Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-08-06
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The. number of deaths in. New Orleans
week before last was 49,
Forty thousand dollars WAS lately paid fot
Holman Hunts last picture
The Vicksburg Whig, of late date, an!
nounees the death of Hon. David Gibson, OF
that county, ~ ~ -.e9 h2iA tAay !
A new Catholic chapel to be called tSt,
Mary's Star of the Ses,'t is about to be
erected at Old Point Comfort, Va
The residence of John 5Schlecht, near
Peoria, Ill, was struck by lightning, on
Saturday, and burned to the ground.
The farming community in the Claysville
district in Harrison County, KY, are losing
all their hogs by hog cholera.
Some politician says that the design OF
+ Douglasin fBiting Niagara lately, was 70 acl
custom hiuiself to great falls. 8 III IEl
Rev DIR. Thompson has conoluded to accept
sthe Presidency OF the Lynchbufg CVa Col
lege.
A boy recently took a rattle-snake's skin
to Indianapolis, which is said to have been
eighteen feet long ,TARa .yMHOvg
Thirty caulkers and spinners were taken
into the Portsmouth Nayy-yard on Tuesday
iast' '&"IEA 1aDW w tNH
An Agricultural Fair will be held in Lew
isburgi on the 10th, Both and 3lst of August
next. 90" 'e- ''
Frost was seen in several parts of East
Hampden, Maine, near Bangor, few nights
Islnce9i }kHi N T. 8HOldI tdj4eji
q The census Of Wilmington, Delaware, shows
a apopulation Of 2l,2241an increase Of 7,245
since 1850. '' ''' ''-'''''' 't ~
Arthur Murray and three of his sons all
died Of detiriunl tremens during the past twelve
months, near Albany, New York. ,.3
u. One day last week, e., L. Davidson, of
!. Washington County, KY, sold to DIR. Shan
non, of Boyle County, forty-twol mules, at
$l22 per head. u ~ afel row i'raa
In Brazil there are several thriving colonies
of Germans, where all is order, prosperity,
and happiness. u These colonies were estab-
Ished about 1850. ags1 ar la- 40 n.
The Baltimore police have arrested the
man who stole the Japanese swords, and ii is
asserted that he knows their whereabouts
now. -,'.,...t +t,,- ... ,.,s ri .,sa
l Among other writers who will shortly
print new papers in the Atlantic Monthly, are
Mrs. H. b. Stowe, Longfellow, Hawthorne,
Emerson and Charles Reade. ff""
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The western wing Of the Girard House,
Philadelphia, comprising the whole Of the
four-story part, is now entirely lighted with
water-gas, manufactured on the premises.
Two belligerent fire companies in New
York. City, Thirteen" and "Twenty-one,"
have been disbanded by order, for their riot
on the Sd of July, by which six men were
wounded. at 1t' h,i' i''''A
Mr.. Wellington, of the Charleston rs. O.
Courier, is now supposed to be the oldest liv-
ing editor in America having commenced
the Courier sixty years ago. HIIa ajT9h9
"a fight is u come off between bear and
seven bull dogs, at the White Sulphur
Springs, on the LIST of August. This is bear
barous sport. .-.+,-. o..
A young man, jacob Uncks, while out
cunning on Saturday last, near Eldrod's
Ferry, Birmingham Penn, was instantly
killed by the accidental discharge of his
gun. q aSii
On Saturday the four-mill of Samuel
Ranck, in Lancaster County, Penn. was de-
stroyed by fire, with large amount of grain.
A son of Mr.. Ranek was burned to death
The Honorable William Preston, of Ken
lucky, Minister to Spain, will sail from New
York, on his return to Madrid, on the 9th
instant .,d. s.lshu I.s tuEI ~ ahf Z. .actsA
N -I-t,-sj n 10 ga .t.lu aiI irmugn1 500
A little boy seeinga drunken man prostrate
before the door of groggery, said to the
proprietor, "See here, sir, your sign has, fallen
down. h9 ''l
Alfred Heith threw nitric acid into the
face of girl, Mary Stevens, the other night,
in ST, Louis, burning and dishguring her
shockingly. q +..r "a .aIa ast
The Charleston Is. C) Mercury proposes to
the owners of the Great Eastern to 20 into
the slave-uade. ''Ten thousand negroes at
a trip; only think oft r ias.s5N seisn4t
1t is said ship is being built 1T Cherbourg,
France, with some new invention, 80 as to be
able to go at the rate of ftwenty-four miles an
hour' abis 9psei siiara ta.t usllaia9 tpr'
The census men have figured up the popu-
lation Of Philadelphia Penn. at e650oQ0, Al
banyi n. Y. at 10000, and Pittsburg, Penn.
at 100000. 81 Fgiig -
| In his encounter with the "Idle Boy," q
ferocious horse that ne lately tanned, in Lon
don, Rarey had large piece torn out of his
coat sleeve by the teeth Of the vicious animal.
L A woman named Haring, was, wantonly
land lbrusaily assaplted nem' Eolumbus, in this
State, on Friday, iand fatally injured by a
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