Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-01
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Canvassng ajoke-ofering it for sail.
Great military manoeuvre at the South
Cotton Drilling.
The best representative of popular soYer-
eignty-Queen Victoria.
The cut of the Bergen IN. J.) Tunnel, Just
completed, is 4,30O feet long.
A good nstch-John Bulls famous Crick-
eteIs and ''the Concentrated Leaven."
Why our Nathan would ie-because 1t was
in Nate.
A new census is soon to be taken of the
Island of Cuba. -.
The deaths in New Orleans last week num-
bered l21.
The bust of Humboldt, by David dan
gers, has Just been purchased for the Louvre,
for 1900 francs.
Alberto Mario, who was reported as killed
in the engagement near Isernia, is now stated
to be safe.
Henrietta Wood, ell-known courtezan
OF, Columbus, Georgia, committed suicide
day OF two ago, by taking laudanum.
No person, with the title of Reverend
is permitted to enter the dominions of the
Gar. .-
Half the unhappiness of life springs from
looking back to griefs which are past and
forward with fear to the future.
Three giraffes were caught in Africa, in
July, and were to. be shipped to Europe, but
they died month after their capture.
Major John Eaton Lecomte, who designed
the deienscs at Old Point Comfort, died in
Philadelphia a few days ago.
Dr. Willis B. Crawford, of Marion County.
S. c., was killed. recently, by the accidental
explosion of his pistol
William l. Connally was shot and killed
near Milton, N. c., some days since, by Law
son Brandon, his SON in-law.
Thomas Waring, Auditor of the South
Carolina Railroad, died at Charleston, S. c.,
a few days ago.
Sir John Bowring, the diplomat and poet,
was married on the 9th inst, in Unitarian
Chapel at Bristol, to Miss Deborah Castle.
To woman of fine sensibiities no man is
so dangerous as one'who believes himself in
capable of being loved.
When did Ex-Governor Wise acknowl-
edge that he never could be a great man
When he declared himself minute-man.
Joseph Wright, of Waterloo, New York,
has presented a full-blooded horse worth
$500 to Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota.
English ales and beer to the amount of
9l,572346 have been exported during the
nine months ending in September last.
Mezzara, the sculptor, is engaged on
full length statue of AIRY Scheffer, to be exc
cuted in bronze, for the market. place of
Dordrecht, his native town.
II. o,,;, n,,,,o t. a oa4;ro oc cS-....
land, committed suicide, recently, by shoot
ing himself with a pistol, in New Orleans
La. -a
Catlet and Frank Turner, father and son,
have been arrested in Culpepper County
Va, charged with the murder of George
Green, an old resident.
It is stated that John @. Rives will pay
George Bowman, rs his share of the profits of
the Senate and the Executive printing, dur
ing 1860, over $40, OOO
In the suit of Orville H. Brown, in New
York, against Charles NJ. Davidson, for Sc
ducing the plaintiffs wife, the jury gave q
verdict of six cents damages. l
The photographer, Disderie, at Paris, is
taking photographs of all the eminent men
and women of the day, of which he is form
ing collection. .g........
Schamyl the distinguished Caucasian,
| gave a grand dinner in St. Petersburg, on
| the occasion of the arrival of the wife of his
eldest son, renowned for her beauty
Hon. Edward Y. Hill was stricken with
| palsy while addressing q public meeting at
LAGRANGE, Troup County, Ga, few days
since. ~ .-It tTHTfOJ TaiaI
American lovers of sparkling Cliquot
/ Champagne. will be surprised to learn that
this famous brand is sold for three dollars a
bottle, in Paris. .,-., ..,--r, rr-r.-
The thirty three Governors of the United
! States comprise sixteen Democrats, sixteen
| Republicans, and one American-Hicks, of
Maryland.
The world is full of weeping and wailing
| authors, and we should be thankful for one
who does not swell the utterance of misery
who conceals his tears, and shows US a
happy face.
p, The other night the dwelling of DR.. Mer-
Ger, in New Orleans, La, was entered by
burglars, who carried off about two thousand
five hundred dollars worth Of plate.
A DR.. Merrick, in the northern part of this
! State, husked from single stock of corn,
produced on his premises, forty-one distinct
ears.
AT Columbia, South Carolina, after theope
of Norma Annie Miner appeared with the
Palmetto flag and sung the Marsellaise
! Hymn, slightly altered to suit the times
D The deaths in New York last week mum
bered 800, an increase over the previous
week of twenty. five, and over the CORE
spending week of last year of thirty.
Norwalk, Conn, which gave Lincoln 81
majority, had a town election, a day or two
ago, and elected the entire Democratic ticket
BY thirty-fiye majority. ..-,----
James Wright, sporting character was
killed in Terre Haute (lnd.) saloon, the
other night, The deceased was well known
in sporting circles In that city. l--
In Amherst County, Va, four children Of
! Gallatip Bibb Vereeently diedofdyptheria
and three others with the parents are now
dangerously i'll of the same disease,
Indian corn produces a clear fluid which
burns without odor, without smoke, affords a
| good light in an ordinary kerosene lamp for
half a cent an hour.
At depth of ninety-one feet in the
Artesian well at the sugar house in Portland,
Me-, they have struck a vein of water that
affords over thirty gallons per minute.
Sarah Murphy attempted 10 coWhide a
man in the streets of Baltimore, the other
day, because he had ruined her sister, but
before she had succeeded she received
several slaps in the face.
A fespeetably-counecte man named Du-