The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1860-01-21
PEN AND SCISSORS.

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~ Tho small pox In Lexington, w., has
abated.
NB-A city passenger railroad is about to be
built In Richmond, Va.
eg-The Herald printing Office OF Bruins.
wiok, Va, has been destroyed By Are.
18-whas did blind woodsawysr take to
restore his sightf He took his horse, and saw.
11-Ths hope Of the plundered topsr--ths
restoration Of the Bourbon.
@8-"Are you Christian IndianS" asked
person OF an adherent of Red jacket. "No,"
said the sturdy savage, ~ vhisky lndian."r
@1-An Irishman named Daily was killed
near Springfield, o., q day or two since, BY
limb falling from . tree which he was cutting,
MB-Ths Ice on the Rsppahannoek River
broke up and passed of on Wednesday night
last.
NrA hon having four legs and two tails,
was recently shown to the editor Of the New
York News.
@1Revivsls Of religion have latsly taken
place among the Methodish In Taylor County,
Va.
@0The criminal who built the Psmbsrton
Mills 90 as to make II Q man trap, has been
discovered. He was the Engineer.
@4- The subscriptions in aid Of the Law
renee sufferers amount 10 $4,000. Total
number of killed SO far 2o6--woundsd 31s.
Ng-A French sauant has fixed the next
delugs for the year $3.50. 1t ought not to last
half so long as that. -,
g&Mr. Kaufman, . prominent physician
Of New Orleans, committed suicide last week
by stabbing himself to the heart.
ge The last Legislature Of Georgia
granted charter for the "Middle Georgia
Medical College," to be located at Griffin.
@-At restaurant, when you notice cock
reaches around, you can console yourself by
inferring that all are not in the pudding.
Ge- A new gas company Is to be organised
in Norfolk, Va, the object being to procure
gas at reasonable price.
@y An eagle measuring seven and half
feet from tip to tip has been captured in Bote,
tourt County, Va, BY Mr.. Il. Jones.
rAn old negro, known in Cumberland,
Md, as "Uncle Bush" died recently at the
extraordinary age Of one hundred and sis years.
DS- Lieut.. Bsale, Of California celebrity,
Is sojourning in Washington. Though only
thirty years old, he has become gray from bis
hardships and exposures.
DF There were twelve thousand seven hun
dred and twenty eight barrels of -four in
spected in Falmouth, Va, in the last quarter
Of 1859. e
Er A beggar boy applied TO farmers
wife in Scotland for relief, and was refused on
the ground that she chad no "copper"" to
which the urchin replied, 81 Ia siller, men,
@S-The Mills equestrian statue of Wash.
ington will be insugurated 22d Of February
with imposing ceremonies. Edward Everett
is invited to deliver the address.
@D "Among all my boys" said an old
man, 1 never had but one boy who took sftel
me, and that was my son Aaron, who took
after me with club"
H8-A pension of $50 q year has beer
granted.to Mrs. Janet Taylor, an authoress
whose works are we'll known to and are ap.
preciated by the mercantile marine Of England
NB-A physician once bOastsd to Sir Henry
Halford, saying, "I was the first to discover
the Asiatio cholera, and communicate II TO th,
public"
&@ David Moore, citizen Of Livingston
County, KY, hung himself recently In the
woods near bis residence, not far from Smith.
land.
@-A young man named French, a printer
and formerly an actor In Kunkels troupe, dice
Of consumption at Lynchburg, Va, few day
| since. HHar.g. -
@It is reported, falsely, no doubt, tina
Hiram Fuller Ia negotiating for the purchss
Of the New Orleans Delta, and that Mackay
the English poet, is to write for that journal
~ The French Imperial Stud altogeths
is composed Of from three to four hundred
horses-saddle, carriage and post-hor
they are now distributed in FIVE different es
adjustments.
G4- A number of females recently dsmol
ishsd a drinking grocery in PauldiDg, O..
knocking in the heads of whisky barrels anG
brandy kegs, besides smashing things gen
ally.
NBrThe whole number of banking sssocia
tions in Wisconsin on the fret Monday of Jan
uary was one hundred and fourteen, with
capital of $685., 900, decrease Of $685., ,00'
during tho year.
A LEAP FOR LAasR-A German namet
Fritz Rhuel, recently jumped from the top o
three story house, in st. Louis, into banl
Of snow scraped together for the purpose, on