The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1860-02-09
PEN AND SCISSORS.

RICHMOND AND DIsDIANAPoLIs.-6:O0A. A. NJ; $40 p. n.
PEN AND SCISSORS.
.@gThs Mayor of Springfield, Mass, calls
for general vaccination of that city.
GS-An Indian near Kingston, Canada,
lately captured pure milk-white doe.
gG-Ths smallpox is prevailing to serious
extent in Powell County, KY; some forty or
fifty cases being reported. '
&s-A son of Douglass Jerrold has recently
made his sppearance, with success, as leo
turer, in London.
Gs-The Commissioners Of Maine propose
to erect new State Prison with two hundred
aud fifty cells, at cost of $125,OOO.
gG-The Gloucester Mass News says thet
couple have just been married in that town,
after c0urtship of thirty years! .5
~A negro girl was burnt to death day
or two since in Memphis, Tenn by her
clothes taking FIRE from CRATE.
lyA fruit dealer in Rochester is sending
scores Of tuns Of dried apples to South Amer
ica. ff".
EgJohn T. Ellis, an old citizen of Tippe-
canoe County, Ind, is the father Of twenty
one children. Heaven pity him!
Gg-Two negroes got into fight at Xenia,
the other night. One of whom drew O knife
and stabbed tho other mortally.
@-The deaths in st. Louis last week were
sixty five, being smaller number than dur
ing any week for year previous.
M9-A branch of the Bank Of Tennessee at
Clarksville, was robbed on Thursday night of
1882, mostly in gold.
Mg- Mr.. John Higdon, q soldier in the
Mexican war, and wsll-known citizen of
Alexandra, Va, died in that city on Sunday.
Me- Seven sailors, in uniform, we're bap
tised in the Delaware River, at Philadelp phia,
on Saturday last. ....
g8- A premium of $3.50 is offered for the
best plan Of paid fire. department in Phila-
delphia.
0B-It has been we'll said of the home of
the scolding wife, that "It's bad house
where the hen crows louder than the cock"
~-ArIady pisnist.of great talent, named
Nine. Sarvady, formerly Mile Clauss, has
commenced series Of concerts at Paris.
@g-The Independent says that the spring
business in New York was never larger, and
that the influx Of Southern buyers is greater
than ever.
NEThe students of the South Carolina
College, at Columbia, have come out in suits of
gray kerseys, made at the mills of firm in
that city.
N&>Th Italian opera at Vienna, which
was closed by the government after the Ital-
ian war, is shortly to be allowed to reopen
again.
NS Fred. Douglass says he could "hang
upon the interest of 'Uncle Toms Cabin for
hours" He can hang upon something much
more substantial by visiting Virginia.
@-AlittIe son of George Porter, of Ports.
mouth, Va, was SO badly burnt recently, by
his clothes taking fire, that he died of his in
juries.
l8-M. Strakosch having taken offense at
something one Of the Boston editors said du-
ring his recent opera season there, had fight
with him and was worsted.
s-A dealer in lottery policies in Washing
ton, D. G., has been convicted of selling policy
tickets and sentenced to one months impris-
onment and fine of 500.
NrTbe Grand Rapids mich. salt springs,
recently discovered, have been ascertained by
experiment to yield rs per cent. of pure salt,
or one bushel Of salt to barrel Of water.
M@-The Virginia Volunteers, serving at
Harpers Ferry and Charlestown, will receive
$11 per month, or thirty-six cents per day for
the number Of days served.
N@Sixty-tun cranes, worth about $14, 900
each, ere being erected at some Of the prinoi-
pal ports in England, for the shipment Of
heavy machinery and goods.
MgThe Cleveland Herald understand ds that
the recent difficulties at Kenyon College have
been settled, and the classes have returned to
theis duties.
M@On Friday night last the house Of
Luther Briggs, near Delhi, N. Y, was CON-
sumed by FIRE, and FIVE children perished in
tho flames.
N8- The great Indian river, the Ganges, ID
to be regularly nsvigated by steamboats,, aud
two Of noble size, intended for that service
are new in progress Of construction in Eng
land.
NO. Charlotte Cushman will return To this
country in the spring, and Miss Stebbins, the
sculptor, will accompany her. Letters from
Roms speak very highly Of Miss Stebbins'i
works.
MS-0n Saturday last, near Aberdeen, in
Indiana, two mon, named Leatherbury and
Fraikes, got into quarrel about cutting down
q tree, whom Lsatherbury shot Fraikes with a
gun, killing him instantly.
Ms-some Of tho critics Of Paris are very
severe on the new italian opera of Signol
Brsga, "Margharita Ia Mendiante," saying
that II contains the worst faults of the modern
italian style. '
SKATING MATCH. "A skating match for q
prize Of $40, came off at Groton, Mass, last
Saturday, on the Nashua River. The distance
was fifteen miles, and was skatsd in the shor,
time Of sixty.hye minutes. by Mr.. III. A.