The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-11-07
NEWS AND GOSSIP.


NEWS AND GOSSIP. ~
NH- There is o paradox in fear-he is most
likely to inspire itin Others who has none him
self!
N8-A bachelor editor, who had very
pretty sister, recently wrote to another
bachelor.equally fortunate, "Please exchange"
Ms-Mrs. Rogers, wife of Geo. W. Rogers,
Of Craig County, Va, was thrown from a
buggy last week, and only survived her in
juries about two hours.
G@-T The number of arrests in Baltimore
during October was eigh t hundred and twelve
It should have been eight thousand, juding
from the late outrages committed there. >
@s- Ex- President Van Buren,, the New
York Journal Of Commerce says, is engaged on
an important and elaborate work, which shall
embrace political history of the country
down to the close Of his administration.
gS-The late james N. Brown, Of Ibsrville
Miss, who died q few days ago, at the age oil
ffty-four, left an estate at from $790,000 Ia
$1,000, 900, all accumulated in sixteen years
from small investment in sugar planting.
Gas- IT Is stated by the Arkansas journals
that Captain Albert Pike has petitioned the
Council, now in session at Doaksville, to make
him naturalized citizen Of the Choctaw Ma
tion. IN I N.'
GS-A couple were married in Ferdinand,
Ind, on Tuesday evening of last week. The
bride complained in a short time of feeling
unwell, and in a few hours the happy, blush
ing bride was cold, inanimate corpse.
@%The entire armaments of all United
States national vessels amount to 3,3O1 guns,
divided thus: Liners 872; frigates 500; sloops
426; steamers 464; brigs 16; and all others 70
guns.
NGAt Memphis, last week, during GUAR
rel between negro drayman, Crockett, and Q
white man, Abe Lincoln, the latter shot the
former through the heart, and escaped to the
woods.
l9-Amoug the late acts of Geo. A. Wyatt,
the actor, half an hour before his death, was
his writing on the bills for the next and last
performance, With his own hand, "Lass N;ght,"
to him q prophetic reality.
NS-A fatal duel was fought recently in the
vicinity of Columbus, Miss, between Mr..
Moore, merchant Of Greensborough, Ala, and
DR.. Wiley. The latter was shot through the
head and killed instantly.
Mag- There is q new Swedish singer, Nile
Roesk, who is said to be equal to Jenny Lind.
Scores of singers care said" to be as great as
the Swedish Nightingale; but none Of them
are so.
N3 John II. Molle, in Philadelphia, has a
masculine cat of enormous size. It weighs
thirty-one pounds, and measures thirty-seven
inches from the tip Of his nose to the end of
his tail, and twenty-eight inches round the
girth. N'.
1E- The gin-house belonging to DR.. John
D. Barnard, near Huntsville, Ala, was burnt
on Friday morning last with fifty thousand
pounds of seed cotton-all that had been
picked out this season. 1t is supposed to have
been set on fire. ...
M@- At the tournament in conclusion of the
Marshall County Fair, at Holly Springs, last
week, gentleman entering the ring on horse
back ran over negro boy twelve or fifteen
years old, inhioting injuries from which the
lad died almost Immediately. &t
M8-An affray occurred on Wednesday
night near the depot, between Eli Cheshire
and German named Shelter, in which the
latter received stab in the abdomen which
may result in his death. .9
ND-An exchange says "Schamyl is in
clover. The Gear has given him palace to
live in, allows him $4,000 year, and three
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