Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-09
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Inc pOpuldtlOn OF NEW OfleaIlSt Dy luS
late census, is stated at 10, 766,
On Saturday the remains of Mr.. Ingram,
one of the Lady Elgin victims, were shipped
from Quebec to England.
A choir of the pupils of the public schools
is to assist at the reception of the Prince Of
Wales in Boston.
A young man in Taunton, Mass, last
week, ran half mile in two minutes and
forty seconds.
A woman named Lucretia Adams was
murdered by slave, in Pitt County North
Carolina, few days since. q lr
Stephen McFadden recently died in PEN
sacola, Florida, his physicians state, from
excessive smoking.
The French Government thinks of making
postage-stamps current in payment of taxes
and other sums due the State Treasury.
One night last week, U. S. Treat of East
port, Me-, caught in his weirs 100 hogsheads
of herring, and secured the entire lot
An entire family was recently poisoned by
eating largely of cheese, in Albany, N. Y,
but they all recovered.
Jesse Trammell and wife, residing near
Greenville, s. G., are los and LOG years old,
and in vigorous health.
An eronaut ascended at Purdy, Penn,
last week, with goose, and when among
the clouds threw it out the fowl alighting
without injury.
Much fear is felt at the continued decline
of Nantucket. Her harbor is gradually fill
ing up. and the whaling business partially
stopped.
douglas, DEAR" said Douglas Jerrold's
wife, "do you think am generally bad tenn
pered2" "No, my dear,"' said he, II think
you are particularly So"
|. A deaf mute, about seventeen years old,
belonging in Burlington, Me-, disappeared
from steamboat a few weeks ago, and has
not since been heard from.
A Liverpool gentleman possesses a papy-
rus manuscript, written in Greek character,
portion of St. Matthew'S Gospel, bearing
the date of the first century.
The city of Paris has ordered the Pont
Louis Philippe and Pont de la Cite to be
pulled down and built anew, and a new
street built between them-cost $52O,00O.
Four sisters live in Nantucket, whose re-
spective ages are eighty, seVenty-two, sixty
nine and sixty years. They have sister in
Mattapoisett whose age Is eighty-seven.
Upward of thirty-fve thousand dollars
worth of gold, was taken out of single claim
(the Mt. Ophirl on the Tuolumne, in a
single day.
Tolland, Conn.,, with a population oi
1910, has eighty-two persons over seventy
years old, or one in every sixteen of the in
habitants.
| William Anderson, young Englishman
hanged himself in Albany County, New
York, one day last week, for disappointed
love. EE
| M. Dueroquet of Paris, has made improve.
ments in large organs, by which the labor o.
playing is very much reduced, and thrown
on the bellOws-bloWer.
Fifty thousand pounds have been expended
| by the English Government in the purchase
| of works of art in the South KensingtoI
Museum for the past twenty-five years.
q, A valuable exhibition of the works o
French artists of the last century is nov
going on at Paris, contributions being mad
from private collections for charitable pur
poses.
During the first seven months of this yeal
204, 600, 600 pounds of cotton were IMPORTS
at Paris, against LOG, 100000 pounds durin
the same period of 1859.
The wife OF Stephen a. douglas, recentl.
contributed $500 toward the erection of
Catholic Theological Seminary in Cleveland
in this State.
An Arabian philosopher once said: 20 Goo
be kind to the wicked to the good thou has
already been sufficiently kind, in makin
them good.
Life-preserving trunks have been in
vented, and a raft made by lashing then
together, is said to be capable of riding ou
almost any storm.
A student, j. f. Hughes, of South Carolin
College, at Columbia, shot himself recently
because he was unable to stand his examina
tion.
The Eastern papers state that party c
Douglasites beat "Wide-awake" to deatl
the other day, at Johnstown, Penn, withou
the least cause.
Typhoid fever of a peculiarly obstinat
and malignant species, is prevalent, bot
in the diggings and the valleys Of Pike
Peak.
If either Lincoln or Douglas had been eX
hibited in England, when at the age of tn
Prince of Wales, as the future President {
this country, would there have been sen
sation2