Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-07-25
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Fifty men have committed SUICIDE Ill Ar
kansas in the last three months.
In Carroll County, Ark, few days ago,
q hawk tore out the eyes of boy, who had
captured it in the act Of carrying chicken.
Two very large Eagles of the bald-headed
kind were killed by farmer near Oneida,
N. Y, on Friday last.
In Saugerties, N. Y, a servant girl, having
been ruined by her employer, a merchant OF
hat town, drowned herself in well.
An intoxicated servant girl, near Dover,
Del, drowned a child she had been intrusted
to bathe in the tub. '.... .. .. l.
An Eastern religious journal says that in
twenty years there will not be single Qua
ker in the world.
A boy of thirteen, Theodore Manley, fell
from the Suspension Bridge, near Niagara,
one day last week and was drowned.
Five negroes belonging to VIM. Sewers,
resident Of Darlington County, s. g., died
very suddenly in one day of last week.
In Bedford County, Tenn, the other day,
Charles Harris fred ten balls from rife into
a small apple, at o distance of 300 yards.
The deaths in st. Louis last week were 2l7;
an increase of seventy-two over the previous
week.
The deaths from lightning have been more
numerous this season than for any previous
one within our recollection.
Margaret Hennessy recently walked three
hundred miles to Cork, in Ireland, to see her
sick mother.
Peter ]. Leslie in attempting to shoot a cat
in New York the other night, severely
wounded a man who was in o yard below.
In ten years hence, no doubt capital pun
ishmont will be abolished throughout the
United States.
The sapdnS of Paris are experimenting upon
toads, which are to be inclosed in plaster of
Paris for q series of years, to demonstrate
their extreme tenacity of life.
In town in Texas, man found sheep
that he had formerly owned in Tennessee
the animal having travelled nearly 1000
miles, apparently. "a s-sa -aR ~
The hog cholera is said to be raging fatally
in Henry County, Indiana. One farmer has
already lost sixty hogs, and many others
more or less. .s -.
The total number of registered electors in
Great Britain, is stated by a recent official
return, to be LOT, 1916 out of a population OF
nearly 30,00o,000
The assets of the Safeguard Insurance
Company" OF Philadelphia, were sold q day
or two since. Mortgages on property in the
city of New York, for $los,o5o, sold for $3.50.
The proportion of twin births in Phila-
delphia is one in seventy-fve, according to
official statistics, and at Dublin one in fifty
seven. ...t
A few nights since, $4,000 belonging to
Al Ga T ca. Inst or
from Keokuk packet; but the money was
afterward recovered.
George La Hoge, said to be Lousianaian,
was recently hanged near the City OF Mex
leo, by a mob, for violating the person of a
little girl nine years old.
An infant daughter of VIM Mursly died,
in Usage County Mo-, a few days since, from
the poisonous effects of a spider bite received
while asleep. -.H H......
BENJAMIN Parsley and his son were muir
dered and robbed of $500, on the night of the
18th inst, while passing through forest
near Pensacola, Florida.
Diptheria is said TO have made its appear
ance in several of the northern counties OF
Texas, and number Of deaths have occurred
from the disease. gi Grl gIgMGi1H4
An adroit pick-pocket stole a costly
diamond bracelet from lady Is arm, in Broad
way, New York, on Friday evening, while
she was promenading with her husband.
Caroline Heighdel, young and accom-
phshed women, died in Bristol County, Mass,
on Thursday from the effects of swallowing
a small breast-pin she had carelessly put in
her mouth.
A pile of lumber gave way near Solon's
Mills, Illinois, day or two ago and falling
upon four men, two of them, George Rose
and Stephen Whiteby, were instantly killed
A very prett,r and quite clever girl of four.
teen ran away from New Haven, Conn.,, with
an ex-circus rider, last week; but returned
unharmed the next day, disgusted with hei
lover. -. ,r0rr,yart
The crops in the central part Of Ions
Island have suffered much nom the drought
| especially in the vicinity of Farmingdale
| where the hay win not yield on an average
two-thirds crop.
/ -TTET ~ TI'HA
ENcoUsTER WITH A GRIZZLY BEAR.-A
4 grizzly Weighing upward of one Thousand one
Hundred pounds was killed recently, nea
! Petaluma Cal. Bruin sprung upon one Of hi
4 assailants, Freuohman, and bringing him Il
| the ground, dealt him several stout blow
,ritho hio colossal t,ayv hut the rife halls n