Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-09-24
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Truth-telling, in its highest sense, requires
a well-balanced mind.
The fruit crop in Massachusetts,, this year,
will be the largest ever gathered.
A canary bird, eighteen years old, died in
Paterson, N. j., last week.
A great religious movement is going on in
Prague and other cities Of Bohemia.
Ten thousand hoOp-skirts are made weekly
in Meriden, Conn.
The grand ball given to the Prince of
Wales, in Montreal, Canada, cost $4,000.
There 10000 slaves now in Peru, and the
demand continues.
There are about 300 daily papers in the
United States.
The entire militia force of the United
States musters 100000.
A large skate mandatory has been started
at Wellheet Mass. s
A city railroad has been put in operation
in Syracuse, n. Y. The cars commenced
running on Wednesday.
There are fifty illustrated weekly papers
issued in Paris, and the aggregate weekly
sale is nearly 100000 copies,
throughout the Russian Enpire during the
year 1858, was 404,7 III.
The campaign medal manufacturers in
Waterbury, Connecticut, are making 10000
day Of the various candidates.
The San Antonio (Texas) Express men,
tions the arrival of a caravan of camels in
that town, from the Pacific.
Brave men bare their bosoms to their ene-
mies-fashionable women to friends and enc
mics alike.
The Minnesota River is lower in water at
this time than it has ever been before in the
memory of white men.
An elegant new Hebrew Synagogue was
consecrated in Lloyd-street Baltimore, on
Friday. E..LE
Sardines, of excellent quality and of full
size and flavor, are abundant on the coast of
California.
It is estimated that there are now run
ming on the railroads of the United States,
5000 passenger and $4,000 freight cars.
The Zouave disorder has attacked the fire.
men and policemen of New York, who drill
industriously at their stations every evening.
There are 1000 islands in Lake Huron
that have actually been surveyed, besides
others that have not. ....
Timothy Vessel, while whiting stick
near New Madrid, Mo-. on Friday, cut vein
in his left hand and bled to death. E.t
A schoolmaster in New London, Ct., has
sued pupil named Gordon for damages for
an assault, and recovered averdict of 5000.
George Law has recently purchased the
| villa of Mr.. Cazet, and the hill adjacent to
Stapleton, Staten Island, for $4,000.
The Utica IN. } steam wooden mills have
| Just secured contract for making 10000
yards of cloth for the United States Navy.
Three vessels were taken, on Thursday
last, dredging for oysters in Fishing Bay,
contrary to the law of Maryland, and fined.
The annual fair of the New York State
Agricultural Society, will open at Elmira on
| October 2.
| Mr.. Waldegrave, descendant Of one of the
Oldest families in England died recently,
possessed of $sooO,Ooo.
1t matters not whether man be mathe-
matically, pbilOlogieally or artistically eul-
tivated, SO he be cultivated.
A man of incorporate habits, named
| Joseph Vain, residing at Buena Vista, in
this State, committed suicide, the other day,
''Flora Temple" the great trotter, is
matched to go three miles against "Duteh-
mans time-7;32X. The match was made
many years ago. .--- 4
Richard Bason, butcher in Memphis
Tenn, was attacked and terribly mutilated
by large and savage bulldog, few days
ago.
James Guthrey attempted an incestuous
outrage on his daughter, in Jersey City, N.
| j., last week, and, failing to cOnsummate the
deed, he destroyed himself
A farmer in Buffalo Township, Iowa, has q
| COW that recently gave birth to four calves
at one time. The COW ought to blush for
herself
During the two days Of last week, three
| children fell from the second-story windows
of houses in New Haven, Conn, and not one
of them was seriously injured. raur /,
A family in Albany, N. Y, who had been
4 ruralizing, suddenly returned a few days
ago, and found the house occupied by four
female friends of their servants.
The expenditure of the United States
Postofice fer the past year, was over $l4,-
4 100000 and the revenue less than So, 600 900,
leaving deficit Of about 100000.
The Great Eastern, now apparently des-
tined for the American trade, is TO leave
England for New York in October, and will
thence go to Norfolk, Va, for a cargo.
By the recent decease of Mr.. Waldegrave,
an English millionaire, Senator ]. Mcleod
Murphy, of New York, becomes heir to over
S600,O00. Ext "a E
Whether sugar can be successfully made
out Of the sorghum, OF Chinese sugar-cane,
is problem that is yet to besolYed, and the
molasses Is not generally liked.
l. "A private company is said to have been
formed in London, by some leading houses