The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1860-01-12
PEN AND SCISSORS.

@ The city debt of Boston is about So, ,750,-
900. '' a H'.aa. - =
III @ There are now 2ls vessels laid up at
Chicago. "' 'a'' X.
aeNavigations on the Hudson River has
been resumed. ieDFg.Gfsr nIv sflf
lgT There afe53 ships, o barks, z bries and
81 schoonsfs Fownsdin Nswburyport, Mass.
n@There are eight thousand paupers in the
almshOusss Of Now York City. ~ e F.
Gs- Idleness is public mint, where various
kinds of mischief arc coined.
4" gs- The world is sea, and life and death
are its ebbing and flowing.
Ng-A little son Of Harvey PsddIeford re-
siding near Canandaigua, N. Y, was killed by
ram on Friday last.
N8-Gen. John B. Plauche, gallant veto
ran and much esteemed citizen of New Or
leans, died last week in that city. m
prOn Saturday evening an aged woman
in Philadelphia, named Curry, met with q
fearful and agonizing death from camphene.
g@-Msry Alden, deaf woman, seventy
years Of age, was killed by q railroad train
near Hartford, Conn, last Monday.
Ms-The Mississippi and Missouri Railroad
will be completed to Marengo by the middle
Of February. " ~ . "H hs.i .ffu 8#T
} tND- Lord Palmerston has conferred pen
sion of 6l0O ($2,O0O) q year upon Miss PArdos,
the well known authoress. 4ai ii y,
@8-The editor of one of the weekly reli-
gious papers ofers to give his likeness to all
his patrons when they pay their bills NJ ..,,a
@D William Colling, an esteemed citizen Of
Temperanceviile, Penn, committed suicide o
few days since by hanging himself. '''' 'I
GrA boy, native of the Sandwich Is
lands, jumped overheard from vessel recently
and swan ashore, q distance Of twenty miles.
@@ The transportation Of convicts costs the
State of New York, annually, about twenty
five thousand dollars. y g. eg.t0
GH The number Of deaths in. New York,
last week, was four hundred and ffty-seven--
an increase of seventy -one over the previous
week. '...t l.. a,,...-,.I ',' ,"l 'n h
GS-A bark, painted yellow, from the coast
Of Africa, with the greater part Of her crew
dead, is reported to have been taken into
Kinsale by revenue cutter. .5.i5t IN. ,'.-.
@B- The Glasgow memorial to Lord John
Russell, relative to the approaching Congress
on the affairs of Italy, has received five thou
sand signatures. T 0.H
G4T The number of distinct operations re-
quired in the construction Of an Enfield rife,
are said to amount to seven hundred and sixty
nine. M1
NHr0nly two Irish emigrants landed at
Baltimore, Md, last year, o significant evil
dence of the appreciation Of the intolerance Of
that city by the sons of the Emerald Isle.
mrJoel T. Hart, the distinguished Ameri-
can sculptor, has just returned TO this county
from Florence, where he has spent some few
years. .~ rs .fIaIlhrl.D
Miss Ann McAllistsr, millinsr, aged
fifty years, was burned to death at Amissvills,
Rappahannock County, Va, on the Sd inst,
in consequence of her dress taking fire. rI
@rWm. Russell, the London Times cor
respondent, is said to have received 81, 500 for
his Indian Diary, from Messrs. Routledge,
the publishers.
@-The Maine law is nullity and farce
in Michigan. The papers of that State say
there has been great increase of drinking in
the past two years. ,sa''',, ,,'gI. Il .,
@sr Col. j. G. Fremont has obtained pos
session. of all the mines in California, adjudged
to him by decisions of the Courts without any
violent collision with adverse claimants.
N4-A bill passed both branches Of the Le-
gislatufe of South Carolina subscribing $3l0,-
900 for the purpose iof completing the Blue
Ridge Railroad to Walhalla.
gs-D Dennis McAvenny, the young man who
absconded from Boston, Q few days since,
has been arrested in Providencs, R.L5 HtA
Ne-Miss Annette Ince, the actress, has re-
turned to New York, after two years absence
Of professional success in California, Australia
and the Sandwich Islands.
ne Thursday, the. 18th day of November,
waa observed as public day Of Thanksgiving
in Liberia, agreeably to a proclamation BY
President Benson. ..ey 4..o..-,
M&rThe English papers report that Alfred
Tennyson received ten pounds line for his
poem "Sea-D Dreams" in the January number
Of Macmillon's Maqarine. b..
l8- Mrs. Maria L. Jones, wife Of Mr.. Jos.
II. Jones, worthy mechanic Of Danville,
Va, committed suicide in that place on Satur-
day last, by taking laudanum. "a ~
Ms- Mr.. Winslow M. Tribble, of Plymouth,
Mass, committed suicide recently by hanging.
He was fifty years old, and had occasionally
boon insane. 'hhAsg 9 sFGG s4taQp .
nNa- The Morse telegraph patent expires iu
1851, and will then be free to the public. II
will cause considerable extension Of telegraph
lines, and will give rise to good deal Of com
petition. I'd iiaiio11i fIa slsssigs ~ o.s.
ny s s-Antho,ny Trollopae, III. popular novelist,
has been appointed, Post.ofice Surveyor in
Essex, England. He IL O. son Of the famous
Mrs. Trollope, who, years ego, wrote the ab-
surd work On America. IAA ~ q dYAH q VI
Of as-small-pox was raging epidsmicslly at
last accounts 10 Paris. h A lovely countess
recently died Of tho disease. II she had sur
vivsd the attack she would have sought death
by charcoal. -,.-.- ,...,, -, -. ,..,- ].
gs-The irst thirty miles from Hickman,
KY, on the Northarn Mississippi Railroad,
have been graded, and the track laying has
been already commenced and extended about
lalmile. .,a eqas1li!g s,is s4aig .NO9-Hgg /
ai gEs- lie Lord says that the Duke Of Modena
is about actually starting newspaper In the
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