The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-06-18
Various Items.

Hon. John Law, of Evansville, will deliver
a historical discourse at the Tippecanoe Battle
Ground, on Saturday the I'd. - . "l
Acorns, il is said, this year will be unusually
plenty. Pork growers and dealers should CAL
culate accordingly, .,,, ,.-.. ...t-..f.. ...
II is proposed to establish system of horse
railroads in Detroit, after the pattern Of New
York, Philadelphia and other cities.
The Now York Post says, that ladies have
q Tar greater desire than men have to witness
horrible spectacles, to see hangings, and to
visit notorious prisoners.
The Lafayette and Indianapolis Railroad
Company have declared dividend of three
and one half per cent. on the earnings Of the
past six months, payable on and after July L.
The British Admiralty has authorised gra-
tuities Of los. and 20s. to persons bringing a
ship wright, caulker, or seaman, to the Royal
Dock-yards. i'"i
The first church erected in British Columbia
was opened Sth of May, at the new town of
Langley The sermon was preached by the
Rector of the church, the Rev. W. Burton
Crickmer.
The New York Light Guard gave a hand
some entertainment to the Milwaukee Light
Guard, on Wednesday night, at their armory
In Lafay ette Hall, Broadway. 1t was quite an
imposing affair. .....'..... &c..
The number of miners in British Columbia
actually at work is 5000 men; many good
judges, however, say there are not more than
1000 working steadily. The $l95,OO0 shipped
as above would give as the result for each of
the 5000 men, 50 1879 per day.
"A happy couple have just returned to Fall
mouth, Massachusetts,, from their wedding
trip, which was whaling voyage that lasted
hve years. During their absence, the wife
gave birth to two babes, one of which was a
child OF four years when it reached home. ID.
A few weeks since Mr.. VIM. Barrows, of
North Bridgewater, Mass, while poking his
ear with a pin, dropped it in, and physicians
have labored in vain to reach and remove Il.
Inflammation has taken place, and it is feared
1t will terminate his life. r.l .,in3. s..
On Wednesday afternoon, the New York
Children's Aid Society fitted up another of
their interesting companies Of children, and
they left the city under the charge of Mr.. II.
Friedgen. Their destination is Indiana. They
looked quite happy, and were fine party of
boys and girls.
Tho Chicago Press & Tribune publishes the
following notice: Our readers will take notice
that (as we have never heretofore,) we do not
now guarantee the truthfulness of reports from
the Plke's Peak Mining region, any more than
we pledge ourselves for the veracity of the
French or Austrian bulletins from the seat of
war. ,........ b. ..I... .s.rr Dli .
The British papers make boast that Prince
Nicholas, of Nassau, has Joined the Austrian
army as volunteer. He happens to be the
person who once challenged Prince Albert to
settle at the swords point dispute which
neither would care to drag beyond the regi-
ment in which they wero both serving as sub
ordinate (or rather insubordinate) officers.
Paris letter says: "The Empress and her
uncle jerome got on but middlingly together,
and two days since, she much surprised the
Council and Ministers by announcing that if
any emergency occurred, she should not con-
suit her uncle, but take counsel only of her
maternal heart.'" 1t is about tho best thing
she could do in an emergency.
A middle aged woman, giving her name as
Emma Myers, on Wednesday last entered the
rear part of Mr.. Daniel McCann's residence,
Eighth Avenne, New York, by means of false
keys. Mrs. Mccain discovered her and she
ran away. Mrs. McCann pursued her, and
after an exciting chase of several blocks,
through tho assistance Of Officer Mcconnell, of
the Sixteenth Ward, she was captured Fe.
male burglars will, after this, come into
"vogue"
All OF us can call to mind some very "sin-
gular coincidenees," but one which a PenpsyI-
vania journal narrates is at ell events unusu-
ally harmonious. The twin daughters of
Abraham Guise, of Gettysburg, died there re-
Gently at the age of forty-four years. "They
were born and raised together; never separa-
ted for single night during their livestock
the same disease (measles), died within a few
hours Of each other, and were buried side by
side in the same grave. They travelled life's
path hand in hand, and in death they were not
parted" . ID, ..-,. ...r -..r 'F
SOMETHING WORTHY OF NoTE.-Recently the
City Council of Memphis, Tenn, had under
consideration the extraordina ary Iiberality of
the Sons of Malta to the poor of the city and
its vicinity, and in the plenitude of their ad-
miration of the self sacrificing "Sons" actually
voted $500 of the public money as nm appro-
priation to the exhausted treasury of the order.
But 1--WE learn from the Memphis Argus) the
appropriation being entirely without the knowI.
edge or consent of the "Sons," they immedi-
ately reyolted at the idea of accepting the prof
fered donation, which, they said, would bring
the order into disrepute; and some of them
went so far as to denounce the proposal as an
electioneering trick.
The ACCIDENT TO THE EDINBURGH-STATE
MENT OF A LADY PAssENGER.--The following
letter was written by Mrs. Adelia B. Pollock,
to her husband in New York. Mrs. Pollock
was passenger on the Edinburgh, and was
out on the deck at the time of the accident
The letter will be read with interest:
"ST. JoHN's, N. F., June Z, 1859.
"MY DEAR HUSBAND: Since parted from
you 7 passed through fearful peril, and never
expected to see You again. We were steaming
along last Monday, at the rate of eleven miles
an hour, through dense fog. At about 112O
was on deck, looking over the stern of the
vessel, and had just remarked to a fellow-pas-
senger that the air seemed unusually cold and
chilly. At that moment turned around, and
a fearful scene met my view. Mountains of
ice lay on the lee side of the steamer. 1t was
so foggy that we could not sec fifty feet around
us; and though the vessels head was immedi-
ately turned, We passed so near the iceberg
that could have thrown an apple upon it,
We said that it was wonderful narrow es-
cape, and thought that we were safe, when
suddenly there was cry, "The ship is sink
ing All the boats, eight in number, were
cut loose, and furnished with blankets and pro-
visions. We were about l70 miles from land |
at the time. The passengers and crew were
distributed in watches of two hours each, and
thus worked for thirty hours. The women also
worked, and among others l helped at the |
pumps for three hours without stopping. Tho |
captain was as calm as if nothing was the mat
ter. 49, -. .'-.
"We passeda dreadful night, We were all
numbered for the boats, to which we were liza |
bic at any hour to be forced to enter. The rain |