The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-08-29
News and Gossip.


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G5- General William Walker has been
elected member Of the Order Of Sons Of Malta.
@S- Later news from Hayti announce that
the report that President Gefrard was to be
invited to become Dictator, ia a falsebood.
GD- The Providence Journal says there are
10 great many lovely women at Newport"
Very likely. But there are great many more
at home. ~ w.. H'N
- gss> The Clarksville (Tenn.) Chronicle
hoists the pane of Hon. John Bell for the Presi
dency In 1850.
| Gs- The General Grand Chapter of Royal
Arch Masons Of the United States will meet in
Chicago next month.
Ga-Mrs. Blitz, vito of Signor Blits, died
in Brooklyn on Saturday evening, and was
buried on Monday.
gs> The drought in New Hampshire is
extremely severe. In some places there has
been scarcely any rain in six weeks l..
GB- The Great Eastern is advertised to
leave for Portland early in September. Rates
Of passage, port of departure, and other ar
rangements, were to be speedily announced.
@- Voltaire defines physician to be an
unfortunate gentleman who is every day re-
quired to perform miracle, namely, to re-
concile health with intemperance.
Es- second crop of strawberries is being
raised in portions of Pennsylvania. The
berries are said to be excellent. Obedent
vines, those. .t...,
Cry RAILROADS IN New ORLEANs.-Judge
Eggleston, Of New Orleans, has rendered his
decision in the city railroad injunction case,
dissolving the injunction and leaving the city
authorities free togo ahead with the enterprise.
FREE TRADE IN FRANCE.-F Foreign journals
say that the French Emperor intends to open
the ports of France to tho free introduction of
cotton, coal, iron and other articles largely
consumed in the country. r.
gs- Some one says that young men edu-
Gated in the heel, rather than the head, are
most likely to succeed with the heiresses at
Newport; that is those who are open to mar
riageable convictions. Their affections can
be waltzed into. .....
lD-A boy about five years of age, son of
Mr.. Eben Knowlton, of Boston, has con-
tracted the disease of the gandcrs by climb
ing in the stall where horse affected with
disease had been kept.
| |, GY-A man in Oswego, named S. Gardner,
announces that on Friday, weather permitting
he intends making the attempt to walk on the
water one mile out on the lake. lie will then
leave for Syracuse to walk across the Onondaga
Lake. ,, ...r
@-A Rochester journal says that Blondih
realized $1,6O0 from his last exhibition at
| hok ho hoo obob
$4,000 this season in walking over the
great river 5.- .-,.,
N5-It is said of Park Benjamin, tho lecturer,
that being invited on the Sabbath to attend
HsnryssWard Beecher's Church, he replied that
he never went to any place of amusement on
Sundays.
Ms- Two firms at Worcester, Mass, have
manufactured two thousand and two hundred
moving machines within the past year, which
sold for about two hundred and thirty thousand
dollars.
Gy- The true secret of SUCCESS in business
of almost every kind 10 through the agency
of the press, and therefore the proprietor Of
O. widely circulated and extensively read
daily journal may be considered the patron
Of his advertisers. .
| U5 Tdlu Wullo Do LuVo
was crossing Genesee Falls, last week, IN
elegantly dressed lady coolly removed her
bonnet and deliberately fastened it underneath
her skeleton skirt after the storm was over the
bonnet reappsared, as good as new.
Mg-The new Custom House of Chicago is @
splendid building. 1t is three stories high.
The lower is devoted to the Postoffice; the
second to the Custom house, and the third to
the US. Courts. 1t is built Of Illinois marble,
ofs cream color. twill cost $450,000.
MS- Chief Justice Taney, of the United
States Supreme Court, is in the 83d year of his
age. His eight associates in the court, with
one single exception, are all three score years
and ten, and some of them considerably exceed
that number. ~. t. "...H
HORSES IN KENruCKY.-A correspondent from
\, Woodford Comfy, kentucky, says that the
thoroughbreds now in training in that State are
more numerous than ever before, and that Red
Oak is moving like buck. Arnold Harris
and tho Holton Marc are both broke down and
gone.
NOTED RuFFIAY KILLED The Bonham
(Texas) Era states that Bill White, O we'll
known desperate of Northern Texas, was
overtsken few days ago, in company with
Cherokee Indian, with whom he had been
stealing horses, and shot dead while endeav-
oring to kill ono Of his pursuers.
gs- Pennsylvania having sold its canals
and railroads, is reducing its State debt at
the rate of $l,000,00O year. New York,
holding on to her public works, finds her
self growing deeper and deeper in debt,
with decreased revenue, and sad financial
prospect ahead.
Na- The number of visitors at Saratoga
has been unusually great this, season. The
arrivals have averaged over a thousand daily
for the past six weeks, and at present the
hotels are overfowing. 1t has been the most
'succesaful season which the Springs has ever
experienced.
;. A RIVAL OF BLoNDN.-A few days since,
according to the Columbia (Penn.) Democrat,
Mr.. Theodore Med. Price was conveyed to the
island opposite Espytown, in boat, when he
ascended q tree, to which the ferry wire was
attached, and walked the wire across the Sus-
quehanna, distance of one thousand two
hundred feet, and fifty feet above tho water,
with balance pole, performing tho feet in
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