Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-20
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The position of South Carolina-Non-
composition.
Chandeliers, where gas is used, are now
called "gasihers." O.
1t is proposed in the Vermont Legislature
to take new census of. that State.
The real name of Laura Keene, the New
York actress, is Sallie Taylor.
The late Abbot Lawrence left $50, 900 to be
converted into model lodging-houses.
Providence, Rhode Island, sold $4,000
pieces of printed cloths last week.
Debts are miserable things. They are fit
for nothing under heaven but to be anpihi-
lated.
On the 18th of October the thermometer
in Stockton, Cal, ranged from 80 to $50 in
the shade. 2-.-.bE., "A
The Texan Indians have lately stolen
thirty three. of the best horses of Johnsons
ranging regiment. kA - s..l-- K IL.
Why is South Carolina, at the present time
like a hungry canary bird2 Because she
wants to see seed.
A little boy got under the feet Of d horse
at Philadelphia the other day, and was
trampled to death.
An ordinance of the city of Memphis,
closed at eleven o'clock.
The Charleston Is. C.) Mercury says Ralph
Farnham is as great an old humbug as the
battle of Bunker Hill was. Li aJHfo1)
Pumpkins are very plentiful at City Point,
Va, and the James River freshet washed
them down by thousands. rgs JlJ1us IL
Many of the Southern papers display
turned column-rules, mourning for the inn
pending fate of the Union. I,e.-...
A sand-bank caved in, at Sandy Lake, Pa.
last week, burying young man named Nc
Clelland, who was dug out dead. 3fsvEl
At Occoguan, Va, where a Lincoln pole
was cut down., Lincoln had fifty-eight
majority over his three competitors. ~
Artemus Ward is, growing worse and
worse in hisattempts at humor. His last con-
tribution to Vanity Fair is atrocious.
There are now about 900 pigs of lead
awaiting shipment in Galena, H., and an
average of l,200 were arriving daily.
The census-taker in New Milford, Conn,
found three old maids each two years
younger than they were ten years ago.
An abandoned woman in New Orleans,
during fghtwith brute named .Busha,
had her lips bitten off, few days since.
Ned Dougherty was shot in three places
by George K. Woolly, at New Orleans, on
Wednesday, during political quarrel.
One of the greatest perils that beset free
States, says Guizot, is found in the aversion
of the ablest and best citizens to bear office.
Matilda McGlade, richly dressed in silks
and furs, was arrested for stealing pair OF
shoes at store in Boston one day last week.
The embankment of the Delaware River
at Philadelphia, was carried away lately
oVerfowing the land and doing great damage
There were eighty-six deaths in st. Louis
during the past week. OF this,number forty.
three were children under five years of age
4 A,pauper recently died in Holland, vt.
Il and so little had he been cared for, that wher
removed, maggots were seraped out of hi
bed. s @ t--".-i
Among the curiosites to be seen at thS
Mechanics Fair at Richmond, Va, is a dol
which has been played with by five genera
tions.
Atow-boat ran into ferry-boat, at Bir
mingham, Pa, on Friday night, and sanl
her. The only harm to the passengers wa
a ducking.
The Boonville train ran into butcher
cart at Utica, N. Y, on Friday morning. Th
man and horse were saved, but the cart wa
smashed up.
The Canadian Government has appointed
three Commissioners to make a searching
inquiry into all the affairs Of the Grant
Trunk Railroad. ..
The Putnam Phalanx, battalion of mil
itary of Hartford, Conn, will make a pill
grimage to the grave of Washington, q
Mount Vernon, December 3.
A drunken Irish girl, Mary Quincy, trie
to drown herself in the canal at Manchester
N. H., on Friday, and would have succeeded
but her clothes buoyed her up.
The Secretary of the Treasury has decide
that "silver watch cases. are subject to
duty of eight per cent, and 'pyrites or irol
ore" to duty of fifteen per cent.
Jules Janin, the famous critic of the Pari
journal des Debdts, has invented new oath
One of his recent reviews commences wit
the ejaculation, "By GaribaldiP
DR.. Thayer, whose Northern principle
were offensive to the citizens of Augusti
Georgia, was politely requested to retur
home on Friday, and did 50. "t5 Z
A Snowman at the Fair-g grounds at Athen
S. O., being suspected of tampering with ne
gIoes, on Saturday week, was ridden on
rail round the public square.
In spite Of the great stature OF Henry Ola
as a man.. it is said that as baby he wa
wonderfully short, and that he was tn
homeliest child ever born in Virginia.
Mrs S. D, Curtis, poetess Of some reputi
ton, died at Madison, Wis, a few days sine
! She was a native Of Pomfret, Conn, and ha
. contributed to the Boston Journal Es
Hon. John. Kelly, for many years Ii
editor of the Exeter IN, H Nel6s Letter, die
recently at that place, aged seVentySfou
He had filled many places OF trust and homo
!, The Directors of the San Francisco an
| San lose Railroad have lat ottt Abe contra