Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-08-17
XARIH TIMs

The Great Eastern is 10 sail for England on
the 10th. About 200 have engaged passage.
The population of Winchester, Va, is a
little over 1000, showing slight increase
over the census of 1850.
I In Harrisburg, Penn, last week, W. A.
Wykoff shot his chambermaid through the
arm; mistaking her in the dark for burglar.
The population of Portsmouth, in this
State, BY the recent census, is $780, an
increase of 2,2s9 since 1850.
"You should be ashamed, husband, to snore
so." "Oh, it is entirely unintentional never
do IL with my eyes open"
Henry Mayley, during a fit of ma1fec-potu,
cut his throat, and that Of little girl, a day
or two ago, near New Haven, Conn. '"'
An infant, few weeks old, was suffocated
In Bangor, Me-, day or two since, by the
smoke from defective chimney.
! There is to be grand regatta at Cleve-
land, on the 18th of September. Four prizes
Of $100, $75, $50 and $25 are offered. ,.a
During an affray in Shelby, KY, recently,
James Mayors was stabbed by W. O. Whit
maker, and died soon after.
Alvin Hughes dangerously cut Shelton
Harris, who had struck him with a stone, a
day or two since, at Cayville, KY. djs.
The Spirit of the Times has an account of
an old fellow who "would rather tell a lie on
six months credit, than speak the truth for
CASH"
A. O. Moore, of New York City, who went
to Central America last year, has just re-
turned from Guatemala, with two swarms of
stingless bees. r-, y al
Thomas Jefferson Badger, the only son of
Senator Badger, of North Carolina, was the
young medical student who was drowned in
the surf at Atlantic City a few days since.
The Chillicothe (Ohio) papers publish the
names of twenty-five gentlemen who had
their pockets picked in that city on We'd
nesday. ia Fr.E. ~ a. D.
Bells Tavern, on the Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad, near the Mammoth Cave, was
entirely destroyed by fire, the other night.
Supposed to be the work of an incendiary.
Loss, $4,000.
As the st. Johns steamer Eastern City was
on her passage from Boston to Portland, she
ran upon whale causing a slight leak, and
killing the sea-monster.
Henry Ammsnds, Of Pike County, in this
State, was committed to prison last week on
charge OF violating ms own step-oaug9tMei, M
aged eleven years, In the presence OF MS
wife.
Charles Ruehl, editor of German Demo
cratic paper, has been removed from lucra-
tive ONCE IN the. oan FRANCISCO MIMI, on
account of advocating Douglas.
A Baltimore Justice has sent fellow
named Seymour to jail for two weeks, fol
insulting female on the street. oucn al
example might pe lmitated IN tnls city.
M.Ch. Petre, the French Sculptor, who
executed the statue OF Joan OF Arc, at Neut
chateau, mas nearly completed STATUE o.
Marshal Ney. IL Is 10 DC inaugurated a.
hie'I' -,s aa CgatEtEII nElFfB-
A few days since, Taylor Finley, youth
lost his life while attempting to save the lif'
| of a negro, drowning in a creek, near Helena
ARKANSAS ". u
| US. Slaughter committed suicide at AT
llanta, Ga, recently. His name had becom,
familiar to the public from his connection
with the "Yancey Letter" r,~.,
Mrs. Jacob Gruner, bride of only tw,
months, poured some camphene into the fir,
in Hausslen, Conn, recently, and was bume,
to death 4 ass lolt1
The New York Evensng Posf says truly