The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-12-06
PEN AND SCISSORS.

G&r Harrisburg, Penn, is overun with beg
gars.
@gR Rev. Theodore Parker has taken rooms
In Rome for six months. His health is better
Ms- Mrs. Newcomer, of York County, Penn,
eighty-three years old, was struck dumb, about
five weeks ago.
G@ Pauperism in New York City is
rapidly increasing, not only among the foreign
population, but also among the Americans.
G9- A French writer pithiIy observes:
"Nearly all men are human" What a mar
velous discovery .5
N@- The grounds and tomb of Andrew
Jackson, owned by the State of Tennessee,
arc reported as fast going to decay.
Gs" Gerritt Smith is daily improving, and
it is thought will soon be able to leave tho
Utica IN. ~ Asylum.
@s- Benjamin Richardson, of Needham,
Mass, died of hydrophobis recently. lie was
bitten by dog six weeks since.
@s- The Richmond (va.,) Dispatch dc.
nounces tho Baltimore Methodist Episcopal
Conference as an anti-slavery organization.
GS-A huge serpent was recently shot near
st. Josephs, Missouri, which measured seven :!
tsen feet in longth. 1t had q dog in its coils,
which it killed.
ne Henry Duvall, convicted of the aur.
der of Christian Fischer, in Baltimore, in Sep
tember last, has been pardoned, and 10 now
at liberty.
ne The Irish arc talking about raising
twenty thousand men in Ireland for the tenn.
poral service of the Pope. Of course, it is
only "talk."
M@- The sky on Thursday morning through.
out New England was irradiated with mag
nihcent rainbow, spectacle rarely witnessed
in that section so late in the season.
Gg- A blind beggar was arrested lately in
Antwerp, Meth, who was ascertained 10 be tho
possessor Of three houses in that city, and
lot on which he was about to build four more
Mg-The great popularity of Washington
lrving's works may be inferred from the fact
that during the past ten years Mr.. George P.
Putnum, tho publisher, has disposed of nearly
100000 volumes.
@S-Tho receipts of the Georgia peniten-
tary for tho past year were $71 ,264 rs, and
the liabilities $4,000 76. There were two
hundred and nine convicts in the prison on
the 1st of October.
GB- The leaves of the Gymnema Sylvostre,
plant of Northern India, when chewed, take
away the power of tasting sugar for twenty
four hours, without otherwise injuring the
general sense Of taste. H.",
Ng-A dignitary of the Spanish Church has
published an appeal to the Government to es-
tablish the Papal authority, and to cooperate
with France and Austria for the subsection Of
heretical England
@S> The only artesian well in New Hamp-
shire has just been completed at the paper
mills of B. +. Martin, in Manchester. It is
six inches in diameter, two hundred feet deep,
and cost 81 900.
N3- There are two widows of revolutionary
soldiers now living in Newburyport, Mass,
Mrs. Daniel Silloway, aged 81, and Mrs.
Anna Harris, who will be 90 on the first day
of May next.
G@A supposed insurgent, calling himself
VIM. Tempest, was committed to jail at Alex
andris, Va, last week. He was arrested a
few days previous at Poolsville, Nd, but man
aged to escape.
l@ Accounts from Marseilles and Toulon
os6to tuAt tuo WobtncT udS Ueeu quito ab DOlS-
ferrous in the Mediterranean as in the Atlantic,
aud that several vessels which had been OK
pected from the East are still overdue.
lE The Bristol, England, Mercury an
nounces that Mr.. George Underfeld, varnish
manufacturer, Of that city, has had daughter
born to him, the thirty third child since the
battle Of Trafalgar, at which he was present.
The idea Of the monument to the Great
Napoleon is still secret, but only one thing
is known as yet-that the Emperor is resolved
that 1t shall be the finest thing of the kind
existent in the whole world. '
@S-Rev. DR.. Bellows, of New York, re-
Gently preached sermon in favor of card
playing, dancing, and novel reading, under
certain restrictions. That concerning cards
was ono gambling" The Doctors views are
"broad, as they should be."
N8-An appropriate and beautiful monu-
ment has been erected in the cemetery at
Swampacott, on the spot where lie the remains
Of the twelve mon who perished by the ship
wreck of the bark Tedesco, Of Portland, Me-,
at Swampacott, in January, 1857. :
Ns-The number of marriages in the city
Of Richmond, Va, in 1857, was 1865, and in
1858, 72. The number Of births in 1857 was
474, Of whom $40 were whites; in 1858, 298,
Of whom 242 wore whites. The number of
deaths in 1857 was 277, of whom 2lS werc
81 rs IL