The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-10-21
NEWS AND GOSSIP.


ED-A noted duelist in the South has had
after without the trouble Of shutting 1t.
G9>Up In Lyeoning County, Penn, a
mans qualifications tor Office depend on
whether he did or did not marry his cousin.
Mg-La Mountain 10 going to try another
balloon ascension. He isn't satisfied, and
out. .Ea ~
G8- The clause iu the Kansas Constitution
excepting tho homestead from attachment for
debt was separately submitted to the people,
and adopted BY large majority. NJ
&@-The Mayor Of Georgeto wn, D. O., has
directed the removal Of the allanthus trees
from the streets Of that town-such trees hav-
ing been declared q nuisance by municipal Or
dinanoe. ~
GTCaptain John Porter, aged elehty-four
years, one of the oldest citizens Of Martins
burg, Va, died on Friday Of last week. On
the same day his daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth
Stephens, Of shepherdstown, died very sud
denly. '"
&8-Gold fab, which were originally brought
to this country from China, and once kept in
glass vases a. objects Of curiosity, have now
become quite numerous Ia some Of our rivers
| In the Potomac large shoals Of them may be
seen sporting In the silvery water, and they
are quito common In some Of the creeks that
feed the Hudson River.
1arThe Postofics In vncennes, Ind, wss
robbed on Monday night, and valuable let
ters stolen. The burg, .Ys stole brass look bag,
made up at indianapolis for Evansville and
Southern Indiana; an iron lock bag from Lou
svills for Henderson and other Southern
Kentucky points-both bags full Of letters
| and doubtless valuable.
D-Until recently 1t has been generally
supposed that the only Office of diniaz forks
was to convey articles Of food from the plate
to the mouth, but another use has beep found
for them. A young gentleman, after dining
at one of the fashionable hotels the other
| day, deliberately inserted the prongs of his
| dinner fork in his tangled mustache, and in
the most artistic manner proceeded to
straighten out that hirsute appendags.
G@ The new system Of sewerage 10 Psris
c0nlem plates the collection Of ell the sewerage
water Of the city into two great reservoirs,
! one each side Of the Seine, whence it is to be
| disseEinated by steam pumps upon the sur
rounding otaptry, to ierve as liquid manure
1t is stated that lila plan works admirably at
Berlin, fertilising the sssdy plains around
that city into high state Of fertility -H
NSrPsrson Brownlow denies the Newspaper
story that he has been "struok with paralysis"
| and adds: "Should our Maker, In his right
eous administration Of affairs visit US with any
such calamity, we will try and bear 1t without
i I;v, Il . Aua hnu
ever, We are allowed to choose one,of many
evils, we shall pray to be struok with paraly.
sis, blindness, dumbneSs, deafness, lunasy,
the lspr0sy, or anything, in preference to
Dsmocracy."
Ea-M. Leverrier, the disooversr Of Nep-,
tune, has been engaged lately in studying
alterations of the planet Mercury. He finds
that they must be due to the existence of
small asteroids, and he calls on his brother
astronomers to assist in discovering them.
The total eclipse Of the sun in July, 1860,
will afford an extraordinarily favorable
opportunity for this. Photography affords
means ofrecOrding instantaneously whatever
phenomena may appear. IT,.
Gg-Yellow fever prevailed in Galveston,
Texas, on the 9th inst. From the 9TH to the
yellow fever in Houston. The Republic, Of
that city, says that out Of hfty-four persons
residing at Cypress City, o small station on
the Central Railroad, twenty-five miles from
Houston, thirty three, including the physi-
clan, were sick with yellow fever. The Hous-
ton Howard Association sent up assistance.
GNAmong the articles thrown overheard
from the Quaker CITY in order to save the
ship, were sixty very valuable horses, eOti-
mated at at least s., 900 each. On leaving the
ship, the owner of the horses was informed by
his hostler that he would remain on board and
see to the horses, but he said, "No, you had
better come on board the bark with me, and bs
safe" Mr.. Cooper, tho first officer Of tho
Quaker City, when ordered to dispose Of the
horses, observed that he would almost ss soon
throw himself over a. the horses, but that the
safety Of the ship required that such precau-
tionary steps should be taken. Two COWS,
which were on the lower deck, were saved.
EEAt meeting Of the Buffalo Medical
Association. Dr.. Storck reported the case Of
girl, IL years Of age, who passed from the
bowels nineteen pins and five needles in the
course Of four days, and who confessed that
she had been in the habit Of swallowing
tueu IOr hDOub Lnrec mOntnS, III OTue[ 10 g6b
sick 30 that she might not be obliged to leave
home and work out. One pin stuok in the
throat, and gave some trouble, and the girl
suffered occasional colicky pains, and had
much swelling and tenderness of the abdo-
men, but there were no marked constitutional
symptoms. -,.... ..........
NS-A Constant ntinopls letter, received by the
last mail. relates the almost Incredible oircum-
stance Of tho old barbarous law Of Turkey
which presonbes the assassination Of all chill
dren which any Princess Of the Imperial Family
may bear to SUBJECT, having been acted upon
within the last few days. One Of the Sutan's
daughters, the wife OF Mohsmmed Pasha, was
safely delivered Of hn- boy The Sultan had
been to see her but q few hours before her con-
dnement, and It il said that he gave express
orders that the child should not be murdered
Nevertheless, damned custom" prevailed; the
officers of the ssrsgio who attended the Princess
delivered over the babe to q eunich to be
strangied-snd It was strspgled accordingly.
Music As A MEoIorSE-Eugens dc Mire-
court, in his lively littls biography of Felicien
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