Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-26
VOL. III, NO. 20.
VARIETIES.


There were eighty-four deaths in Balti-
more last week.
Wild geese are flying in dense fiocks over
the lakes northward. M
Arrangements are making for great Clay
dinner, in Alexandria, Va.
Union prayer-meetings are held daily in
York, Penn. Poor York;
Col. Titus, of Kansas fame, is now in Jack
sonville, Florida. sfI q.
A stalwart negro slave valued at $4,000,
escaped recently across the Detroit River into
Canada. #I .'.
Eighty persons have lately connected them
selves with the Grand Rapids (Mich.), Metho-
dist Church.
Rev. g. Hamilton Robertson, of West
Hebron, has accepted call 10 the Park Pres
byterian Church, Troy, NJ Y. J..
A low dance-house in st. Paul, Mimi, was
broken into by policemen, and citizens of
high social position arrested.
Galvanized watch peddlers infest Dauphin
County, N. Y, victimizing farmers with bogus
wares.
Miss COrbin of Virginia, has married the
Marquis de Montmort wealthy noble of
Normandy.
A rich mine of nickel has lately been dis
covered in the front of Yonge, Canada West,
on the farm of Mr.. Benjamin Bayle.
The vapor of any oil, when it becomes sat-
urated with oxygen, is more explosive than
gun-powder. o..
DR.. Scudder, the interesting lecturer on
India, is at present lying seriously i'll in Al
bany, N. Y, l1- .-.r-Trrt rF-tr .
G. H. Selkirk, young artist of Buffalo, is
about completing in that city, the clay
model of the bust of Ex-President Fillmore.
New England covers an area of $4,000
square miles, has l 400 towns, and popula-
tion of 100000. -....... ,..0.--
through Bloomfield, Iowa, and, though fol-
lowed by their masters they escaped.
There are 81, 700 Benefit Clubs in England
and Wales, the aggregate number of mem
bers being 2,5OO,OOo. -.-
The loss by the fire in Owensboro, KY.
which destroyed an entire block, is estimated
at $4,000. +.
VIM. Mcintyre and Geo. Dawson, residents
of Grand Portage Mimi, were lost on Lake
Superior. .fr --.
The waters of the Pacific Ocean, along the
coast, have been discovered to contain an ap-
preciable quantity of Boraic acid.
Mr.. Hugh Lee, lock-tender in Dauphin
County, Pennsylvania, accidentally shot
and Killed himself few days ago, while
cunning.
Gerrit Smith was in Utica, N. Y, the other
| day, and was looking unusually well and
| rtx Eoc Anl
from his late affiiction.
Weak doses Ofwashboard are recommended
to ladies who complain of dyspepsia. Young
men troubled in the same way may be cured
by preparation of saw-horse.
Seventy-one million newspapers were de-
livered in the United Kingdom in 1853, and
seven million two hundred and fifty thousand
book packets passed through the post.
A man named George Hickman has been
sentenced to the chain-gsng at Memphis,
Tenn, for one hundred and three days,Sfor
expressing Abolition sentiments.
The number of guests at the New York
hotels is fully equal TO the corresponding sea-
son of last year. There is no indication of
falling off in the travel from the South.
1t is stated on good authority that the late
Lord Macaulay experienced great and salu-
tary change in his religious views few
months before his death.
Mr.. Peck, the Treasury defalcator in Maine,
did not apply penny of the public moneys
to political purposes as an investigation has
shown. t.I+
There are now run on the Philadelphia To-
cal railways 3l5 cars; number of horses in
daily use 1900; conductors, $50; drivers, 300.
Nearly all the cars are rim daily
Samuel A. White died in Knoxville, Tenn,
on Friday last, and on the same date Hugh
A. NJ. White, his father was stricken with
paralysis, of which he died on Sunday.
AT Jefferson City (Me.) on the 22d, mich
cows sold for 800; veal calves for $l3; and
sheep for So so. Flour brought SO per barrel,
and corn 70 cts. per bushel.
The bark of willow tree, burned to ashes,
mixed with strong vinegar and applied to the
parts, will remove all corns or excresences on
any part of the body. '-
Charles Bartleson, young man about
eighteen years of age, committed suicide re-
Gently, at the town Of Ledyard, Conn.,, by
hanging himself r.s arrf f-rua =
Boynton, the alleged government defaulter,
late clerk to Col. FOrney, has been released,
no charge being made against him. He as
serts his innocence.
The Empress of the French lately appeared
at ball at the Tuileries in "a high crown of
polished gold, ON which were printed in
black enamel some Egyptian hieroglypics." .
A discovery of gold has been made in
Peebleshire, England. The gold is in mug
gets. Whether the gold will be found to an
extent worth working, remains to be seen.
Murphy, the burglar who leaped from the
top of tall store in New York, which he
was detected in robbing, is given up to die
from the effects of his fearful injuries.
General Garibaldi has received a present
from the Americans of New York, consisting
of handsome gun, which will fire thirty
shots without being reloaded.
1t is stated that the great Southern mail is
to be transferred from the Potomac route to
the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, the
transfer to take effect about the first of next
month. .#.. a..I.
Downing, the famous New York oyster
man, has failed-cannot shell ont to his cred
itors-is in "stew"-has closed up, win
"open" no more, having lost by fancy stocks
what he gained by fancy roasts. -
In 1853 ten widows of Massachusetts,, un-
der twenty years of age, were married for the
second time. Half of these took bachelors
for their husbands, while the remainder took
widOwers. @ i-"'' - '-
Friends of the Rev. T. Starr King, in Bos-
tnn have auhacrihad 90 0OO IN he nrasen tad