Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-09-18
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Last Friday Kansas had the first rainy day
since last winter.
At the latest accounts there was falling
Oil OF ten per cent. in the Neapolitan funds.
A lady who tried to read by the light of
other days, subsequently took a camphene
lamp.
Next to twenty -four grains" there is
nothing like mean mans pocket to make a
penny wait.
BE who, when calm and COOL presses his
rights to the utmost, will, when actuated by
passion, over-step them.
In order not to be made servile by the
great, let us place before our minds a still
greater.
A single odor awakens whole host Of
old associations; it has more influence than
even the eye Of the imagination.
A one-legged gentleman became very
much excited the other day in political
discussion. He got hopping mad.
The bureau of Napoleon l, recently adver-
tised for sale, was sold in Paris for 5,OOOf, to
NJ. Biueau, furniture dealer.
II is said that Miss Prescott is to bepin ,
new story of some length in the Atlantis
Monthly for November.
A full and authentic life of Major General
Wool, from the pen ofa distinguished writer,
is now being prepared for the press.
A bear weighing 200 pounds was killed on
Came's Hump near Middleburg, Vermont,
on Friday last.
The apple crop in Connecticut is immense
and large quantities are being bought by the
distillers at eight OF ten cents per bushel.
The New London Comm Star SAYS that
the weeds on some Of the sidewalks in that
city are five feet high. ....
In Jacksonville, Missouri, recently, the
seducer of wife was shot dead in the street
by the injured husband.
The debt of Greece is about $ls, $50 900.
and the interest is nearly 81, OOO,O 900 annu--
ally.
The physicians of Charleston, s. O., report
favorably on the sanitary condition of that
city.
VIM. Ouzley, of Miss, was killed by falling
from thirdstory window of the Garner
house, in Mobile, Ala, last week.
It is stated that large contracts have been
made in Missouri for corn, at twenty cents
per bushel. r..-- ..rr
We sympathize more readily with excess
of sorrow than with exuberance of 10Y.
Sympathy increases with the former, not
with the latter.
The good man feels no injustice so strongly
as that done to others; that committed
against himself he sees not so clearly; the
bad man feels only injury to himself
We have certain complacency in wit
Messing an air of defiance in criminal before
his judges, because he thereby lessons our
consciousness of subjection to authority.
Frank Leslie has had his former contrib
litor, Or" Rawlings, bound over to keep the
peace toward him; the doctor having threat
ened to cowhide the former.
Arrangements have been expedited for the
resusctation of the Royal American Steam
Company, in connection with the Galway
contract.
The Coventry (England) strike, at last ae-
counts, was at an end, and the weavers, after
suffering severe privations, had agreed to
accept of the terms of their employers.
In England the principal discount estab-
lishments are trying TO eradicate the accom-
mediation system, and in all cases of the
slightest suspicion, paper is rejected.
''Are those bells ringing for fre2" in
quired Simon of Tiberias. t'No, indeed. .
answered Tibe, "they have plenty of fire
and the bells are now ringing for water"
A pet lap-dog having bitten piece out of
a mans leg, the heartless mistress .ex-
claimed ''Poor Plontol hope it won't make
him sickl"
A large eight-cylinder press is kept busy
printing Webster's spelling g-book, during the
whole year, reaching the enormous edition
of 100000 copies annually. s
A young girl between thirteen and four
teen years of age, of respectable parents, in
Allison Prairie, ILL.,, gave birth to twins, one
day last week.
The Boston Post remarks "The editor of
the Louisville (Ky). journal says he never
deceives his readers. That is because they
never believe a word he says"
The fairs in California are about to meet,
and all the reports represent the progress of
the country, il the agricultural sense, as
most extraordinary.
One hundred and forty-seven wagons left
week before last with nearly million of
pounds of freight for the supply of the mines
at Pixies Peak. -
Mrs. Elicit has written an article for the
San Francisco Golden Era, entitled: "a Ro-
nance of an Infants Life" embodying the
life of "Little Ella Burns
Somebody remarked, the other day, that
if "the Prince of Peace" instead of the
Prince of Wales, were visiting Canada, his
reception would not be so enthusiastic.
The Philadelphia Inquirer mentions four
teen styles of cOunterfeiting coin. It is esti-
mated that fully ten per cent. of all the ap-
parent gold coin in circulation is bogus
The natural and legitimate loss in value of
gold coin is immense. The estimated loss
States is over $l,0O00o0 per annum.
81 have been positively assured" says
Paris correspondent "that ten rihed cannon,
missing from the French arsenals, are, or
will soon be in the possession of Garibaldi."
Miss GiIbsrfs Career, DR.. Hollands new
novel, is now rapidly passing through the
press and will probably be issued in Oe-
tober.
Robert Tucker, q notorious horse-thief,
was hung at Poluxy Springs Texas, the
other day. He made confession, implicat-
ing many citizens of fair reputation.
In the towns of Henrietta and Brighton,
near Rochester, New York, the other morn
ing, the early risers found white frost on
the ground. ...r r... .f.H.
& General Wheat, late filibuster, and since
then of the Liberal army in Mexico, who