The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-09-02
News and Gossip.


G1-We fear that rattesuake bites will
grow frequent, now that whisky is announced
as sovereign cure.
| JET securing of your floor by two per-
sons, each anxious to accomplish more than
the other, may be justly called scrub race.
GJ- Lyncbburg contains about twelve
thousand inhabitants, which makes it the fifth
city in size in Virginia.
| ny" Ex-President Tyler, VIII is in good
health and spirits, has lately been sojourning
at Old Point Comfort.
NJ" Henry Hulsnger, colored, convicted
at Harrisburg, Penn, Of the murder Of his wife,
was, on Saturday, sentenced to ,e hung.
Gs- The Clarke (Va.) journal nominatos
the Hon. r. NJ. Y. Hunter as the Democratic
candidate for the next Presidency.
~ Mrs. Catherine Sammis, mother of the
late Hon. Mike Walsh, was accidentally burnt
to death, in New York, on TIL ursday of last
| week. ...,.-
rs Senator Douglas lecls res that more
| Africans have been imported in to the United
States during the last year than during any
year when the traffic was legal.
G5- "Have you Goldsmtth's Greece ?"
asked gentleman, on enterir book store.
! "No, sir; but they have some excellent bears
oil in the next door," replied the counter boy.
ne woman in Middlesex, England,
named Newton, recently bit off the uose of
Thomas Saverland, who attempted to kiss her.
lie sued her at law, but tlle Jury acquitted
her.
A CHEAP PLACE TO LIyE.--The chaplain of
United States vessel, stati oned in the China
sea, says that laboring MIN can live comfort
ably in the interior of t'aat country on food
costing only cent per day.
INTEREsTING.-Th last news from Europe
conveys the important intelligence that the
Empress Eugene is again encientc. The EN-
peror has been to the wars. We do not affirm
there is any connection between the two facts.
ES"A Paris correspondent says of Napo-
leon that he is, by race, an Italian, by birth o
| Dutchman, by school education &c rman, by
military education a Swiss, by political
studies an Englishman, and by his crown q
| Frenchman.
NEW SUSPENSION BRIDGE AT WHEELING.-
The work on this structure prose eds rapidly.
Two cables have already been stretched from
tower to tower, and workmon ar, wrapping
them with wire. The estimated cost of the
work is $4,000.
GG-The Grand Trunk Railroad asks the
City OF Montreal to give it ve,-y valuable
piece Of property, the st. Anne's Market, and
the use Of one of the principal thoi'oughfares,
as a condition on which that road sh ould make
Montreal terminus. 1t is violently opposed.
Gs-The Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon, in q late SER
mon, denies the story of his having been left
a fortune. He says if he had guinea Tor
every lie, told at his expense, he would have
"money enough to build his projected chapel,
with sufficient surplus to run up cathe-
dral or two."
G5" Blondin is pronounced myth by
correspondent of the Now York Times. The
correspondent resides at Niagara, and says
the stories about crossing rope and cooking
omelets, carrying men, standing on his head,
performing gymnastic feats, &C., are all pure
invention-made upto put money in the purses
of the hack drivers and hotel-keepers.
THE DESTITUTE IN THE AzoRE IsIANDs.--A
private letter received at Boston announc es
the arrival at Fayal, July IS, of the bark
ASore, Captain Burke, from Boston, with the
contributions for the destitute of the Azore
Islands. The arrival was hail ed with lively
demonstrations of gratitude.
HEALTH OF New ORLEANs.--As vet not a
single authenticated case of yellow fever has
occurred in New Orleans. The Delta says:
"We doubt if it can be said of anv previous
summer, for the last forty years, that the
twentieth of August has arrived without %
single symptom of the presence of this pesti-
! lence."
TARR1NG AND FEATHERING.---A fellow named
Gates, keeper of q house of i'll-famein Eyria,
Ohio, was dragged into t'lc street, Sunday
night week, and tarred ond feathered by q
party OF citizens. The women We're ordered
to leave town, which they did forthwith
Gates had the mob arrested, and they waived
an examination.
HOMICIDE IN COLUMBUS, Ky.-A difficulty,
growing out of some bu siness transactions oc-
CURED ut Columbus, Kentucky, last Tuesday
evening, between two usen named John Cald-
well and j. 7. Wood, during which the former
struck the other heavy blow with stick and
then shot him with pistol, producing almost
immediate death. Mr.. Wood was formerly
clerk Of the steamer Admiral.
HANDSOME FIoOR.-The handsomest dining
room floor in the United States has recently
been laid atthe ladies' ordinary at the Amer
lean House, Boston. 1t is an inlaid mosaic
floor, composed of five thousand pieces of
wood of four different growths-
rosewood, black-walnut and white-oak, art
istcally arranged in magnificent figures.
NirCharles Stark, of Lebanon, Con necti-
cut, murdered his wife on Monday night
last. Hccut and mangled her in most horri-
BILE manner. When discovered, he was t; liking
the body away in hand-cart He sa id he
was afraid of the Indians, who We're tryi ng to
kill his wife and himself. He was suff ering
from mania caused by the stuff sold about
the country as ardent spirits.
GaS~The Great Eastern, the monster 81 itish
vessel, soon to visit Portland, Maine, has
capacity of twenty.six thousand tuns
The tunnage of the largest line-of- battle
ship of our navy, the Pennsyiuania, lis but
3,24l tuns. The united tunnage of the largest
ten vessels of our navy is but 2s,131 tui IS; SC
that the Great Eastern lacks but 2,l31 tn ms OF
q capacity equal to that Of the whole ten tre-
mendous line-of-b battle ships Of our nay.}.