Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-23

VARIETIES. s.

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and
for this reason-the lawyers didn't make it.
City letters are to be delivered in New
York, hereafter, at charge of one cent each.
Light wine is but the ghost of wine-be-
cause it has no body to it.
The Hon. John F. Potter, NJ. c., of Wiscon-
sin, en- route for home, was in Columbus on
Friday. ........
The female shoemakers of Marblehead
Mass, have formed an association of nearly
one hundred members.
The other night in st. Louis, the store of
Bernard Warner was forcibly entered by
thieves and emptied of So, 900 worth of cigars.
Walter Webber, lad, was enticed from
the house few nights since by two other
youths in Fayetteville, Ark, and stabbed to
death. ...-.- ....... ..-.-......
husband residing in Catawba County, N. c.,
for the fifth time, on each occasion with a
different man. ... rrt., b..
Perry Bolser and his two children were
drowned in the Muskingum River near
GAINESVILLE, on Thursday last.
A court in Brooklyn, New York, recently
rendered $500 damages to a man who had
been injured in railroad collision.
The Spiritual Age, which died out in Bos-
ton, has been resurrected in Portland, Me-,
under the name of Spiritual Eclectic.
The lowest bids for the construction of
Henry Ward Beeeher's new church in Brook
lyn, N. Y, foot up $l47,47o.
One of the bets at Tattersall's, in London,
on the prize fight, was f700 to f400 against
Heenan. -....
The house of Mr. Clark, near Springfield,
Ohio, was totally destroyed by fire on Wednes-
day night, in the absence of the family.
A man named Life. and his two daughters,
were arrested ashort time since, near Neosho
Mo-, charged with attempting to hang little
child about two and half years DID,
A French paper publishes the absurd re.
port from America that "the famous Lola
Monies was killed in duel at San Juan de
Niblo." Lola is very much alive.
1t is said that General Cass never had or
an overcoat but once in his life, an instances
that occurred two months ago, during mo
ment of bodily prostration. 4E ~
The French expedition to China, compris
| ing six thousand men and some English yes
sells, for the same service, recently arrived
there.
The amount in the Federal Treasury sub
| ject to draft is nearly $7,000,000, or an in
crease of upward of half a million that owe
on hand last week.
A great English statesman once found Il
| his cost that however much Fox might be
come a hole it was not good policy to pitcl
into Pitt. -.s..,f-. .t.f. .'rr r
A little girl three years old, daughter of
German named Hare, was recently burnt +
death, in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, by he
clothes taking fire. . rrr'r.-5 ..e
William R. Fox, a gas-ftter at one of tn
Newark (Ohio) Coal-oil establishments fe
into an oil tank, receiving injuries on th
head from which he died in an hour.
Can one meet with more contemptibl
creature in daily life than the individual VIII
constantly strives to detect doubLe-entend1
in conversational A - y ~
AS a specimen of the results of polygam,
it is related that young English woman wa
recently sold to man in Salt Lake City fc
load of pumpkins. as -
Rowse, the Boston artist, who is going I
England, has orders to take likenesses of Ca
Isle for Emerson, and of Tennyson fo
Longfellow.
Green peas have fallen to twelve cents
quart, in Charleston, s. c., and beef is onl
twelve to twenty cents pound, which is nC
SO bad for Convention prices. q
Joseph G. Howe, of EPSON, N. H., went
Manchester, recently, slept two nights in Il
cemetary, found hisfeet frozen, and as a col
sequence, they were both ampatated.
The Covington (Ga.) Times says q lot
negroes, nineteenth in number, were sold on Il
block in that city, last week, at an average
81, 100 each.
! Thackeray, in one of his lectures, said of h
: English language. it was the only one
which freedom is permitted to speak. Ol
Federal Capital is an exception.
Blondin, the rope-walker, has invented
new skate, the distinguishing feature
which is that 1t dispenses with the stra
usually employed to bind The skate to Il
foot, .,,-t
IL Madame Zoyara, mother of the celebrat'
equestrienne, drove team of twelve hors
attached to a carriage through the princil
streets of Baltimore on Friday. 1-
Every girl who intends to qualify for ma
a riage should go through a course of cooker
Unfortunately, few wives are able to DIRE
' anything but themselves.