The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1860-02-10
PEN AND SCISSORS.

MH- Italian translations Of Homlet and Mac.
beth have been produced at Florence.
Adelaide Gougsnheim, the actress, has
became Mrs. Henry Frisby, Of London.
9@For the year ending September 1, 1859,
the loss by fire in Boston was $76l, ,370, with
insurance to the extent of $646,2Oo.
M8-The first volume of Parke Godwin's
History Of France, on which he has bestowed
so much labor, will appear early next month.
Ns- Henry Whilden, resident of PhiIa-
delphia, was stabbed in the streets Of that city
and killed, tho other evening.
M9-A Mexican sheep drover lost 1000
head in ono night, during the recent severe
weather in Texas. l.4 eE
NTDr. VIM. Croxton, resident Of Essex
County, Va, was murdered and burnt to death
few days since by his slaves.
NerOne Oscar, steamboat cook, was bru-
tally beaten to death recently on the Memphis,
Tenn, levee, by person unknown.
NArIn Columbus, Ga, tho other day,
thief performed the unprecedented feat Of abb
stracting $125 from q printers pocket.
m-Lord' Macaulay's fifth volume of tho
History Of England will, it is now said, most
probably come out. !
M@rA great many drop tear at the door
Of poverty, when they should rather drop .
sixpence.
NGrOn Monday night shoemaker named
David Sommers committed suicide, in New
York, by cutting his throat with shoe-knifs.
g8 Oscar Blasco and - Robin fought a
duel in New Orleans, the other day, with
small swords, and the latter was wounded.
gS- The painter Linde has found q col
lection Of NORTHERN antiquities, traced to period
Of 500 years B. O., on the island Of Rugen.
@-The schooner Julianna, of Providence,
bound to Boston, has been seized in Hampton
Roads for violation Of the Virginia inspection
law.
Ms-A now Whig and American paper has
been started at tho town Of Humboldt, Miss,
and has been baptized tho Hxmboldt Cosmos.
A pretentious title truly.
M4-Young Dumas's last comedy, lie Pere
Prologue, was performed at the French Theater
in New 0rlea ne last Sunday evening, for the
first time in America.
ERalph Waldo Emerson took an extra
train, on which he was the sole passenger, from
Lafayette to Chicago, the other evening, In
time to lecture in the latter city.
M9- -Gluck's opera of Orphsus, which has
been revived at the Theater Lyrique, in Paris,
continues to be very attractive, having al
ready been played thirty times.
| MHThe Salt Lake Valley Tan says, of over
| two hundred murders committed in that Ter
ritosy within the past three years, not sin
gle offender has been convicted or punished
MH- lord Macaulsy is said to have made by
his Lays of Ancient Rome exactly as much
money as Goldsmith died owing to needy and
exacting creditors.
M4-The Camden (Ark.) Eagle, noticing the
recent rise in the 0uachita River, says the
overflow was rapid, and many persons lost
cattle and stock.
myDr. W. H. MoMath, Of LswisvilIe
Ark, was shot and instantly killed on Tues
day last, by Charles r. Boyd, formerly amer.
chant of that place.
MS- An observatory is to be built in zu'
rich at the expense Of the heirs Of tho famous
weaver Kunz, the town prescribing tho sits
and the Canton taking care Of the organization
Ms- Gov. Wise, Of Virgins, drew tho su
perb painting, "The Village Blacksmith,
which was on exhibition by the agent of th,
Cosmopolitan Art Association in Troy, N. Y
@rA little work is announced by Floreno'
Nightingale, which, it is to be hoped, indi
Gates the writer's restoration to health. It i
entitled "Notes on Nursing, What 1t is, AM
What IT is Not"
NTThat interesting little perfumer, tn
Musk Cat, which tho United States steame
Mississippi has just brought homo from Go
chin. China, is on exhibition at tho Aquaris
Gardens, Boston.
MIAt recent meeting in Clarksville
Tenn, arrangements were perfected for tn
moro rapid prosecution of the entire line Of tn
Memphis, Clarksville and Louisville Rail
road, and its early completion.
| @%Luigl Ricci, tho popular Italian com
poser, chapel. master and director Of tho or
ohestra at Trieste, Austris, died in the Hos
pital for the Insane, at Prague, on the 1st Q
January.
i N8rLamsrtine has written notice Q
Thiers' Consulats and Empire, In which b
notes "all the vulgsrity Of Thiers' style an,
taste, and his supsrhoiality and loys Of gaudi
ness and noise"
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