Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-05
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The wife OF POStmaSter-General Holt is
reported TO be very dangerously i'll.
The number of deaths in Brooklyn, N. Y,
last year was Ill.
John Robbins administration has been
nominated by the Democrats Of Philadelphia
for Mayor.
Chief Justice Taney has sufficiently re-
covered his health to take his seat on the
bench of the Supreme Court.
Ambition often plays the wrestlers trick
of raising q man up merely to throw him
down. ... .I..
The railroad 10 Rushville, Ind, has been
completed, and arrangements for q celebra-
tion of the event are making in Madison.
The Madrid journals announce that in all
parts of the country prayers had begun to be
offered up for the Pope.
An Irishman was burnt to death in house
which was set on fire in Mitchell, Ind, day
Or two since, for the purpose Of robbery.
Geo. Sanford, farmer residing on Shaker
Prairie, Ind, committed suicide the other
evening by shooting himself with pistol.
A man in battle is not allowed to whistle
to keep his courage up, and the whistling of
the bullets don't have that tendency.
Saunders 4 Otley will publish Immediately
"the first Dramatic novel ever published in
England IN Strdsbourg-by Mr.. H.
Noel Humphrey.
Children talk ofwhat they are doing; young
people of what they will do, and old people
of what they have done. The present, the
future, the past. ---'HEt 7..
Four attempts have recently been made to
fire the buildings of the Pittsburg penn. }
Dispatch, and q boy named Rattigan has at
last been discovered to be the incendiary.
Geo. Sanford, young man, of Bussam
Township, Ind. recently destroyed himself
with dirk and pistol, on account of pecu-
mary embarrassment.
Joseph Wiser, an old resident of Youngs-
town, Mahoning County, fell from a load of
hay the other day, and died OF his injuries
the same night
The store of II. H. Comstock, in Bedford,
Cuyahoga County, with its contents, was de-
stroyed by fire on Friday morning. Loss
| $4,000. ..-rrt r....e 4
A night or two since, the dry-goods store
and dwelling Of Mr.. Kelsey, in Medina, with
nearly the entire contents, was destroyed by
fire. Loss $4,000. :
Jno. Farrell died in Lafayette, Ind, re-
Gently, from eating wild parsnips. He sur
vived but few hours after he swallowed the
poisonous vegetable.
A precocious specimen of Young America
attempted to blow up his mother with gum
powder, in Memphis, Tenn, the other day,
Just for fun" --,.. - .r-r
The printers of Portsmouth, N. H., rather
than cut down prices by under-bidding for
ait init -.
page, and draw lots for the job. ...a.-.-rl
Mr. JacobB B. Lancaster, a merchant of Phil
adelphia, died there recently, having been
engaged in mercantile pursuits for upward Of
forty years. D.
The rebuilding of the Pemberton Mill at
Lawrence has been contracted for. II is es-
timated that two millions of bricks win be
used in the construction. ...-- o.. ~ b..
Recent reports in Philadelphia show that
the number of abandoned women in that city
is rapidly on the increase; and this in the
face oftwo or three active Magdalen societies.
Mr.. Ranke, author of the well-known His
tory Of the Popes, and other historical works,
has Just been elected a foreign associate OF
the French Academy of Moral and Political
Sciences. '-7
"wife, must insist upon having soused
hogs feet for breakfast every morning"
"Well, husband, you can easily have them by
sousing your feet in water when you get out
of bed"
The authorship of the Parliamentary Poem
in Blackwoods Magazine, ''St. Stephens" ;"
is at last ayowed by Sir e. Bulwer bytton.
II will be published in a separate form by
Messrs. Blackwood.
Lord Dufferin has been excayating on the
banks of the Nile, and we understand that a
small temple with the columns IN situ and o
considerable number of Inscriptions, have
rewarded the search.