Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-13
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Wearing tight fnger-rings sometimes pro-
duces lockjaw. j.. --
A disease with which no woman was ever
known to be afflicted--the lockjaw.
A project is on foot to construct railroad
from Memphis, Tenn, to Vicksburg, Miss.
Why is biliardsplaying unlike other en-
terprises2 Because the more one is 'out of
pocket the better. .-
Lady Franklin is at present soiourning in
Philadelphia, after her return from the
Northwest.
A. Merelo, a well-known jeweler recently
committed suicide in Memphis, Tenn, by
stabbing himself in the neck.
Ex-President Pierce is to commence the
erection of a splendid mansion, at Concord,
N. H.. next spring.
Milton H. Duncan, river and marine re-
porter of the New Orleans Crescent, died in
that city lately, of consumption.
Why have compositors more reason to
grumble than any body else2 Because their
business is always at stand
Among the Wide-awakes from Maine in
the recent New York Republican procession,
were two sons of the Hon. Hannibal Hamlin.
An English manufacturer invites the pub
lie to come and see his invisible wire fences.
His nativity should be Ireland.
VIM. L. Yancey is to address the Dem
ocracy of Boston, this evening, at Flaneuil
Hall.
Fish, at least, if no other animals, have
cause to believe that it is a bad practice to
think of rising in life upon somebody else's
hook. aI. ~
Some of the California miners have their
beds in their mines, to keep their ores from
being abstracted. They sleep upon their
ores. a#.
AT o. .tete given at Stockport, England, six
persons were trodden under foot by the
crowd, and killed. Many Others were badly
wounded.
sewing g-women, who earn barely 81 a week,
while working necessarily sixteen or seven
teen hours day.
During the past year the New Hampshire
State Prison has paid nearly $3.50 cash
into the State Treasury from the labor Of
| prisoners.
The Lake Superior Journal has a report
that bed of anthracite coal has been dis
covered, some fifteen miles from Portage
Lake.
Carrie Williams, of New Hampshire, a
little girl of ten years, rode on horseback
sixty-fve miles in one day, and repeated the
feat few days after. We
The Provincetown (Mass.) Banner says the
whole front of that town presents the ap-
pearance of being shingled over with cod
fish, hung out drying.
General Washington's harpsichord was
revarnished and sent to Mount Vernon, for
the inspection of Baron Renfrew. This
relic is ten feet long and four wide.
It is expected that the Prince of Wales
will reach Albany, N. Y, on the 18th inst,
on the steamer Daniel Drew, which will
take him on board at West Point.
Conceited men often seem harmless kind
of men, who, by an over-weening self-re-
| spect relieve others from the duty of re-
| specting them at all.
Many man thinks itvirtne that keeps
him from turning rascal, when it is only a
| full stomach. One should be careful and not
mistake potatoes for principles.
An interesting little girl, daughter of Ja-
| cob Halverson, died recently at ManitowOc,
Wis, in consequence Of having swallowed a
cent.
A scaffolding fell at the freight-house Of
| the Northern Railway Company, in Albany.
N. Y, the other day, and seriously wounded
six men.
A man named Peter fired three shots at a
man named Blackman, at Augusta, Ga. on
Monday, hitting him twice and wounding
him fatally. e4suar. ~r--
A fne-looking, dashing gentleman was
! arrested at New Orleans on Saturday, for an
attempt at arson, an assault and q threat Of
murder. .... T. .
Cox, who so distinguished himself as
| purser of the Great Eastern while on the ex-
cursion TO Cape May, is now consigned to
another sphere of duty.
E. Kenyon went to Natick, Mass, the other
| day, and hung himself by the roadside, hay-
ing pinned his name and residence upon his
collar. i-sjCi, ctruE--
Richard White, an Englishman, has been
condemned TO serve three months in the
Petersburg (Ya) chain-gang for insulting a
lady.
The owners of the horse-railroads are re-
commended as the best candidates 70 defeat
the Republicans, as they carry even more
than they undertake to.
A planter, owning thirty slaves, writes to
the Baltimore (Md.) Patriot that slavery is a
moral and material evil, and should be kept
out Of the territories. -, ..e, -ttre- .
A fellow having slipped down on an icy
pavement, muttered: II have no desire to see
the town burned down, but sincerely wish
the streets were laid in ashes"
The police of Buffalo, N. Y, are making
themselves useful now in resouing deluded
young females from the danee-houses and
sinks OF fpollution in that city.
Only about one-third of the cranberry crop
OF Eastern Massachusetts win be gathered
the remainder having been destroyed by the
late heavy and unreasonable fosts.
A lawyer was caned out Of the Recorder
Court down stairs and through the street,
at New Orleans, recently BY one Of the