The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1860-01-16
PEN AND SCISSORS,

R1cHhoND AND IsDIAsAPoLIs.-6:O0A A. M; $40 r. n.
- -.t
PEN AND SCISSORS.
Sg- Charleston, 8. c., papers notice the ap-
pearanoe Of fresh shad at that pIaos.
aS- There were 19,O42 births in South
Carolina during the year 1858. ~.
gs-The population Of Canada East and
West ia now estimated to be exactly 5000, 900.
@s-The tax on negroes in Wilmington, N.
o. is $S s7 per head. oe
gas-It is reported that extensive forgeries
have boon perpstrated on one or two Of the
Albany, N, Y, banks.
I NsrOne Of Rnchs moral maxims is never
put on till tomorrow the man whom you can
do to-day. ''a7-li
~ There are in Pennsylvania II, ,4s5 pub
lic schools, l4,07l teachers and 634,651 pu-
pills, the cost of tuition being $2,047 ,6s1 %.
gS- There were seven hundred and eighty
six arrivals and departures Of vessels at the
povt Of Calais, Me-, last year.
gar Two free negroes were sold In Center.
vile, Nd, few d ys since for larceny. One
brought $2o5, and tile other $l55.
NrJ W. Boyd, ESQ.,, former editor of
the Hagerstown Md Neps, died few days
since in Philadelphia.
~ A petition has been presented to the
Legislature Of New York, requesting them to
pass law compelling citizens to vote.
@8- It was 80 cold in Madrid, In Spain, q
few weeks ago, that theological professor fell
dead in the streets.
gB- There Ia surplus fund Of ten thousand
dollars In the treasury Of the Pennsylvania
stste Agricultural Society. :
gS- The Virginia House of Delegates has
passed bill appropriating $1O0, 900 to erect
Lunatic Asylum west of the Alieghanies.
grMoses Leonard, an old hunter in St.
Lawrence County, N. Y, has killed seven
psnthers the present winter.
gs-st. John IN. b. papers Of tho 5th inst.
state that the smallpox Is raging there to
somS extent, n
ge-The sharp's Rifle Company Of Hart
ford, Conn.,, are now turning out an average
Of two hundred and fifty Of these effective in
struments Of death per week.
&S-Joe Barker, the famous treet-preacher,
now, in jail in Pittsburg, has been attacked
with. appoplexy, and will, it is hoped, soon
die. 3 80 ar.
AB- It is reported in Kansas that Governor
Sam Medary has purchased the Lawrence
Herald Of Freedom, and that henceforth 1t will
be Democratic paper.
ls- The first quarter of the month of jan
usry Of 1850 was the coldest, II is said, that
has been experienced In Boston for thirty-six
years. .r.. .
/ @9>John A. Corey, of Burlington, VT,
having lighted charcoal fire In his room and
retired TO bed, was found dead the next morn
ing. sA
N@-A stream Of salt water has been found
at the Montezuma Salt Works, which yields
sixty-two per cent. The yield at the Syra-
cuse Spring Is bat ffty-three per cent.
Ms- Vonity Fair contains the address of o
vising them not TO encourage Northern prisons,
but 'go home to the South"
Mg-Raoing on the frozen st. Lawrence, near
Montreal, is the rage there. Purses are striven
for, and rank and beauty throng in cutters to
| see tho strife. p
Mg- In the East one Hannah Robinson sues
her husband for divorce, because he had
been shown up as participating in q frail lady's
amstory favors. at-t
~ Msgnetising locomotives are about to
be made in Connecticut. A contemporary
thinks they ought to be attached to sleeping
cars.
M8- There are in tho United States fifty
FIVE different religious orders belonging to the
Catholic Church-twenty-four Of men, and
thirty-one of women.
1r The Richmond Eraminer advises the
merchants and manufacturers of the southern
cities to send out agents to solicit orders and
custom from the farmers, planters and country
merchants. s
Ng-Ths Vestry Of Christ Church, Of Tarry-
town, N. Y, is having tablet to the memory
Of Irving prepared, to be placed in some
proper part Of the edifics in the course Of the
current month.