Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-09-27

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The Evansville Ond.) Daily Enquirer, a
Douglas journal, has ceased to exist.
There were 1,152 births and l,l97 deaths
in Philadelphia during the month Of August.
1t appears from the census that the popu-
lation of Kansas Territory is 10000.
Edward Everett is said to be engaged to
be married to fashionable Southern widow.
The deaths in New York last week num-
bered 4S0, an increase Of six over the pre-
vious week. r-r -sar
Henry Miner was thrown from runaway
horse near Charleston, S. c., on Saturday,
and his brains dashed out against wall.
While William Pitman was lifting for
wager in Galveston, Texas, last week, he
burst blood-vessel and died.
Hobbies, the philosopher, said; "Words are
the counters of wise men, and the money of
FOOLS" .r. . ..r
From recent general weighing in Boston,
the average ponderosity of women seems to
be ll6 and men, l46 pounds.
About $65, 600 were contributed to the sup
port of the Pope's secular authority, in the
diocese of Dublin.
A potato vine from the farm of Gen. Dick
inson, near HoOsick, measured eight feet and
three inches in length. --. a. r-E
1t has been found by oculists that when
person has only one eye, it is invariably the
left one. 1H.tHse r..
Rev. Crawford H. Toy, of Norfolk, Va, is
soon to leave for Japan, whittier he goes as
Christian teacher rather Than as apreacher.
Five hundred persons were confirmed at
the Catholic Church in Manchester, N. H.,
on Saturday.
In WaIIa-W ALA Valley recently, Vim.
Kelly, in attempting to kill some trouble
some cattle, shot his little son dead.
The Fall Convention of the Unitarian
Churches will be held at New Bedford, Oc-
tober 9, 10 and IL, instead of at Brooklyn, as
was at first arranged. - fE -.-~ee /.
Sunday night, fire in the dry-goods store
of J. H. Miller, ON Fourth-street, in Louis
vile, KY, destroyed some five or six thou
sand dollars worth of goods.
Robert Dale Owens FootfaIls from Another
World has been one of the most successful
books of the season, above 5000 copies haV-
ing been sold in this country.
On Tuesday evening in the Indiana State
Prison at Jeffersonville, Abraham Goce
stabbed another convict named Summers,
to the heart, with short knife.
A long train of ZIG cars, laden with cattle,
from the northern parts of New Hampshire
and Vermont, arrived on the Boston and
Lowell Railroad on Tuesday. q, ru rn
The vintage in Italy is again bad. { For
nine years the disease has attacked the Nea-
politan vines, and wine grows yearly dearer
and worse. ,-.-.-r-Ir
The Home Journal praises very highly a
volume of poems by A. l. Ruguier, District
Attorney of Mobile, Ala. The Journal lauds
every thing from the South.
The Anderson Central Terdn says that in
the upper portions of Grimes County, cattle
are actually dying of starvation; something
never before known.
John H. Price boy of eleven years, was
recently convicted of manslaughter, in
Albany, New York, for shooting a child
eight years old. 5.'..d d.a- a. s.
At Cave-in-Rock Illinois, recently, one
Mcdonnell shot and killed a woman, with
whom he thought his father-in-law too in
| innate.
The old Senate Chamber, at Washington
will be ready for occupancy by the United
States Supreme Court at the commencement
OF the December term. .YGLssaf uH 'H
Fifty-seven cities in the world contain
| from 100000 to 100000 Inhabitants, twenty
7 three from 100000 to 100000, and twelve
which contain above 100000. i.l-.i s.-"+
D After three centuries of neglect, an effort
has at last been made to raise, in Lisbon, q
statue to Camoens, the Portuguese poet, au
thor of the great epic, the Lusiad
The way the East Haddam Conn Jonuq
/ encourages marriags is, TO publish divorce
/ in its list Of marriages, publishing alternatel,
marriage and divorce, r --e- -r... I'd
The editor of the New York Aa6- SlaDsr,
| Standard recently declined to serve ON
jury, because public opinion had declare
him insane. tt
Three railway trains passed over the bod,
/ of an unknown man, near Skaheateles (N
/ W junction, Tuesday night, and mangle
it beyond the possibility of recognition,
Ssw gold diggings have been struck a
WaHa Walla, and it is said that Sl4,O00 ar
rived from the mines by the steamer Pdcifc
There was considerable excitement at Port
land on the subject. tt.Hs
Charles Babbage, inyentorof the famou
calculating machine, has estimated that
square yard of room will accommodate 81
adults, or Nqueezing, nine adults and chil
dren -.... ..-, -....-. ..rl-s
Captain Duncan n. Ingraham, celebrated /
the Kosta case has been detached from dut
as Chief Of the Bureau of Ordnance an
photography, and ordered to the steam sloo
RiehmOhd
A French Consulate has been establishe
N Chieagp, and N. Cayin d Elpeux has bee
| designated tv hia o,,vayt,tnarf az the rehrf
sentative of Its interests there. y
The Philadelphia Esdqer states that ii
book-trade aucticn sales now going on
| that city are largely attended and the biz
ding spirited. gsft lhIiNt HdtiA
The London Herald states thai the COL
tinuous though dull heat Is PRODUCING
beneficial effect uDon the crof,s ana n