Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-14
FVARIETIES s.

Old age and matrimony are two things
often desired, and generally dreaded. . , 10 .
The new steamer South Carolina, the first
of the Boston and Charleston Is. C.) line,
was lanched atBoston q day or two since.
A young woman thai whs lost in thought
after wandering in her own mind found her
self at last in her lovers arms rt1LsE
a man in Adrian, Michigan, under some
strange freak stabbed his horses, and then
set his barn on fire. a.d'e I0tsl
Dion Bopreicault has written, or borrowed
rather, seven dramas in the last twenty-eipht
weeks-just one month.
One Of the powdef-houses on the canal
above Portsmouth, Ohio, was blown up the
other evening, but no one was killed. ~
King Victor Emmanuel has Just entered
his forty-first year, having been born on the
l4th of March, 1920. ..Ha.s. '-
The practice of drinking absinthe an in
siduous beverage, is stillspreading alarmingly
over France and Algeria. ...1 4, ..a.. -.
The New York Central Park has been in.
creased in size by the addition of about forty.
nine acres of land. ,r .,.., .....r,-
Mr.. Holmes Greenwoodr a. Revolutionary
patriot, died, in Providence, r. l., lately, Al
the advanced age of ninety-fve years.
q There are few people so thoroughly truth.
ful as not gently, to put down suspicion OF
opinion on a false track, when by doing SC
they can save themselves or their friends.
T- Rev. J.aR, Rogers, one of the parties re.
Gently expelled from Kentucky, spoke in the
Center church, in New Haven, Conn, or
Sunday giving narrative of his expulsion
Gabriel Ammons, Liberia, has sixteen
acres of hourishing cotton, ripening daily
February l, some Of which he was already
A child was born on train while in mo
tion on the Great Western Railroad, neal
Chatham, G. WI last week. The child opgh
to be a fast one. -, ..... =, p
a7 The Charleston Mercury says there is
rage among the ladies TO enjoy balloon ascen
sions, and Prof. Lowe is arranging to accom-
modate them. ..r ...rlr-
It is said, on good authority, that witt
Mile Piccolomini's tour in the province o
England her theatrical career will terminals
forever. Alas, mia Maria earai ...
Rev. Cyrus Peirce, familiarly known a
Father Peirce," died at West Newton, Mass
q few days ago, aged seventy years. He wa
one of the Oldest teachers in Massachusetts
A good man, who has seen much of tn
world says; "The grand essentials to happi
ness in this life are something to do, some
thing to love, and something to hope for"
A Paris paper states that NJ. Dudevant
tSand) son of the celebrated authoress, ha
received the decoration of the cross of TIN
Legion of of Honor from the Emperor. +
A little girl daughter of Philo Williams
living at Scull Shoals, Georgia, died on Mon
day from eating matches; the phosphoru
thereon poisoning her to death.
A son of Jacob A. Allen was nearly burn
to death, in Lawrence, Mass, recently, iron
the Iigniting, by lamp, of gas from ftirnac
in his fathers house. war .H...... -t
Two negroes fought duel with muskets
at night, near Columbia, S. c., last week. an
one of them shot the other through the head
killing him instantly.
American enterprise is apparent in Aus
tralia in the roads, the coaches and til
drivers, all of which are pure Yankees
writes home dissatisfied Englishman.
Colonel S. R. Adams, editor and proprieto
of the Paulding (Miss.) Clarion, died in tina
town, recently. Colonel Adams was nativ
of Ohio, but had resided in Mississippi for tn
past twenty years.
Peter A. Delmonico, one of the oldest c
the foreign residents of New York. died ther
on Wednesday. He was the brother of Del
monico, the founder Of the famous restau
rant.
A girl named Mary Jane Lowell was, da
or two since, thrown into the Mississippi
River, above Alton, ILL.,, by two villains, afte
they had defled her and kept her in tn
water until drowned. u -, e..t-,~
Mrs. Margaret Benson and two of her chill
dren were so severely burnt, in Windhar
County Conn.,, recently, by camphene lam
explosion, that they all died within two day
| after the occurrence.
Madame George Sand and Madame Victo
| Hugo arrived in Paris the middle of Marcl
Madame Sand was suffering from illness, bu
was engaged in finishing a new play, 500
to be produced at one of the theaters.
The Boston Shipping List states that Bos
| ton has two hundred and fifty ships in tn
Indian and Pacific waters at the present timt
| The total tunnage of that port is four hur
dred thousand, comprising eight hundre
vessels.