Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-04
vARIETIEs.


A Southern paper describes Wendell
Phillips as an 'infernal machine setto music"
The loss to the English underwriters, by
the ill-fated steamer Hungarian, is rated at
$7b00O0 on carr alone. su c.
Franklin, talking of a Senator who had
been drayer, said: He never sold piece of
tape na- rover than his own mind"
Upward Of twenty tuns of green-salted
hides passed over the Hannibal and St. Joseph
Railroad Inst week, bound Bostonward.
hi The emigration to Pixies Peak is passing
through st. Joseph, Mo-, at the rate, of fifty
wagons a day. lab
Samuel Tilford diedat Nashville, Tenn, on
Sunday last, from the result Of Injuries re-
eeived few days previous by afalling sign.
A new invention for washing clothes has
recently been patentedby Mr.. Stephen Bonis,
of Staunton. .-.
A man named Byres, Of Mercer County,
Va. has been arrested for killing another
named Farley. .. ...-,. .rf,-tr
Two more Of the murderers Of DR.. Keitt, at
Madison, Florida, have been sentenced to be
hung. -- c, .
The Republicans have ordered an edition
of FIVE millions of Gorwin's last speech for
circulation. t-.
who died n few days ago, had his life insured
The wife of Robert P. Waring, United
States Consul at st. Thomas, W. l.. died on
the oath ult, Of yellow fever. .aJ
The Linn shoe-strikers voted on Monday
unanimously to continue the strike. The
women were especially enthusiastic. iA
JIM. Shell, of Fisherville, Tenn. has hog,
of medium size and weight, with no less than
eight perfectly formed feet. rr
Tim. Horrigan, q drunken vagabond, beat
his wife to death in New Orleans few days
since. gt4 NE n
Smith in brothel in Memphis, Tenn, q few
days since, and stabbed him to the heart.
,l The Girard House, Philadelphia, is to be
lighted with water gas, which is said to be
much cheaper than coal. ..'.,....
The young Queen of Portugal lately asked
her husband at dinner what wine he prefer
red, "Port-you-gal,p' was the reply. E
The Colonization Society has appropriated
$4,000 to send free negroes expelled from
Arkansas to Liberia. IN. .s.,,..rsv
Z
Frederick Weber, the largest man in Bal
timore, weighing 472 pounds died suddenly
on Thursday evening. '-.H
/ Rev. G. W. Carter, d, D., has accepted the
| Presidency Of the University of Texas, at a
salary OF s6,ooo.l OHA WEN
The deaths in st. Louis last week num-
bered ninety-four, against eighty-seven the
| week previous. -,
i..afie House has been officially informed that
| the President has signed bill providing for
| the protection of female emigrant passengers
in vessels crossing the sea. III ElC,
| The t''boss cabinet-makers in New York
are holding meetings, in order to form an or
ganization to protect themselves against the
demands of their workmen.. r GA
| The Rev. Alexander Dyce iscontinuing his
one-volume English reprints of the old dra-
matists, undertaken originally by Mr.. Moxon,
and now issued by Messrs. rRoutledge&lCo.
Amemoir of Thos. Hood, the poet, novelist,
and humorist, preparing by his daughter,
will contain much original correspondence,
exhibiting new phase of his character.
Barths "African Travels" have been trans
lated into French; Michelets DAmour into
German, and Humboldts cosmos" is to be
rendered into Hungarian.
A new Catholic Church is to be erected this
season at Richmond, Ind, on the site occupied
by the present one, at an estimated cost OF
$l5,0OO.H MtA
The Canton (Miss.) Citizen learns that the
Rev. DR.. 7. O. Thornton, the venerable Presi-
dent of Madison College, recently died at his
residence in Sharon. afg I.jT GU
The disgraceful fabrication that Mrs. Maria
l.. Child has daughter teaching school in
the South, suffering from want, is still on its
| travels. -.-....,... .-.... .,~,----
! John Kavanaugh, employed at Allen Is
print works, Providence, r. l., swallowed q
piece Of oil Of almonds recently, as o joke,
and died in consequence. ''-''F' '1''
The enrolled Sunday-schools scholars under
the pastoral care of the M. e. Church are
300, 900, a number equal to the population Of
the city of New York. ,,.
DR.. Keyser, the President of the Academy
of Antwerp, has recently completed are
markable picture of one OF the most stirring
incidents ofTorquato Tassos life.
E A little son of Mr.. A. Rody, of Boone
County, Mo-, few days ago, fell in front o.
a heavily loaded wagon, and WAS killed by
the passing of the wheel over his body. !
We see it stated that it costs Messrs. Doug
las, Slidell Bright and Gwin, about twenty
Eve thousand dollars year each, to live in
Washington liA1.iAlb ('iiif .
Cueumbers are selling at twenty-five cent
apiece in the Savannah (Ga.) market, ant
green peas at thirty-seven cents per quar-
in the hull.
M. Alexander Dumas has produced the frs
part of what purports to be a translation o
an autobiography of Horace discovered b,
NJ. Dumas in the library of the Vatican.
r. gOtway's ''venice PreservedFiS is greatly in
debted for its characters, as well as its plot, tt
st. Reals HCoRjardtions de Espd9n0Ls c0ntr
Ia Rgpubhque de Venise."
20. Jennings Wise, the duel-fghting son O
Ex-Governor Wise, of Virginia, and one o
the editors of the Richmond Enquirer, ha
become a communicant in the Episcopa
Church. II a- r.s,l.f a''l ~ t's.f
yAsfew evenings since, on the road between
Lennox and Lee, Mass, returned Oalifor
nian, having some 81 900 belted around him
was waylayed and robbed by two lrishmen
neither of whom has been arrested. m "a -.l-
Hoffman Won Fallersleben, who is now Of
an archaeological exploration in Berlin, ha
discovered in the library there manuscript
of a Dutch version of the Canticles of Solo
mon ofthe' thirteenth century. ~ Ni
A portion of the library of Mr., Guitar Fer
guson, lately sold in London, was one of tn
| most superb small collections of books re