Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-08-24
VA ARIETIEs

tne UTedL EASTERN uurlnR ner stay In new
York City, was about $4,000. Ff-
A young woman, Emeline Chaplin, of
Bellows Falls, VT. wove fifty bushel baskets
in eleven and a-half hours recently. 60 "
1t is said that from 1851 to 1859 $500, ,OOO,-
600 in gold has been produced from the
various mines throughout the world. at.- 8
Eight miles from Davenport Iowa, there
is an eighteen-acre field of onions, that will
yield the neat little sum Of $3.50. =. =
ity to get into debt, and the other half to
avoid paying it.
The marriage Of Maria Piccolomini with
the Duke of Gaetani, has taken place at
Sienna. " AeS .,-a- A. . -o--l :. -
1t is said that very rich gold mines have
been discovered in China, about fifty miles
from Canton. - ~ e . -E,4 ~
1t is authoritatively stated that Edwin
Forrest will not visit the::West this season to
fill any professional engagements.
Jonathan Howard was struck on the head
by William s. Barker, near Abingdon, Va,
recently, and his brains knocked out. 1
stabbed himself fatally, in New York, be-
cause he had been insulted by one Of his ap-
prentices.
Fsrty-four barrels of coal oil from we'll
in Esmiskillen, Canada, near the st. Clair
River, was Monday shipped from Detroit to
Cleveland.
Hon. Willie P. Mangum has partially re-
covered his physical powers, for some time
impaired by paralysis, though he can neither
speak nor walk with ease. 81.
v In Abingdon, Va, recently, Henry Sim
son, in an affray with his empLoye, named
Maitland, had his skull fractured, and was
not expected to recover. -
An affray occurred in Washington County,
Va, the other day, between two men, when
one of them struck the other on the head
with an ak, killing him instantly.
A young woman named Mary Given, of
Rye, N. r., is actually arrested, being ac-
cused of drowning her rejected lover, in
order to get rid of his suit. ' -
=, 1t is curious fact in the grammar of poll
tics that when statesmen get into place, they
often become oblivious of their antecedents,
but are seldom forgetful Of their relatives.
Charles Burr, the nearest male relative of
Aaron Burr, died recently at Saratoga, N.
Y. He was rich but eccentric, and generally
esteemed.
+. A recent benevolent society composed of
negroes having been discovered in Mobile,
Ala, the people there think it was great
slave conspiracy. At# &Vs. g, &S
Benjamin Howard, while reading a letter
from another city regarding religions mat
tiers in Trinity Church. Boston, the other
John Mitchell, with his wife and four
children, is now on his way to France,
where he designs to remain for ten or twelve
months. s
Four boys about thirteen or fourteen
years old, were drowned on the 10th inst.
while sailing in boat near the Balize, at
the mouth Of the Mississippi River.
A boy of thirteen, Henry Crane, while en-
deavoring TO turn somersault near Econ
omy, Penn, on Tuesday, broke his neck, and
died in an hour.
Stephen German, wagered that he could
carry barrel of -four at Macon, Ca, last
week, but, in his effort to do so, burst
blood vessel and died. -J 81
~. In Lane County, Oregon, recently, eight
men had drunken political quarrel, result
ing in a fight, in which FIVE Of them were
dangerously stabbed and two shot.
Hon. Geo. T. Hodges President of the
Bank of Rutland, Vt, for more than twenty
few days ago, at the age of seventy-one
years.
A woman named Margaret OConner, fell
or jumped from second-story window of a
house in Federal-street, Boston, the other
morning, and broke her neck, killing her in
stantly.
An editor of religious paper noting the
increase of ministers wrote, "The towers are
now supplied with watchmen," but the COM
positor made it read, "the towns are now
supplied with Dutehmen."
During the late summer and early fall,
melons form an important branch Of the in
ternal trade of Baltimore,i 100 small schoon-
eTs, which average tyipa week, being en-
ployed therein.
The heirs Of DR.. Burden (of Cunningham
memory are iat law among themselves in
New York. OF course the money of the
murdered dentist is the cause Of the diff
Guilty.
The potatoe blight Is talked of by the
Southern Tier, IN. W papers. In the neigh
borhood Of Port Deposit and Binghampton,
in that State the blight Is said to have at
lacked the crop severely.
The editor d the ,Riehmond (ya) Whis
has been presented with 3 wsater-meion
weighing twenty three ana a-half pounds.
II was grown by Mr., Billy W. Talley, OF
Hanoysg County. {'sis A''s''edw = aia
"a The senior editor sf the Roek supnat, IVA 4
Regisis isy iols Douglas, aud fhe juaiof i6f
edit editorial columns and sAs latter 10 the