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

ueBtltutl0n.
N8 The rate Of taxation In San Francisco,
for 1859 and 1850, IL SO 10 per 800 of taxable
property.
D~Mr. s. W. Handley had his pocket
picked In tho streets Of Memphis, Tennessee,
q few days since Of l,7oo in money and notes.
,g9R. 81. Ridgley, editor Of the Nicholas.
Vile (Ky.,) Democrat, died last week Of inasm.
nation Of the bowels.
9s> Seventeen moro caulkers were dis.
charged from the Gosport, (va.) Navy yard
on Tuesday. There are only two loft.
GS- Patrick Rielsy, boy Of fourteen, was
run over and killed, on Friday, on one ofthe
street railroads in st. Louis.
lrAll the dry-goods stores in Detroit,
Michigan, are to be closed, during the winter
months, BY mutual agreement, at seven 2. M.
@S>Both branches Of tho City Council Of
Roxbury, Mass, have voted to purchase o
bust Of Warren, at an expense Of $500.
troy, New York, Is infested with ras.
Gals, who amuse themselves with throwing
vitriol on ladies' dresses. f.4l
DR.. &. W. Webb, Of Kentucky, ended his
life by taking laudanum, In Richmond, Texas,
on the 2lst ult. No cause is assigned for the
deed. 1GggT.ii H ENGgsa an
The fair prima donna, Madame Biscac.
cisnti, gave her first concert in San Tfanoisco
on the 18th Of October. She had a crowded
house. -7
@ One day last week the powder mill In
East Hartford, Conn.,, belonging to Hammer
4 Forbes, blew up, killing John McGrath and
sam'l Smith,.
proposition for the establishment of
o new bank at Memphis, Tenn, with capi-
tai Of not loss than, one million Of dollars, IA
being extensively talked Of in that city. ,
@4- There are in the United States at pres-
ent forty-eight Catholic Arcbbishops and
Bishops, two mitred Abbots, and 1928 secular
and regular priests.
&srThe time when young men generally
entertain notions Of marriage Is exactly when
they have no more need Of wives than dog
ha, of spare tail.
9gA western paper says that o COW re-
Gently gave birth to Q calf belonging to
widow lady in the villsge, with six legs and
two tails 'h l.5
G9- Among the ouriosi6ss lately added to
the museum is musquitoe's bladder, contain
Ing the souls Of twenty misers and the fortunes
Of twelve printers-nearly half-full.
as- Recently woman In lows starved
herself, after sixty-elsht days. fasting, retain.
ing her consciousness until three days before
death ensued.
Louis Baummsyer, married man,
having failed tn succeed In business, after re-
peated efforts, killed himself In St. Louis, on
Friday, with strychnine.
/ l8-In China, when pair Of unmention-
ables arc no longer serviceable, they are stuffed
with minced meat and sold for sausages. The
cultivators of Young Hyson are ingenious. &,
3g William H. Seward and Henry Ward
Bseoher were burnt in efigy on Saturday
night last, by The students in Princeton, New
Jersey.
49, Some of tho large shoe dealers in
Alexandria, Va, are going into the manufac-
ture of boots and shoes and other articles in
their line, to encourage home manufactures.
~ The Church En,e,ligencsr, new Epis-
copal paper, will be commenced In Raleigh,
North Carolina, early In Maroh, 1860, under
the editorial control Of Henry M. Green, q
Presbyter Of the Diocese Of North Carolina.
DG Daniel Wilson, an old settler, residing
near Buyrus,.in this State, and much re-
spected and wealthy citizen, destroyed himself
BY cutting his throat with razor, o day or
two since. FF gsA ga VIA #1 1s
9gHon. D. o. Morton, leading member
Of the bar in Toledo, and formerly United
States District Attorney for Northern Ohio,
died day or two ago In that city in his forty
third year.
METhs dtisens Of Bangor, Maine, own
about 81 100000 worth Of property beyond tho
limits Of tho city. The amount Of property in
the city is $6,000,0 900. Within the past ten
years the city lost the large sum of $1,000, 900.
a0-The sum Of $4,000 has already been
subscribed for the proposed line Of packets
between Richmond and Liverpool, with view
10 the establishment Of direct trade betwesn
ne two cities. The amount required is
$150,0O0.
AD-T. Hamilton Vanandah, O story writer
and contributor 10 the Sunday papers of New
York, and formerly to some Of the weekly
papers In this place, died In the former city
last week. He was native Of Maryland, and
about thirty years Of ago. at
G1-Two men, John Basson and John
Gaskins, while leaning against the rail Of the
steamboat Mount Pleasant, off Castle Pincknsy,
3. O., 4 few days ago, were drowned by the
rail giving way and precipitating them into
the water. 80 ,ro... s+..a. reH- arvt siiIa
a8- Every Englishman il born In debt and
starts In life with burden. The interest