Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-18
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The statistics oflunacy in California show
an alarming increase.

nO EblNiStlOS ouOM
an alarming increase.
Hon. S. Walker, the eminent horticultu-
ralist, died recently at Roxbury, Mass.
"A bachelors face is often the worse for
wear-a married mans for wear and tear.
Reflection is flower OF the mind, giving
out wholesome fragrance.
Some hearts, like primroses, open most
beautifully in the shadow of life.
Praises are valuable only when they come
from lips that havethe courage to condemn.
Common sense is only modification of
talent-genius is an exaltation of it.
Virtue is sincere disposition to do to
others all the good in our power. a.l.s
Great actions carry their glory with them
as the ruby wears its colors.
Men of wit are often the captives of beauti-
full fools. ~ ,i ~
Mrs. Nelson Harris cut her throat, near
Port Leyden, n. Y, last week, in a fit of de-
lection.
When South Carolina shall have declared
and asserted her independence, will she be
free State2 Y CrIrE- = r r.
An enormous hawk fell dead at the feet of
semel workmen at Pittsburg, Penn, last
week.
A prominent citizen of Baltimore is sup
posed to have absconded to Europe, leaving
debts to the amount of over 100000.
A young woman deliberately hanged her
self in an old clubhouse, near her fathers
residence, at Randolph, Wis, the other day.
James Knagg, ST., died in Munroe, Mich,
recently. He was eighty years of age, and
served under Gen. Hull.
Patrick Norton was choked to death at
dinner, on Saturday, at Roxbury, Mass, try
ing to swallow a large slice of mutton.
A little child fell from a,billiard-table at
Rochester, on Saturday, fractured her skull,
and was killed.
At turkey shoot, at Cotton, N. Y, last
week, a little boy, supposed to be out. of the
reach of harm, was fatally hit.
After running home from school, at Man
chester n. H., on Tuesday, lad on enter
ing the house, said, 81 have done it," and
fell dead. He had burst a blood vessel.
[ A little boy, too near lime-kiln at Bal
timore, day or two ago, inhaled the gas,
and fell in to the burning shells up to the
neck. lie was taken out burned to crisp
A Boston thief pretending to be col
cLoraad With varions robberies an1ounting
to 5000. 7- .tr.sr -..-
1,..5o. Ta,,Ior vbi1o ot+onont;ro, to
CO Ma Nivon fron, her bnsbsnJi5 f1rS ~
Nv Nv IITi OriGans ON Tbnraday was baidiv Il,
stabbed for his good-natured mediation.
Tobacco is very proftabiy cultivated along
the river Delaware. When in full blossom,
during the warm season, the air is filled for
inlles WIN l's Perlulle'
A careless servant girl, at Painted Post
n. Y, while handling a loaded revolver, shot
herself through the head, the ball passing
out at the back of the skull
A nspolIv temnerate man Jocoh Snerrv
oftar q snrea was fonnd dead in tha gntter
at Washington, on Thursday night, from its
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LINDSAY FOOL an intHemperale shlp,oer-
pSFf speIf on TSnrsSoT S% hecansa T he was orrastad
&C. oi sfaoiino, tSTo ons ''-N''0N
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( A negro at Saratoga, n. Y, has been ar
rested for violating young white girl. On
the WTelchs lllai olher silhliar cases Wlll DC
brought forward .. -......
( A wretched looking Young woman was
found dead in the street, in New Orleans,
on Thursday night, from want and intemper-
ance.
/ The animal renort of the New Yorl, Cen
( trail Railroad shows the earnings and receints
of the road for the past year to be Sc, 957, 24l
! and the net earnings to be 81, 5lEs6l. r-
/ The Queen of he Lakes will be the first
, large shin that ever took half of her cargo
| in wheat In hulk from Portland. Me. She is
a British iron ship, of a fine model.
There are nrobably betweeu two and three
million bushels of rTain. besides other prom
erty. locked up in the ice on the New York
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