The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-10-14
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

tion by about 1900 majority.
1-The new city directory of Philadel-
phia shows population of 6sO,OOO; an in
crease of 271, ,238 since 1850.
lT Stephen Hubbard, aged one hundred
years, died in Bedford County, Va, few
days since.
G9-James Price, white man, received
thirty lashes at the last Wythe County (Ya.)
Court, for petty larceny.
@S-Mary Hewitt, the distinguished En-
glish authoress, has announced her belief in
the doctrines of swedenborg.
l%The city of Detroit is about to erect
new City Hall at cost of $25O, 900, and q
work-house at q cost of $50,O0O.
NS-The monument TO Henry Clay, in
Lexington, KY, is nearly completed. IT is
said to be one of the handsomest works Of
art in the country.
@-A lady in Roxbury, Mass, is now laid
up, unable to attend to any business, owing
to fall occasioned by q skeleton skirt which
tripped her.
%S-A Judge in Indiana threatened to fine
lawyer for contempt of Court. 'I have
expressed no contempt for the Court" said
the lawyer; "on the contrary, have care
@s-The will of Joseph Miner, deceased,
leaving q property of $4,000 to three sons,
and cutting off four other children with from
$5 to $1OO each, has been set aside in the
Fayette Circuit Court, Indiana.
GS-A surly bachelor remarks that the
ladies' fashions for the ensuing season show q
persistent determination in the dear crea-
lures to crawl out Of their dresses through
the upper part.
Ng-Sheridan was staggering homo one
| night, when he was accosted by the watch, to
whom he said, confdentially, "My name is
Wilberforce-Tm a religious man-don't ex-
pose me-"
Gs- The hand and wrist of Coe, the balloon
ist, who fell with a balloon five miles high,
without injury, and then fell from tho tree
where his balloon lodged, and broke his wrist,
have been amputated to save his life.
Gg- The world could not got along ithout
old North Carolina. Her tar, pitch and tur-
pentine are used in every corner of the globe.
The amount shipped to England during the
year 1858 is valued at 81, 2,l76,870.
GD- The cars on the Nashville Railroad
will run through from Louisville to Bers
tavern next Saturday. The track has already
been laid to that point. We understand that
the road will certainly be finished through by
the first of November.
Gy-A "Venus," ascribed to Titan and
presumed to be the work of that great master,
and purchased at auction some years ago for
less than E2O, has been bought by the Duke
Of Wellington, on the advice of Baron
Morscheth, the Sculptor, for $4,000.
g1- The growth of tobacco in Southwest
ern Virginia is rapidly engrossing the attention
Of the farmers, and in Washington County,
alone, over one thousand acres will bo planted
with the weed next year. In that county this
year there are three hundred acres growing,
which will yield six hundred pounds to the
acre, equal to about $4,000.
My' The members of the branch of the
jennings family, who,claim to be heirs to the
$4O, 100000 now awaiting claimant in Eng
land, assembled at Charlottesville, Virginia,
Wednesday, to the number of fifteen. No
definite action was taken, though the sending
of an agent to Europe is believed to be resolved
on.
NS-It has been stated that Rear Admiral
Hope, commander Of the British naval forces
in China, is the same officer who, while captain
of the Ehdymion, in 1916, captured the Amer
loan frigate President. The captor of the
President was Henry Hope, now Admiral Sir
Henry Hope, X. 9. B. Rear Admiral Jas.
Hope, G. B., is his nephew, and is compar-
itively young man, having been born in 1908.
G1-Late advices from Europe leave no
doubt that war with China will be popular
both in England and France. As the hands
OF these governments are now free they will
strike strong blows. The war will be carried,
no doubt, up the Pehio, and to the capital
itself-Pekin; but with what success it is to be
seen. It will be remembered that in the war
of 1858 the Pehio forts were firmly defended
by the Tartar forces, who are brave and
skilful, and have since much improved in
engineering and gunnery.
Table Rock, once so conspicuous at
Niagara Falls, has quite disappeared, and the
retreated. These facts justify. the presump-
ton started by practical geologist that IN
ten or fifteen thousand years hence the rocky
ledge which now causes the Falls will be worn
away, and the water will descend in series of
rapids, similar to those which characterize the
st. Lawrence. This being the case, those who
have not seen Niagara in its grandeur had
better 60 this fall, for there Is no knowing
what may happen.
Ga- The citizens of Mt. Clemens, near De-
troit, Michigan, are shocked by late occur
renee, for which precedent can hardly be
found. A Mrs. Barry, living in q house with
Mrs. Molher, with whom she was not on the
best terms, was within few days of her con-
fnement, when the latter sent her package,
which, on being opened, proved to contain
Hpe snakeI The Mortified woman was immedi-
ately seized with commissions, and the child
born, which died at once, exhibiting peculiar
symptoms. The woman fend has been ar
rested, and will be severely dealt with for her
strange and unnatural crime.
N- Henry Colt, the inventor of the process
by which cast iron is converted into wrought,
died miserably poor, his children receiving
only f100 year from the British Government.
Fitch, who has disputed with Fulton the honor
Of first applying steam to the propulsion of
vessels, was driven by poverty to kill himself,
while Fulton himself was worried to death by
litigation and poverty, and his children have
hardly realized one-third Of the 81, 900 given
them by Congress. John Walker, the acci-
dental discoverer Of the friction match, and
Abiel Cooley, who simplifed and cheapened
their manufacture, both realized large fortunes
and died wealthy. .fs-s.if 7H.a
Ng-It was for q long time supposed that