Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-17
vARIE TIES.

The population of Nashville, Tenn, ac-
cording to the last census, is 1920.
Dickens has produced thirty ght success
i've works in twenty-five years.
A pretty young girl of respectable parents,
has been shop-lifting at Peoria, Ill.
Laura Keene is about to revive Gays
famous BeggarS' Opera; she playing "Polly."
Rev. J. Culpepper, after preaching SER
mon in Jasper County, Miss, took dinner
and died in his chair.
The general reports sent in from all quar-
tiers to the Board of Health, on the Sd inst,
show that the health of Havana is excellent.
Charles D. Wheeler, young printer re-
Gently from Kansas, died day or two ago,
of consumption, in st. Louis.
The number of deaths resulting from the
Globe steamship disaster, on Lake Michigan,
is already fourteen IL =, -r--- ~r,-.s-
The man in pursuit of a fortune, fire.
quently does not succeedin lighting on the
first SCENT
A person being presented with a new hat,
declared he was ogef head and ears gratiied
for the present. -a ......--.
A company has been formed in Norwich,
Conn, with capital of $50, 900, to work the
gold mine on Wewacus Hill, in that town.
Chevalier Bunsen, the distinguished Prus-
sian sdvan and politician, is very danger
ously ill.
A breach-loading revolver to fire sixteen
times, has been invented by DR.. Butler, of
Marietta, Ga. 1.
At late election there were twenty-seven
towns in Massachusetts, which returned each
| but one Breckenridge vote. .
George P. Fisher, NJ. G. elect from Della
| ware, was private secretary to John NJ. Clay
ton when the latter was Secretary of State.
Fourteen venerable citizens of the town of
,Ledyard, N. Y, voted on Tuesday, whose
average ages were eighty years. ed--srys5s
One million bushels of oysters, in the
shell, are sold, and the same number opened,
annually, at Fair Haven, Conn.
A day of national thanksgiving for the
abundant harvest is to be proclaimed in
Canada.
An impious editor at the West being pre-
sented with q Bible, returned thanks for the
most successful literary work of art ever
produced. ....... ..-.-..v
The Princess Mathilde, cousin of the EN-
peror, has, like Pauline, another member oi
the Bonaparte family, been sitting nude tc
an artist for her picture.
Rev. Charles B. Parsons, the actor-preachel
and "Roaring Ralph Stackpole" of diyines
has aban doned the Methodist for the Episco
pal Church.
The young Irish poet, VIM. Allingham, il
complimented by Chas. Kingsley and Rober
Browning as the most gifted son OF sons
among the rising bards. ... .,.-..
DR.. Earl Bill, aged ninety years, who votet
for General Washington, also exercised tn,
right of suffrage at the late election at San
dusky, in this State. ,-
The profits of the Spanish Bank of Hayan
for the last month were equal to ST so pc
500 of the capital, or $2l 60 per $lOO for tn
year.
A beautiful silk flag has been sent to Ex
Governor Wise from Richmond, Va, to b
presented to him as chief of the Minute-mel
of Princess Anne County.
The original MSS. of Burns's immorta
"Scots Wha Hae" was to be sold, wit
other relics, at auction, in London, on tn
10th instant. 1
After spending part of the autumn in Scot
land, Thomas Carlyle has returned to Che
sea, and is completing his great histories
work. ..F f'<aa
If Lincoln only had the power Of Kings
granting titles, he should give Bennett, {
the New York Herald, the title of Baron Iii
big. -.aLCO-- --rr- ..-L
boy, did you let off that gun2' exclaime
an enfaged schoolmaster. Z" Yes, master
: "Well, what do you think will do to youi
"Why, let me off," ---
, An Irishman who had blistered his fnge
by endeavoring to draw ON a pair of boot
exclaimed, " / believe shall never get the
on till ! have worn them day or two."@
: AT Waukau, Wis. a canine panic prevail
on account of the appearance of hydrophob
: there, and all the dogs in town have bee
ruthlessly slaughtered.
II 1t has been ascertained that the murdere
girl, taken from Detroit River a few day
ago, was, Adelaide Sparks, the wife Of a n
gro, who had murdered her in fit of jea
ousy. - ts.'-t
\ Whoever shall marry some of our mattel
hnnting yonng women, and place them
domestic establishments, will "give to all
nothings local habitation and ahame.n
/, RKvIvAEAED EXECUTION OF PRETENDI
| CORPSE Levi Durbin. formerly OF DaVe