Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-08
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Ork, laSJ week, were liooSio54 DusnelS'
British Columbia has population of only
5000 whites, nearly all ofwhom are men.
Parker Ross, who resides near Horntown,
in Accomac County, Va, was robbed on
Thursday night, of $500 or 5000.
Within the past eleven years over 100000
volumes of Washington Irving's works have
been sold in this country. .g
Dean Swift says: 'T never wonder to see
men wicked, but often wonder to see them
not ashamed"
DR.. johnson was wont to say that habit
of looking at the best side of every event is
far better than $1,000 year.
An Eastern editor heads his list of births,
marriages and deaths-"Hatched, Matched
and Dispatched"
ond year on the 10th ult. He is still in Wig
orous health.
An attempt has been made to shoot the
Earl of Leitrim, at Mohill, Ireland, it is said,
by lunatic.
A man who pretends to be what he is not,
is like a fox which tried to look as noble and
strong as a tiger.
The Government of Jamaica have con-
tracted for seni-monthly steam mail to the
United States.
The exports of wheat and -four from San
Francisco, since June l, equal $4,000 brls.
of -four.
A good sized balloon was found near
Bucksport, Maine, on Saturday. 1t had
doubtless escaped from some aeronaut.
Seventy-four rattle-snakes, and eight pilot
snakes, were killed in one spot, near the
iron mountain in Missouri, few days since.
The Jamaica people are discussing the
policy of annexing that colony to the United
States.
The Peoples Reform Society of San Fran
cisco has decided to nominate q full NUM-
cipal ticket, irrespective of politics.
Phillip Russell, a carpenter, cut his throat
in Chicago, ILL.,. the other day, and then
leaping from bridge into the river, was
drowned.
Charles Hemans, the son of Mrs. Hemans,
the poetess, has Just published, in Florence,
but in English, a work with the title, Cdtho-
Tic Italy.
A party of about twenty-seven farmers
and their wives and children, from Virginia,
passed through Washington Tuesday, to
The cornerstone of the "University of the
South" will be laid with much ceremony on
the 10th inst, at University Place, Franklin
County, Tennessee.
At q "Sewing- Girls Library" established
in New York, worthy seamstresses and shop
girls can take out any number Of books by
paying 81 year.
The fugitive slave, Sims, who created such
furore in Boston, some time ago, is now
offered for sale at 81, 800, by his owner in
Georgia.
A once prominent member of the English
P. R., styled "Undaunted Dick" is now
preacher, and is creating quite sensation
by his sermons to the working classes.
A Lincoln pole, that some Republicans
had erected in Fairfax County, Va, was cut
down and destroyed, day or two ago, by
an opposite political party.
At the cattle show at Greenfield, Mass,
tables of refreshments were set according to
the religious views of the eaters. The sects
had separate tables.
At Boulogne, France, the female porters.
have been formed in regular corps, in uni
form, with the exclusive right to carry pass
engers' luggage ashore.
At the last grand reception given by the
Cardinal Primate of Hungary, Protestant
and Jewish clergymen were among those
that paid their respects to the Prince.
The Melbourne City Council has adopted a
resolution prohibiting persons taking con-
tracts under the city for the employ of In
dian labor.
A party of workmen at the Coleorton Col
liery, Ashby- y-de-la-Zouch, in pit $50 yards
deep, came upon live toad, enclosed in the
middle of the bed of coal.
After the recent flight of the King of Ma
pies. document was found containing a
royal order to liberate all the galley-slaYes
or convicted robbers murderers, &c.
Last week, a Mr.. Needles, living near Fell
ton, Delaware, accidentally killed his son,
with an ak which flew off the handle, while
the father was chopping wood.
One Burton, q negro, has Just recovered
5000 damages in Massachusetts, for being
elected, on account of his color, from con-
cert for which he had purchased ticket.
Al blue heron, measuring six feet from tin
to tip of the wings, and four feet nine inches
from beak to toe, was shot near Hartford,
Ct, on Friday. .'lI
Edward r. Warren, of East Lyme, Ct, and
his wife, celebrated their "golden wedding"
on the 18th ult., with the help of four genera
lions of their descendants.
A russet and spice apple tree stand side
by side in Huntington L. l., and on the lat
ter are twenty or thirty apples, one half of
which are spice, and the other half russell.
The silver mines of California are now
known to surpass all others in the world, as
their discovery.
g. w. Kendall, late of the New Orleans
Ifedyune, says that for the last four years he
has realized clear annual profit of seventy
five. per cent; on the amount he has invested
in sheep raising. ril,,-i 80 - - :
Ahirah Leach, Of Essex, Vermont has
raised four California citrons this season.
which weigh lOs pounds, one weighing
thirty-twO and another over thirty-Ons. "A