Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-18
VARIETIES.


In 1859, the American coal trade reached
100000 600 tuns.
The small pox has made its appearance at
Dinwiddie Courthouse, Virginia.
81 am not fond of catnip,n as the little girl
said, when pussy bit off piece of her nose.
A chair of music has been created at the
University of Leipsig, and Herr LANCER has
been appointed to the professorship.
A grand opera on the subject of Byron's
Don Juan, by Victor Masse, is about to be
performed at the Theater Lyrique, Paris. 4
The versatile Miss Strickland has found a
new idea for an historical work. The Bache-
Tor Ringsc Of England.
The publication ofDr. Spohr's autobiogra-
ply has commenced in the form of periodical
pamphlets. -r- rr.--rrfE. -IHfT
John Browns family is likely to be rich.
It has already received upward of 0,000
and the report is still the money comes.
The first volume of a German translation
Of Adam Bede has made its appearance at
Berlin the translator is Julius Frese.
A dissipated young man, named Hollings-
worth, was found dead, a day or two since, in
Leon County, Florida. L' .-A
Piccolomini, it is said, has given all her
professional earnings, amounting to more
than 100000, to her parents.
Aforeign letter says that the Austrian army
eagerly expects another opportunity to march
into Lombardy. .....l .
The Adams Express Company are building
9. splendid new house for their business in
Memphis, Tenn. .........
The Hindoos say: "Though you molify
dogs tail with oil, and do it up in splints,
youll'never get the crook out oft"
The "cityn of lie Claire, Iowa, has been
sued for seventy-three dollars, interest on her
city bonds. ... .-.......-.-..
Helper is getting up new book, to be is
sued in May, and intended for u Republican
campaign document. r se -
Hon. Thos. f. Marshal has recovered from
his attack of mdnid-d-pOtu, and is lecturing in
Rochester, N. y. ..... -..-t.tr
While hunting lately, an attempt was made
by an adjutant to assassinate the Emperor of
Russia, which was happily frustrated.
A Posthumus fragment by Charlotte Bronte
is announced as the leading feature of the
next number of the CornhiU Magazine.
President Marsh has collected about three
fourths Of the $4,000 desired for Oregon Col
lege. .-. ..#r fgN
The statement that man named Weed
had confessed the murder of Parker in New
Hampshire is pronounced hoax.
A Norfolk (Va.) dispatch says the Dismal
Swamp is on fire, and the flames are raging
with much violence. 20.
The wife of Zone of the first citizens of Au-
burn, N. w. has just gone raving mad from
spiritualsm. ... .rI
A woman named Schaffer, at Germantown
Ohio, on Monday, accidentally killed her son
by shooting him with pistol.
Henry Bartlett died of hydrophobia, in
Windsor, Va, having been bitten by rabid
dog some six weeks previous.
A collection is making for the benefit of
the widow and family of the late NJ. Julien.
The subscriptions already announced amount
to NEARLY f200. r.7sF ~
The MIL on the Floss, the new novel by
Miss Evans, the authoress of Addm Bede, was
announced by the Messrs. Backwood to ap-
pear on the 4th of April. ---.-,.-,-
A handsome volume, Les Femnses de Shak-
spere, has appeared in Paris, consisting of
forty fine engravings of portraits of Shak-
speares heroines.
Disraeli is busily engaged on new edition
OF his once popular novel, entitled Sybii; or,
Both Nations II will be enriched with
much additional matter and pungent remarks.
The French scientific mission, lately sent to
Abyssinia, found civil war raging in the
country; and in consequence, after incurring
some risk, it had retired to Alden.
Tondoo os,>r>,. L.. -,.,,. ttr sa..l
you pardgrdm, or short letter. This is the
new word, much approved of as Sir John
Leach says, in the higher circles" -. W
Wolfgang Menzel, the well-known critic
and historian, has begun the publication of a
work entitled The Last l2O Years of World
History, l740-1S60. rs 81. tsl..J
Clara Carrmann, German girl Of fourteen,
was so brutally violated by three rufians, in
Adams County, Wis, last week, that she died
two days after the outrage.
A man named Burgess, living in Florence
Mo-, has had four children left at his door in
the last year, with notes, stating that they
were all his. Burgess must be Turk.
About $4,000 are wanted to furnish the
outfit for DR.. Hayes's expedition to the Arc
tic regions. The vessel has been purchased
and paid for. '' I'D a.- e7" '-1- @ z
The census just taken in Washington Ter
ritory shows a population of six thousand
eight hundred and forty-four, and assessed
property amounting to $3,293,695.
During the past week, conhagrations ragged
in the Blue Ridge Mountains northwest of
Frederick City, Nd, by which muclr damage
was done.
The Selma Sentinel chronicles the appear
anee of shad in the Alabama River, which
are said to be the first ever known in waters
emptying into the Gulf of Mexico. -yrr-r
On Saturday night fire in West Troy, N.
Y, destroyed N. L. Dams cooper-shop, a
wagon factory, a grocery, eleven dwelling
houses and four barns,
The Trenton American estimates the pres
ent population of New Jersey at seven hun
dred and four thousand, less than the popu-
lation of New York city. -r t-r1-'f : ,
Advices from Syra state that during the
last storm which ragged among the islands of
the Archipelago, eighteen vessels were lost,
the greater part being wrecked on the rocks
of the island Of Tinos. q = Fra -g-'-
The population of Savoy and Nice, about
TO be taken from Sardinia and re-annexed to
France, is put down upon the best European
authority at eight hundred and forty-seven
thousand seven hundred and thirty-eight.
A meeting of the friends of Ex-Judge Stump
has been held at Baltimore, at which resolu-
tons were adopted denouncing the Legisla-