Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-06
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1t is now said that there is no hope of the
resumption of the suspended banking-house
of Flagg & Savage, at Quincy, III.
Mrs. James Watkins, residing near Alex
andria, Va, committed suicide last week by
taking strychnine.
An old soldier, Emanuel Borruth, recently
committed suicide in Pesth, because he had
despaired of the freedom of Hungary.
A Russian tradesman recently swallowed
forty tallow- candles, in st. Petersburg, on a
wager, and, strange to say, still lives. i
The New Orleans papers, one day last
week, contained accounts of seven stabbing
affrays, one murder, and three suicides.
The walls of the Asylum for Inebriates,
at Binghampton, are about half completed.
There are about 1900 applicants. . ~
The property of the Duke of Devonshire,
near Younghal is advertised for sale by
private contract. So sr sr .-s
An artilleryman named Green, in Linn
erick Jail on a charge of stealing watch,
recently committed suicide by hanging.
In the whole United States there are
nearly six times as many journals as in |
Great Britain. fl
The child of Mr.. Nellis was overtaken by |
prairie on fire in Scott County, Iowa, on
Friday, and burned to death.
Water-works are to be introduced in
Rochester, N. Y; the supply to be drawn
| from Hemlock.
Timothy Groshon killed his wife and child !
last week, near Cape Girardeau, No., and
made his escape.
1t is said that Mr.. and Mrs. Bourcicault re-
| ceive for their joint services at the New
Adelphi Theater, London, $500 per week.
The truest teetotalers---the spirit-rappers
for not one of whom knows any thing of
any spirit whatever.
H. A messenger of mercantile. house was
robbed in the Bank of North America, in
Philadelphia, on Thursday, of ST. by an
unknown sharper.
Samuel Unrah, wealthy old farmer,
drowned himself in Philadelphia, on Thurs
day, for fear of becoming involved in law
suit.
Peter Bromes and two of his daughters,
thirteen and fifteen years old, were recently
burned to death in their own house, near the
town of Strawberry, Ark.
James Gallagher stabbed his wife's nephew
fatally, in New Orleans, the other day, in a
+ fit of jealousy, and afterward attempted to
kill her.
The telegraph company, having deter
mined to charge double for all cypher dis
patches, the Wilmington IN. o. papers have
suspended intercourse.
The naturalization of the ostrich, in
France, is seriously talked Of several young
ones having already been hatched at the
J Jardin des Plantes. '"
A single real-estate broker in Hartford,
Ct, has one million one hundred thousand
. dollars worth of property in his hands for
, sale.
Mrs. Elizabeth Blount, aged sixty-eight,
and worth $4,000, was married at Kings
ton, N. c., last week, to A. V. Bulger, aged
!. twenty-five. y I.a ~,
. The love which does not lead to labor will
soon die out, and the thanktulness which
does not embody itself in sacrifices is already
q changing to gratitude. ..
Jacob Enderman. who was married ont
= day last week, in Albany, Indiana, thrashet
+ his wife the day following and left his spous
forever. H's - ~ - -.
1t is now generally conceded that amonl
the prettiest girls at the Princes ball Il
New York, were the accomplished daughter
A- Of General Scott. -. ....-...-..
There is more real virtue in goodnes;
y kindness, and cheerfuness Of heart than i
all the cold, canting solemnity that was eve
- put on as mark for selfshness.
|. Last week Michael Harrington and job
Uennessey were arrested in Boston. fo
2 rinI,ing omen the cushions of the Metropolita
. Railroad Company, and stealing the hal
stufing.
a coo.,.o rotbor 10 hold for bioamv at Har
n GeTTIse Ts Wis roTIJ- 70 tbe cbarge ia TN,
nd tIto' tIn Srst oH' wife cheated him wrothfuIly
ms ana the second Hwould marry him an,
ar. how" Hst
ia fsw wears since larpe ouaptities ofIaml
anu anu Srro ~ receiv,