Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-05-18

Street passenger railways are about being
laid down In Memphis, Tenn. a4 u 4i
A Convention of the Knights of the Col
den Circle is in session at Raleigh, N. G.
The wife Of policeman, in New York,
gave birth to four children on Sunday last.
A boy eight years old has been sent to the
Wisconsin State Prison. e. 1EF TE
An old negress died, day or two since, in
Richmond, Va, from the effects Of swallow
ing fsh-bone which could not be removed.
B. F. Lowry, while climbing a tall branch
less tree, near Bingham, N. Z, on Tuesday,
fell and fractured his skull. gps, rr-r-
William G. Tucker, well-known mer-
chant of Raleigh, N. O., died on the I'd inst.
He was soldier in the War of 1872.
The pugilistic admirers of Heenan in New
York talk of raising $4,000 for him as a tes-
timonial. ...tfTFrr 1n ..s-f.ua.+
Peter McKenna, formerly publisher Of the
Catholic Instructor, committed suicide in
Philadelphia, recently, by drowning. ,i
August H. Arensield, a German, blew his
brains out in New York, a night or two
since, on account of lack of employment.
Connecticut is severe on pick-pockets.
The Highest penalty is two years in the State
Prison.
A Hartford, Connecticut, gentleman re-
Gently bought an old cent, for which he paid
JVty dollars. .e .'''c y.
John Soelner, German butcher, hung
himself from depression Of spirits, a day or
two since, in Etna, Penn. .IG y
Fifteen hundred barrels of green peas ar
rived at New York from Richmond, Va, one
day this week. aola.
There are eighteen miles and half OF
sewers in Detroit, Mich, built at a total cost
of $27l, 900.
Joseph Smith, Of Lewisburg, Ark, having
given offeuse to the citizens there, was shot
and killed recently in his own house.
Business in Albany, MY, is active. A
builder offered, recently, 81 so for laborers,
and could not obtain them. --,rtcT .-rr
A traveller writing from Carthagena, South
America, says that there has been no new
dwelling-houses built there for forty or fifty
years. fh uiAA1Iai
A proposition is on footinl Baltimore fol
the erection of q mammoth "Wigwam" 10
that city for the accommodation Of the ad-
journed Charleston Convention. g,yD y
Patrick Callahan, with several alidses, il
under arrest in Atlanta, Ca, for burglary and
robbery; six gold watches having been found
upon him. , a
Thomas Arey, of Yarmouth, Mass lost a
valuable COW, last week, in consequence oi
her obtaining access to barrel of meal, and
eating herself to death. sI..'
The stone and iron bridge for the Norfolk
md hn Roll af xUa hae
been completed, and the cars passed over il
for the first time day or two since.
The Bermudian of the the I'd inst, says
nearly $4,000 barrels of potatoes have been
shipped from that Island this spring, mostly
to the United States. - S'''''- -'''''
A man named Williams has been tried in
Rockingham, N. O., for the murder Of Miss
Helton, and convicted of murder in the first
degree. -t..IA .-..t,
Granier de Cassagrac the French journal.
ist, has recently published a History Of tht
Girondias, intended as an answer to Lamar.
tines work of the same name.
A German, William Metzler, drowned him.
self in the Delaware River, at Philadelphia
because neighbor had questioned his We
racity.
Mich cows are from So to $40 head
cheaper this spring, in Orange County, N. Y.
than they have been for the last three or foui
years. ~ -..r.s.., ~. i...t..t so s3o, So
Five treaties are now before the United
States Senate for ratification, with Mexico
with Nicaragua, with Honduras, with Spain
and with New Granada. otrl h, '4ai hl.i
The body of an infant two months old wa:
taken from vault in New York, day OF
cut from ear to ear. i~s.nI aI9 iiaGt
Allen Goff, one of the fugitive slaves sent
back from New York last week, was, upon
his being given us to his master, sold fol
$1,000. .. -,.,,,oy
The Rubicon is now, by a curious eoinci-
dence, the boundary at Rimini between the
King of Sardinia's enlarged kingdom and