Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-08-02
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When your hair gets in disorder, what
heather deity should you name? Comus.
There were 29l, III barrels of flour inspected
in Norfolk, Va during last year.
Parkersburg, Va. has now population of
nearly 5000. 1t 1850 it had 1900.
The number of deaths in New York last
week was 504, Of which 1886 were children.
Thomas Jones, an old man of sixty, hanged
himself near Franklin, Tenn, while laboring
under arrangement.
The word "Zouave" is generally and iucor
rectly pronounced as word of two sylables.
1t should be spoken as if written Z,cdUe.
The draw of the railway bridge at Peoria,
Illinois, weighs 300 tuns, but can be opened
in three minutes by two men. II
The authorship of the phrase Cotton is
King" is attributed to the late John Ran
dolph. -" ',aA...e' +N@
Archbishop Hughes has gone to st. Catha-
rine's, Canada West, popular watering
place. The Bishops Health is very poor. "
The losses in Paris by the recent banking
failures in Mexico, areYsaid to amount 70
100000 francs.
1t is stated that privateaorders have been
given 10 the French press to say as little as
possible about Garibaldi.
Henry Vanderberg was accidentally and
fatally shot, few days since, by DR.. Bevins
of Ellayille, Ga, at the rooms of the latter.
Daniel Drew, of New York, has promised
$4,000 to the Troy University, on condition
that 100000 is raised.
OF the 100 boys who escaped from the
a D D.,rsffa N q
10Th ult., all have heen retaken except seven.
The Richmond (Va.) Inquirer says the re-
ported sale of the James River and Kanawha
Canal is incorrect.
Mrs. Jane Collier, who had became an ine-
briate, poisoned herself recently in New York,
because she could not abandon the habit OF
drinking to excess.
At an agricultural dinner the following
toast was given: "The game of fortune
shuttle the cards as you will, spades will al
ways win."
One day last week, two Mobile editors,
Mr.. Sossaman, of the Tribane, and Mr. Hotze,
of the Register came into collision, but with
out serious damage to either. tn.
A son Of Guizot, the historian, has appeared
| as the author of a translation Of NacauLays
Essays, two volumes of which have just been
| published. .
The French Orpheonists or choral societies,
| lust returned from their late visit to London,
are indignant at the impositons practiced
upon them by rapacious landlords and
tradesmen.
A notice has been served upon the Direc-
tors of the Union Bank of London, holding
them personally responsible for the Pullinger
frauds. g.
The steamer City Of New York, with the
American Astronomical Expedition, on their
return from Salvador to the United States,
has arrived at st. Johns, NE, I
The Chicago Zouaves cleared $500 by their
exhibition the other evening at the Boston
| Theater, after paying Prof. Anderson $500
for the use of the building.
Victor Schawger, an aged German, COM
mitted suicide in New Orleans on Wednes-
day night, by blowing out his brains with
pistol
The Richmond (Va) Enquirer says !;
Throughout the lower tidewater section, the
oat crop this season has furnished yield Of
extraordinary abundance.
The marriage of the Neapolitan Prince,
Count de Trani, to the Princess Matilda, of
Bavaria, is postponed in consequence Of the
unsettled condition of Italy.
The Mechanics and Agricultural Associa-
ton of Louisiana has purchased the old
Creole race course and lands adjoining, pay
ing $65o0o for the property.
Thomas Cory, of the firm of Cory & Miller,
| wholesale tobacconists, New Orleans, com
mitted suicide the other day, on account Of
pecuniary embarrassment
A passenger on the New York Central
Railroad had his pocket picked the other
night of nearly $4,000 in bank-notes and
drafts.
Franklin Mallon was caught in the belt
ing of Rose Bros. cutlery establishment in
Philadelphia, the other day, and crushed to
death in the most horrible manner.
Mrs. Fisher, near Union Bridge, Nd, acci-
dentally tread upon nail, producing tetanus,
from the effects of which she died few days
ago.
fatally stabbed, while endeavoring to arrest
a fugitive slave, who was stealing from a
plantation, near Savannah, Ca
Before the Paris Orpheonists left London
they were overwhelmed with present Of
Bibles from the Exeter Hall enthusiasts, oil
bigots. Surely this was very bad TASTE
A day or two since, Samuel A. Carter, q
young man from Virginia, took laudanum IN
the streets of Baltimore, because he was {
stranger, and poor and proud, and died few
hours after. ......
One of the Chicago Zouaves became intox
icated in Boston, and was sent home in dis
grace, How did he happen TO drink at all
|. II the rules Of the company require total ab
stinence2 rta'