Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-09
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The sacred nine" Of dog-gerel poets The
canine muses.,
"How could you manage TO contract 30
many debts2n said B. TO @. "By always en-
ldrging them" was the ready answer.
Thornton Christy committed suicide at AL
exandria, Tennessee, by taking two ounces of
arsenic r.r
The State Of Arkansas Is the only State in
the Union without q telegraph, and she has
not q foot Of line within her border.
The slaves owned in the Southern States
number 100000, and their value in money
reaches the fgure of $4,000 100000,
The new divorce bill in New York allows
divorces ViRculo, for three years desertion,
cruelty, or habitual drunkenness for one year.
Statistics recently published showed that
l,6l2 births and 2,29l deaths had occurred in
the Sandwich Islands during 1859.
The Hon. George N. Briggs, of Massachu-
setts has been cordially and unanimously
elected Chancellor of Madison University.
@. F. Train, of Boston, and Hiram Fuller,
of New York, are about to publish in Paris a
free-trade Louis Napoleon paper.
The steam tannery of Silas Rees, in Hamp-
shire County, Va, was destroyed by FIRE last
week, with large number Of hides. Loss
$4,000.
Pages Venus is drawing largely in New
Orleans. When are we to have the famous
picture here2 SO ---.--..-
The "Unionists" in Georgia have called
their State Convention at Milledgeville on
the I'd of May next. O-...
The widow of the late Rev. Robert Hall
died at her residence near Bristol, England,
recently, at the advancedage of seventy-four
1t is asserted, ION high Democratic author
ityP that Gen, Pierce has declined Mr.. Bu-
chandln's invitations to visit the White House.
The London Post is informed that Sir
William Armstrong sent shot through four
and half inches Of wrought iron.
B. D. Pitts, one of the oldest and most
wealthy citizens of Essex County, Va, died
there recently. e-
Great mortality exists on Staten Island
among the horses. The disease is called the
Black Tongue; many deaths are occurring.
Seven hundred people of Milwaukee, Wis,
have been supplied with food at the SOUP
house, which was recently closed.
Itwas a saying of Austin, "He that will
lingly takes from my good name, unwillingly
adds to my reward" -
A young man in Petersburg, Va, named
G. Clay, jr., was drugged, the other night
and robbed Of nearly $4,000. The thief es-
capped.
William Coggeshall, sixty-two years oi
age, died very suddenly in Fall River, Mass.
last week. He was the Cashier of the Fall
River Union Bank. O. O. ..'. I...
The absence of legitimate employment has
probably made more gamblers than avarice
more drunkards than thirst, and as many
suicides as despair.
| Montaigne, who is great upon doctors, uset
| TO beseech his friends that If he fell ILL., they
would let him get little stronger befori
sending for the doctorl
Horse-hesh brings fancy prices now-a-days
Jim Barton" trotter, was sold the Other
day by Mr.. Chapman to H. l.. Baker foi
$4,000. He will be taken to California.
A good book is styled by Milton "the pre-
| ciOus life-blood of a master spirit, embalmeC
and treasured up on purpose to life beyond
life."
Lady Clara Cavendish, lady of talent an(
brilliant Imagination has furnished the worlC
a new novel entitled 'The Divorce; Tale o
Fashionable Life" t.t...
Secretary Cobb has appointed Murra,
| Whalon, Of Pennsylvania, secret agent of tn,
Government on the Pacific Coast, Uice j. Ros
Browne, resigned.
Rev. Geo. W. Carter, late of Virginia, de
nies that he resigned his professorship in tn
Mississippi University on account of the diff
Guilty with the Northern professors.
An indolent boy, being asked by his teache
who came latest to school, replied Tndeed
sir, l can not say, for did not get here early
enough to see."
There have been several failures lately il
Canada West, whose liabilities are over on,
million and a half dollars, and some other
are talked of. q - r s1
A printing Office and a lithographic estab
lishment has recently been formed for tn,
first time in Greenland, and work published
by it has just made its appearance.
The Columbus (Ga.) Inquirer speaks O
Strawberries picked. from garden in tina
city, last week, which measured three anC
three-fourth inches in circumference.
On Sunday small army of pickpocketl
entered st. Joseph's Cathedral, in Buffalo, N
Y, and picked a variety of pockets. Four o
them were taken into custody, but one o
them escaped, and carried off most of tn,
booty. rEHs.
The Chiriqui gold seekers from New Yorl
city are reported to have failed entirely il
the object of their adventure. Several of tn
party have died, and others suffered sadl,
| from fever.
The Viscount CIere, Aid-de-camp of Primo,
Napoleon, died suddenly the other day. HI
wasformerly aman ofsuch enormous strength
that he could lift horse with two men oI
the back of the animal.
| The other night the steam tannery of Sila!
Reese, on New Creek, near Richmond Va
was consumed, involving a loss of abou
$4,000.
A fire at Piedmont, Va, a day or two since
consumed the carpenter shop of Jarboe
| Sons; the double tenement house of Mr.. Nef
and small Office at the weight-scales of tn
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
ORIGINAL DECISION RESPECTING MATRIMoN
IAL QUARRELs-An Amazonian woman, VIII,
is said TO be the "weaker vessel of Mix
Moriarty's household gods, was recently be
fore the Recorder of Memphis, for whipping
her husband, and fined $40. His Honor ais