The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-05-11
Selections.

On Sunday the bodies of Thomas Hoyland.
printer, and lad named John Feilty, were
found in the river at Pittsburg.
The Glendale extension of the c., W. az.
Railroad, is being surveyed, and will be nut
under contract next month.
The Ohio State Journal is publishing series
of papers entitled, "Episodes of Ohio History. >
from the pen of W. I. Coggeshal. State Lii.
brarian.
physician told his patient that he could
cure his toothache by simply holding certain
root in his right hand. "What root?" asked
the sufferer. "The root of the aching tooth.
On Friday night, at ball in Pittsbure, n
young man named Thomas Hanna stabbed
VIM. Coble so that he died on Saturday.
Hanna was arrested.
The Columbus Fact makes up very affect
ing story of the death of a milkman's horse by
iaiilng over fence and breaking his (thc
horse's) neck
Samuel Atchson, in attempting to jump
on railway train at Dunkirk n. Y, on
Wednesday last, fell between the cars and
was killed.
There was u ''striko" among the "Boilers"
at lronton last week, some forty in number
VI course the works stopped, and the men
found themselves out of employment.
The farmers in Clark County report the fruil
crop safe. The Ohio Press says The whea,
never looked better. During the present week
Bandreds of acres of corn have been planted.
VIM. Ii. Smith, confined in tho Fremont iail
Tor horse stealing, tried to escape last Monday.
but was caught in the act of scaling the wall
He has not yet had his trial. unless that be
considered one, and indicative of his guilt.
A jury were recently serenaded in Baton
Rouge, La, for acquitting n man charged with
murder. They thanked the serenaders and
said they hoped they should always merit "the
good will Of their fellows"
4 lady residing at Springfield, Ohio, is onr
of the regular contributors of the Waverlv
Magazine. Her nom-d plume is " Cora B."
She is about to publish pastoral tale, enti-
tied Hearts and Homes"
lawyer on his death-bed willed all his
property to lunatic asylum, stating, rs his
reason for so doing, that he wished his property
to return to the liberal class of people who had
patronized him.
A compositor, named Thomas Holland, ran
out Of his house, in a half crazy state, at Pitts
burg, on Wednesday morning last, and made
tracks towards the Allegheny River his wife
following him as fast as she could. BE,
however, escaped from her view, and has not
been heard of since.
A WOMAN oyERBoARD.-On Friday evening
woman, deck passenger, on the Die Vernon,
fell overheard. She would not sink, but foated
like cork. The officers of the boat gave
chase in the yawl and caught her at the head
Of the canal. We did not learn whether she
was upheld by her Hghtness and natural buoy
ancy, or by expansive life preserver hoops
perhaps little of both.-LouispiHe Courier.
terrible tragedy occurred in New York
city on the 5th. A tailor named John Joyce
was enamored of widow lady's daughter
named Bridget Freeman, who lived next door
The mother repeled his advances. On the
night of the 9th, Joyce was in her house; he
had with him large pair of shears, which he
kept close by him. The old lady bade him
leave the room; he attacked her; Bridget inter
fered, when he seized the shears, pressed then:
together, and plunged them into her breast,
repeating the blows six times-the six wounds
penetrating the lungs. She is dead and he
committed.
The Steamboat Fire at our wharf, on Sat
urday afternoon, full details of which will be
found in the local columns, could have caused
no surplus to those familiar with the combusti-
BILE nature of such property, and the almost
hopelessness of any attempt to drag one boat
out while another is blazing beside it. II hap
pened fortunately, that the river was at good
stage, so that the South America, having
steam up, could, all at one time, drag out the
Economy, Iowa, Hazel Dell, and her own
barge, before they caught fire; a tow boat also
hauled out one steamer, and a number of ciii-
zens dragged out the Clara Dean-so that the
continuous line of boats was broken up on the
Western or lower side and the fire confined to
those on the upper or Eastern part of the wharf.
Had the river been either frozen over or at a
summer stage, when the bar in the rear would
preclude the rapid moving out even of single
boat, what fearful sweep there would have
been probably of every boat from end to end
of the wharf.-Pins Dis. .r..