The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-06-09
Various items.


The Ohio State Medical Convention convened
yesterday at Columbus.
New wheat from Mississippi sold at Mem
phis, Tenn, last week, at 50 SO per bushel.
Butter is selling in Dubuque, Iowa, at eight
and ten cents pound.
A "Ginseng" excitement has been got up as
set off to the Pixies Peak gold fever.
The congestive form of the aguo now exists
to considerable extent in the city of st.
Louis. rH. ..'t t......
Timidity in young man is better than i'm
pudence. lis pity the young ladies won't
think so.
A gentleman from the East informs us snow
was several inches thick near Buffalo on Sat-
urday last.
The grocers and hardware dealers of Boston
close their stores at three o'clock on Saturday
afternoon.
new trial has been granted in the case of
henry JumpertE, OF chicago, convicted Of the
murder Of Sophie Werner.
Counterfeit bills on the Hadley Falls Bank,
Mass, OF the denomination of ten dollars, ere
in circulation, which are well calculated to
deceive.
Two churches-one Congrega tional, the other
Presbyterian-at Lo Claire, Iowa, were fired
by an inoendiary few nights since. They
were totally destroyed.
Various estimates have been lately made as
to the present population of San Francisco
| They vary between 10000 and 90, 900, and u
few place the number as high as $1,000.
Two horses have recently died from the
bite of rattlesnakes, near Wheatand, in the
western part of Clinton county, Iowa. They
were bitten on the lips while grazing.
Tho lady Mrs. Judson) who eloped with
that Michigan negro is about to be dramatized-
| herself and her amalgamation actions-for tho
amusement of the good people of Detroit.
Says the Cleveland Herald: Five creditable
| witnesses testify to having each seen three
flakes Of snow on Saturday morning. We,
therefore, announce n snow storm on the 4th
of June.
steam canal boat for the Ohio canals has
been launched near Akron, Ohio; she is de-
scribed as a beautiful and well built boat, ca
pable of carrying 60 or 70 tons, and swims
like duck.
Several lady editors are to attend the Edito-
rial Convention, which is TO come off shortly at
milwaukee,, Wis. The assembly, it was hoped
would be a fair one. 1t ia likely to have some
claim to the title.
One of the Captains of steamboats,, plyine
between Marietta, Ohio, and Parkersburg,
Va, has the suggestive name of "Drown,''
yet the Marietta papers recommend their trav-
cling friends to sail with him.
| The Marietta Home News says The fruit
| crop IN this county will not be as abundant
as has been anticipated. Still, there will be
| apples and peaches enough to supply the
domestic wants Of the people.
Henry VIII, after the death of Jane Sew
mour, had some difficulty to get another wife.
| Hig frat Offnr Hpaa 10 bo
but her answer was, "she had but one head: if
she had two, one shonld be at his service"
little girl about two and half years old,
seeing the elephant attached to the circus pass
by the house, asked her mother who was stand
ing by, "what that great India-rubber thing
was that was walking in the street with two
tails."
WHATS IN A NAME "A lawyer of Chicago.
holds for collection note forwarded from an
eastern city, and bearing a name owned by
three individuals there, whom he has socceeded
in finding out, each Of whom dsowns that he
ever heard of the note.
| The Buffalo papers state that the banks of
that city have suffered over three thousand
dollars by taking the forged one hundred dol.
lar bills on the Brighton Bank. The notes. it
is alleged, are from the genuine plate, but the
signatures are forged.
The last Iowa City papers received contain
full details Of the tornado, tho most terrible
that ever occurred in this State. Five persons
were killed, six seriously injured, and a num-
ber slightly wounded, and property to the
amount of over $4,000 destroyed.
Two little boys, one eleven and the othe,
eight years old, named Louis Lapoint anG
Joseph Prayer, had an alteration on Satur-
day In Walker street, New York, which re-
suited fatally to the latter. A blow from {
stick on the side of the head fractured Prager'i
skull producing compression of the brain and
death.
The war is no impediment to the tourists
on the contrary, it appears to have given an
impetus to European travel. The Vanderbilt
took out on Saturday, for Havre and South.
ampton S95 passengers, and the City of Balti-
more 265 for Liverpool; in all $50, besides
specie to the amount Of two millions and q
| quarter.
Bradbury & Evans share in "Household
| Words" was sold by auction, in London, on
| the 10th ult., to Mr.. Arthur Smith, who was
acting for Mr.. Charles Dickens. Bradbury
and Evans are about to start new periodi-
cal under the editorship of Mr.. Lucas, who
has been for some time engaged in the lite
rary department of the Times.
THE NATIONAL RoAD.-The Board of Pub
lie Works are now engaged in passing over this
once popular thoroughfare, for tho purpose OF
examining its condition, with view to its be-
ing received by the State from the contractors
under whose charge it has been for several
years past. They are now prosecuting their
work between this city and Wheeling. We
believe they have found tho road in good con-
dition thus far.
On Friday last, at Lebanon, Ohio, a fatal
accident occurred. Marshal Jason Randall,
who was on the lower floor, requested his wife
who was up stairs, to throw down his cont
unfortunately forgetting, that there was q
loaded pistol in cne of the pockets. She com
piled, and when the pistol struck tho lower
step, it exploded by the conclusion, and the
ball entered the thigh of Mr.. Solomon Uixon
his brother-in-law. Modification speedily fol.
lowed. Mr.. Hixon died next day,-Day,on
| Gazette.
A WONDERFUL HEAD.--We saw on Friday
the head of a child of Edgar and Marinds
Ball, of the town Of Mentz, in this county
which is perfect monstrosity. The child L
two and half years Of age, and apparentlj
in good health. Its body and limbs are of the
ordinary size of children at that age, and wei
formed; but the head is a wonder--being enor.
mously enlarged, measuring 80 inches directly
around 1t, and 32 inches over it from tho from,
Of the chin, and 2s16 inches measuring from
tho occiput around the forehead. The head i.