Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-20
NAR1RrIES.

VAR lie TIES.
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton is writing a
new fve-act drama. .r.- vt-.1 ~
Austria taxes her Venetian provinces just
sixty per cent. .ar .4-5 ~.
The Ohio Penitentiary, at Columbus, now
contains 949 convicts. - e..
The "Prince of Wales Bouquet is the
name OF new perfume for the handker-
chief
A Frenchman, seven feet eight inches high,
is stopping at the st. Charles Hotel, New
Orleans. H.,..r ....i iIt,Ir. 3
An expert thief, breaking into the post
office at Ottawa, Canada, on Thursday night,
stole about $3.50 in cash. H1r..l -.
During last week over 1000 cattle were
carried to Albany over the New York Cen
tral Railroad. .
The District of Columbia has now popu-
lation of $4,000, having increased about one
third part in the lastten years. ETc1
. Telegraphic lines are being rapidly estab-
lished across the late Pontifical territory; on
the goth ult., they had reached Macerata.
Gov. Wise declares that the time for talk
ing has passed. This is bad news for him.
His occupations gone" rsr, utF soa,lql.
g A Western editor says he was taught
when boy to refrain from grumbling at
what he can not help, and what he can help.
During the past week only nineteen deaths
were reported in the city of Pittsbufg, Penn.
Doubtless there were many more. d ryrgsf &
The Louisville (Ky.) journal says Ger
tainly the prospect is none the less dark from
Pennsylvanias having raised the CH'tiaR y,
The hotel owned by Samuel F. Alexander
at Stone Mountain, Georgia, was destroyed
by FIRE Saturday morning. Loss $4,000. -'f
A pet deer attacked st. Louis Magistrate
in the street on Wednesday, and committed
a most painful assault upon that functi tionaryl
Atwood Keefe was fined $50 at Mobile,
I Ala, recently, for associating with negroes,
and saying that he thought them as good as
whites .g,-.t-r e5,-l --.gqrz v5-.-,rap
The Hotel du Louvre, at Paris, isextremely
| costly in the gold and other decorations Of
its dining-rooms-swelling its cost to some
| .So,VUo,OOV' TG GtiWIA ;tGt Ha aa ~ aFA
Bertani nicknamed ''Garibaldi's evil
| genius" has been dismissed, and better
| feeling now exists between Victor Emmanuel
and Garibaldi.h 'a 10y @.i2
l7 Sir Francis Desanges, who had been hiehs
sheriff of London and Middlesex, and also of
Oxfordshre, died recently in debtor 'sprison'
at the age ofseTenty-five. I'll - -Eaa r't
A woman recently married, lat Taunton,
Mass, in frenzy of jealousy, the other night
attacked her husband with razor, dreadfully
mutilating him. II e 81 o % . n L
A little girl swallowed the composition
| from some friction-matches, the other night,
ut Taunton, Mass. and died in great agony
III HaH fa H NJ L D.
A savage watchdog in Troy, N. Y, on
Friday night, attacked little boy, biting
him in the hand, dreadfulIy decorating the
| flesh and breaking the bones. ~.
In Nashville, Tenn. the other evening,
! two negro boys became involved in quar-
| rel, when one placed pistol to the others
head and blew his brains Quito
The foreman of a grist-mill, at Rutland,
! VT, the other morning, was caught by the
machinery, carried to the ceiling, and in
stantly crushed 70 death.0 1TDVR NAN
A half-dfunken sailor, at Cambridge,
Mass, lately, attempting TO outriYal Blondin
on board a'schooner, fell into the hold, and
died Immediately. ai .. la93Ml l ,rg, oT III, fl
A young girl, at Mclean, Ny while
i roning on Thursday evening, upset q fluid
lamp, which, exploding, so severely burned
herthat she died next morning. III
A grand row occurred the other evening
at Turner's Hall, in New Orleans, when the
/ police were attacked and several persons
wounded, but hone dangerously. = y = ,
Il "A terrible affray occurred ct RIarfrees-
| boro', Tenn, the other day, and Melville Q.
/ Henderson was killed and Joseph Harrison
and Ellis Roune severely wounded i
. A hOrselran away in Charlestown, Mass,
! one day this week, and knocked down and
trampled upon Mrs. Uriah Woods, bruising
her SO badly that she died in 9 few hours.
Large quantities of land are now in. mar
ket in South Carolina and many small
homesteads are passing into the possession
Of few wealthy planters IElEqT Va
A day or two since, the woods in Houston
County, Georgia, caught fire, and Littleton
Albriton was killed by the falling Of a
burning pine.
David Brown, Of Somerset, Massachusetts,
! committed suicide at his dwelling, the other
morning, by cutting his throat and stabbing
himself through the heart with a butcher
knife,
BY the bursting of a camphene lamp in
house in San Francisco, whole family was
burned to DEATH and the house and furni-
ture destroyed. .LG 81 [sI
Some Rutland (Vt.) political Operators,
/ recently got together about seventy-fYe for
eigners and feeced them of So under the
plea Of administering the freeman's oath.
Breekinfidgs is said to be in wretched
health, He Is pining and wasting away
under the effects Of a singular depression.
de seems ten years older than he did last
spring, rtrs l-7siE f5a1t ~ ~
The alternative Of three years inprison-
ment, or being sold into slavery, being Of
fered to two free-negro thieves, at Ports
mouth Va, on Tuesday, they chose the
former, "a 20 ~ rs fg5i
i Three boys and man escaped from Cam
andaigua IN. " Jail, day or two ago, BY
crawling through into the garret, cutting a
hole in the roof and letting themselves down