The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-05-19
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responding period last year.
The friends Of Daniel e. Sickles assert that
he will be on hand next December, to claim his
seat in Congress especially, to claim
mileage and the three thousand!
Mexico, since its establishment as Repub-
lie, which is thirty-seven years ago, has had
fifty six Presidents, an average of one and
half annually.
Walter Scott declared that these four lines
by Burns were worth thousand ronances:
Had we never lov'd sac blindly-
Never meteor never parted
We had neer been broken-hearted
The Troy Times Of Monday says that man
named West, who resided in the neighborhood |
# the Niskayuna Shakers, having been dis
covered in maintaining au illicit love with an
other woman than his wife, committed suicide |
yesterday by stsbbing himself with jack
knife. He accomplished his "taking- of" in a
very skillful manner, and before the physician
arrived he was corpse.
A chap who went from Louisville to Utah
had the forethought to take several barrels
of old Bourbon. He is selling it rapidly, and
to friend who wants to know where the
most gold is obtained, he answers that the
| most of his is obtained from quartz; he spells
| it with an &c."
A GREAT LAW CASE IN ESGLAsD.--Iu tho
| u Is
pending involving the title to property worth
| over 5000 900 year, together with some very
| interesting points in law and history. Its de-
| cision turns upon the right of Roman Catho-
lies, under peculiar provisions of statutes passed
| soon after the accession of William of Orange,
to inherit real estate.
A CURIOUS CAsE.-A curious case has re-
Gently been decided in England. A Mr.. and
Mrs. Rambling we're both killed by falling
building. The husband was taken from the
ruins quite dead, while the body of his wife
was quite warm. The question was raised,
whether it could be safely presumed that the
wife survived her husband, as this would cause
a variation in the distribution of the property.
The Court decided against the supposition.
TRIAL OF THE WINANs STEAMER.--A trial
trip of the Winans steamer was made yester-
day morning, and proved entirely satisfactory
to her owners. She left her wharf in the fore
noon for trip down the river to test the i'm
provements made in her machinery, and with
A fair head of steam attained speed of four
teen miles an hour The wheel made fifty six
revolutions per minute, and there no diff
fculty by the heating of the journals.
PUBLIC DRINKING HYDRANTs.-A movement
is on foot in some of the Eastern cities to es-
tAblish drinking hydrants in the streets. The
| Improvement is both economical and practical
| BILE, and ought to be adopted in every city.
Everybody, during the summer, feels the want
Of some convenience for getting a drink with
out the necessity Of going into tavern With
abundant supplies of fresh water, and miles
Of Pipe carrying it under our feet, it seems a
singular arrangement that one travelling the
streets can not get mouthful of water for
his parched throat, without begging or buy
ingit. r..f
THE WAR IN VmeINIA.--Mr. o. Jennings
| ha ne fha Gpv n fba od;
Of the Richmond Enquirer, is out over his own
signature in answer to John NJ Botts' last
card. Mr.. Bolts accused the Governors son of
using Five Points language Mr.. Wise replies
| by calling Mr.. Bolts political swindler, a
vicious and uwOrthy person, a fraudulent bank
rupt, man who does not pretend to decent
worldly morality in any respect or relation of
life, and who resorts to a direct falsehood for
the purpose Of seeking quarrel. The war is
getting warm in Virginia.
ONO STATE FAIR.-The State Board of Ag-
rculture met, as announced, at GAINESVILLE last
Tuesday. The grounds chosen for holding the
fair upon, comprise an area of as acres; part
of it level, and portion undulating, giving
some positions commanding a very fine view OF
the whole grounds. The Board intends having
the ground prepared from fifteen to twenty days
in advance Of the time of holding the fair and
operations in fixing the grounds will be COM
menced this week. The Board arranged the
premium list, and appointed judges,
THE CAUSE OF his DEATH.--The Placerville
Observer thus accounts for the sudden death OF
one Of the Digger tribe, who recently departed
from the land Of acorns and grasshoppers fol
the spirit land Of Diggerdom: r
Perished thus the luckoss Digger, HiF
Perished. too, from drinking whisky,
Strychnine whisky, sharp as lightning,
Ruin, blue ana Minnie rlne- r.s rf
Knock Fem stiff and flaming red-eye--
Such az kill om at the counter, .-Il a.F'
Forty rods or any di,tance.
Perished thus the wretched lnjin, i '
By imbbing stryehnine whisky, r.,f z
l.. Sold by some confUunded hummer,
Strychnine whisky-whisky strychnine.
e The WASTE OF WAR; In the sixteen year
. intervening between 1897 and 1915, tn
] French army absorbed 4,G56,O0O men. TIL
u number raised by conscription for Napole
h on's army was 2y476,0O0 men. The army 0
i 1873 was composed OF recruits from eightee
"a to twenty years Of age. or million and
J. quarter raised in 1874, only 100000 remaine
> alive in 1874. France, in addition TO thi
II loss of her citizens, had to pay 700 million
r. Of francs as indemnity of war TO the allie
.o powers, and 400 millions for the support c
II Foreign garrisons. These figures show th
% cost OF war such as the powers of Europ
are now about entering into,
The Lancaster (Pa.) Express says that Nj
Wise has made arrangements with responsible
= parties in New York for some extensive an
important aeronautic experiments thissumme
y He will soon leave for that city, to make II
4, necessary arrangements. 0ne of these exper
4. nents is To be demonstratiye Of the practicabi
D. ity of crossing the Atlantic with preeisio,
within q due course from West 10 East, an
-ug within the parallels Of two degrees, and wi
\ consist in sailing from ST. Louis to the Atlant
seaboard, az a poiit bstweenI Baltimore ar