Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-11
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The frozen corpse of man was found at
East Newark, N. j., one morning last week.
Mrs. Masthayer, an actress of the past age,
died at Boston on Friday, aged seventy-four.
The "freedom of the city" signifies, in
modern terms, the right to lodging in the
station-house.
~ shall be indebted to you for life" as the
man said to his creditors, when he ran away
TO Australia.
1t is stated that Senator Wade will this
week make Speech showing the impossi-
bility of peaceable secession.
The hotel at Central Depot, on the vir-
ginia and Tennessee Railroad, was consumed
by fire recently.
Patrick Conelly, an old policeman, dropped
dead in st. Louis on Thursday, which drove
his wife temporarily crazy.
The particles of gold, recently reported to
have been discovered at Des Arc, Ark,
prove to be brass filings.
Twenty five hogsheads of gunpowderwere
received in Montgomery, Ala, last week,
and several tuns of lead.
The Eagle Gold Mine, in Virginia, has
been sold for $l2,370 to Samuel Smith, of
Boston.
The British volunteers now number 200,-
900 men, are in good condition. and steadily
increasing in military knowledge and eff
cheney. ......
The great municipal question in Paris, of
the best pavement for roadways, has been
decided in favor of the dry asphaltum, a new
patented invention.
1t is stated in the New York Tribune that
during the first half of this century 3,240
visitations of earthquakes were noticed, or
about one in every week.
The high price of rent in Paris has de-
| termined the Government to encourage the
building of dwellings for the workmen at
some distance from the city.
1t is said that the new Houses of Parlia-
ment in England, which are built of mag
nesian limestone, are already crumbling into
decay.
Jesse K. Hatfield, who built the shaft for
| Fulton's first steamboat, Clermont, completed
his eightieth birthday on Saturday, and is
still as hale and hearty as man of fifty.
The London Times, influenced by the ex-
| pertinent of a railway at Birkenhead, after
| the American pattern, is arguing in favor OF
their general Introduction.
An Abolitionist, whose opinions were
obnoxious to some Mississippians, was bar
relied up and rolled into the Mississippi RiYer
few days since.
It is estimated that 1000 gallons of mo-
lasses have been made this last year from
Chinese sugar cane in Cumberland County,
Maryland.
Three things seem to have been proved on
the Burch trial: That Mrs. B. is O weak silly
woman, that Mr.. B. is mean hypocrite,
and that Stuart is a detestable villain.
A little FIVE year old boy, son of James
Dogleish, of Toronto, O. W., while playing
water, and was scalded to death.
While parting two dogs fighting at Rox-
bury, Mass, on Saturday, Owen Kirser's
foot slipped and a knife in his pocket
penetrated his thigh, causing his death.
A handsome young woman was found
wandering in Rome, N. Y, last week, deliri'
Gus with typhoid fever and died soon aftel
in the street.
Andrew Stewart, negro barber, while
drunk in Northampton, Mass, Thursday
night, fell out of awindow and was instantly
killed.
The forests of the. Cordilleras, Centra
America, are said to abound in India-rubber
though up to the present time none has beel
exported.
It is estimated that English hymnolog,
numbers upward of thirty thousand distinc
hymns. Yet few hymn books contain NOR
than one thousand of these lyrics.
William Morgan was killed in an affray il
Sparte, Tenn, day or two ago, by William
NJ. Green, who stabbed his victim seventeen
times.
Beecher says of halfway men: "They ar
of no use; they can never get to Heaven
they are not known in hell, and are no
wanted on EARTH"
The beard and monstache appear to b
gaining ground among the clergy, to WHOM
they have, until lately, been forbidden van
tiles.
Peter Barkus, a youth of eighteen, kille
his mother, in Tolland County, last weeA
, because she refusei him money to bu
liquor.
Some two weeks since, young man an
his sister, Clarence and Clara Mason, kille
themselves, near New Ulm, Texas, becaus
they discovered they had negro blood !
their veins.