The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-10-19
NEWS AND GOSSIP.


&@~A wel.expounded text-"He CLOTHED
himself with curses as with garment" The
man who had habit Of swearing. ..
ii gsS~ The Nashville P,trio, says that whest
is selling on the East Tennessee and Virginia
Railroad atsixty cents per buShel. ..l,e.
gS5~ Hon Linn Boyd proposes startine in
few days for Cooper's Well in Mississippi
in the hope that his health will be benefited
by the waters. '-'.
GSrHaNs Journal Of Health says more
persons are destroyed by eat ting too much than
by drinking too much. Gluttony kills more
thpn Drunkenness in civilized society.
&9- Two or three thousand people attended
tho barbecue given at Montgomery, Texas, on
The 5th ult., to Gov. Sam. Houston. Men OF
all parties were present, many ladies ditto, and
q fine dinner terminated the ceremonies to
every ones satisfaction. e ...t..' 3.
5rss-Mons CHARMS, of The Ravel troupe,
performed the fete Of walking across the
Schuylkill River, at Philadelphia, on Thurs
day. The rope was about eight hundred feet
In length, forty-iye feet high on ono side Of
the river, and eighty on the other. A large
crowd witnessed The performance. - .------
Mn-The city railroads in st. Louis are laid
on Macadamized streets; the consequence is,
that stones are continually getting upon the
rails and throwing the cars of the track. The
ST.. Louis Eepress thinks the city ought to
compel the railroad company to pave the streets
on which they iun with stone. ~. 'ito' .,'
&s- William Holmes, formerly o reputable
merchant of Troy, N. Y, who, under the in
fuence of the spiritual affinity doctrine, to
which he had become a convert, deserted his
wife two or three months since, has been ar
rested at Chicago at the instance of the wife,
who wishes to recover her three children, whom
he took away with him. -,
S-,We learn from the Versailles Dispatch
that Mr.. John baltimore, an old pioneer, OF
Indiana, died near Vernon, Jennings County,
last week. lie was eighty three years of age,
and settled first in Jefferson County, in 1Sl1.
He moved to Vernon in l8l2-where he died.
He was a. prominent member of tho Presby-
fterian Church in its early days.
sj5 LIZ -4J F.. L<ttFErN
Isr'A clergyman OF Concord, N. H.--so
says The Statesman of that plaoo-met % little
boy of his acquaintance on the cars, and said
to him, "This is quito q stormy day, my SON."
eyes, Sir" said the boy, "this is very ,cet
rain" The clergyman, thinking to rebuke
such hyperbole, asked il he ever knew of
other than wet rain. The boy answered that
he never knew personally of any other, but he
had read in o certain book, of q time when it
rained FIRE and birthstone, and he guessed that
was not o wet rain. s|'.H
Gag- Tho Queen of Spain, in q royal decree,
dated at Madrid, on September 81, 1859, sig
nities her acceptance of the resignation, by
Lieutenant General Don Jose Gutierrez de Ia
Concha, Marquis of Havana, of his post Of
Governor Captain General of the Island Of
Cuba, declaring herself much satisfied with the
zeal, intelligence and loyalty with which he
has discharged that office; and in another royal
decree of the same date, she appoints to fill the
vacancy, Captain General DON Francisco Ser
ranoIy Dominguez Count of San Antonio and
Director General of ARTILLERY.
M" Mr., John Wise writes that out of one
hundred and thirteen balloon assents, in which
he reached an altitude of three miles, the bal
loon sailed to the east one hundred and twelve
times. In the exception she remained nearly
stationary, landing three miles west of the
point of ascension. Out of two hundred and
thirty four clear Grial voyages and two
hundred and nineteen tropical ascensions, be
met with Two slight accidents, and the loss OF
two balloons by their getting away from him.
The accidents occurred in his povitate. The
balloons were lost--one IN q whirlwind, the
other in a uuiDer swamp In Maine.'
@s5-It seems there are two opinions re-
garding the recent trater gas experiment at
Wilrnin ptnn Del According to the local
papers, the experiment was made by inter-
csted parties in Philadelphia, who carried out
their arrangements with the Gas Company,
without the knowledge of tho citizens, and
the first intmaton the latter had of what
had been done, was the illumination Of tho
city. The Wilmington Herald says it was a
decided failure; the gas gave n very poor
light, and emitted horrible smell, d, d. --
g3"It appears that Lady franklin sank, in
the last expedition to the Arctic region, all her
remaining fortune, and that her failing health
now detains her in the south of France An
"Arctic Navigator" in a letter to the Times,
suggests that, besides refundipg to the widow
of the officer who fell in the execution of his
duty tho sum she paid for fitting out the FoH
and her crew, she should be offered a home for
her declining days in the palace of Kensng-
ton. The same writer also suggests that Capt
McCinLoclk should, by order in council, DO al-
lowed sea. time as a naval oflcer while he com
manded the Foe, and receive his we'll -merited
knighthood; and that the oficcr5 and crew OF
the For ought to get thearemsiuing 4 10 900