The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-11-10
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

AANVN - TARsD NEosocAhe
@srIn 1910 there wore but $50 newspapers
published in the United States.
G5A good telegraph operator, working
ton hours per day, brings a receipt of about
$75 to the treasury of the company.
ss-0n the night of the tult., ice formed
in Iberville Parish, La, of the thickness of q
dollar.
10" The number of deaths in New York
City, for tho week ending the 9Th inst, was
1861, being decrease from the previous week
of II.
GS- John Lanier, son of DR.. G. V. Ian
ier, of Danville, Va, was killed by the acci-
dental explosion ofthe pistol of friend prac-
ticing at a target.
Gs-The King of Sweden was about to pro-
pose the abolition Of the severe punishment
inflicted upon those who quit the Established
Church.
Gg-A white woodcock was brought to our
Office on Saturday by a sportsman, as evidence
that, though uncommon, the color is not en-
tirely unknown.
G1-The Richmond Enquirer says that if
Seward, Greeley, Hale, Gddings and Smith
are surrendered to Virginia, Brown may hope
for pardon. :
GS"On Tuesday, October is, tho marriage
was celebrated at st. MichaePs Church, High
gate, London, Of Alaric Alfred Watts to Anna
Mary Hewitt, elder daughter of William and
Mary Hewitt. .. .-th.-. .-
Gas- Rev. DR.. Bayne died at Gait, Canada,
November A. He was one Of the leading
ministers of tho Free Presbyterian Church,
and exerted very important influence over
its affairs.
@g-In the Litchfeld (Ct) Court last week,
Carroll Manchester received verdict of ST.
500 against the city of Hartford, for injuries
received by stumbling against aloose paving
stone in the sidewalks of Albany avenue.
Gs- 1t was expected that the effective
strength of the new Sandman army will be
100000, exclusive of ths rifle corps and mill
tary marine. In addition, there will be
throughout the Kingdom about 500, 900 Ma
tionai Guards. --..-.-.-.,
Gs-On Monday last, in Bayou Sara, La,
james Murdoch had difficulty with two Irish
men, in which one of thcm, named John Far
rell, was killed by pistol shot. Murdoch
was arrested, but released on the ground that
he had acted in self-defense.
Gs-Sir James Clarke, the eminent London
has just retired from his office of
personal physician in daily attendance on
the Queen. He has had charge of the health
of the Queen for twenty-seven years--since
her girlhood.
Gs- The official Piedmontese Gazette pub
fishes decree authorizing loan of one
million francs for Sardinia, by means of the
alienation of the rentes on the public debt to
that amount. Financial affairs in Naples are
represented as critical, and O. loan of f6, OOO,-
900 was spoken of. -
@-Accounts from Cochin China say tha
the French forces were so worn out by fatigue
and disease, that they wero preparing to
abandon Tourain and return to China. The
only point which the Admiral will not abandon
is Saigon, whore extensive Notifications have
been raised, and n strong garrison will be left.
@9~ The shipments of potatoes from the port
Of Bangor, this fall, will greatly exceed those
Of any former season. 1t is estimated that
one hundred thousand bushels will be exported.
The potatoes are pronounced moro uniform
and Of better quality than have been produced
for many years. ,41t
Mg-The Boston Traveller states that eleven
persons in Falmouth, Mass, living within q
circuit of three miles and hall, recently spent
a pleasant afternoon together, whose united
ages amounted to eight hundred and ninety
seven years. Tho average of their ages was
eighty-one years.
gsg-A young girl at Limerick, ireland, in
vited her faithless lover to tea, and on his de.
clining to renew his promise of marriage at her
demand, she poured some vitrol into o bowl
and dashed it into his face. His suferings
were terrible, ono of his eyes was destroyed,
his face much disfgured, and his recovery was
doubtful.
G9- A forger arrested at Haverhill is
wanted by Rhode Island because he swindled
tho Arcade Bank at Providence, in April
last, out Of 81 200; by Maine, because he got
$500 at Portland Bank in March; and.aiter
these two States are through with him, Mas
sachusetts has d claim on him which must
be satisfied. w
Gg- The success Of MademoiselIe Vestyali,
whom we claim as an American, continues TO
increase at the Grand Opera in Paris She is
now rehearsing "Heroulaneum," to take tho
place of Madame Borghi. Mamo. Mile Vest.
vail will hereafter take the first rank at the
Grand Opera, q position which she was only
able to conquer by real merit. s
ls- Madame Roger de Boauvoir has lust
died at the age Of thirty-six. When twelve
years of age she mado her debut as Mile
Doze at the Theatre Francais. She was the
authoress Of several vaudevilles and operas,
as we'll as Of several novels; of the latter, ono
entitled Les Condolences de Wlte Marr, is the
best known. a ft -s f-ry -.HR
GD-In England, for instance, no less than
$4,000 tuns Of iron are reqlired every year for
the necessary repairs of the tracks on the diff
ferent roads; and twenty millions Of wooden
sleepers are replaced annually, having be-
come useless from decay. This item alone re-
quires tho telling Of 100000 trees, occupying
5000 acres Of land. r-1u' ~ ,I7ot-l
laB- There are one thousand five hum
dred operatives in the Manchester Print Works,
one thousand of whom are female, and the
monthly pay roll is about $4,000. The mills
contain about sixty thousand spindles, and one
thousand five hundred looms, and consume
weekly forty.fve thousand pounds of cotton,
twenty. five thousand pounds of wool. manu-
featuring annually fourteen million five hun
dred and sixty thousand yards of cloth. The
dyestuffs and chemicals consumed annually
nuOunk n annnaIlv IN S9Q0 mn Y Y T .'s