The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-05-14
Various Items.

A ane coat may cover fool. but mover con-
oeal one. .-..
There were 305 deaths In New York during
the past week. -.
The Martiuett Troupe are still playing at
Louisville, and are drawing excellent houses.
A man seldom affects to despise the world,
unless the world is regardless Of him.
You oan not manufacture conscience out of
expediency.
To forgive provooations ia enc of the proofs
Of great mind.
Every age, like dead field, has to be
plowed and sowed anew.
The pleasure of doing good is the only one
that never wears out.
There are eight hundred and thirty three
students now at oberlin College.
The world asks not, how a man acquired his
property the only question is, has he got it?
A man must have confidence in himself If
he expects the world to have any in him.
Rev. Mr.. Kalloch, of famous memory, has
accepted an invitation from a country church
in Massachusetts,.
The yellow fever Il said to have appeared
unusually early, and with great virulence, in
Cuba.
Mr.. Buohanan's sixty ghth birth day took
place on the 23d. He is in very excellent
health.
Coal exists in eighty-one Of the counties of
Illinois, and over hundred mines are now
worked in thirty-eight different counties.
Money, in the opinion of the world, makes
a man wise and yirtuous, the want Of it, fool
ish and wicked.
The Indiana State Medical Society will
meet in indianapolis for three days session,
commencing next Tuesday.
Two sailors have been arrested in New York,
charged with having attempted to burn the
Prussian bark Amanda.
Some excitement has been created in Mem
phis, by the finding . dead body in IN old
we'll.
colony numbering nearly thousand Nor
wegians and Swedes, are about removing from
Illinois to Minnesota.
The elegant steamer Northern Light is now
making regular trips between Cleveland and
Lake Superior.
Over four hundred Danish Mormons were to
sail from their native land on the I'd inst,
destined for Utah.
The editor of the Jonesboro (Ill.) Gazette
has been shown a specimen of the growing
wheat in that vicinity, three feet high, which
will be ready for the sickle by the 1st Of June.
1t is said that Mr. Everett intends to make
an addition to his Grafton upon Washington,
in relation to the emancipation of his slaves by
that great and good man.
An Irishman being asked what he oame to
America for, said, "By the powers, you may
be sure that it wasn't for tcant for had plenty
Of that at home.
On Wednesday, at Evansville, three persons
were buried by the oaving in Of vault, at a
depth of ten or fifteen feet. Two of them were
killed.
An exploring expedition will start from Min
nesota early In the summer, TO ascertain the
best route from st. Paul to the interior of
British Columbia.
A room at the National Hotel, Louisville,
occupied by Mr.. H. A. Craig, from Nolin, and
another gentleman, was entered on Tuesday
night. The thief succeeded in carrying of
$3.50 and a silver watch valued at $50. It is
thought that when they retired at night they
neglected locking their door. The thief has
not yet been caught.
A dispatch from Fond du Lao brings intelli-
genee of fire in Oshkosh involving the de-
struction of seventy five stores and buildings,
and the loss 100000 to $500 ,000-nearly
equivalent, we should suppose, to the destruc.
tion of the town. A later dispatch from 0sh-
kosh, giving full particulars, puts the loss at
half million Of dollars Chicago Tribune, ,l2h.
We learn that the man killed on the Gin
cinnat and Chicago road, on Tuesday, was
named Wiley White, a citizen of Madison
county. He was intoxicated, and his son
was trying to get him home. As the train
came in sight, he threatened the boy, and
lay down on the track. A number Of hogs
gathered around. The engineer blew his
whistle TO scare the hogs, and did not per-
ceive the man until the train had struck
him.
There Is capital story told of Judge John
A: Corwin, of Urbana, Champaign county,
which never yet got into the newspapers.
Corwin transacted considerable business at one
time for an individual somewhat noted in that
county, named Col beavers. beavers, by the
way, served in the war of 1872, where he won
Immortal honors, and the breVet title of
Colonel by the fearless manner in which
he drove an OK team in the Quarter Masters
department The Colonel to this day tells
the most surprising stories Of his exploits in
that war. 1t must be known, too, that all the
stories he tells are equally surprising, and, in
fact, his Imagination at all times is so active
and so servioeable, he can dispense with truth
without the slightest Inconvenience. Beside
that, he WAS never known 10 pay debt. Judge
oorwin, having done business for beavers sew
eral years. signi6sd one day his desire to receive
some equivalent for it.
"Well," returned beavers, "you'd ought to
be paid Judge, that's fact. The account
has been running for some time, and meant
to We paid it long ago. havn't any money,
but anything I've got on my farm you can
have and welcome. Got lots Of apples"
"How many GpPiss have you got2" asked
the Judge, ready TO catch at anything.
"Ive got eight hundred bushels, Judge"
all"
After promising to employ all his teams, and
bring them on the following day-they were
all piled mp in his orchard, he said-Deavers
took his leave. -
The Judge saw nothing more Of him for
several week, and then meeting him by acci-
dent, he exclaimed impatiently:
fu thought, beavers, you were going TO
bring me those applosY"
$50 I was" said beavers, conoiliatingly; $50
was, bat the fact Is, that little penDyrial bull
of mine, broke into the orchard that night, and
ate every one Of them upW
The idea of a bull eating eight hundred
bushels Of apples in one night, "tOOk" the
Judge, and he forgave the debt.
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