The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-11-24
PEN AND SCISSORS.


PEN AND SCISSORS.
GS- Professor Whitney, of Yale College, is
engaged in the translation and publication
OF Hindoo work on Astronomy.
| JET Rembrandt Peale is now on visit to
Boston. The veteran artist is now eighty
two years Of age, but enjoys vigorous health.
| @&-P Paul Morphy, having left Philadelphis
for New Orleans, proposes to reside in the lat
ter city and enter upon the practice of the law.
T Furs are manufactured in New York
from skunk-skins, and shipped to Europe
under fictitious names, where they are highly
priced.
Three prisoners, all thieves, Hiram
Canada, John Deal, and negro, escaped from
the jail in Hickman County, KY, last week,
having cut through the timbers with chisel.
| G9- Conrad Zilch, dissipated shoemaker,
blew his brains out in Louisville, KY, on
Monday, leaving widow and five children to
rejoice at their deliverauce from his presence.
gss- Seven prisoners, charged with high
ofenses, escaped from the Lucas County Jail,
ct Toledo on Monday, two of whom were af-
terward recaptured. #
Gg- A lad, named William Allen, aged
about ten years, was killed on Saturday
evening, by being run yer by coal train in
Pittsbarg. "
| G@-Jacob Miller was killed in Rockingham
County, Va, on tho 18th inst, while deer
hunting, BY the accidental explosion of his
companions gun. ... Y..... -.
The scarlet fever has broken out In the
House Of Refuge, at Pittsburg, and already
one Of the inmates has fallen victim, named
Susan M'ClatChy.
| ~ Roger A. Pryor and the venerable
Hugh Plsasants are privates in the Peters,
burgh Battalion which ecently marched to
Chariestown, Va, quer burning hay
stack.
@-A new Democratic paper is, it is stated,
about to be started in New York, with the
name ofthe Daily Leader it's editorial man
agement to be under the direction of John
| Clancy. i
Gg-A short time ago an urchin, seven
years of age, was found in shed, in Stuben,
New York, teaching class Of still younger
boys how to swear and steal. A promising
lad, truly.
lGg-Within three weeks, says the London
| Tmes Of q late date, two Earls Of Jersey have
| died. The fifth Earl died on the Sd, and his
successor expired on Monday. The title now
dsvOlves upon boy of Ia years.
Gs-A difficulty took place lately at North
Gibson, Tenn, between two men by the name
Of Hague and Gibson, which resulted in the
death of the former, by a blow on the head
| from a gun.
NS- The following is old but good Three
editors are required to establish paper in
| New 0rleans-one to be killed in duel, an
other to die with the yellow fever, and third
| to write an obituary Of his deceased associ-
| ates.
N@-Wm. Callahan, vagrant, died in the
Memphis (Tenn.) calaboose, by rupturing o
blood vessel, night or two since, in the pres
ence of his wife, incarcerated with him for
drunkenness.
@s-The woods in Cheatham County, Tenn,
beginning at the Narrows of Harpeth and ex-
tending ten miles toward Nashville, have
been on fire for some days past. The loss of
timber has been immense. & rs -
Ns Three thousand inebriatss haye ap-
piled for admission into tho New York State
Inebriste Asylum. Among the number are
thirty clergymen, in whom the spirit appears
to be stronger than the flesh.
M8-J. M. Harrison, conductor on a
freight train on the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad, was fatally injured at bridge near
the Springfield station, day or two ago; his
head having come in contact with prof tile,
which fractured his skull and caused his death.
@S-A young man who is being educated, or
starved rather, for the ministry, by one Of
| the wealthiest churches in New York, on be-
| ing asked how much aid he received per an
mum, replied, One hundred dollars and the
prayers Of the church. a.., s,...-. w.
NS- General Thomas Thumb, who, although
"barely knee-high to a grasshopper," made q
large fortune for P. T. Barnum and snug
one for himself, is reported to be about to
unite himself in wedlock with lady Of youth
and beauty.
N9-0n Monday last large number of
counterfeit S. bills of the Merchants Bank
Of Albany were put in circulation in New
York; end a woman of suspicious character,
named Jennie Howard, was arrested with o
number Of the notes in her possession.
NS-T The man Pritts, whose recent arrest in
Somerset County, Penn, for the murder Of Eli
Weimer, with whom he was out hunting, has
confessed his guilt. The confession was made
to the murdered mans wife, between whom
buu rTlttb u CTluluhi iutimacy oAbtoVs
Ms- Miss Maranda Beaumont, of Baltimore
County, Nd, was severely injured few
weeks since by running o nail into one Of
her feet, from the objects of which lockjaw
was produced, and on Thursday last death
relieved her of her sufferings. -.
,MS- Elias Howe, the original patentes of
the look-stitch, which enters into the con-
struction Of nearly all the various sewing ma
chimes manufactured, receives about 100000
q year in commissions on machines sold, with
out manufacturing any or taking any risk
himself. -t,. ,t.,',-.-,g...,,, ..
E1- D. G. Oozier, editor Of the Pee Dee
IN. C.) Times, fell into an old we'll In the
Court house yard, on Thursday last, and es-
capped unhurt. However the editor may
have been injured, he could not but say after
the accident, at is WELL" Perhaps he was
looking after truth, which, according to the
old aphorism, is at the bottom of q we'll.
Mg-A terrible street fight occurred at Vim
cennes, } Ind, one day last week, between the
City Marshal, his two Deputies, and three
Constables, in which pistols, Bowie-knives,
clubs and brick-bats were freely used. None
Of the combatants were killed, though some
Of them were severely wounded.
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