The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1860-01-04
PEN AND SCISSORS.

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| G8- The number of deaths in BROOKLYN, N.
T., Last week was 126.
~Woman proves her will in lifetime; q
man Is obliged to wait till he is dead.
~ By the failure Of Cook 4 Sargent, at
Davenport, Iowa, some six hundred laborers
lose 100000.
| gr The city of Paris receives, on an av-
erage, nearly $500, 900 from the tax on funer-
als II is given to the churches.
~ At Panama, December 10, the weather
was intensely hot, the thermometer standing
at "a deg. in tho shade.
Gg- There were eighty-seven divorces
granted in the courts Of New York city last
year.
~Who ever heard of widow commit
ting suicide on account Of love? A little con-
nubial experience is very wholesome.
aB- Careful analyses have shown that the
salt made at Onondaga, N. Y, Is the purest
and best in the world.
@SrSamuel W. Murtishaw, Tailor at Co.
| lumbia, 8. c., was killed on the Greenyille
Railroad few days since.
Gs-An Eastern paper speaks of a man
who "died without the aid Of physician" f"
Such cases are very rare.
M4rIt is no wonder that tho wind is solemn
and mournful; it has swept the fields of NOR
tality for hundred centuries.
68-There are great many beams in the
eyes of the women, but to their admirers they
are all sunbeams.
G@0n Friday last woman fell into one
of the public wells at Quincy, ILL.,, and was
drowned.
w-At an agricultural dinner the following
toast was given: The Game Of fFortune-Shuffle
cards as you will, spades will always win.
G9- Dennis Maginn cut his throat in Que
bee, Canada, last week, because his wife eoped
with his confidential clerk.
gg-The number Of drinking saloons in
New Orleans, with a population Of 100000, is
estimated at 1895.
~H. A. Mercer was robbed Of $l25 in
money last Friday while attending prayer
meeting in Philadelphia.
GE Elijah Joyner, Esq, an estimsbIe citi-
zen of Southampton County, Va, was killed
last week by his horse running off.
@sThere were 5000 applications, by aliens,
for citizenship, made in New York city last
year; the number admitted was 1889.
@D Prof. Whitney, Of Yale College, is en-
gagged in the translation and publication of a
Hindoo work on astronomy.
Ms-Col. G. B. Locke, an old resident Of
Tennessee, and formerly Mayor of Memphis,
died In that city day or two ago. |
rGerritt Smith has 80 nearly been re-
stored to complete health that he has returned
to his home at Peterboro', New York.
@DMacready, the tragedian, has been on,
lecturing tour in England. One of his dis
plays is highly spoken Of, on the occasion Of
his giving choice readings from British poets.
gy A duel was fought in Alabama, near
Montgomery, on the Oath ult., between a law
yer and a physician; the latter being disabled
on the third fire by wound in his pistol arm.
@g- During the year 1858, Paris consumed
$4,000 900 pounds Of meats of all kinds, while
during the same time New York consumed
150, ,000, 900 pounds of beef alone.
Ms-Two little girls, eight and ten years
old, the children of David Quigley, were burnt
to death in Savannah, Ca, last Tuesday, by
the igniting of their bed CLOTHES from lamp.
@g John Miner, q carpenter by trade, was
killed last week near Helena, Ark, by a negro
who had been accused Of stealing the white
mans watch. g j
G6-Last year it Is estimated that there
were received about 100000 barrels of flour,
and not less than 100000 bushels of wheat,
st Milwaukee.
m@9- Mr.. Paul, the owner of DR.. Kane's Es-
quimaux dog, Myonk, lost the dog in New
Orleans few days ago. He thinks the animal
must have been stolen.
@rA young man, while skating on the
Mill Pond at Charlestown, Massachusetts,, on
Monday, fell, striking upon the back part of
his head, and expired instantly.
14-Rsthel, an historical painter, known
for his frsseoes in the Hotel do Vile at Ak
la-Chapelle, has recently died ct Dusseldorf.
He had been insane for some years.
M8-There were one hundred and seven
gentlemen admitted to the practice of law in
the courts of New York city during the year
ending S0th December.
1S-A man on spree took shelter in new
building in New York, night or two ago,
and lying down to sleep, was frozen to death
before morning. .,fi 4
gs-The clothes of a little girl, daughter of
Isaiah Howard, caught fire from the stove, in
Baltimore, last Thursday, and she was burnt
to death. 4
l4-Mr. j. Beverly Hunter, of Gates County,
North Caroline, killed q hog, las week, two
years old, which weighed five hundred and
ten pounds net.
N8-As an indication of the scholastic &C.
quirements Of the late "Dow, jr.," Mr.. Paige,
Il is mentioned that hs set up in New York
the entire work of Rays Hebrew Lexicon.
NN Mrs. Elizabeth Douglas, Of Phila.
delphis, died in that city day or two since
from typhoid fever, brought on by fit Of
violent Jealousy. ir
gs-The New Englanders In Montreal cole
bratsd the anniversary Of the landing Of the
Pilgrim Fathers by an oration, dance and
supper.
@-Iu South Easton, Penn, recently, an
itinerant peddler of the Lifs Of John Bropn was
treated to o dozen lashes on the back, and
ordered ont Of town. t &fG9
NJ Michael Lord, an elderly man, died Of
hydrophobia near Madison, Wisconsin, on
Thursday last. He had been bitten by dog
about twelve months previous, and had no
fear Of the dread disease until Q month before
his dsceass; the symptoms having first de-
elsred Themselves at that time.