The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1860-01-28
PEN AND SCISSORS.

o1n FEN AND SCkSSOkSs
rs-Ths Philadslphisns are enjoying the
French comic opera.
es-A party Of gentlemen have started
from Providence, RI, on an expedition to
Arizona.
E% During last year eight hundred and
twenty seven deaths occurred in Memphis,
Tennessee. H" ar
G8A rabbit, which weighed when dressed,
seven pounds and quarter, was shot recently
near Tsneytown, Md.
| .l8-An infant was suffocated few weeks
since while asleep in cradle at Norfolk, Eng
land, by cat crouching upon Its body.
G@-The House of Representatives Of Ala
bama recently passed, by large majority, a
bill to charter Bank in Mobile.
9s-The Revised Code, which has just gone
into operation in Maryland, has put an end to
lotteries and lottery ticket selling in that State.
ls-Love is much habit. Cease to enter
tain it and its spell vanishes-though the ap-
titude remain long. Bio
g8-When friendship Is warmost, be care
full how you entertain it. Remember 1t has
cold shoulder. tH .FF
Ng DISAPPOINTMENT is the sorrOwful child
Of the elate hope. We all experience the
birth.
NS- Charles Starr, sr., one of the three
original founders of the American Bible So
ciety, died at Orange, N. j., last week.
Me-Mrs. Mary Romaiue committed suicide
by poison night or two since, in New York,
on account Of dissatisfaction with married
life.
Gs-A member of the Church of England
is said to have given $1,000 toward erecting
the Rev. Mr.. spurgeon's new chapel in Lon
don.
NB-A Massachusetts man, named Seayer.
has been expelled from South Carolina on a
charge Of preaching abolition sermons to the
slaves.
Ng-A sugar plantation was purchased in
St, Jamts's Parish, La, fow days ago, by Mr..
Burnside, q dry goods merchant of New Or
leans, for $5O0,000.
Ng-T The Philadelphia Ledger says that pas
senger railroads have been so multiplied in
that city that very few of them pay the cost Of
operating them. u.,, s
N@-The Washington Star says that in the
south part Of the eastern wards club of youths
has been organized under the title of "Black
Snakes" for the worst purpose.
g@Wm. Mulligan, the shoulder. hitter, has
been committed to the Toombs, in New York.
in default of 81 900 bail, for attempting to
shoot . police officer.
GTA pretty young lady, telegraph operator
from an inland town, was in Utica, N. Y.
recently, and saw a railroad train, track, depot,
&C., for the first time in her life.
gs-The New York Sunday Courier learns
that all hope of the recovery of Mr.. Burton,
the comedian, has been abandqned, and that
his death is almost momsntarily expected.
Gs- The latest London papers say that
Prince Albert is suffering from "swelled
body" 1t is not unnatural that tho husband
of Queen Victoria should be SO afflicted.
Large cakes of silver are getting TO be
quite common in San Francisco. A lump
about two feet in diameter may be seen in the
show-window offs jewelry establishment there.
@s-An Irishman, named John O'Day,
drank tumbler full of gin at Blossburg,
Penn, few days ago, and died in few min
utes afterward.
NEWm! Fl. Parsons, Of Lawrence, Mass,
committed suicide at Boston, few days since.
He was twenty. eight years Of age, and for
merly Clerk Of the Police Court.
Gs-A young fop about starting down to
Now Orleans, proposed to purchase life pre-
server. "0h, you'll not want It," suggested
the clerk, "bags of wind don't sink"
gr "Alas, and alack day" is gener.
ally considered an expression Of grief; trav-
eler in the East Indies says, however, that q
lass and lac a day "ain't bad to take"
@ss- One contented with what he has done
stands but small chance Of becoming famous
for what he will do. He has lain dow1 to
die-the grass is already growing over him.
@S- The Newburyport, Mass, Railroad car
ried seven hundred and thirty cases of shoes,
or about forty thousand pairs, from Haverhill
to Boston, Q day or two ago, consigned to one
Of the South Carolina disunionists.
MS- Resolutions have been submitted in
the Virginia Legislature, proposing the call of
recommend measures Of self-defense and pro-
lection.
Ess- It Is stated that there have been over
81 4,000, 900 worth of scrip issued by the Post
Office Department. One man, It is said, holds
two millions of this scrip, purchased at 80
cents.
NDA gang Of young men, organized as q
band Of thieves, and including members of |
somo of tho most respectable families in the |
city, has been discovered in New Haven,
Connecticut.
N4- Kanfkolz, the gay Lothairo in Chicago,
who, after being shot by Williams for the great |
intimacy with his wife, ran away with her
while her husband was in jail, has not turned |
up as yet, though, It is said, Mrs. w. has.
GREAT DAYS LABoR.--0ne Of the great
est feats Of manual labor ever achieved within
our knowledge, says the Reading (Penn.) Ga
ssste, was performed on Friday by Mr.. Thomas
Rambo, blacksmith, Of this city. During the
u.us1 vvavkiu0 hotIra that Ii froryn aavon A |