The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-08-23
News and Gossip.

G9~ The water in the Hudson River con-
tinues very low. Boats can hardly reach Al
bany.
lsS- General Samuel Veazie, the richest
man in Maine, is tho presiding officer of the
Division of the Sons Of Temperance, in Veazie.
lS- Duncan King, of Bladen County, N.
c., was killed few days ago, by fall from
his buggy.
lrf5N The Hon. Littleton Kirkpatrick, an
ex-member of Congress from New Jersey, died
suddenly at Saratoga, N. Y, on Monday.
Gs" DR.. IF. b. Bower, the owner of the
field on which the surrender Of CORVALLIS took
place, has granted its use for military en-
campment. Ht S...
Gg" The Providence Journal Of tho 10Th
inst. says that fifty five bushels of clans and
nine hundred pounds of fish were baked in one
heap, at Rocky Point, yesterday, for the Dap
tist excursion from Boston.
ED- Hearing physician remark that q
small blow will break the nOse,a rustic ex-
claimed, "Well, I dunno, bout that. I've
blowed my nose great many times, and I've
never broke it yet"
KossUTH,-A Paris letter says: GAN that
we learn of Kossuth is, that he has sold in
Genoa the pair Of English thorough bred
horses he brought with him to help him out of
the campaign he professed wish to enter
upon"
MAKING PREPARATIONs.-An eccentric old
gentleman named McEwen, in Cbittenden
County, VT, has lately prepared his grave
under his own supervision, thus literally COM
plying with the Injunction, "while in life pre-
pare for DEATH"
A CHANCE FOR GIRLs.-The agricultural
society which holds itv fair at Dundee, Michi-
gan, in October, offers premium of five dol
lars to the young lady "who will pare peck
Of potatoes in the shortest time and do it the
best"
E9"The first American woman that ever
landed in Japan was Mrs. Bailey, of Phila-
delpbia, master of the ship Mary Ellis. She
was surrounded and followed by large crowd
of Japanese, but all their movements were
| perfectly res pectful.
STATUE SupPED.-The statue of Washing
ton in Masonic regalia, ordered from Powers
| by the Masonic Lodge in fredericksburg,
Va, was shipped at Leghorn on the 22d ult.,
in the ship Linda, bound for New York,
where twill arrive next week.
gsS-A Berlin letter statos that Field Mar-
shal Wrangle is to proceed to Stockholm with
o large military suite, to be present at the
coronation of King Charles XIV. The Queen
of Sweden, daughter Of Prince Frederic of the
Netherlands, is niece of tho Prince Regent Of
| Prussia.
The WISCONSIN WHEAT CRoP.-The Mil
waukie WiscOnsia has no doubt that the croI
of spring wheat now harvested in that State is
larger than in any former year. 1t estimates
the amount at 14,OO0,OOO bushels, and allow
ing 100000 for consumption, there will be
100000 bushels for export.
A DESERVED SENTENcE-0rland do B.
| Merrill, who was convicted in Boston for an
assault with intent to commit an outrage on
his daughter, Susan Jane Merrill, was on
Wednesday sentenced to Imprisonment in the
| State Prison for twenty years, the first five
days to be in solitary confinement.
GsS' Time wears slippers of list, and his
tread is noiscless. The days come softly dawn
ing, one after another; they creep in at the
windows; their fresh morning dir is grateful to
the lips that pant for it; their music is sweet to
the ears that listen 10 it; until, before we know
it, whole life of days has possession of the
citadel, and time has taken us for its own.
| SNAKEs.-Snakes are said to be more abund-
| ant the mOuntainR this mi than for rna %
uoors Tha Ios. Tn;nntaus Ipa S,1y ln
yonnrt, 0ouaraI oa ooa &C. ,o,,. ta; un ... p.."I
copnarbead and rsttle snoIesManon % o." ~. ~
nnn,hsr the eaitor h;mSo,S rho Voc st-t,,,, Wv ~
tho bacIr bv a oonnarhaoJ ,,h;,o n,,t GaS;,
He sustairsd No n;'rv no, howsnar "nr' '"' n'A'ns
cN. N -0"o'i'
"a GoSplrioNAL fAhDoN'-doverhor Wlsner
vi M,cn'gan, ,eoenly pardoned conVic'
naneu prluge1 murray, on condition that sne
wbich sbe annoors - hora poon oSd;.,aJ W. ~ y
The somrce nf her tronbIoS sha ho,..na. nu.
failed to make oood hsr nromi.s and Ie,, bos hooI,
rstnrned to nr;aon " p'''' 'A" A'' '0'D
%S Inc rev. Iheodore Parker has been
heara from as late as July zO, when he was
still IN switzerland, and when his distressing
cough nad nearly disappeared, though slight
cola caugnt curing journey upon the lake
had retarded MS recovery. dis friends are
encouraged to believe that he will ultimately
ie.a'n " .a'' 'O0"'iS "o" nan'
LARGE 1uNNEL:|Ihe pig tunnel on the
Covngton ana ONO kaliroad, IN Greenbrlel
County, va, IS 4,1Oo feet long, and 7OO feet
below the surface OF tho earth. 1t is 300 feet
longer thah the Blue Ridge tunnel. The
width Is twenty'seven feet, TO accommodate
double track, ana the hlgntls twenty-three
ieGt'
PUTTING SOLDIERS TO GOOD UsG.Iln con-