Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-27
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A life of Mr.. Benjamin DIsraeli is forth
coming shortly.
The nuisance of hotel runners at Indianap-
oils has been abolished.
John Browns biography is to be shortly
reprinted in London, for the henefit of the
widow and family of "0ld Grown"
The people of Danville, KY, and the ad-
jacent country, have contributed $4,000 in
aid of the sufferings by the fire in that town.
The London Literary Gazette is changing
hands once more; the new proprietor to Se a
Clergyman. -. ..-.... --
An interesting medallion of Kirke White,
by Chantery, has recently been added to the
National Portrait Gallery.
Messrs. Hachette are just publishing first
series of French version of the miscellane-
Gus works of Lord Macaulay.
'Right at Last and other Tales" is the
title of the new volume by Mrs. Gaskell, in
preparation in London.
The Legislature of New York have appro-
priated $4,000 for the purchase of camp
equipage for the Seventh Regiment.
Mrs. G. Myers was arrested in Baltimore on
Tuesday, for compelling her daughter, child
but nine years ofage, to get beastly drunk. =,
A little, girl child of W. H. Bailey, of Au-
gusta County, Va, was burnt to death last
week by her clothes taking fire.
Col. T. j. Whipple, of Loconia, N. H., has
a two-year old Draco colt that weighs eleven
hundred and fifty pounds.
The principal articles of export from japan
are rape seed oil, edible sea-weed manufac-
tured and raw silk, and gold cobangs. ~.
Five earthquakes took place in Japan in
two months last winter, and the shocks were
very destructive of buildings r.
Cardinal Wiseman is at Rome for his health.
He is quite intimate with the Pope, and has
taken carriage excursion with him.
Every man can and should do something
for the public, if it be only to kick piece Of
orange peel into the road from the pavement.
The boy who was caught looking into the
future has been arrested for trying to see the
show without paying.
The city of Quebec, being largely in debt,
is contriving to drag in large suburban dis
trict to help bear the weight of taxation.
Preparations are being made to light the
town of Ripley, Brown County, by gas;
company having purchased the necessary
equipments and material.
In the st. Louis Postoffice, during the last
quarter, over two millions of letters and
papers were handled, examined assorted and
delivered.
The reception of Father Lacordaire, as a
member of the French Academy, will take
place in May. M. Guizot will reply to the
address of the new academician.
One hundred and fifty hands have been
recently discharged from a sewing-machine
manufactory, in East Bridgeport, Connecticut,
in consequence of a falling off in business.
]. NJ. Keeney, in Tuscaloosa County, Ala
bama, was killed last week, by the acci-
dental discharge of pistol in the hands of
f. Sloan.
There is gas excitement at Mendoza, Ill.
People dig down fifteen or twenty feet and
find a combustible gas, apparently inexhaust-
ible in quantity. T-F ~ .F. #F
Thomas Hazlett stabbed another man, Geo.
Barstoe, near Vicksburg Miss. last week,
and the latter died Of his wounds six hours
after.
An actor, known in San Francisco, CAL, as
Mr.. Hayward, son of Mr.. Shultz, a promi-
nent merchant of Baltimore, died recently in
the former city. n,gttg .Iorr --rr-.fr
A number of excellent counterfeit ten
dollar notes of the Canal Bank of New Or
leans have been put in circulation in Louis
vile, KY, recently. -wur- rW -EIi
On Saturday last, fifty-three carpenters
and thirteen carpenters laborers-sixty-six
in all-were discharged from the Portsmouth
(Va) Navy-yard.
A well-dressed man, suffering from apo
plexy, was elected from a street railroad car,
in New York, recently, under the impression
that he was drunk, and soon after died.
Ellen Worley, courtesan, committed
suicide by hanging herself in Trey, N, Y,
last week. Her act was induced by remorse at
the life she had led.
The new Sanitary Police in New York is
working wonders in the way of bringing to
light unsafe houses, over-crowded dwellings,
deposits ofunhealthy matter, &c.
The arrest of Heenan, it seems, was not
based upon the illegality of the proposed
prize-fght, but upon the danger of breach
Of the peace by the immense throng of spec
tatOrs. t|.i Hi it. . t7iA.07't+'
The thermometer seldom falls below 60 de-
grees OF Fair. and the wild camelias are never
out of bloom in Japan. The coast storms,
however, are frightful, and very destructive
to shipping. .99'Il0 lg3lgTUs GgR If9
The st. Georges Society of Toronto, Cam
ada, instead of providing their annual dinner
on Monday, celebrated the occasion in the
cathedral, and gave to the poor the money
the banquet would have cost. az WT7 f--Fs
N. w. Lyon, Revolutionary soldier, died
at his residence in Easton, Conn.,, few days
since, in his lOlst year. He was engaged in
the Comnissariat Department of tho Army
for some time. ef flaTlN ilH3.a .ers ~ n
The total number of desths in New York
last week was 42s, a decrease of thirty-riine
from the previous week, but an increase of
ttwenty-three over the corresponding week Of
last year.