Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-05-16
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A little son of 7. A. Reese, of Shenandoah
County Va was drowned by falling in q
well in hisfsther's yard, last week. .. .
The city government Of Roxbury, Mass,
have appropriated $4,000 for the construc-
tion of public park.
Jane Bigley, a girl of thirteen, drowned
herself in the canal, near Toledo, on Satur-
day. w..
Martin Farquhar Tupper has Just issued a
book Of verse entitled Three Hundred Sonnetsl
What fearful announcement 1'
Pages Venus has gone back to New York,
after very successful tour at the South, and
will be on exhibition there in short time.
General Atega, the distinguished Spaniard,
died like hero, betraying no emotion what
ever when led to execution,Y agaE
A man named Myron Clarke recently dis.
covered two men stealing his horses, in Pine
Bluffs, Texas, and shot them both dead. trg
A boy, Albert Mayne, died in Peoria, ILL.,
on the 9th inst, of lock-jaw, caused by rum
ming a pin under his finger nail. ."...
A Miss Drake, of Paw-Paw, Mich, was
burnt to death in her bed, which had caught
from the explosion of a fluid lamp, z.
Peter Cavorg, while intoxicated, attacked
three inoffensiYe Germans, in Netchez, Miss,
last week, and stabbed all of them severely
The Empress wished to appear at her
grand ball, as we have stated, as Diana;
but the Emperor objected, as the costume
was immodest and undignihed., f.
The collapse at Charleston has SO thrown
Democratic machinery out of gear, that the
State Convention of that party has been
postponed until the 4th of July .l"
They have an Academy of Fine Arts in st.
Louis, which is soon to give an exhibition,
and the painters OF that city are said to be
full of ardor.
Two children, four and six years old, were
killed by lightning while lying asleep in a
house in Graihger County, 'Tepn., on the 9Th
A man named Turbott eloped with his
step-daughter,a few days since, from Hicks
burg, Nd; the scoundrel having previously
corrupted her. .,.-,. .,,...,, ..-,.-..,.. :.
"The politicians have thrown me over
board, said disappointed office-seeker, Hbut
| have strength enough left to swim to the
other SIDE" ... ..' D
John 'Brien, timer, was shot and killed
at Columbus, Ga, q few days since, by VIM.
B. Martin, whom he was attacking for in
sulting his wife, ul -
There is said to be four hundred thousand
bushels of oats in Canada, in the hands oi
spectators, to be shipped to England at an
early day. Usus- '-Ea-l sra FrA- .
There is proposal in the English Journals
to offer testimonial to Mile Piccolomini,
on her approaching departure from the
operatic stage. U .5.j aus - ..tsd ta
Gov. Morgan, of New York, has commuted
the penalty of the Chinaman Quimbo Appo,
under sentence of death, to ten years inn
prisonment. "
During the night Of the 10th of April Mr..
James, the well-known novelist had an at
tack of paralysis at Venice, where he is Con-
sul-General. estr H-h"Nr1+i
The New York, Saturday Press is said TO be
declining rapidly, on account of the late pub
lication of Walt. Whitman's abominable nom
sense.
NJ. Calyalno, Director Of the Theater
Lyrique, in Paris, having failed to secure a
SUBSIDY from the Government, is aboutto re-
A subscription is on foot for the benefit of
Nine. Julien, and aconcert will also be given
in Paris In aid Of her circumstances, which
are very narrow. y es
The leading Calcutta journal says that, for
the last eighteen months, Col. Herbert Ed
wards has been engaged upon a biography OF
the late Sir Henry Lawrence. 1.lI - -
A Genoese journal states that Miss Annetta
Albore (whom report describes as English by
BIRTH has succeeded at the Theater Andrea
Doria, in RigolettO. .L ,sB.F 9ti
The Stamford Mercury records the death OF
Joseph Wells, u character well known in the
vicinity of Boston as the ''Fen Poe" and one
Of the "celebrities" Of the Fens. ,Taup
Z M. Guizots monograph Of our own General
Monk, Duke of Alternately SO little known
in this country, to which its hero belonged,
has reached a fifth edition in France.
All over the country there seems to be an
unusual development of artistic enthusiasm,
and artists generally, we are glad to learn,
have no difficulty in diSposing Of their pro
ductions. soprf .aGs 1i b. ar.iaail