Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-05-28
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Betsey Harwood, an old woman, commit
ted suicide at North Bennington, N. Y, the
other night, by hanging herself,
Hannah Crane died from chloroform, ad-
minstered to her by dentist in Philadel-
phia, on Thursday last.
The silver mines in jackson County, Wis,
are said to be very rich, and the more they
are worked the better they promise. =,
A young man named Grimsley, last week,
committed suicide by hanging himself near
Dilston Station, Dearborn County, Indiana
A young man, Henry Alstott, was killed
near Otisco, Ind, during recent storm, by a
tree falling on him and crushing his head.
Three boys went bathing in the Ohio River
below Evansville Ind, on Thursday, and two
ofthem were seized with cramp and drowned.
A native of Panama merchant, having
discovered his wife's infidelity, recently, shot
her paramour, and blew out his own brains.
Thompson Hull, merchant of Pittsburg,
Penn, cut his throat on Friday and died ut
his mothers residence.
A fellow named Charles Brickel, residing
near Paducah, KY, drank gollon of tomato
catesup, day or two since, on a wager of
$50. ,a.s'1s
Peter Young, resident of Steele County,
Minnesota, fell in an epileptic fit, recently,
while shaving himself, and cut his throat
dangerously. ...H PVT
A man named Barbear was found in Harri-
son County, Ind, recently, with such marks
OF violence on his body as to compel the con-
clusion that he had been murdered.
A -. c
O., recently left q young wife, and eloped
with hired mulatto slave, for whom he had
conceived violent passion.
Poisoning has become very common in
this country of late, and we promise, ere
long, to rival Italy in this particular. Deaths
inflicted by poison are every day affairs now.
A young man, Thompson Hull, living near
Remington Station, Beaver County, Penn,
committed suicide on Thursday, by cutting
his throat. lR R--- W. d"
A woman named Neidhardt, residing in
Buffalo, N. Y, committed suicide the other
night, by taking arsenic; her act induced by
long-sufering from rheumatism.
"Would to God" says the Augusta ChrOn-
iele and Sentinel speaking of Yancey, of
Alabama 1--WE had more such as he, and
especially just now, in the State of Georgia" !"
Edward Graham, one of the publishers of
the De Witt Qowa) Standard, died very sud-
denly last week, from swallowing strychnine
by mistake for quinine. 1r Irt
Gold is said to have been discovered re-
Gently in one of the northern counties of
Texas; and the veins are thought to be as
rich as those of California.
George Osborne, a cotton-screwer, beat his
wife to death, q day or two since, in New Or
leans, under the most revolving circum-
stances.
William Fl. Rutledge, a blacksmith, a resi-
dent of Long Run, KY, who disappeared
some time since, it is now stated positively,
has been murdered. .rfrn1 .1ng.4. 4.
A young man, John Conrad, who had some
difficulty at the Volksiest celebration in New
Orlerns last week, was shot fatally by a
watchman.
Charles Stanmeyer, a policeman, while
lying upon one of the tables on the Volksfest
Grounds, in New Orleans, on Tuesday, was
dangerously shot by an unknown person.
Mrs. Jane Wesley and her daughter, girl
Of fifteen, were so badly burnt by the explo-
sion of a camphene lamp, near Alton, H.,
last week, that they will not recover.
A daughter of Hugh King, of Piedmont,
Virginia, was drowned recently, at the inter-
section Of Georges Creek and North Branch,
on her way. to church. ''lt
A young man named Strickler, living near
Franklin, Indiana, accidentally shot himself,
day or two ago, with gun, and can not
recover. r.,H ht ,f-r
Armand Conchand shot himself on the
0nalnuaaQ Pathway uaar NaxU Drlaanq a dav
or two ago, and then leaping from the cars,
died of his injuries. F..
Frank Cook, an inmate of the Cleveland
(0hio) Jail, cut his arms and throat so seri-
ously with a piece of broken bottle, day or
two since, that he will probably die. .a.
The expenditure of England, 1860, for mil
itary and naval defenses, will amount to
$3.50, 900, and this, too, in period of peace
with all the world except China.
The mere cost of land on which British
railways are constructed, has averaged $43, 900
per mile--as much as the average cost of
making railway in the United States.
A scientific enthusiast In New York, who
glOries in the name Of fSolomon, supposes that
he has discovered the secret of the philoso-
piers stone. ni n
A girl of seventeen, Catharine 0rmley,
having grown Jealous Of her lover, drowned
herself on the 22d Instant in Lake Michigan,
about twelve miles from Chicago. 7 7
An old man, Theodore Muiry, who had re-
Gently joined the Methodist Church, cut his
throat ON the 10th inst, in jackson County
No. from religious excitement. =
A man named Carrigan was dangerously
poisoned, In johnson County, Texas, on the
18th inst, by one of his slaves, who had pre-
viously made an attempt on his masters life.
A church was burnt down, in Carroll Co.,
Va, on the 18th inst, and one woman de-