Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-08-01

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The Presidential election comes off on the
9Th of November.
Secretary Toucey is again convalescent,
and laboring at his official duties.
Park Benjamin has opened an intelligence
office in Union-square, New York.
A steam wagon from England is exhibiting
in the streets Of San Francisco.
The number of deaths in Brooklyn, N. Y,
last week was l4l.
Joel Wills, stone-cutter, mashed his
thumb near Elkton, Md, on Monday and
died on Thursday from lockjaw.
Joseph Goodwin cut his throat in Savannah,
Ca, on Wednesday while suffering from de-
irium tremenS.
In Philadelphia, on Friday, one Leopold
Schirg, drank seventy glasses of lager beer
in seven hours on bet, and still survives.
The census will show the population -of
Manchester, Mass. TO, be nearly 2l,0O0, falling
below that number only one or two hundred,
Mrs. Sickles is said to he in very delicate
health. For some months past she has been
quite feeble. ..e
The Petersburg (Virginia) Inder has come
published hereafter in Richmond
The gold mines in Vermont are paying
well. In Plymouth there are some 100 miners
who make from $40 to $50 per day.
A shoe manufacturer of London, failed,
few weeks ago, when his liabilities were
found to be $25O,OOO and his assets $1,000.
A letter from Hayti, says the immigrants
from New Orleans are doing well in the cul-
ture ofcotton on the plains of the Artibonite
Mrs. Melinda Quin, widow in Memphis
Tenn, committed suicide recently, on ac-
count of domestic trouble, growing out of an
attachment for a married man. g
Of the 90, 93S, ASS acres of uncultivated land
in Cuba, at least l3, ,40O, 900 acres are covered
by forests filled with woods valuable either
for utility or ornament.
Venus has ceased to be the evening star,
and will be the morning star for the balance
of the year. Mars will attend to the duties
ofthe evening star for the present 7"
DIR. Jordan, in Smithville, Mo-, having been
attacked recently by five men with guns, shot
three dead with revolver and wounded two
others. H-fg tHr
Mr.. Rowse, who went to Europe to draw
Tennyson, has been denied sittings; but he
is now taking the portrait of Ruslzin, and is
soon to commence that of Carlyle.
'Mr. Smith, don't yon think Mr.. Skeesicks
is man of partsP' "Decidedly so, Miss
Brown, he is part numskull, part knave and
part fool"
The tin establishment of Mr.. Alderhold, in
Clarksville, Tenn, the residence of 7. w.
King, and several small offices, SWere con-
sumed by fire on Thursday. Loss $4,000.
Rarey has left London for Shetland to
purchase ponies in that locality. The other
day he exhibited his powers at the Crystal
Palace, Sydenham, to 5000 persons.
Six beautiful swans are to be placed in
the lake in the Albany IN. W rural cem-
etery. They were brought over from Europe
by Mr.. Van Woert.
The renowned Professor Sweet will cross
the river at Pawtucket, r. l., below the
falls, distance of 600 feet, on Saturday
afternoon, the llth proXimo.
A firm in Pittsfeld, Mass, found, last
week, in a bale of wool purchased in Boston,
a stone weighing eighty pounds. The wool
was imported from the Cape of Good Hope.
A mother recently left her babe on the
platform of the. railway cars at Lynchburg,
| Va, and forgot all about it until negro
plttSOu 10 ullilSs
A statue of the philosopher Priestley has
been erected in the grand central court of the
Oxford tEng.) Museum The figure is about
six feet high, and is worked in Caen stone.
Mrs 0ehler fell into boiler of scalding
water in Brooklyn, N. Y, on Sunday, in the
presence of her husband and was burned to
death. . -.-. . i.t fl' tl1-N
The old brig FroIic, which was in the
engagement with the Wasp about forty-eight
years ago, was at Eastport, Me-, a few days
since She is owned in the province of New
Brunswick
| A number of Americans have joined the
army of Garibaldi A young Virginian has
! left Paris with "A commission as Lieutenant
he had received from headquarters at Pa
| lermO.
Cry LADIES KNowLEDGE OF HoRsEs.-
Two young ladies of Philadelphia were lately
/ spending the summer in northeastern New
York. During their visit they took severa
long rides with the daughter of their host
about the country. On one of these occasions
as they had been travelling some distance
/ and the day was warm, and as a trough o
running water stood invitingly by the road
side, they concluded to give their pony {
drink. One Of the city ladies agreed to ge
out and arrange matters for this purpose
The others, remaining in the carriage, ant
deeply engaged in conversation, for SOM
time Maid no attention In the DrOceedinps O