Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-08-07
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Tom-awhat ails your eye, JoeY' joe
~ told man he lied"
According to the New York Commercial
$4,000 day are spent in that city for oysters.
Passionis a keen observer, but wretched
The income of Henry Ward Beecher's
church, the present year, from pew rent
alone, will reach $4,000. -
/. The suspension bridge at Wheeling, Va, is
finished. 1t will cost about $4,000. The
first bridge cost about $25o,ooo.
Tom Sayers, the English pugilist was
lately thrown from his gig and considerably
injured. 4 fgEl
Three boys were drowned while bathing
in the Mississippi, few miles above St.
Louis, on Friday last. rls 'f
H Catherine Desher kidnapped a child two
years old from woman in New York, the
other day, for the purpose of begging with it.
The transit across the English Channel is
supposed to be the :sick transit alluded to
in the Yel-known Latin quotation. =.
Favorable accounts Of Cardinal Wiseman s
health have been received. His disease is
said to be disappearing. \ ifN
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Some malicious persons assert that the
letters NJ. d. which are placed after physi-
clans names, signify money down.!
Timothy Burscnell was struck with stave
on the head, few days since, near Nashville,
DIR. p. E. Pressby, for many years Pres
ident of Erskine College, S. O., died a few
days since.
Gov. Hunt was fined $25 for non-attend-
ance as juryman at the present session Of
the Niagara County IN. W Circuit Court.
The Mayville IN. W Sentinel says that 6
slight frost was noticeable in some places il
that vicinity on Tuesday morning.
Christian Wollfton dangerously stabbed
Antony Boehling, day or two since, during
apersonal quarrel in New Orleans.
Rev. Mr.. Marvin, pastor Of a church neal
Walton, N. Y, on Sunday morning before
last, started for church, and he had not beer
heard of or seen since. aa
The annual gathering of the Unitarian de.
nomination is to be held in Brooklyn, N. Y.
on the I'd, Sd and 4th of October. 1t promise,
TO be session of great interest. Il =
The advice given by an Irishman to hiI
English friend, on introducing him into {
regular Tepperary row, was, WHEREVER yor
see a head, hit" -.... ..-
The Newmarket Spirit of Democracy tell
of man who was cured Of a snake bite by
applying part of the snakes body to th'
| wound. .-I-vI .Er I'd TgIf TW
The larch forests of Scotland are threatened
with destruction; Of $4,000, 900 of larches
planted by four land owners in Scotland
within q century, scarcely any remain alive
The Office of the United States Consu
| General in Havana has been several time
yictimized by small robberies, and Mr.. Savagt
has lost $500 since the Consul General left.
A man in Wisconsin has gone to fatteninI
frogs and fish for the market. He has larg,
pond in which be "cultivates' them will
oatmeal and grasshoppers. u s3 o., =.
A boy, bathing on Thursday in Williams
burg, N. ". was pursued by shark 70
some distance, but escaped with the loss of 4
toe. ft -. H,f f-
Why are the gentlemen Of the Japanes
Embassy like certain well-known Stat
bonds 2 Because they are good, but no
| convertible. t,H lgIi-A d. "a il
Mr.. john Leigh has been awarded the priz
of 800 offered by Mr.. Cotton, for the bes
poem on Rembrandt Peales picture, 9Th
Court of Death f ul rfAI
7 Mr.. Edwards, the theatrical critic of tn
London Telegraph, was recently dismissed O.
some fiimsy pretense. He sued his late EN-
ployers and got 5000 damages. 20
An unsuccessful attempt was made SatuI
day afternoon, to blow up the dann aeros
the Merrimac River, belonging TO the Amos
keag Company, at Manchester N. IL
!, A. prize-Rght occurred near Manchestel
Mass, a few days since, for $40, and was tel
minated in favor Of the smaller man on tn
twentieth round. ID Il ,t.,.', y, "a
Dyptheria has made its appearance /
Hempiield Township, Westmoreland County
Penn, and number of deaths have pccurre
therefrom.
More hearts pine away in secret angus
from want OF kindness from those VIII
should be their comforters, than for any othe
calamity in life. 4'
The following official record recently aI
peared upon the slate at New York Coz
oner's office: "Peter Smith, Fourthlavenul
died pithout The aid of a physician"
A few days since, the assistant cook o
board the steamer John Buck, then lying I
the Pafkersburg (Va.) wharf wad seize
with q, 6t. Of sneezing, during which held ldil
i lnoatsd HE ahnuldar-inint