The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1860-01-05
PEN AND SCISSORS.

MARIETTA AND t1NCrNNATI.-940A A. M; $40 p. M,
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PEN AND SCISSORS.
@- The total indebtedness of Indiana Is
10,2se,s55 So. t......
@-A new landscape painter, A. T. Bricker,
has recently made sensation in Boston.
@-Wm. H. Cochran, editor of the Mt.
Vernon, (O.) Republican, died on Sunday last.
Ng- The first jury ever empanelled was in
England, in 970. t0
H8-The University of Pisa was opened on
the Sd Of December with great solemnity.
MB-It is stated that Governor Wright, Min.
lister to Berlin, will ask for his recall early in
the spring.
@B-Among the forthcoming attractions of
The Cornhin Magazine, is to be New Life of
Hogarth the Painter, by George Augusta sala.
aS-A memoir of the "Llfe of AIRY S Soheffer, !"
the Painter, is announced by Mrs. Grote, the
wife of the banker and historian of Greece.
Me- Mrs. Ellen Ready, aged about forty
years, was drowned in g. pail Of water in Bos.
ton, a few days since.
M@- "It is all around MY hat" as the
hypocrite said when he put on mourning for
his departed wife. ,-.s.
MsrAn law officers in France have been
ordered to dress in black with white crayats,
and to stop smoking in the streets.
Mgr George Young, sailor, committed
suicide in New York, ON Saturday night, by
swallowing largo quantity Of. laudanum.
MD-M Mrs. Ann S. Stephens has addressed a.
letter to Victor Hugo, vindicating Virginia
for tho execution IF John Brown.
MgrFor the yesr 1859, the number of com.
plants entered in the Police Court of Boston
was 1886. An increase of 1854.
M@-The Medical Times says that single
women have the headache more than married
ones. Don't they have the heartache too?
Ns- Dumas, jr., sold the copyright of his
new play, the Psre Prologue, in Paris, for
$4,000.
&gT The New York Journal of Commerce..
in its produce table, says the stock of -four in
New York, December 20, 1859, was 1,43s, ,Se6
barrels.
@B-At Littleton, N. H., on Thursday, it
gas thirty-six degrees below zero, and at
r, ,anconia, in the same State, thirty seven
below.
me. Mr.. A. G. McIlwaine, of Petersburg e,
Va. has contributed $4,000 toward an addi-
tionaI endo wment of $1,000 for Hampden
Sidney College.
aa- Mr.. August Belmont has lately pur-
nh oh 10
finer example Of that artists manner than his
"Chess Players"
myThe boot.ma,kers of Hopkinton, MI ass.,
to the number of several hundred, have been
ON strike since the beginning of December,
in consequence of reduction Of wages.
ns~American wines are manufactured near
Sing Sing, N. Y, in considerable quantities.
The "pure juice Of the grape" is probably one
of its constituents.
Mg-A young man, Louis Perdue, living in
Summer County, Tenn, was instantly killed
q few days since by the premature exPlo-
sion Of a gun.
MrThomas McNally was stabbed three
times in New York last week, w. bile endeavor-
ing to protect a woman from the brutal as
sault of her husband.
&g-Pride and lovenever should be arrayed
against each other, for their struggl is always
productive of misery. Love in woman may
overcome pride; in man never.
My-The Rev. Samuel X. Cox, President of
the Lynchburg IVA. Female College, is out in
defense Of the policy Of employing home-born
teachers. l '
MsE. T. Bradley, of Fair Haven, Conn,
was thrown from his wagon, a few days ago,
while his horses were running away, and his
neck broken.
@-A young man, an apprentice in the
jewelry store Of Mr.. Griddley, Of Holly Springs,
Miss, blew his brains out in that place few
days since. af
nsB- The following are the distances BY the
steamer routes from Queenstown: To New
York, 1850 nautical miles; to Boston, 2,49O;
to Portland, 2,45O; to Quebec, 2,2O2.
SEA Piokens (Ala.) paper says that there
will be baby show in that county soon.
We had hoped that these disgusting exhibi-
tions were at an end.
N1Leslie's elegantly illustrated volume on
"Sir Joshua Reynolds and his Works" was
loIL aL ul6 Q6Abu III btdto bO AHI auVbnC9u Is
to admit of its publication, In the spring.
@J.R. S. Bond, former proprietor OF the
Mendoza (Ill.) Press, and at ono time men,
ber of the Cincinnati press, has purchased an
interest in the Republican and Telegraph, of
Dixon, in that State. #s HIaT
2 &9- Archbishop Hughes has accepted the
invitation of the senior class of the University
Of North Carolina to deliver the commence
ment sermon before them on the 4th of June
next.
Ns-The Memphis (Tenn.) Enquirer, the
Hons, Jerry Clemens and Solon Borland's
paper, favors the nomination of Rdward
Everett for President by the Charlestown
Convention.
MsrOn the invitation Of the City Council
Of Kingston, Canada, DR.. Howe will, in aIpub-
lic address, show with what facility provision
can be made for the support and education Of
the blind. ffNd VII
Ns-Mr. f. Bridges, author Of "Phrsnology
made Practical" has received from the
British Treasury, at the recommendation Of
Lord Pa'merston, $50 for his Investigations as
to the causes and increase Of crime.
@1- Upward of three hundred prizes were
distributed at tho Girard College, Philadelphia,
last Friday, for good conduct and improve
ment in scholarship. Fifteen new pupils are
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