The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-11-14
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

m NEWS AND GOSSIP. u
@I is estimated that the British nation
spends annually about 81. 100000 forperfum-
cry. 5,e, 3 $1,000. lt
g9-A public dinner is to be given the
Hon. Roger A. Pryor. al Richmond, Va, sOth
instant. ,l J
gs- By census recently taken 1t is shown
that Xenia has q population Of 5,o75, Of which
627 are negroes.
GS- The we'll known establishment Of Izzy
Lazerus, the noted pugilist, Of Buffalo; was
burnt on the night Of the 10th.
Es- The first hogshead of tobacco, this sea-
son, was sold at Richmond, Va, on the 7th
inst, at $S per hundred pounds. .e..l yl
GSr When the man pushed his wife into
the fire, he gallantly remarked, "Let the toast
be dear womar."
gE9- Almost the only person we ever heard
Of that was not spoiled by being lionized, was
Jew named Daniel.
GS-A boy eight years old, the son Of John
Wetzel, puyposely blew up negro lad with
gunpowder, in Baltimore on Thursday, danger
ously ipjuring the inofensive fellow.
ms A Jackson (Miss.) paper calls new
pistol gallery in that town "hall Of science"
The science, we suppose, that teaches the
"young idea how to shoot"
MH-On Friday Mrs. Susan Taylor, residing
in Philadelphia, cut her throat while laboring
under arrangement caused by long-continued
indisposition. ,r.t.,
M4-In May last, DR.. Geo. B. Windship,
the strong man of Roxbury, was able to lift
s29 pound. He can now lift 1882 pounds
with his hands.
Ma-The Sandusky (0hio) Mirror, Demo-
cratic paper, has been suspended 1t is said
tho publisher, embarrassed beyond further en-
durance, has left for parts unknown, and that
the Office is advertised for sale.
Na- An interesting girl of eight years,
daughter of W. Z. G. Harrison, of Baltimore,
died there on Wednesday night from injuries
sustained by the explosion Of camphene
lamp. cfl ct
MD- Captain John Hodgkinson, one OF the
oldest citizens of Baltimore, died in that city
on Thursday, upward of seventy years of age.
Captain H. served in the war of 1S12as pri-
vate.
Ma- One Captain Cloud made an ascension
in balloon from Lancaster, last week. The
greatest hight attained was one and s-half
miles, after which the Captain and the balloon
landed safely.
MS- Msjor Peterson, negro stevedore,
struck Moses Jackson, another of his class and
color, with piece Of scantling, in Baltimore,
last Thursday, completely crushing in his
forehead, and causing speedy death.
Mn-On Monday Of last week an alteration
took place between two men named Kennedy
aud Thompson, at Lancaster, KY, in which
the latter shot the former, the wound proving
fatal. L yfa aFFaF.
ms- There are finished and in use in Great
Britain 5000 miles of Railroad, which cost
seventeen hundred millions of dollars, or say
eighty thousand dollars per mile, producing an
average dividend of three per cent.
ny- Wednesday of last week, two men
named Gilbert and Waysman got into o fight
at sneedville, Tenn, during which Gilbert
struck Waysman on the head with stone,
killing him instantly.
asa- At Muncie, Ind, on Tuesday last,
Daniel Il. ALLEN was driving across the FAIL
road track, when his horse became frightened
and ran away, upsetting the buggy, and
causing Mr.. AS speedy death.
M9-The Louisiana Baptis. says that the Rev,
J.. n. Graves, editor Of the Tennessee Baptist
preached in Mt. Lebanon, La, last week, to q
large and patient audience for three hosrs
and a ouartsrI The audience must have beer
| l;nnu1 daacendant IA Of lob.
Mg-The Count Montemolin, the pretendel
| to the throne of Spain, has arrived IN Paris
and taken rooms in the Hotel du Rhin, occu
pying, il is said, the identical room formerly
tenanted by Louis Napoleon when he was
deputy in the National Assembly.
Mg-An irreyerent editor of one Of our coun
| try exchanges, in an article on Thanksgiving
| expresses his earnest opposition to the observa
ton of the day, and sententiously, but rathe
| inslegantly, remarks that, if day Of genera
drinking and cursing be appointed, he wishe
to be counted in.
Mgr The Paris correspondent of the BostoI
| Traveller says that Louis Napoleon has re
Gently had another and most violent attack o
that nervous disarrangment which has beel
so frequently spoken of, and which, it
feared will, sooner or later, make him con
frmed maniac.
MS-We learn from the Cyntbiana Ky.
| Ne,os that movement is on foot in the Ken
tontown District of Harrison, to make nov
county. Harrison is too large, being nearl
forty miles wide, and cut in two by the Mort
Licking River, which is overAown half tn
year, and is at such times impassable.
Ms< The New York Herala--very poo
authority, as every one knows-says that tn
amountla out for public plunder during tn
coming winter, in that city, in the shape c