The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-06-08
Various EteEHss

Inc lJallan residents oil san Francisco are
about raising fund for the benefit of the
Neapoltan refugees who lately landed in Ire
land.
The farmers on the line Of the Frankfort,
KY, Railroad are already cutting their barley.
The harvest is q week or two earlier this sea-
son there than usual.
At Dayton, on Tuesday morning, n stable
with its contents, consisting of fire. wood, dogs
and chickens, was entirely destroyed by FIRE.
The fire is supposed to have been the work of
an incendiary.
The Harrisburgh (Pa.) Telegraph, and other
Know Nothing Republican journals of Penn
sylvania are just now pushing forward the
claims of Hon. Simon Cameron for the Presi-
dency.
Some of the Southern papers arc advocating
the adoption of a provision by the Southern
States requiring residence of twenty -one
years by Il man born in Free State, before
he shall be allowed to vote.
In Richmond county, Ca, on the 9th, Mrs
Gibbs hung her own husband while he was
drunk. If all wives hung their husbands
while they were drunk the widows would soon
be too numerous to mention.
| A special dispatch to the Secretary of the
Navy renders it certain that slavers bound to
several Southern States are now on the coast
OF Africa. Their cargoes are expected to ar
rive this fall in Mississippi and Texas.
The proprietors of tho Iron Mountain in
Missouri, have succeeded in smelling the ore
from the mountain with the raw bituminous coal
that is mined in the vicinity of St. Louis. The
experiment is pronounced to be eminently sue
| cessful.
| A child Of Mr.. Peter Seiger, residing three
miles from Sharpsburg, Penn, was bitten
about the face by rat, on the I'd inst, while
lying in Its cradle, and died from the effects
| the same day. The child was seven weeks
old. 1t was bitten in two places.
The Philadelphia Press says: Among other
things that you may anticipate from the action
of the next Congress will be that of reforming
the patronage of the United States courts. 1t
is believed that the grossest abuses have
grown up in these courts.
During a thunder storm on Friday of last
week, Mrs. Potts, of Pottsville, Schuylkill Co.,
Pa, became so frightened that she fell back
and expired. The deceased was n niece of
Hon. George M. Dallas, and daughter of the
late Trevanion B. Dallas, Esq, of Pittsburg
The Columbus Statesman, of yesterday says,
| that on that day, Mr.. B. +. IL. Lynn, the
| @ronaut, would make his ascension in his NAM
moth balloon from the vacant lot on High
| street, between the Gait House and Spring
| street, in that city. We hope he has had
| pleasant voyage.
As the wood train on the Cleveland and
Pittsburg road was approaching Saineville
station, towards dark on Thursday evening, it
| ran over cow. -Four cars were thrown off the
| track, and two Irishmen, who were riding on
one of them, met their death in the general
| wreck.
A call has been issued for convention of
the colored brethren Of the New England
States, to be held in Boston on Monday, tho
| first day of August next, to take into consider
alton the subjects connected with the moral,
social and political elevation of the colored
race.
On Saturday, carpenter at work on Eakers
new building ON Second street. Dayton, G. :,
while standing on the wall engaged in setting &
the joists for the third story, lost his balance
and fell distance of fourteen feet on the ioists
below; he was badly bruised-it is feared that
his Injuries are of a serious character.
Mrs. Rosanna Underwood was divorced
from her husband, in Boston, last week. One
reason urged was neglect to provide properly
for her support. She also proved that during
the first year of their marriage they resided in
nine different houses, and during the second
| year in eleven.
DR.. George 3. Winship, man of extraordi-
nary physical powers, made two attempts in
Boston, the other evening, to lecture, for the
first time before an audience, but on each oc-
casion became SO tremulous and faint, as to be
compelled to take his seat, after uttering few
words.
On Friday last, at Scott's Landing, on the
Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad, a man
named BARLEY Dane jumped from the tender
TO get his hat which had blown off, and fell
beneath the wheels of the tender, which
passed over him, nearly severing his left
foot, and cutting the leg open above the lef
ankle. He still survives.
This day wednesday, the splendid steam.
ers Western Metropolis and City of Buffalo
will commence their regular night trips from
Cleveland,to BufalO,running in connection with
the railroads. They will leave every evening
at o'clock on the arrival of the trains on the
@. G. e. c., the c. & T., and the c. & P. Rail-
roads.
At the late session Of the Des Moines Iowa
Conference of the United Brethren, it was "re-
solved that we recommend those sisters who
have grace and ability to preach, to act as co
laborers with u.s." According to this action.
Pheba Benton and Elizabeth Frankhouser
we're granted recommendations to labor as
preachers.
The fremen of Nashville, Tenn, are a
spunky set. The other morning one of their
engines received an injury in passing over a
rough part of Cherry street, whereupon they
ucl uuu |IosOlfeuy IuhL we our euglno no
more until such time as the Honorable Board
of City Council can cause said street to be re-
paired"
One of the "Tales of the War" now COM
menced in Europe, is to the effect that the En-
press Eugene, as Regent, has given great
cause of uneasiness by her behaviour at the
Council. She broke forth into an opinion OF
her own which astonished them all. She de-
clared the war to be unjust and wicked, and
expressed her conviction that it would never
come to prosperous end.
james o. Putnam, of Buffalo, New York,
writes from Spain to the Buffalo Advertiser an
interesting letter in regard to the drinking
habits of the people. His observations go to
confirm the statement, often made, that the
people of wine growing countries, who use
wine as an ordinary drink at their tables, sell
dom fall into habits of intomperance.
On Thursday last, box was discovered
floating in the East River, off Stony Point, N.
Y, which, upon being taken on shore and
opened, was found to contain the bodies OF
eight persons, viz: two men and women, three
children and a black man. The Coroner was
notified, but how or where the remains came
froE;, still remains involved in mystery. The
bodies were taken to West Farms village for
interment.
Hon. Cyrus Sphinx, of Wooster, Republican
Member of Congress elect from the Fourteenth