The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-10-31
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

gsss- There are in Salem, Ala, fourteen ar
tesian wells, which have an average depth
Of about four hundred feet.
Ga-,A well-preserved colossal bronze bust
Of Cicero has been recently discovered neal
Pompeii. larE. VIZ 9sG s.sEt-'&
Gs-Don't believe half Of what you hear
but make sure that you believe more than hall
of what you say. l.I slly gg.Untg
E@- Bishop Onderdonk has decided to brina
legal action to recover damages which be has
sustained through the deprivation of his Office
and its immunities.
1g3- Robert P. Dunlap, Ex-Goyernor Of
Maine, and member of Congress from I84S
to lS47, died at his residence, in Brunswick
Maine, a few days since.
Gr "Ah, are you alive ?" said fellew on
meeting one whom he had grossly injured
"Yes, and kicking" replied the other, using
the appropriate gesture with his right foot.
GS Have YOU found verdict? said a
Judge to the foreman of a jury. No, your
honor, we have hunted in every corner Of tho
room, and there isn't one there. -Dr
GB- John Wise is out with another long
letter on ballooning. What with John Wise's
ballooning manifestoes and Gov. Wise's proc
lamations, we are having an unusual quantity
of gas let loose about this time.
@r ltwas considered great achievement
TO make hot air as q motive power, but still
greater one has just been noted. Compressed
cold air is now used in New York city to set
in motion some twenty sewing machines.
G@- The extension of the Grand Trunk
Railway from Quebec to Riyiers- du. Loup,
one hundred and fourteen miles, was informally
opened on the 18th instant, temporary rails
being laid down for the last eight or ten miles,
@rA Kentucky editor owns up to having
eaten beat that measured sixteen inches in
circumference, and weighed over two and
half pounds. His capacity is hard to beat.
He'd be the ruin of vegetarian society.
NS- The official returns of the Mississippi
election show q Democratic majority of 25,i65
votes. In the Legislature the Opposition
have four members In the Senate, and four
teen in the House. The majorities in the
five congressional districts range from 1864
to 1891. d.. r......' r., ..,.'..
Gay' Artemus Ward says he couldn't write
about autumn, because some irreolaimable
wretch, who was doubtless In some way con-
nected with the Harper's Ferry Insurrection,
stole his "Book Of Popular Poetic Quotations,
and he hasn't any appropriate and demon
Oholy" verses. .,,.....r
@D~ A man who had madea fortune by
industry and close economy, in retail bust
ness, at length retired from trade and used
INay, nv ,xta n,,, -. "a
summer, friend happened to say to him,
How pleasant 1t is to have such long bright
days "Why yes, replied he, but these
long days the interest come in so slOwp
@S- The Indian girls at the Usage Mission
school have sent to the President Of the Uni
ted States memento consisting of couple
of purses of silk and buckskin, beautifully
worked In beads. The package is inscribed
in the handwriting of Victoria White Hair,
one Of the Indian girls, Z" from the Usage
girls to the great father" ".r
&B- A letter from Rio Jsneiro to the New
York Courier says "s few days ago the royal
mail steamer Tyne left here for Southampton,
having no less than seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars worth Of diamonds, collected
within very brief period from tho exhaust
less treasures of Brazil" .1. .at $40 10
G%- A favorite cat OF a suburban house,
wife, at Portsmouth, was discovered short
time since with its head fast In the cream
pitcher. Here was dilemma for the good
woman. To kill the cat would not get tho
head out Of the pitcher, and so tho cat was
spared and the pitcher broken. '4
GS-Our exchanges, from various quarters,
bring accounts Of recent frosts and snow.
Snow fell at Detroit on the 2lst inst, and at
Port Huron on the 10th, to the depth Of eight
inches. There was snow at Calais and East
port, Mo-, Chicago, st. Paul, and various
localities in this State and Michigan. At
Dallas, Texas, there was frost on the I'd and
Sd instant. ...... ..
Gs- The general impression in Panama now
is chat about ell the golden images that were
buried in tho district of Chiriqui have been
found. Still there are those who believe that
large quantities will be taken out of the huacas
as soon as the dry season sets in. The excite
mont has completely died out, and an arrival
from Chiriqui excited no more interest than an
arrival from any other point on the coast.
&S- A man named stillwell was arrested
in Alexandria, Va, on Monday, for expressing
abolition sentiments. 1t appeared in evi-
dence that he had said among other things,
that negro was as good as white man, and
that slaves did right when they cut the
throats of their masters. At the conclusion
Of the trial, Justice Summers, at the instance
Of the Commemorative Attorney, required
Stillwell TO give security for his good beha-