The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-10-11
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

ing representing Paul Morphy as beating the
devil at game Of chess. ,
Gs~ Gov. Helm has been reelected to the
Presidency of the louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company.
GS-Mr. Comonfort, Ex. President of Mexico,
Is in Paris, en- route to Switzerland, Germany,
and perhaps Russia.
Ng- The French Government, by recent
Decree has reimposed the sliding scale of duties
upon all importations Of grain.
@9r The tobacco crop in Kentucky is said
to be not only unusually large and promising,
but remarkably fine and heavy.
G9-The Rev. Father Chinisuy denies the
report that he has entered the communion of
tho Episcopal Church.
@ArA correspondent of the London Times
describes "monster revival meetng," at
Armaugh, near Belfast, Ireland, which was
attended by 10000 people. ..
lBW. H. Jeandell, who was arrested in
Philadelphia last July for running O street
railroad car on Sunday, was discharged on
| the 9Th inst.
@ The Lexington, (Ky.,) Statesman says
that l 1889 acres of land on the Nicholasvile
Turnpike, within seven miles of Lexington,
were recently sold for $177,s4O SO, being an
average $l2S II per acre.
@1- A convict who was about to be- sent to
the House of Correction was told they would
set him to picking oakum, "Let 'em try it, by
gosh," said he, "I'll tear their darnsd oakum
all too pieces"
G9- A Yankee who had seen Powers's
"Greek Slave" and was asked If he was not
in raptures with II, replied, "Well, to tell the
truth, don't care much about them stone
gals"
g@-The Cooperstown IN. " Journal says
the storms which prevailed some two weeks
ago did great damage to the hop crop, and
estimates that the growth of 1859 will fall
short Of that of last year at least one-third.
GS-In Cuba, recently, three persons, sus-
pected OF being annexationists, have been
condemned to Preside, and sentenced to
eight years imprisonment at hard labor by
the courts of the country, and approved by
the Royal Audencia.
EAr The Rev. G. H. Spurgeon has written
letter to his friends in America, in which he
declares that, in his belief, immersion is the
only Christian baptism, and that no believes
that members of all Christian communities
should be admitted to the Communion.
N8- The farm so long known as the resi-
dence of the Hon. Henry A. Wise, Governor
of Virginia, was sold by that gentleman re-
Gently to Capt. Finney, for the sum of 81 900.
The farm contains about four hundred acres
offertile and productive lond, and lies in Ac-
comac County.
MS- The museum of the late Hugh Miller
has been preserved to the capital Of Scotland.
The price is upward Of f1,O0O of which
government contribute, f2OO, the remainder
being made up by contributions from the
friends of science and the admirers of one
of her most gifted sons.
@r breach Of promise Of marriage in
California is serious affair. A bad fellow
| named Nicholas Matthewson recently neg.
lected to consummate his oft-repeated VOWS to
Elizabeth Hildebrand, and Miss Elizabeth de.
mands $4,000 from the naughty Nicholas, as
a salve for her laoerated heart.
MaJ- The Baton Rouge (La.) Gazette,
speaking of the Office of Superintendent Of
Public Education in that State, says: This is
Q very onerous office, requiring the occupant to
| aign his name as many as four times during
the year. Now, the salary is ST., 900, so that
the lucky incumbent gets $3.50 every time he
signs his name.
GS- Wendell Phillips, In recent lecture in
Boston, Is reported to have said that "the man
who would strike the head from the statue re-
Gently erected to Webster would do a great SER
vice, and his name would be immortalzed."
IF Mr.. Phillips was as patriotic as he wishes
to be considered, or as ambitious as he seems,
he would undertake tho "service" himself.
The Brazilian Government, desirous of erect
ing frst-olass theater at Rio de Janeiro, Of
fered considerable premiums to the architects
who should send in the best plans. The first
premium of $l1 1850 was awarded to M. Gustaye
Wachneldt, Of Rio dc Janeiro who will erect
the theater; the second, Of $4,000, to Messrs.
Green & Deville, Of London; tho third, to Mr..
Samuel Sloan, Of Philadelphia.
GJ- The Commissioner Of Patents has is
sued a circular defining the difference between
an engraving which is subject of copyright,
and liable which is subject of patent only.
A copyright costs fifty cents, and gives o mo-
nopoly for twenty years, while patent costs
fifteen dollars, and gives monopoly but seven
years. The Commissioner decides that when q
production is issued as a work of art, and is
intended for sale as such, it may be copy
righted; but that when not produced for sale
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