Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-09-07
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Gettysburg, Penn, was lighted with gas
for the first time on Saturday night.
1t is said that in Birmingham, England,
they make Hindoo idols for exportation.
The only hate which we all bear with
Christian patience, is the hate of those who
envy us.
At a celebrated club in Paris, short time
since, young dandy lost $24, 900 at quiet
game of baccarat.
A fire at Atchison, Kansas, on Sunday
morning, destroyed three buildings, valued
at $4,000; insured for $4,000.
The iourneymen tailors of New York City
have demanded an increase of twenty per
cent. on their wages.
The population of California has been very
much over-estimated. 1t will probably not
go over 100000.
We learn, from the Baltimore Sun, that
the big park project for that city is likely to
fail, just on the point of its consummation.
The census taker of Morgan County, ILL.,,
found an eleven-year-old girl in Concord
Township, who weighed 175 pounds.
A girl of eighteen recently eloped from
Brooklyn, with an elderly New York broker
who has wife and family. ---,.
A planter, John Kelly, was killed short
time since, near Columbus, Miss, by one of
his negroes, with bowie knife.
Some twenty slaves, it is said, were dis
covered to be armed with dirk-knives, near
Columbus, Miss, few days since.
The Memphis (Tenn.) Theater has opened,
with Miss Jennie Parker as leading woman,
well known to our play-goers.
The increase in the valuation of real and
personal estate in Providence, R. l., in 1860,
over. the last return, is 81, ,592,l 100. .
Lafayette is about tc have pleasure gar
den, which will, It is said, eclipse sny thing
of the kind in Indiana. .-
In Franklin County, Vermont, about 100
wealthy farmers were defrauded last week of
some $4,000 by band Of German peddlers.
The house of Martin Adle, in jefferson
City, La., was blown up with powder, re-
Gently, by some thieves, and he narrowly
escaped with his life. est.r-l.-. =
A young and pretty heiress was recently
convicted, in Boston, of an attempt to rob
man in the street. She had left home and
fallen into vice.
Colonel Fremont's mining operations are
prospering finely in California, and, it is
said, he will soon be the richest man in the
State.
The emigrant arrivals at New York since
January /, 1860, has been 69,37l, an increase
of nearly $4,000 during the same months of
the year 1859.
The Marchioness de Paira, late wife of the
Portuguese Minister to Paris, has erected
building there which, when finished, will
cost at least $l,0oo000.
A burglar was killed by a train of cars
from Brighton, Mass, near Boston, a day or
two since, while endeaVoring to cross the
track. .5 u1-.. ....E-
A letter from the Austrian Arch-Duke
announces he will soon visit the United
States.
Henry Vethake Totten, son of Col. George
M. Totten, engineer-in-chiefo of the Panama
Railroad Company, died at Aspinwall, on
the Goth ult
The London Saturday ReVieW has very
unsuccessfnlly reviewed the oration in which
Mr.. Everett replied to Earl Greys charges
against American institutions.
Daniel Colkins, convicted at Auburn, N.
Y, of passing a counterfeit half-dime, has
been sentenced to three years in the State
Prison.
On the arrival of the cars at a Massachu-
setts town, the other day, with q lot of prize
fighters, a national salute was fred near the
depot.
A butcher of Charleville, in Ireland,
named Shanassy, lately drank twelve glasses
Of raw whisky, in public house, and died
on the spot.
The christenino of the infant dauobtar of
the Princess Frederick William took place
ceived the names of Victoria Elizabeth Au-
gusta Charlotte.
The annual public sitting of the FIVE
Academies of the Institute of France took
place on the 14th ultimo, in the Grand Hall
of the Rotunda in that building, in presence
of q numerous and fashionable auditory,
VIM. Sullivan, engineer of the New Or
leans and Central Railroad train by which
several persons were killed, a few days ago,
has-been committed for manslanghter, on
the verdict Of the coroner's jury. I
The schooner Forest CGty arrived in AL
bany, N. Y, on Monday. She is the first
sail craft that ever went from the Lakes TO
Albany by way of the river st. Lawrence
and Atlantic Ocean.
. tits said that Prof. s. r. B. Morse has an
easy chair in preparation fer him. The
Morse Fire Insurance Company" of which
he will be the President, is soon To be organ.
lied. NftNE4 IetI Mt ~
The water in the Mississippi and Mime
sofa RiyeIs is SO low that fears are enter
tanned that large portion Of this years
wheat crop viii have TO be stored In the State
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