The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-10-12
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Ms- The dome of the courthouse in St.
Louis, which cost $50, 900, has been condemned
as insecure and perilOus to life.
lag- The Ohio Penitentiary Is boiling over
with inmates, and it is almost impossible to
provide them all with comfortable lodgings.
The number Of conviots is $50.
Ga-Mr. La Mountain, In his late trip into
the Canadian wilds, ascertained tho speed OF
air currents to be at the rate Of two miles In a
minute, according to his own ratio of travelling.
@s-It appears from the accounts Of Messrs.
Phillips, Sampson & Co., that they have ex-
pended $4,000 in establishing the Atlantic
Monthly, and that the maximum profits of that
periodical in any one year have been $4, 200.
Gs- At the Merrimack County Fair, at
Concord. this week, there is to be O novelty
never witnessed in New England-a scrub race,
the slowest horse winning the purse! All the
horses 20 to the saddle, and no one rides his
own horse, but rides tho horse of some other
man.
Gss- Tho Hon. John 9. Rives, editor and
publisher Of tho Congregational Globe, was In
Evansville, Ind, on Wednesday. He went in
bis plain and unobtrusivo way, and spent the
day in tracing the changes of twenty five
years, at which period he was clerk in a
bank at Shawneetown, and it was not until ho
was about to leave by the cars that he was dis
covered by his old acquaintance.
@g- The spots on the sun are unusually
numerous and large this year. At the present
time there are eleven groups Of spots visible,
two of which have just made their appearance
on the Western edge. A very large spot has
been recently observed nearly in the center,
embracing central black spot and still
larger penumbral region. 1t Is said to be un.
dergoing daily remarkable changes.
s-Another reverend gentleman, the Rev.
3. X. Sweetman, Of Swanzey, Mass, is on trial
before Church Council for the following
trifing misdemeanors: The publication of an
unchristian and uncerical pamphlets making
false representations to a Bristol church, in
order to hurry it into closing bargain; bor-
rowing shirt and not returning it; sermon
stealing, and advertising for wife while his
third one was still living.
@Dr On Thursday afternoon a German
named Peter Dass shot wild cat in the Ninth
Ward, near the outside of the city limits, thai
was nearly as large, and very much resembled
q small tiger. Stretched at full length il
measured FIVE feet, and the actual length Of
its body was nearly three feet. Upon seeing
him, MIR. Dass says, it ran up into tree, VIII orc
he shot it without difficulty, the ball entering
his left shoulder, in the region Of the heart
Ml,caukie Sentinel, 24th uh.
Gar Somebody speaking of the hurryinp
propensities of the Yankees, says:--'Tf a biz
mortar could be constructed, which would
throw an immense bomb she'll, containing
fifteen passengers, from st. Louis to Boston in
five minutes, with an absolute certainty that
fourteen would be killed by the explosion
tickets for seats by the Express Bomb Shell
Line would at once be at o premium, each
passenger being anxious for the chance t.
prove himself the lucky fifteenth"
G@- John Petit, hard working warehous,
man of New Orleans, was entrusted witt
sos to deposit in bank. He took drinl
on the way-a second, and third. Will,
intoxicated he lost $4OO gambling. His wild
owed mother took the remainder, sought his
employers, and obtained their forgiveness 70,
her son. He, meanwhile, was in prison; but
it was intended to release him after severe
admonition. Remorse and shame, however
were too much for him. The frenzied man
butted his head against the walls of his cell
with such violence that the skull was frac.
tured and he was found daod ,y tbo I'LL.