Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-23
PARAGRaPHICALsi

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sold for $4,000 to Louisiana company.
The Virginia Senate has rejected a bin to
enslave certain free colored persons.
A New York jury last week awarded Thos.
Kelly $4ss damages forbeing bitten by David
Tilton'sdog.
Over 500 hogsheads of tobacco have been
shipped from Charlottesville, Va, since Janu-
ary 1. p 'H ''t-
The number of deaths in Newark, N. j.,
last year. was 1859, Of which nearly two
thirds were infants.
Senator Sumner has subscribed $780, and
Senator Seward $50, to theproposed statue to
Horace Mann at Boston,. n u tttNt
Charles p. Tidd, one of John Browns
original seventeen followers, is said to be
living in Worcester, Mass. co., ...I.i i.r
The bricklayers of New York, now re-
ceivingSl 70 per day, demand $2 per day
after the first Of April. 90
The Grand Duke Michael, brother. to the
Emperor of Russia, has been appointed su-
preme chief of the military schools Of Russia.
The ship carpenters of Buffalo have made
a strike and now refuse to work on the terms
heretofore prescribed by their employers.
Life is sorrowful; the infant weeps as it
comes into the world, and every succeeding
year of its lite shows wherefore. 1.3fET
A Philadelphia paper says of drunken
negro, who fell down q cellar-way: Ellis life
was preserved by his striking his head first"
Mr.. Leib, politician, recently caned the
editor of the Saturday ReUiep, in Chicago.
Why didn't the editor, shoot the scoundrel2
Salle st. Clair, the actress, is lying quite
sick at the. Commercial Hospital, in Nashville.
Poor girl, she is to be pitied. r,l .'A USh
Mrs. Hix, of Bedford County, Tenn, gave
birth last week to three bouncing girls, one
weighing six pounds, and the other two four
pounds and half each. ..... t7r
issued an order to all postmasters in Canada
West, relieving them from any further obli-
CATION to open their offices on Sunday.
An Irshman once observed that mile
stones were kind enough to answer your
questions without giving YOU any trouble
to ask them. '" '7
The ship Annie Laurie, direct from Liv-
erpool, has arrived at Alexandria, with a
cargo of merchandise consigned to Virginia
merchants. tunlr-l
The Persian ambassador and three of his
suite were made Free Masons lately in Paris.
Captain Lynch officiated as interpreter.
Ferukh Khan was also made member some
time ago.
Mr. Speaker Pennington has rented a fine
mansion on NFifteenth-street, Washington,
and he holds his leyees with as much pomp
and ceremony as those of the President
A hox -,
copies Of Helpers Impending Crisis, was burnt
in the public square at High Point n. G., last
week. - ,Hot5ah0dS1IA syxaA
About 10000 ova of the salmon, from the
river Dooy, in Wales, have lately been sent
to Australia in order to try the introduction
of the fish in the rivers of that country.
The Rev,G. W. Carter, Of. Oxford College,
Miss, for merly Of Petersburg, Virginia, has
accepted the Presidency of a College in
Texas, at salary of$6, 900 per annum.
The Covington and Lexington Railroad
Company has paid the house of Winslow,
Lanier Co., brokers, Of New York, the sum
of $4,000 for commissions, &c.
"A bold but unsuccessful effort was made to
rob the Farmers and Mechanics Bank, at
Westminster, Md on Sunday, by boring
through the door and prying off the lock.
The English papers say that a number of
Roman and other coins have lately been dug
up near Gorfe Gast1eT Among them is one
representing Romulus and Remus with the
wolf.
"A lad, George W. Clark, while attempting
to Jump off from train of cars in Philadel-
phia, last Thursday, fell beneath, and the
wheels passed over him, cutting him nearly
in two. .--
; The Boston Aldermen have referred to The
Committee on the lFourth-ofJuly Celebra-
tion the proposition of John La Mountain to
start from that city with a balloon on the
fourth, for transatlantic voyage to Europe.
The artifcial breeding of fish has recently,
been successfully attempted in Canada. The
Legislature of Canada passed fishery act two
years ago, and appointed two superintendents
of fisheries.
The New York. Associated Press have
nearly completed their new arrangements for
obtaining news from the steamships passing
Cape Race and before the middle of April
the plan will be infull operation.
1t is reported that it is contemplated to
form q new Roman Catholic diocese Out, of
the Northern part of this State The new
Bishop'will probably be located at Water
town. .
Col. Sam. Cooley, of Hartford Conn, has
been fined five dollars for shaking his fist at
Mr. David. Clark, and calling him hard names
during the excitement of the late Democratic
State Convention. -
The night mail train on the Columbus,
Piqua and Indiana railroad narrowly escaped
a serious accident, night before last, from a
pile of rails which had been placed on the
track, on the other side Of Hillard Station,
by an unknown villain. .,.
A RELIC OF CAPTAIN CooK.--A Sandwich
Island paper describes relic of the great
navigator, Captain Cook, which is still in ex-
istence there. 1t is small trunk about eigh-
teen inches long and six wide, and is a nice
little receptacle for letters papers, &c. 1t
was given by Captain Cook to an officer of
one Of the ships accompanying him in his
expedition. Helm turn presented ut 70 the
parties now possessing it., who value itasa
nemento ofa great man. l'na Af' We
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MANURE MANUFACTURED FROM. BLooD.-lp
the English agricultural papers are advertise
ments of great company in London, who
manufacture manure from blood. They state
that the number of beasts, sheep, horses,
calves and pigs slaughtered in London in
1856 was s2l, ,705; that the yield of blood from
these was 8O2, gallons, Of which 0dams's
Blood Manure Company received I'll, 900,
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A HARMONIOUS TINE ANTIcIPATED 9, At
CHARLEsToN. "A lively time is anticipated at
Charleston, s. O. A correspondent of the
Syracuse IN. w Courier writes from Charles-