Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-11
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The Emperor of Austria is likely to make
a sojourn Of three months in Paris very soon.
A railroad from Nice to Genoa has been
projected by the French Government.
A little child four years old died in Wheel
ing, Va, last week, from eating dried apples
The Legislature of Rhode Island adjourned
on Friday, after a session of four days.
Thursday night last an attempt was made
to fire the Office of the Lynchkurg Virginian,
in that city.
Arthur Haslup was fatally shot at Freder-
icksburg, Va, last week, by a man named
Seth Montgomery.
Sydney Webster of Boston, is to be married
in New York, this week, to the daughter of
ex-United States Senator Hamilton Fish.
A female negro slave, while she was labor
ing under the effects of anger and liquor,
drowned herself last week, in st. Louis, Mo.
VIM. Coleman, an old and highly respect
able citizen of Texana, Texas, died suddenly
of lockjaw, few days ago.
A young woman of Iowa Township, Wis.,,
named Mary Letner, committed suicide by
hanging herself few days since.
Two cases of yellow fever, brought from a
port in the West Indies, have been received
at the New York Quarantine this week.
The Empress mother of Russia, now at
Nice will, it is said, remove to Fontainbleau
during the summer months.
The Prince of Wales, during his visit to
Niagara, will be lodged at the charming resi-
dence of the late Mr.. Zimmerman.
Ann Mahoney severely scalded her sister,
Mary, with hot water, in Albany, N. Y,
during violent quarrel day or two since.
During May the quantity of coal received
at Alexandria, Va, was twenty-one thousand
nine hundred tuns.
A large stable was burnt in Troy, N. Y,
few nights since. Eight horses were con-
sumed in the fire, and nine rescued in
dreadfully burnt condition.
Cotton blooms are the subject of frequent
notices in Alabama, Georgia, Texas and some
other Southern States. The crop appears to
promise well.
''There is no little enemy" man either
hates you with all his heart or don't hate you
at all. This hating little is good deal like
blowing up powder mill little.
VIM. D. Young, shoe merchant, and one of
the Oldest and most esteemed citizens of Ports
mouth, Va, died suddenly on Thursday morn
| ing.
The editor of the Cedar Keys (Fla) Tele-
graphate watermelons, a few days since, and
they had then been plenty on the coast for
more than week.
The speech of Senator Sumner-twelve
| columns long-was furnished in manuscript
to the New York Herald and Tribune before
| it was delivered.
| The brig Trenton, which arrived at Salem,
Mass, recently, from Sierra Leone, brought
| five more boa-constrictors, which were in
demand before the vessel touched the wharf.
There must be splendid trout fishing in
Broome County, New York. +. q. Baker, Il
hotel-keeper in Lisle, few days ago, caught
three hundred and fifty trout in six hours.
The Niagara Falls IN. " Gazette says a
Mr.. Thomas Bateman, up the river, has a Gu
cumber in his garden, oUer tt0o feet and a halt
in length, and only five weeks from the bud.
Twelve per cent. year is the steady divi-
dend upon the stock of the New Jersey Rail
road, and this, the company say, they realize
from the local travel alone.
The New York Tribune gives the names Of
nine vessels which have sailed from New York
since the beginning of this year. and gone to
Africa for cargoes of slaves.
A child of F. Bowlie, eighteen months old,
in Westboro', Mass, fell into boiler of water
the other day, and was instantly scalded to
| death.
The Academy of Sciences of Paris has
elected Herr Ehremberg, of Berlin, to the
place of associate, vacated by Humboldfs
death.
| The Board of Education at Chicago have
adopted Worcester's Dictionary as standard
authority, in its department, in the schools
of that city. @
A young and pretty, but unfortunate girl,
Maria Cassidy, hung herself with her garter
in one of the cells in a New York station
house on Wednesday. ....,.
| Pilots fees on the Potomac River have
Just been fixed at 81 26 on all vessels spoken
at the mouth of the river, or at Alexandria,
Va.
The Royal Society of London, at a recent
meeting, elected Prof. A. D. Bache, superin-
tendent of the United States Coast Survey, a
foreign member of the Society. 49,
Last Monday, at New Orleans, the ther-
mometer in the shade is reported to have
stood at 98 degrees, and at Charleston, South
Carolina, the same day, as high as so.
A vile brothel kept by an African harri-
dan, was mobbed in st. Louis, NO., a night
or two since, and the negresses with their
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