Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-05-07
VARIETIES.

Yellow fever is said to be prevailing at st.
Thomas.
It is much to be feared that ''the glass of
fashion, is the wine-glass.
Periodicals are the dead leaves that fertil-
ize the soil of literature. ...-
A violent storm of wind and rain prevailed
at Norfolk, Virginia, recently, doing much
damage. .r. --
John Hagan, soldier of the war of 1912,
died at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, few days
since. u
They have Pope, Mikado, in Japan, who
resides in the city of Mako, which is forbid
den ground to all foreigners.
A New Orleans surgeon complains, through
the newspapers, that he has been in attend
ance at fifteen duels where nobody was hurt.
Eight hundred acres of the New York In
dian lands in Kansas will be thrown into the
market in June.
The yard of the State prison at Auburn,
New York, has been laid out as fower-gar-
den; wise and humane act.
Thomas Pryor stabbed John Kennedy fa-
tally in a porter-house in Peekskill, New
York, ON Thursday last.
John o. Woodruff, a prominent merchant
of New Orleans, died last week from injuries
resulting from being thrown from carriage.
Putrid sore throat is prevailing to some
extent among children in Delaware in this
State.
The utmost efforts are being made to have
Sault Ste. Marie Canal open by the 18th Of
May.
The first car has been placed upon the horse
railway now being built in Milwaukee, Wis
| consin.
During recent storm in this State, a beau
tiful, large loon fell into the prisop-yard, al
Columbus and was caught.
The Paris MoniteT publishes decree re-
ducing by one centimetre the minimum hight
required in the army. Et..a tft
The proprietors of the Philadelphia Thea
ter had to pay Laura Keene $500 dam ages
for playing Or american Cousin.
New Orleans is particularly noted for the
original, fanciful, historical, NEUROLOGICAL
and generally poetical nomenclature Of her
| streets. . .-a-..... ...
A young and pretty seamstress, Eliza
Schryver, has disappeared mysteriously from
Watertown, N. Y. 1t is supposed she has
been abducted.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has passed 9
law preventing the sale of poisons, except
when ordered by physician. Such law
has existed in this State some time.
A boy eleven years of age named Charles
Danziger, was arrested in Canton, Ohio, re-
Gently, for setting fire to and destroying thre,
barns.
! The Boston correspondent Of a Canadi
pepper says, that since the Massachusetts dele
| CATION left for Charleston, the Puritan city
has been unusually quiet.
| Charles B. Acks, native of Norristown
Pennsylvania, and for many years employed
in the Philadelphia Inquirer office, died day
or two ago.
A Mrs. Funk, of Springfield, in this State
ran q needle into her foot, which struck
nerve, causing fever, and finally producing
death. ~, -4 ---rrt.a rH Z
/ A woman at St. Paul, Mimi, was milkinl
her cow, when the animal threw her hea'
around and her horn entering the woman
eye tore it out. ,.-..rt
Seth, one of the aead chiefs of the New
York tribes, died in Southern Kansas las
week. He has lived on the Little Usage 70
twenty years.
One hundred guns were fred, at Savannah
Georgia, in honor of the withdrawal of tn
Southern delegations from the Charleston
Convention. ...,..