Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-09-13
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There are 1e9 convicts in the Mississippi
Penitentiary.
A false friend and a shadow said Benjamin
Franklin, attend only while the sun shines.
The Congregational Association of South
ern Illinois embraces sixteen churches.
The famous Music Hall of London has
been destroyed by fire.
A bronze statue of the late Sir John Frank
lin is about to be erected at Spilsby, Lincoln
shire, his birthplace.
The Fall River (Mass.) Ne,Os, states that
P. N. Leland, Jr., has raised this season,
119 chickens from nine hens.
The value of the cotton crop of the slave
States this year will be $200,0 900, and the
corn crop of the free States S25o,ooO,0OO
Charles Canning was blown so violently
against till, near st. Paul, Minn., during
recent high wind, as to fracture his skull.
Notwithstanding the disastrous failures in
England, Wales has harvested some luxuri-
ant crops this season. .......-.
Col. Richard Christmas, of Mississippi,
had slave abducted from him near st. Paul,
Minnesota, few days ago. --
The miser lives poor to die rich, and is the
ailer. of his house and the turnkey Of his
wealth. s- r-.-....rr er- -e.--e
The receipts of grain at Buffalo New
York; during the monLn OF August, were
A girl, Ann Prouachen, drowned herself
near st. Paul, a few days ago, on account of
a disappointment ofthe heart. ...
Memphis, Tenn, is the fifth cotton market
in Importance in the United States, and is
becoming place of considerable commerce.
A lady in Lafayette, Ind, several years
ago, submitted to the amputation of the fifth
toe to make her foot pointed and small.
A coffn-maker having apartments to let;
posted his bill announcing the same upon
cofin-"LOdgings for single gentlemen"
To prevent the second glass of liquor from
Intoxicating person-"Never take the
FIRST"
Martin, the Boston wherryman, arrived at
Albany, N. Y, the other evening, ION his
muscle" in good health and spirits.
The Duchess of Kent, mother of Queen
Victoria, celebrated the seventy-fourth an
niversary of her birthday, 18th ultimo, at
Windsor, in England.
Mr. Franklin Pearo, of Little Canada,
| Mimi, raised from one acre of ground, which
he carefully measured, fifty bushels of wheat
this season.
The value of the tobacco crop in Massa-
| chusetts this year, it is said, will not fall
short of $780, 600. The principal part of it is
sold in Germany. III .t-4 2
We don't know exactly what the "hight
| of ambition" usually is, but we have seen q
fussy little specimen of it not more than FIVE
feet high.
The Mayor of Portland, Me-, has received
a letter from Lord Lyons, stating that the
Prince of Wales will embark from that port
for England on the evening of October 20.
A Mrs. E. Wright was recently robbed at
one of the Saratoga IN. y. y hotels Of $4,000,
in money and jewelry, as is supposed, by a
female adventure. ..#
Miss Caroline Born suffered the extreme
penalty of marriage the other day with a
man named Lasting, in Chicago. Alas, she
can never be Born again.
II is stated that the road over Scots
Mountain will be completed and stages run
ming by the 18th of this month, between
Sacramento and the Columbia River.
Patrick Nolan committed suicide by
drowning, tSt. Paul, Minn., the other day,
because his dinner was not ready when he
went home. .-... ...........s.... ...
John Bendet has an orchard of 1000 peach,
trees on Cayuga Island, ON the Niagara
River near Buffalo, New York. His CROP
this year will be about 5000 baskets.
Francis Lambert was recently sent to the
Penitentiary for ten years from Leaven-
worth, X. IT, for having brutally violated 0
girl ten years old.
A clerk Of Henderson, Perry & Co., New
Orleans, recently forged check on the Bank
of New Orleans for $3.50; obtained the money
and gave it up after his arrest.
The London Times states that water i'm,
pregnated with lead may be made whole.
some by means of well-burned animal char
coal.
], Holbfook, the well-known Postoffiet
Detective has it in contemplation to publish
paper devoted exclusively TO the diffusion
of information regarding the department.
The potato crop of Maine is now beginning
to come freely to market and the crop is saiC
to be immense and healthy. Good early
varieties sell as low as thirty-fve cents.
An Irish dictionary is in course of publ
cation under the auspices Of Lords Kildare
Dunrayen and Talbot, and the philologist
Todd, O'Danovan, and other learned Hiber
mans. o,r 49,. 5000. .--,.-,.,-..., ID. .-
A train Of cars at Havre-de-Grace, Mary
land, on Saturday, ran over a man who wa
walking or sleeping upon the track, killing
tanned. -~
The Ellsworth (Malne) Farhsef says, tina
in the town Of Lee, there are several tarmer
who have from twenty 70 sixty acres each {
corn, potatoes and oats and twenty-seye
women who weigh zoo pounds apiece. J