The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-12-23
PEN AND SCISSORS.


The total assessed value of real and personal
property in Albany, N. j., is $25, 5,962,395.
~The November earnings on contract
by the prisoners in the Auburn IN. W State
prison were 81, ,135. ' "''
~Ths total number Of deaths in Brook
lyn, N. Y, for the week ending December II,
is13O.
~ Bouroioault has enjoined the perform
snce of the "0ctoroon" at the Winter Garden
Theater, in New York. .s.rIu.li,0.,.
N9'The receipts Of cotton at Macon, Ca,
one day Of last week, were larger than they
ever were before in the history Of that city.
@-The owners of the steamship Great
Eastern are about to mortgage her to meet
their liabilities.
M9-The Illinois Central Railroad Company
has sold Of the Government lands granted to
them, to the extent of $l6,O33,ll5.
gss-A wild hog was recently shot in the
| woods near Fostoria, in this State, with tusks
eight and half inches long.
@s-The word "reverend" occurs only once
in the Bible, which is in the 9th verse Of the
11th Psalm.
GT of eighty-fve deaths in Boston last
week, eleven were of smallpox, and ten of
scarlet fever.
Col. VIM. H. Jennings, of Warrenton, Va,
most estimable citizen, and for several years
past the clerk of the County Court of Fan
quier County, died q day or two ago.
MsrA child three years old, while playing
| tuifh Inod lad bat ~ 1sr
on Friday of last week, accidentally shot
itself dead.
M@-A man was whipped last week in the
neighborhood of Warrenton, Miss, for selling
liquor to slaves. He had been living in that
State for three years.
Rss-A number of the church bells in Lynn,
Mass, rung on Friday, as an expression Of
sympathy for Browns men, who were hung at
Charleston, Va.
ND-A woman, named Kent was burnt to
death recently at Roxbury, Mass, by her
clothes taking fire while she was sitting in
chair.
| &D-A few nights since, some miscreant at
| tempted to murder Robt Armstead, !, at Will
liamsburg, Va, by shooting at him through
the window of his room.
@sr fire occurred ini Rome, N. Y, on Friday
morning, which destroyed the dwelling houses
of A. Van Pattsn, G.. R. Thomas, and Mr..
Demsey, on Washington-s street.
Na-Rev. Drs. Wilson, Dill and Edgar, the
delegation from the Irish Protestants, sailed
from New York on Saturday, in the steamer
Edinburgh.
Since the first of January last, there
have been one hundred and t,centy fires in the
city of Rochester, N. Y. OF these, large pro-
portion were the result of incendisrism.
ES- Michael Haas, Frenchman, at
at New Brighton, Staten Island, committed
suicide on Monday by cutting his throat with
i a razor.
N@-An oil spring has been discovered near
New Libson, in this State, on the land of Mrs.
Doctor Potter, whicn /. ssi1 70 yiold from I've
to eight gallons per day.
Robert McF Farand, young Scotchman,
committed suicide at bis boarding house in
New York, on Saturday night, by swallowing
iaudsnum in glass of beer.
oGg-T negro girl, Sarah Brown, who re-
Gently attempted to poison the family Of Mr..
Berholf, in Bergen County, N. j., has been
/
| &8-A little son of Patrick Mcclure, Of
Chattanooga, Tenn, was burnt to death by his
clothes accidentally taking fire, on the evening
of the 7th inst.
| &8-James Grinstead, of Lexington, KY, re-
Gently sold ayearling colt out Of the celebrated
race marc Picayune, for the sum of $2,5OO, to
Judge Butler, Of Virginia. ~
nS-It is said that cred is all the rage"
with the ladies of Buffalo, N. Y, this winter.
They are wearing red-heeled shoes, red stock
ings and red petticoats. We wonder if they
themselves are deeply red.
N4-Wm. Schuman, photographer, fell into
the aqueduet over the Allegheny River, at
Pittsburg, q night or two since, and being so
seriously hurt that he could not move, lay
there until frozen to death.
GS-Charles II. Valuvance, of Point Pleas
ant, Penn, poisoned himself on Friday, from
sheer disgust. He couldn't keep from getting
drunk, and was so ashamed of himself In con-
sequence Of that fact that he took arsenic.
&Ac0ver 100000 persons have passed over
the Panama Railroad during the present year,
being an excess Of 5000 over last year. The
income from passengers alone has been over
| 81, 100000. ..... ..r
| UeS LILO u1iiloAuj nhdno'1 c0"fWut uhb Doou
sued for libel, damages $4,000, by Edward
M Marshall, who takes exception to CON-
ments made by the Journal upon the John
Brown meeting in that town.
| MrThe New York Obscruer states that the
Irish deputation (Presby yterian) who recently
visited this country, collected, in the course Of
two months, about $50, 900 in aid of the mis-
sionary operations in ireland. tiI HJFJTH
Gs-It would appear from the experience
of Ulster County, New York, that there is a
regular gang of burglars and thieves in that
county. Dwellings are entered by them al
most every night with success. p .llo "a
| G@rAccording to the valuation returns,
there are about 100 towns in Maine, in which
tunnage is owned. The largest amount owned
in any port in Bath, 5000 tuns. Next comes
Portland, 43,020. rs f| ttHl
~Two hundred convicts are now sick in
the State Penitentiary at Columbus, with
what is denominated corn bread diarrhea
The disease has assumed an epidemic form,
and appearances at present are alarming.
G%Recently there were twenty seven stock
holders in the Bank ofSt. Paul, Minnesota, of