Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-27

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l19l, was decided IN London last Oct0Der.
In some parts of Arkansas the poor peopled
eat rattle-snskes, and regard them as an ex-
cellent dish.
The annual trade in snails, during the days |
of ancient Rome, is said to have reached, in |
cur money, value of$4,0oo,ooo. 5
The amount of money expended on Pere
La Chaise, the famous cemetery of Paris, up |
to September l, was over $6,oOO,OOO.
In Charlotte County, Va, a negro and his !
wife were whipped to death last week, by q |
brutal overseer, who made his escape.
A family of seven persons, residing near !
Montreal, Canada, have lived together in the |
same house for forty-five years. ~.
A man now living in Vienna, Austria, is |
135 years old, though he has beenhelpless for
a quarter of q century. - H. ~
On the oath inst, near Waltersville, ILL.,,
Abraham Kralts, a German, blew out his
brains because bis wife had given birth TO a
boy instead Of girl. 7,ri LII y r-rrt, -7|
A curious work has recently been pub
lished in Germany, the purpose of which is
to prove that Judas Iscariot was one of the
most conscientious and honorable Of men.
A new religious sect has begun to develop
itself in the northern part of Denmark; its
believers claiming that there are five gods
in one, and calling themselves Pentarians.
T A new novel is said to have been dis
covered in England, which is attributed to
Charlotte Bronte, and said to be equal to
! Jane Eyre.
/ In the town of Flint, Ark, on the night of
the 10th inst, Charles Grover, a planter, shot
his daughters lover, supposing him to be
negro-thief . o.
A 81 A Io,v al mo mt
/ long ago, left Berlin and travelled all the way
| oiLago Maggiore, to drown herself in that
beautiful body of water. saU
| a miner and gambler fought duel with
| ie-kniYes, near Sacramento, Cal, on the
Sd inst and cut each other to pieces; one
dying Immediately and the other in three
hours.
A beautiful Parisian lorette, o mistress of
Count Cavour, it is said, won $4,000 at a
gaming-table at Baden-Baden during the
past season. Z. -.F R
| A few DAYS ago Mrs. Margaret Welsh, in a
fit of anger, threw fiat-iron ther daughter,
a girl of sixteen, in Daue County, Wis, frac-
turing her skull and causing her death.
The "John Brown" men in Boston are tc
have celebration on the I'd of December
the anniversary of the hanging Of Old John
Brown. 5s-- -av -lirt
Halls Journal of Health says: HWhat higl
seasoned food and stimulating drinks are K
the body, what novel reading is to the mind
sensation preaching is to the heart"
Julia DAILY, Neafe, Mrs. Charles Howard
and Joey Gongenheim, were entertaining
large audiences of the British public at las
accounts. sR-hss " Ef ---N
VIM. Mulligan, zone of the New Yorl
! r., L, Aoo,, ,Javs, al fof fha
: tiary, where he and all his profession shoul'
q be kept for life. a.r5 -a isIra ur fA
A foreign letter-writer declares st. Peters
burg the most corrupt city on the Europeal
. Continent, and that licentiOusness there
praeticed to most alarming extent.
: Burad Muhul, an Arab, was recently exc
Il cuted in Algiers, for poisoning to death a
entire French family, consisting of hVe pei
sons.
, In Paris, says correspondent, no youn
man without mistress is regarded as belong
ing to the refined or cultivated class; indee'
4. to be virtuOus there is to bevulgar in u
extreme. .-sa-h h-r.-4DN -
u Amodern Herod has appeared in Stool
holm, Sweden, having been arrested in U
tober for numbering seven infants, which !
justified by an unique philosophy.
In Gonzales County, Texas, on the III
of inst, Col. B. J. Ruyman shot dead one of
as overseers for whipping beautiful mulat
girl, who was the planters mistress.
n. A Baptist clergyman, eRev." Henry Mo
rison, left Patterson, CAL, suddenly son
three weeks ago, after seducing seven your
women in the neighborhood. .rF
!. During recent trial at Bayonne, France
e was proven that a wealthy merchant six
years old, had nine different mistresses Al
three wives. What aSolomopl
In New Bethel, Ala. young wom
eloped with her fathers slave, and, al
- making him her paramour, actually SC
In him in Mobile to pay her expenses to Oul
2. A great FIRE occurred at Fou-Chau,
s. China OR,th 18th of July, destroying
or lives and four million dollars worth of pre-
. perty. l
In October, at Pesth, Hungary, an old m
made his appearance, who was supposed
have been killed in battle thirty years
fore. All his relatives but one were in
y grave. .f.- ene y4r-
u A brakeman attempting TO impose an U
Just price upon naval officer, at Baltimo
Nd, the other day, quarrel ensned, and
former was dangerously shot in the RIG