The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-09-06

SPURGE0H's NEW TABERNACLE IN LONDON
On the 10th Of August, the foundation stone of
the new Tabernacle" for the Rev. Mr.. Spur
geon was laid in the presence of about three
thousand spectators. The ediilce will comfort
ably accommodate five thousand persons, and
will have spacious school and lecture rooms,
the whole costing about G25, 900. Addresses
we're delivered by Rev. Mr.. SpurgeOn, Rev. Mr..
Inskp and Sir S. NJ. PeteO, member Of Par
Lament. The assemblage present on the occa-
sion subscribed ne.rly $4,000, of which $4,000
was given by one gentleman, and G1OO by Mr..
SpurgeOn himself, toward erecting the build
ing. g -ir, gtf i..-,- II .-r ~.
DIED OF L0CKJAw.-A man by the name Of
Hopple, a carpenter by trade, and q resident of
the west end of town, in tho ncighburhood Of
the basin, died from tho effects Of the lock jaw
yesterday morning. Some time since Mr.. Hop
pie, while at work, run nail into his foot,
which, within the last few days, caused con-
siderable pain and suffering, and put an end to
his existence yesterday morning. g.-HdrrisJuy
Cnisn, 31St. rt s
ANCIENT BEEswAx.-The Houston (Texas)
Telegraph states that the stage drivers and
passengers on the last ripfrom Velasco picked
up on tho beach, several cakes Of becswax,
which are supposed to be portions Of q cargo OF
beeswax that formed the loading of vessel,
which fOuudcred in the Gulf of Mexico in
1898, and was designed for the use of the
Churches in Mexico. For many years similar
waits have been thrown on the beach in that
section Of country. "a.
GETTING Drunk ON SUsDAY.-Father Sulli-
van, the Catholic priest in Northampton, Mass,
has administered severe castgation to those
l,fh t.nt,r ,Inu
ting drunk. He alluded to the fact that eleven
of tho lay members were arrested on recent
Sunday, and threatened hereafter to proclaim
! in open meeting the names Of those who should
bo found drunk and disturbing tho public
peace. .. H.
RIOT AND Loss OF LIFE.-0n Thursday of
last week riot occurred at Waynesburg, Penn,
between number of whites and blacks. One
white man, named Zimmerman, was shot
through the head and instantly killed. Some
three others werealso wounded with pistolshots.
The inhabitants talk of lynchng the darkies.
Some eight are in Jail.
Louis NAPOLEON NERVOUS. Louis Napoleon
has, it is said, irightful nervous shocks, which
entirely Danish sleep, and which were produced
by the battle of Solfcrino. lie sees all the
dreadful scenes of the battle over again during
these attacks. If the story is not exaggerated,
the Emperor must have been considerably more
scared than hurt by his military experience,
asD~ The editor Of the New Orleans Bulletin
has received the gift of a pumpkin which
weighs one hundred and sixty pounds, and
measures seven feet in circumference. 1t
was raised in Texas, by Mark Noble. New
Englanders in New Orleans are said to gaze
upon the monster vegetable with feelings Of
astonishment and home o-sickness.
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES Illinois, the great
"granary" Of tho Northwest, has eighty. eight
agricultural county societies; New York
seventy-seven; Indiana seventy six; Pennsyl-
vania sixty-eight; Ohio sixty eight; Iowa
forty-six; Massachusetts forty-four.
DEATH OF AN OLD Conc GREssMAN.-Hon. N.
II. Claiborne died very suddenly at his resi-
denco, in franklin County, Va, on the morn
ing of the 18th of August, in his eighty-third
year. Heserved many years in Congress.
NSs- A valuable vein of Camel coal, ten
feet thick, has been discovered recently on the
farm OF L. NJ. speer, Esq, near the town Of
Bclivernon, Fayette County, Penn.
M1- The Rev. 0. c. Baker, D. D., one Of
the Bishops of tho Methodist Episcopal Church,
arrived at San Francisco on the evening OF
July 2S, and left that port on the LIST of August
for Portland, Oregon.
G3~The two sons of Robert Burns, the
Scottish poet, are at presentin Ireland, where
they have been welcomed with demonstra-
tions of respect.
@5~Tho Hon. T. D. F lorence has been con-
fined to his house in Washington, during the
past fortnight, by painful bodily aflction.
N1J~A bill has been introd uced in the Nash
vile city council to forbid "fOrtune telling,
planet reading" &c.
@S" The old cry of q short sugar crop al
the South has been started. Nevertheless the
crop is good.
rs" Lieut.. Edw. f. Beale, who was in COM
mand of the Pacific wagon road expedition, hos
returned to his home, at Chester, Penn.