The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1860-01-17
PEN AND SCISSORS

FEN AND SCISSORS
~ There were 1923 interments in Mont
gomsry, Ala, in 1859.
gT The Typographical Union of Peters
burg, Va, has been reorganized.
1B A Hebrew orphan asylum was formally
opened last Sunday at Charleston, s. c.
~A child in Boston, named Murry, died
on Monday from swallowing pin.
gr- George Tyler, well known and pop
ular hotel keeper ct Galena, ILL.,, died on
Saturday last.
HB-T The approaching marriage of Miss
Dolby with M. Sainton, the eminent violinist,
is announced in England.
gs-The Salem IN. J.) Standard speaks of
lost hog in that vicinity, which for Eve weeks
lived without eating or drinking.
gSThere are four hundred and forty-two
convicts In the Maryland Penitentiary, Of
whom fourteen are natives Of Virginia.
Mg"Vanity Fair" says: The critics who
correct, might be as useful, but are as rare as
the doctors who cure.
N&In nominating tho Missouri statesman
hanging out Bates to catch Southern votes.
lT The Mayor Of Trenton, N. j., was
fined last week for fast driving. He is said
to be very "fast" official in many respects.
g8r Isaac Atkinson, banker, and one of
the Oldest and wealthiest citizens Of Easton,
Nd, died in that city last week.
aB-Letters from Egypt announce the ar
rival at Alexandria, of the Count de Paris and
the Duke dc Chartres. ~ '''4'
ESA new bank, to b., called the Seaboard
Bank, with a capital Of 5000, 900, is about to
be established at Portsmouth, Va.
n@rHon. Henry W. Miller, of North Car
olins, has added $4,000 to the Mount Vernon
fund by his lectures.
1@The City Council Of Augusta, Ga, last
week, raised the tax on free persons of color
to $25 per head.
N@-Two elk calves have been introduced
into Bell County, Texas, from Russian Amer
lea, as an experiment has been made Of do
mesticating them.
@S-A resident Of Nebraska informs the
Chicago Times that there is hardly negro to
be found in the entire Territory, and that he
doesnot know Of single resident slave.
@3- The Duke of Cambridge was at Wool
wich, England, recently, 70 inspsot the troops
and batteries Of Armstrong guns now in
store.
G&- One of Queen Christmas sons has just
entered the Military College of st. Cyr. Four
young Turks, sent from Constantinople by the
Sultan, are also among the latest enrollments
GS-At Boaford, Mass, q few days ago,
man shot grey eagle which measured seven
feet six inches from tip to tip, and weighed
nine and one-half pounds.
gg~ A Mrs. jackson accomplished the feat
Of walking eighty miles in eighty consecutive
hours, at Union Hall, in Stsunton, Va, last
week. aa,. ....#
Qg- Cathariue McGiven, an Irish girl, hes
prosecuted welI-known physician Of Brook
lyn, N. Y, Stephen B. Doty, for seduction
and abortion.
G8-T There is said to be "mapy a slip be-
tween the cup and the lip" but it would be
we'll for some Of our young men, and old ones
too, if there were good many more.
@-A Berlin letter states that List, the
celebrated pianist, was latoly in that city, hav-
log been summoned there by the death Of his
son, young man Of twenty.
MS Miss Balfe, who, with Mr.. and Mrs.
Balfe, hos gone to the Russian capital for the
purpose of giving concerts, is bringing the
subjects of the Gear to her feet by her charm
iug voice.
N3-The Duke Of Malakoff has arrived in
London. The Duke, who trav eled incog., wore
on the voyage across the channel what is
called "wide-awake hat" and was attended
by only one servant.