The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-10-26


railways in construction in Spain.
G1-Tho iron bridge built in 1850, over the
Severn, near Coalbrookdale, was tho first in
England constructed Of that material.
Ga-A boiler three feet in diameter, with
plates Of 2s inch iron will burst at a pressure
OF 7OS lbs. per square inch. . ...
G9- The Washington Monument, being
erected at Washington, d. O., Is to be, whom
completed, six hundred feet in hight. 81
Gg- Mr.. Oscar Gregg, one Of the publishers
OF the New Albany Ind.) Tribune, died in that
city Friday. He leaves young wife, to whom
he was but recently united. .rdIsa =. .. -' =.
Gg-A negro boy and girl, each twelve years
old, picked 063 pounds of cotton in nine hours,
and 1858 pounds in eleven hours, on planta-
ton in Louisiana, this year. .'' 'a D.
GS-Four missionaries, with their wives,
and one single man, sent out from Boston last
spring by the Missionary Society of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, arrived at Calcutta,
August Is, in tho ship Boston, all well. ,.-.
@-Another of the distinguished scholars of
Germany has passed away from the world.
Karl Ritter tho greatest geographer of his
day, died OF Berlin on the 28th Of September
last, in the eighty. first year Of his age. .-a.
&s-T Tho Buffalo Republic of Wednesday has
report Of fight in Canada between John
Morrissey and Heenan, in which Heenan
was killed. We presume this will be news
to the parties most interested. e- a I'd.
Gs-T The Viaduct Of the Indre, on the Tours
and Bordeaux line Of Railway, comprises fifty
nine arches of thirty feet span each; its hight
being sixty-five feet, and total length 1924
feet. Its cost was ESQ 900. r."
Gs~The Marchioness Teresa Goezaga, a
lady of seventy, Yves recently imprisoned at
Mantua for having ordered funeral service
TO be held at church in that city TO the
memory of MANN, the defender of Venice.
Gs-The Sunderland lighthouse, seventy
two feet high, weighing three hundred and
twenty tuns, and standing on a base of
twenty feet square, was successfully moved by
mechanical means to a distance OF five hun
dred feet. ....
-Canberries are very scarce and very
dear down East. We see it stated in one Of
our exchanges that Boston man has con-
tracted for large quantity Of cranberries at
Yarmouth for $ll barrel. Others are con-
tracing at $l2 and $13. .s4a...
Gg-Cast iron dilates permanently by re-
peated heating. Cast iron ferrales for locomo-
tive tubes will remain tight whore wrought
iron ferrues will leak, and for this reason the
former are generally used in American locomo
tives. s.,..I
GS- From the Rocky Mountain Neos we
learn that Thorne's Theater opened at Dem
yer City on tho night of the Sd inst, with
The Gross Of Gold, followed by popular
song by Miss Wakely; favorite dance by
Mile Haydee, formerly Of Woods, in this
city; concluding with the farce Of THE THO
Gregories. .. ..
Ms-Dr. Clayton Tiffin died in New Or
leans on the 18th inst, aged seventy five
years. DR.. Tiffn was native of Ohio, and
removed To Jefferson Barracks, near st.
Louis, in 1872, as Surgeon of the Army. He
resigned his commission in 1915, and prac-
ticed his profession in st. Louis and vicinity
until 1845, when he removed to New Orleans.
gag- The Republican parties will gain
three United States Senators by the result of
elected in Pennsylvania in place Of Mr.. Bigler,
anu U poudtVi III Oulu, III pidOo Va Ahts ukup
and one in Minnesota, in place of General
Bigler and Pugh close on the 4th of March,
1861; that Of General Shields has already ex-
pired. .....a. ...r..
Ge~On Wednesday night the citizens of
Frederick, Md, were thrown into a state of
alarm by rumor that the town was about to
be attacked by body of insurrectionists.
The streets were Immediately patrollcd by
strong body of armed men, other measures of
precauton taken, and colored man arrested
with gun in his possession, when it was as
certained that the report was false.
@g- The plot at Harper's Ferry recalls at
tsntion to previous disturbances of similar
character. In 1881 an insurrection broke out
in the County ofSouthampton, on the southern
borders Of Virginia. This occsasioned greater
loss of life among the whites, and greater con-
sternatiOn than any other insurreetionary
movement among tho negroes ever made in
this country.
@4-A person who was recently allowed
pension on account Of disability incurred in
the naval service, and supposed to be Of per-
mauent character, has informed the Pension
Office that he is happily restored to health, and
therefore relinquiShes his claim to the benefo-
ence Of the government. A similar instance
has not occurred for many years, and it is as
honorable to the gallant marine as it is novel.
Constitution.
M9-In ase-hardening, iron absorbs carbon
and swells. 1t is said that iron which has
lain for great length Of time in ono position,
becomes orystalised, and breaks readily on
being disturbed. There has been instanced the