Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-09-21
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The population of Boston is III, ,676 a gain
OF only l4,s7s in Eve years.
Charles Carroll Hicks sailed from New
York for Europe, recently, to join Garibaldi.
The Mississippi and Missouri Railroad
Company have just ordered the construction
of five locomotives and 100 cars.
The main building of Allegheny Collepe,
at the Blue Sulphur Springs Va, was de-
stroyed by fire on the night Of the 18th inst.
NJ. Guerin Menneville has acclimated in
Paris new species of silk-worm, which he
raises on the trees in the open air. hv O.
The Conewaga Bridge on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad was destroyed by fire day
or two ago.
james Sutton Elliott, the English Gov
eminent defaulter, died last week in iaii
in New York, in great destitution.
Franklin Vinegar, of Jersey City. Nj
died the other night of lockjaw, produced by
two Of bis toes having been crushed.
The Bank of Southern Illinois at Bolton
has collapsed, and is regarded as very bad
failure. .r. ...e
Mrs. M. A. Mobley, of Walton County.
Ga, recently gave birth to four children
How unnaturally disgustingl
When may a man be said to be literally
Immersed in business2 When he's giving a
swimming lesson. .....
The collections taken up in the Catholic
Churches in Baltimore on Sunday. for the
Pope, amounted to some $4,000 or $4,000.
At the auction sale of seats for Forests
first performance at Niblo's, in New York.
one man paid $75 for private box.
1t is now thought that the cranberry cron
on Cape Cod will not be above half the ay
erage in certain localities.
Oliver Nicely was killed in street fight in
Jackson, Mississippi, a few days ago, by T.
J. Wansley.
Jacob Fredericks, who has n family in
Wheeling, Va, died suddenly of cholera at
New Orleans, few days since.
1t is estimated that the city of New York.
or rather its miscellaneous population, paws
some $75, 600 week for public amusements.
Liebig says: "Give me the amount of soap
people use, and | will make an accurate
estimate of their moral condition" I1 d.
1t is reported that England and France
have abandoned the idea of intervention in
Mexico. ALI they contemplated. thew saw
was friendly advice to Mexico.
Mrs. Elizabeth Tate was fined $50 by the
Recorder of Memphis, the other dayy. for
cruelty whipping negro girl, the property
Of her mother.
W. H. Kiger shot W. F. Austin, in Monroe
County, Ky. the other day, on account of a
lawsuit, so severely that it is feared he will
die.
A Western paper says: "a COW was struck
by lightning and instantly killed, belonging
to the village physician, which had beaus
tiful calf, four days old" ..I
A man, name unknown, was killed the
other day on the Ohio and Mississippi Rail-
road, a rev miles this side of SandoYal by
being struck with the locomotive.
DR.. Thos. Butts, of Southampton. yir-
gfnia, who died recently, has directed in his
will that all his servants, los in number
shall be freed. '.'I
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Company have been 80 pushed, that they
were again compelled to close their gates on
Wednesday, and receive no freight
Frederick Foard, student at the Univer-
sity of North Carolina, who killed Watson. a
resident of the village of Chapel Hill, last
spring, has been acquitted.
An explosion of gas at the Kerosene Oil
Works at South Boston, on Saturday, dan
gerSusly burned Owen Campbell and in
jured four other workmen.
On Wednesday, near White Plains, Ala,
a man named Pearson shot and killed his
son-in-laW, Hughes, and on Sunday COM
mitted suicide. - 'is t--A- = -
The blocks of stone which form the Bel
gian pavement now putting down in the
principal avenues of New York city, come
from Palisades, on the Hudson. - -
Louis Napoleon thinks sPartant pour
Syrie" is too slow for national tune, and
so has instituted an air called the "Napo-
lienne" in its place. ....'.-.--.','. "
Prominent among the barristers of To-
ronto, in full robes, on the occasion of the
visit to that city of the Prince Of Wales, was
negro, named Sutherland. .-,
The widest single span in the world is that
of the Niagara Suspension-b bridge, connect
ing the American and Canadian railways.
The clear span is s22 feet. =
The Lady Elgin is said to have been un-
seaworthy. Had she been a frst-class
steamer the accident could hardly have oc-
CURED.
OuuAlos W uiICOuuDj DfOJn6fsln-laW OF
John B. Cough, the temperance lecturer,
committed suicide, a day or two since, in
BOylston, Mass.
The Ooncordia Clay IntslIigenesr is au.
thorized to bet $4,000 that Breckinridge
and Lane will get the Electoral vote of all
but three Southern States.
The Scientific American advises women,
when they wish to wash fine and elegant
colors, to boil some bran in rain water, and
use the liquid cold.
DR.. Hall says men regard their wives as
angels one month before marriage and one
month after death. And all the rest Of the
time as-devils. Oh, doctor.
The prize of $500 offered by the Tennessee
State Fair, for the best aged stallion, was
awarded to "Scythian," owned by r, A.
Alexander, of Kentucky.
The city Of Marseilles intends TO offer a
diamond br' eelet, worth 70, 700 francs, to the
Empress on her Majesty's approaching visit
to that place.
A match for $4,000 is to come off at New
market, next October, between three race
horses and five couple Of hounds, over the
tour-mile race-c0urse. r- 49, s--.r,-,.,.- ,..-.
A religious lupatic, a widow, in Moscow,
Russia, recently set FIRE TO her house, and
perished in the flames, to appease the wrath
of God.
The st. Paul (Minnesot4) Pioneer chfon-
ieles the Inauguration ofa new enterpriseby
the departure from that city of train Of
wagons, loaded with merchandise, for the