The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-11-08

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NEWS AND GOSSIP.
@ECapt. Joseph Wood, of West Lebanon,
N. H., has reached his one hundredth year,
and his faculties remain unimpaired. 81
Gs-Professor FELTON, is a prominent candi-
date for the Presidency of Harvard College,
which has just been vacated by DR.. Walker.
@&rIt is now stated on authority that Mary
Hewitt, the distinguished English authoress,
has announced her belief in the doctrines Of
Swedenborg. g
l3-G. L. Brown, the distinguished land
scape painter, who has lived so long in Rome,
has returned to this country, bringing home q
number Of very beautiful paintings.
Gs-T The Troy Times says Mr.. La Mountain,
the aronaut, is in the woods of Northern Yer
mont, on hunting expedition; having forsaken
his balloon enterprise for the present. ,r
r Ms-Messrs. 0lds & Co., who are one Of the
most successful and extensive fishing firms on
Lake Ontario, took two thousand fish at q
single haul of their nets, few days since.
@s-On Sunday man, name unknown,
was killed on the Portland railroad track near
the Catholic graveyard, in Louisville. The
man was walking on the track at the time of
the accident.
@9-In Memphis, Tennessee, last week, q
gentleman from Arkansas lost $40, 500 at cards.
The game upon which the money was ad-
ventured and lost is known to modern card
players as "seven up"
Mg- During the present Napoleon's reign
the French have constructed railways TO the
extent of some, 900 kilometres, or about A, 500
miles, and they have spent not less than
f12O, 1000, 900 upon the task. Ts~E.T n
M8- Bonner does his newspaper business
conveniently. He publishes 1000 New York
Ledgers on Mondays, and the issue is bought
on Tuesday by one firm, who pay him about
$4,000 week. .+.,.
@g- Madame dc Puisieux says: "CuriOsity
has ruined more young girls than love;" and
to know too much about love, seldom lose time
in wishing to practice it,"
MBrThe wife of Mr.. Charles Lamb was
burnt to death by camphene lamp explo-
sion at Clifton, Staten Island, last Friday,
and he himself terribly disfgured by the
same accident.
@- The New York and New Haven train,
which left New York on Friday afternoon,
struck and instantly killed Valentine Eul-
ner, lad fourteen years of age, when near
ing the New Rochelle Station-house.
Me- A man named Armand Boi shot him
self, in New Orleans, last Monday, while
triHing with his pistol. The ball entered his
right breast, and at last accounts he was not
expected TO live.
@S-Mr. Adams, one of the Georgia miners,
arrived in LeavenwOrth on Saturday evening,
with fifty pounds of gold obtained by mining
In the Kansas mines during the past summer.
Good for him
@S-A small steamer has been built in
England of steel plates one-eighth of an inch
in thickness. She is 10 feet long, IL feet
broad, and ~ feet deep, and measures 20
tun. She has proved an admirable sea boat.
Mg-Lieutenant Governor Trask has recov-
cred from the Hartford and New Haven Rail.
road Company verdict of $8,5OO, damages
luz tno iooS y, puh.,nse a. pi,nsn0iA, uao'''y
aiongsiae OF me railroad, wnich were destroyed
by hre IN April last.
9s,Workmen are now engaged IN wash
ington IN laying the granite iouhaauon LOT tne
pedestai ior Mills equestrian statue OF wash
inglon, az tne ciroie IN the fist ward. Inc
the Circle, and will probably be inaugurated
on the zzd OF February
@TCcionel Edge, Of Doniphan County,
Kansas, informed us q rev days since, tnat ne
had just harvested neid Of rye wnlch yielded
twenty busnels TO me acre, ana wnlcn was m tne
third crop gamered from single sowing Inc
two crops previously harvested averaged
tWenty-hve oushels 70 tne acre.
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paret Donald obtained glass Of liquor at one
Of the Ninth Ward porter houses, which proved
to contain moro than the usual proportions Of
strychnine. A spasm ensued shortly after
ward; she fell from her bed to the floor and
expired in agony. -e
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lynn N m.tit;sO th g
no.,Oe .nos .On nSs s ;n,po.".;" " po.. n eE
the right to manufacture boots and shoes, the
capital not to exceed $50, 1000, the principal
object of the Association being to afford pro.
| toe ton to its members.
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