Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-05-03
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AT Portsmouth, Va, on Monday, green
peas sold at twenty-five cents quart. l
The City Hall Park, in New York, is soon
to be sold to the General Government
An English paper says that Gen. Dred
Scott commands the United States army.
A Dutch paper states that Belgium wishes
to purchase the island of Gambia.
The Common Council of New Haven,
Conn, has appropriated $4,000 for the pur-
chase of steam fire engine. .tF
More than double the usual number of
acres have been sown with wheat this year
that were sown in 1852
Geo. Raymond, a Frenchman, was choked
to death, recently, while eating dinner at
Richmond, Va. o.
The Boston Bee says Worcester, Massachu-
sets, has set the example of drawing colored
men upon the jury. .
There's great difference between honor
and honesty; the former, it is said, "exists
among thieves" the latter certainly does not.
The Natchez Free Trader talks about ''the
principle of reputation" We should call it
most unprincipled principle. y " ..
A likely negro girl, about thirteen years of
age, was sold in Warrenton, Virginia, on Mon
'"y' ioi ~i'i''' .
Thomas Clarity was killed in Alexandria,
Virginia, recently by the cars; his body being
''ei"iy 'orh " pieoes'
The wife of day laborer, residing at
Ballinahonebeg,. Ireland, gave birth recently
| to four female children.
There is still snow banks eight feet deep
IN I'm nfatn ~ ahs
and Goshen, New Hampshire.
Morsha, vo;,,o,+ ho. so,t 90 ,ho E.ol
Academy an account of an insect which
amuses itself by boring holes in leaden balls
nj ,y,... -s
81 hatsd,d ne rau9u'er Wn.e SuiPnur aPfings are
month. N'.r'l '"I
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1t is said that pint of hot water poured
INTO gallon OF milk, fresh from the COW, will
ma,
pIu i..n, "u oiu so.,ieI .I III Cn1 w ee.eI5
neserye, % naving Iooa'eu inore IN ioo4' uieu
ie0en'i' III Oie'ei"iu' Ill 'iiS o'''e'
Ole cvn'eneeu wlen wnaI ne hes uone
Duse ont,ii l!I, oh"noe Vi ooooinihB iainouS
'oi "n"' n0 VIM uo'
The robber of the State Bank of Georpia
nus nus peen arrested IN leXas' WIN $zo,ooo Oh
'ne money on MS person.
Watson, the clown of a circus exhibiting
in Nashville, Tenn, was recently drawn in a
tub on the cumberland River oy four geese.
The failure of the Virginia Legislature to
appropriate 800 600 for the University of
Virginia has produced the most profound ex-
citement in Charlottesville.
An old man, John Smiley, while at din
ner, in Pittsburg, Penn, on Saturday, was
choked to death BY a piece of meat lodging
IN his wnd-pipe.
NJ. Becuuerel has introduced such improve
| ments in the electric tbermometor as to make
it register changes of Temperature less than
one-twenueth OF degree ...
Clara Ferris, girlof nineteen years of age,
and possessed OF many personal attractions,
has been missed from Saratoga, N. Y, since
'.
There is, said Washington Irving. in every
true woman's heart, spark of heavenly fire.
which beams and blazes in the dark hour of
adversely.
In England, about one hundred wears apo
there was grinning match-the prize being
carried off by porter to q vinegar mer.
cl''n''
"Where are you gong?" asked little boy
of another, who had slipped and fallen down
on the icy pavement. -dGoing to get uni"
was 'n' Diuii' ioPiJ'
A new red coloring matter, calledfuchsine,
has been produced, which is quite equal in
splendor to cochineal. II is already in use
to considerable extent.
NJ Liebig recommends that the acid oona-
raiIy foun5 IN hread be nsn,raI;"ed hy ~
addition of a little Iime.water one ouayt W 10 to
ten pounds OF Hour. ...
scribed thirty t6ousand dollars as a bonus' 10
induce Toe Smith ir to 90 there and collect
around him Mormon community.
II is often better-to have n great deal of
harm to happen to one; a great deal NAV