonged in order to obtain the amour,
Of funds necessary to defray the expenses.
GS- A Washington correspondent reports
that the Secretary Of State and the Attorney.
General both wear false hair. He adds
"Wigs, like diseases, are great Jewelers., and Il
Is lamentable to observe how numerous they
are among public men at Washington. Th,
heads covered with them are numerous. The
bald pates that ought to be covered with then
are perhaps more numerous" l.
GS- Colonel Fremont, says the Mariposl
Gazette Is at last, to sulne extent, out of trouble
as we are happy to know. He has settled hi
principal matters of difficulty, and is out of tn,
hands Of the Sabeans and pawn breaking cap
italists. He has means to 20 ON with his i'm
provements, and will build q new quartz-mil
upon the MERGED River, for which he ha
ample water power. His mills now runnin,
are yielding very handsomely, o. we arc In
formed.