The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-05-13
Various Items.


nearly 10000.
A building for the education ofhorse doctors
is now going up in the city of New York at a
cost of $40, 900.
A man in York, Du Page Co., ILL.,, was Bit
ten three years ago by dog, and was recently
taken with hydrophobia, and has cost the town
$3.50 for the cure given him.
Miss Fanteding says the first time she locked
arms with young man, she felt like Hope
leaning on her anchor. Poetic young woman,
that. .- .. ..
The farmers in Clark county report the fruit
crop safe The Ohio Press says: The wheat
never looked better. During the present week
hundreds Of acres of corn have been planted.
The authorities of Madison, Wisconsin, re-
Gently enacted an extorminating dog ordinance,
and the next day there was a dead dog every
two rods all over that city.
A Cleveland editor says he would walk ten
miles any time to see the photograph Of mer-
chant who was a non-advertiser and at the
same time liberal dealer.
The Southern Baptist Convention met at
Richmond, Va, on Friday, aud the attendance
was large. DR.. Richard Fuller, of Baltimore,
was chosen President.
The Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad will
soon be finished to Valparaiso, Porter county,
where the line intersccts the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne and Chicago Road.
An exchange says that female of that
town recently succeeded in attaining degree
Of intoxication equal to that of the proverbial
female canine companion of an itinerant per-
former on the violin.
By the burning of ten steamers at Pttsburg
not less than three hundred persons are thrown
nut of employment, viz: 10 captains, 20 pilots,
20 clerks, 30 mates, 80 fremen, 100 deck hands,
so cabin boys, and 10 chambermaids.
Last evening, lad named Bergman was ac-
cidentally drowned in the river near the Ches.
out street bridge. VIM. Miller, in searching
for him, fshed up the body of Mr.. Phillip
Marsh, brewer, who has been missing for
several days.--JfH. DEM 9Th.
At Charlottesville, Ind, last week, the
Regulators" destroyed the liquors in four re-
tail establishments, and completely riddled
| TWO Of the houses They are determined that
no whisky shall be sold by the dram in that
| place.
The prospect for heavy crop of wheat this
| coming harvest, will doubtless soon tell upon
| he price of flour. The sooner the better for
| those who have considerable difficulty in pro-
curing the money to pay for the "dusP at
present exhorbitant prices.
Paul D. May, a writing master of some
celebrity in Utica, n. Y, endeavored to COM
nit suicide on Monday by cutting his throat.
He was discovered in time to prevent his bleed
ing to death, though it is thought he can not
recover. He was laboring under an attack of
the delirium GeRens.
Pbclan declines to accept the challenge of
Seereiter, for prudential reasons-because he
could gain nothing by defeating Seereiter
over again, while some accident or casualty
might injure both his position and his pocket,
we're to consent to repeat the match.
"Sally," said young man to a damsel'who
had red hair, "keep away from me, or you will
set me afre."
"No danger of that" was the answer, "you
are too green to burn"
A large WOolen Factory in Watertown, N.
Y, was destroyed by fire last Friday, and
Miss Angelina Sloan, aged twenty -oue, killed
by jumping from the fourth-story window.
Twelve other persons were severely injured.
The fire gained ground so suddenly the scene
among the inmates is described as fearful in
the extreme.
The Decatur Gnd.) Republican says that
child of Irish parents, in that place Green's
burg,) died, apparently, few nights ago, and
coffin was ordered, but by some accident was
delayed q few hours, during which time the
child recovered, and is now entirely we'll. But
for the accident with the coffin it might have
been buried alive.
A writer in the Providence Journal furnishes
the following prescription for hydrophobia -
Eat the green shoots of asparagus raw, sleep,
and perspiration will be induced, and the dis
ease can thus be cured in any stage of canine
madness" A man in Athens, Greece, was
cured by this remedy after the paroxysms had
commenced.
Miss Keteau, from Waughter, Iowa, has
been In Dubuque on collecting tour. This is
new idea, as we believe gentlemen have
| hitherto been employed in that department of
business known as collecting. This Miss
| keteau, however, succeeds admirably-she has
no lack of confidence, and sends in bill with
all the sanJ,t ,troid Of an old hand at the profess
| sion. No rebuff frightens her, not even blows
for an individual to whom she had sent her
| bill, was ungallant enough to strike her, hay
| ing become enraged at her pertinacity, yet the
| blow had no other effeot than to send her of,
| lightly humming an extract from some opera,
| with promise to soon return.
DEATH OF DR.. ABBoTT.--Dr. Abbott, the
collector Of the valuable gallery of Egyptian
Antiquities, which for six years past has
| formed one Of the prominent Art and Histor-
ical Associations of New York, died on the
| Both of March, at village near Cairo, 10
| Egypt He was born in London, about forty
soven years ago, and, at the age of twenty
three, received the appointment as surgeon on
board British manof- war. Crcum stances
led him to quit his ship in the Mediterranean
when, instead of returning to England, he re-
paired to Egypt and took up his abode in Cairo
where, without noglecting his profession, he
INDUCED in his early passion, fostered by The
study of Champollion, for the antiquities o
that renowned land, which, dating beyond tn,
Pharaohs, carries us almost back to the Flood
During twenty years DR.. Abbott employed
himself in collecting whatever valuable rolicl
of ancient Egypt could be secured from tombi
and ruinsj and so well succeeded that, accor
ding to the testimony Of Sir Gardiner WiIkin
son, no collection, excepting thOse of the Brit
ish Museum, and that of Paris--botli the reaul
Of government energy and liberality-could b,
compared with his. The amount of none,
spent by him in forming his gallery exceeded
100000. At various times propositions hav,
been made for its purchase, as free Museum
for this city, but without effect. The Histor
ical Society are now considering the proprlst,