Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-09-25
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The credit obtained by lie only lasts till
the truth comes out.
The total value of milk consumed in New
York, is estimated at $4,000, 900 year.
There are AGO slaves less in the District of
Columbia, than in 1850.
Snow fell on the Catskill IN. Y.) Noun
tains early last Wednesday morning.
Hopes and Fears is the title of new novel
by the author of The Heir Of Redclife.
The San Francisco papers state that Col.
Fremont refuses to take any part in the
present Presidential canvass.
There are no less than 300 convicts in
the Sing-Sing IN. W Prison, 300 of whom,
it is said, are soon to be drafted to Auburn.
One of the German medical Journals gives
an account of poisoning by lead contained
in snuff.
The total revenue of Spain, for 1859, was
estimated at $l22, 100000; the total expendi-
ture, $123,oOOOOO.
Prentice thinks a good mint-julep is the
only sort of green horn that should be toll
Grated.
This elongated address appeared in the
list of letters advertised in New York: col
enbaubengrasensteine John"
He who is the slave of his own passions is
worse governed than Athens was by her
thirty tyrants.
"Pray, madam, why do you name your
old hen 'Macduff?" Because, sir, l want
her to lay on
The woodman who spared that tree came
near freezing to death the last winter, on
account Of the scarcity of fuel.
If ship is of the feminine gender, why
are not fighting vessels called women-of-war,
instead of men-of-war?
He who stabs you with pen without
cause, would do the same with pen-knife,
were he as safe from detection and the law.
There are now in the Kentucky State PEN
itentiary, at Frankfort, 800 prisoners, in
cluding ten females.
An astute Yankee in Kansas sells whisky
in gun-barrel to avoid the law and make
it appeaV that he is selling it by the barrel.
Floating batteries have been recommended
as preferable TO stationary Notifications, for
the coast defenses of Great Britain.
1t is easier to seem hero than to be a
hero; to seem, requires only brass in the face;
but to be, needs gold in the heart.
Dinah Maria Muloch has prepared volume
called One Year: 4 ChiLdS Book in Prose
and Verse.
Charles Lever is writing a story for Hdr-
Per's Weekly, called a Days Ride: 4 LiteS
Romance.
Miss Foley, the cameo-cutter, of Boston,
has recently completed a cabinet bust of
Theodore Parker, which is highly praised.
Mrs. Jane Mason killed two of her infant
children near Monroe, Mich, last week, by
an overdose of paregoric.
The total sum paid into the English Ex-
chequer, as the net produce Of Ireland dur
ing 1853, was f6, 6,7l1,s33.
The latest advices received from Bar
BADGES state that the markets were full of
breadstutfs, and prices were unremunera-
tive.
A friend, who frequents restaurants, says
that he is fearful of being suddenly turned
into an ant-eater. That is preferable to be-
coming cockroach exterminator.
DIR. J. G. Ousley was shot and killed near
Union Springs, Pike County, Ala, on
the 9th inst, by DR.. Brown, his brother-in-
law.
Those who would break up the Union,
says the Louisville (Ky.) Journal to protect
slavery, would break down stable doors to
keep horses from running away.
Charles E. Tennisson died at Alexandria,
Va last week. AS q volunteer he fought in
every battle, from San Juan to the City of
Mexico.
II is said, with only partial truth, that
those who have often placed themselves in a
situation to solicit pardon are the slowest in
the world to grant it.
Who has not sometime echoed the misan-
thropic wish Of Byron, 81 should like to see
the world submerged, and all the rascals in
it drowning like rats?"
Owing to the heat of the climate in Cuba
game (birds) are usually sold in the market
alive, 1t being rare to seem them exposed for
sale dead excepting in mid-winter.
Charles Bassett, of Berkeley, Mass, has lost
an entire flock of sheep by dogs and among
them were $50 buck, and several ewes,
valued at $40 each.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says that the
Irish military organizations in that city per-
emptorily refuse to unite in any demon
stration to the Prince OF Wales.
Gold has been discovered in New Hamp-
shire, on Hinekley Brook, which empties
into the Connecticut River. The yield is
small, but of great purity.
The wife of J. NJ. Keating, the city editor
OF the Memphis (Tenn.) Bulletin, has created
a decided sensation as an amateur vocalist in
that city.
N; Felix Belly, of Nicaragua memory, is
publishing in the Paris Repue des Deuz
scheme.
The funeral Of Mrs. Grandine An old lady
who recently died on Staten island. eced
ninety-fve, was attended by twenty persons
eighty years old. III i'Tl' r. :
The native fruits Of Cuba are often sold
higher III Havana at retail than they can he
bought in the United States, ,afer paying the