Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-07-20
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Philadelphia has now In service twenty
three steam fire engines.
The amount of the annual increase of the
public debt of France under Napoleon III,
is stated at fifty million dollars.
An Irish sailor once visited a city, where
he said they ''copper-bottomed the tops of
their houses with sheet-lead.' uH
Among the items in the New York hotel
bills of the Japanese, is 10000 bottles of
champagne. A a."
Ralph Farnham, of Acton, Me-, the sole
revivor of the battle of Bunker Hill, is still
living at the age of le4, hale and hearty.
Antioch College, Ohio, has just graduated
its largest class-twenty-four young men
and six young women.
A new paper is about to be established at
st. Paul. Minnesota, to aid the cause of Breck-
The first bale Of new cotton has been re-
ceived at New York from the plantation OF
Judge R. B. Wofford, near Cuero, Texas.
In Madrid, Spain, recently, three men,
while engaged in prayer in private chapel,
were struck dead by lightning. rI
A Breckenridge pole, which a party of
men were raising, lately, in Haywood County,
Tenn, fell and Killed three persons.
Charles ]. Burgess, aid-de-camp to Gen.
Wool during the Mexican War, is supposed
to have committed suicide recently in Wash
ington, D. O. tJ-Aa 'i...
VIM. Tatum and Thomas Bone, two Ten
nessee planters, recently engaged in an alter
| cation in Shelby County, Tenn, and wounded
each other dangerously.
A married man in Worcester, England, has
been sentenced to six months hard labor in
jail for cutting and carrying off one cabbage,
value three cents
A tremendous hail storm occurred on the
line of Danville (Va.) Railroad, on Wednes-
day, about forty miles above the junction,
extending for mile in area.
| George Pierson, a resident of Shelby
| County, ILL.,, was robbed, some nights since
of $4,000 in gold all the money he had in the
world. ~
l. Harry Claren jumped from a bridge into Q
1 creek in Rockland County, N. Y, last week
and so injured himself that he died in few
hours. "a.
A cannon exploded in Duplin County, N
| Y, on the 18th inst, and mortally wounded
four men, one of whom, John Perry, kied In
few hours.
| A few days since, Allen Baker, residing
i near Carrollton, Md while loading hay or
j a wagon, expressed a wish to lie down, ant
instantly expired.
/ Joseph Lippincott, an elderly citizen o
Pittsgrove, MI, fell from a load of hay, {
1 few days since, and broke his neck. He dice
instantly.
| The steamship Prince Albert arrived a
! Galway on the I'd inst, in the short passag'
i of five days and twenty hours from st. Johns
1 Newfoundland. n b
Thos. H. Darrell left his wife, a few day
since, and afterward committed suicide II
Madison County, Ark, on account OF re-
morse. ...l fuua
In st. Petersburgh, Russia, an Englishman
Henry Klone was arrested, some week
since, for attempting the life Of the Gar. HI
was supposed TO be insane from a debauch.
A man and his wife committed suicide
and murdered four children, in CONSTANT
nople, recently, from some religious mono
mania.
i JulA fellow named Peter Spike died from
over-eating in Ray County, No, some day
since He was regarded as the greatest glut
ton in the State.
1
Ashild about three years old, son Of Stephel
Honna, was suffocated to death in Austii
County, Texas, a few days since by monste
blacksnake.
Two men, Geo. Yates and Lewis Bremen
died from lockjaw recently, IN Campbell
County, Ga, from running nails into thei
feet on the same day.
Paul Morphy, after passing a few weeks /
New York, will take his final departure to
Paris, which he intends to make his perma
nent home. .r.-19
} During last year no less than $50 agricultl
raj articles were patented in this country. l
these III were seed planters, ll3 harvester
SO cultivators, '43 plows, AZ churns, &c,
lT BY the census, Hartford and New Have
will exhibit an increase of about 10000 owe
their population of 1850. They have ncarl
doubled during the last decade. ,1talo
A lady near birmingham Falls, Me-, on
/. Iday narrowed in two acres of grain, and Il
next morning gave birth TO tine, fail-size
!. baby. - itE1''AN
A snake was killed one day last week, Q
the farm Of Mr.. o. j. Mills, near Rocheste
4 which measured twelve feet in length an
y Eve inches through In the largest part Of Il
body. .@CEx-CDsJLAAf ~
Asahel l., Judd, of Bethany, Conn, con
mitted suicide last week, by shooting himsel
:, He was the father Of the young man four
|. drowned in the river 1t Derby, few weel
since. N,
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