Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-31
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600 during the past season.. .. ..'
Col. Richard Hamilton, an esteemed citi-
zen of Chicago, ILL.,, died on Wednesday. ?
Studies from life, by the author of John
H0IVd1, is just out,
Mrs. Norton has just completed her Lives
Of the SdrdiRians. ...
What amount of wild animals is necessary
to begin menagarie with2 Cat-amount.
"All in your eye."-Any thing. which may
be "comprehended at a glance"
The enrolled militia of the State of Rhode
Island numbers l8, 54l men.
Over 10000 miles of railroads were builtin
the United States from 1850 to 1857.
A formerly prosperous farmer, who two
years ago refused $4,000 for his farm in
CentralsKansas, is now in actual starvation.
Mrs. Mercy Bryant hanged herself at
Halifax, Mass, in fit of depression, day
or two ago.
The cooper-shop in the Penitentiary at
Baltimore was burned down on Saturday, in-
volving loss of $4,000. 80 .y.., .-..
A black bass, weighing $50 pounds, was.
caught at Webster, New York, on the lake
shore, last week.
The population of Maryland is 4,565;
number of slaves, 5,382; number of DWELL
ings l05,567. 7'f
Harriet Martineau has Just sent to press a
volume entitled Health, Husbdnary and
HandicrGft. .-.-.
The letters Of Button, the naturalist, col
lected and edited by his grand nephew, have
just appeared at Paris. Et.
A hitherto unknown poem of John Bun
yans, will shortly be published in England.
1t is entitled profitable Meditation"
A little boy lost his life at Muscatine, Iowa,
on Thursday, from having some pieces of
hickory-nut shells lodged in his throat.
A new literary newspaper is to be issued
in Pittsburg, Penn, by Messrs. Hunt &
Miner.
A hydrostatic paradox (pair O. docks)-
Two adjoining places at which ships are re-
paired. r- +.. .
If you wish for exeitable reading, light
cigar and pore over the pages of the ponder
magazine. r.
A writer in the Atlantic Monthly, de-
scribing Americans, says, "They have skine
of ice, and veins filled with burning lava"
Since. WsJoter's Elementary Spelling Book
was first published, 35O0O,OOO copies have
been sold. .s.fF
Mayor Fernando Woods bride is said to
be Just one. third as old as her liege lord. He
has just attained his. fifty first year, and his
wife is sweet seventeen. ..s,s ia4.-. TO
A squall struck boat containing Chas.
Potter, his son and two young men, at Bris-
tol, X. l., on Saturday evening, and all were
lost. .r.s4..,
The schoolmistresses whom Gov. Slade, of
Vermont, sent out to Oregon, were to pay a
fine of $500 if they married under one year.
Most of the girls paid the fine.
Judge Halliburton is said to be engaged on
new work, containing an apology for the
Orangemen during the Canadian travels
of the Prince of Wales.
The amount of gold minted at the branch
mint in Georgia, during November was
$l3,727-$l2,457 from Pixies Peak, the ball
ance from Georgia.
The Petaluma (Cal) potato trade is so
great as to exceed the means of shipment.
San Francisco, received, in four days, re-
Gently, 100000 pounds. sat
The Manchester IN. H. Print Works have
just made up their six months accounts, and
| show the very handsome result of $4,000
as their net earnings.
Discoveries of copper in Calaveras County,
California promise that the mines will prove
as rich as the celebrated Burra Barra mine
I in Australia.
Mr.. Wills is the name of the subordinate
editor of Dickenss AH The Year Round. 1t
is he who in reality does the editorial work
of that magazine.
A new monthly serial ia to be started i'm
mediately, called The Scottish MiscelIaay--
an ecclesiastical and literary magazine for
members of the church Scottish Episcopal)
in Scotland. " NJIf f1s
Thiers finds that he can not complete his
great history without another (the TWEEN
tieth) volume, which will comprise the ac-
count of the famous "Hundred Days"
Froude, the English historian, has written
the notes 10 an important work on Henry
| VIII, of which clerk of the Council of Ed
ward VI was the origiasl author.
p The deaths ia New Otleans for the week
ending last Tuesday numbered l50 sixty
FIVE natives of the United States, and one Of
South Carolina. i@sb $50
I, The first act of the coming session of the
Tennessee Legislature, the secession journals
! say, WI probably be 10 instruct Hon. An
drew Johnson TO resign. -, Il.
While boring for oilgat Youngstown, In
this State, vein Of salt water was struck,
three quarts OF which produced Ieaenp full
Of fine salt, I'D SO .i5'
The Brooklyn IN. " Academy Of Music
has cost $3.50, 600, and $4,000 more are re-
quired TO complete IT, The Academy wil
be opened early in January. 4 sLLA
Charles Gordon, alias Robertson, the
Wounded New Orleans burglif, in whose
rooms seventeen Thousand dollars worth Of
stolen pI0perty was found, recently escaped