The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1860-01-07
PEN AND SCISSORS.

gs-The Salem, Mass, harbor is frozen
tight with ice.
@5- Punch gives this as an American prov
erb-Sherry cobbler mends no shoes.
@EWhat is the worth of virtuous resolu-
tions that never ripen into actioni
Gs-The emigrants who arrived at the port
Of Baltimore last year numbered 3,513.
@B-The number Of marriage licenses issued
in Baltimore last year was 1866, an increase
of 81 over the previous year. l.ga 1i
@S- The Thermometer at tho White Noun
tains, December 2S, was from $50 to 3S0 below
zero. ,'. ~.
@-A man about forty years Of age, named
William Barrett, was found frozen to death
recently in the streets of Baltimore. r
&r"Three women and three geese make a
Market" according to the Italians, which is
equivalent, perhaps, to saying six geese.
@r"A woman's tongue is her sword, and
she does not let 1t rust though she live CEN
tury," is saying of the Chinese.
-A little girl, Lizzie Westfeld, was IA
tally burnt BY the explosion of a fluid lamp, in
Brooklyn, N. Y, day or two since.
GSIn Boston, last year, the total revenue
collected was $5,332 ,5O4 81, an increase over
the previous year of $992,05s So. nH
JET The number of deaths in New York
city during tho week ending Dec. 81, was
376-193 males and 1855 females.
NB- Lucinda Harris, negress, fell into the
fre in fit at Baltimore, recently, and was 80
shockingly burnt as to cause death shortly
after.
Gas- Wild Sports, by F. GerstaCher, trans
lation from the German, is denounced as an
Abolition book by the Montgomery (Ala.)
Mdil.
@s-sir VIM. Hamilton declared that "Med-
icine in the hands in which it is vulgarIy dis
blessing"
G- -Beaumarchais, in speaking of love,
makes Figaro utter the charming hyperbole
which has passed into proverb, "Too much
is not enough" rI4..
M8-The total number of American vessels
reported lost or missing during December
was 40 the total of the year, 402-the value
of which is set down at $5,599,0OO.
@-T The marriage licenses issued In Boston
last year numbered 1925, an increase over
1858 of 307-the frat increase for number Of
years. a.ri
HA foreign paper, states that Thaoke-
rays new CornhiN Magazine will have three
serial stories running at oncel A bad COM
mencement.
~John Clark, while intoxicated, was hor-
riby and fatally crushed, day or two since,
by a train of cars near Columbia, on the Penn
sylvania Central Railroad.
MS- Eight vessels are now in course of con-
struction at Newburyport and Salisbury, Mas
sachusetts, two ships, three barquss and a
fishing vessel.
l%Rev. DR.. 0sgood has married over one
thousand two hundred couples since his in
stallation as clergyman in Springfield, Mas
sachusetts, more than fifty years ago.
MS- The Emperor of Russia intends to
bring before the Congress the condition of the
Greeks in Turkey, and ask for their emanoi-
patton from Moslem oppression.
Ex-senator Seward has had quito an ova-
tion on his way to his home in Auburn, New
York, being greeted by fireworks, ringing of
bells, and the usual aooompaniments.
gEThe great surgeon, Sir Ashley Cooper,
did not soruple to svow that "the science Of
medicine was founded on conjecture and i'm
proved by murder" l1 SBees A nv On
MT The carriage mandatory Of Johnston
& Austin, in Cleveland, o., was destroyed by
Hre lately. Twenty-Five finished carriages
were burnt, and the loss was estimated at from
$4,000 to $4,000. -......t.
Mg-Phillip Lynch, the man who murdered
Coulton at Bordentown, N. j., about three
months ago, has been sentenced to be hung
at Mt. Hollsy on the 23d day Of March next.
Mg- The congregation of Rev. William A.
Bartlett, Of the Brooklyn IN. Y Tabernacle,
presented him, on Wednesday, with purse
containing $500 in gold as o mark Of their
esteem.
Mg-Lord Mansfield, who knew life and
lawyers, declared that if any man claimed o
Geld Of him, he would give 1t up, provided the
concession were kept secret, rather than en-
gage 10 proceedings at Law. ,s.i,traf5j ~.
N3< <Lepsius' great work on Egyptian and
Ethiopian Antiquities, has been presented by
order Of the King of Denmark, from the Great
Royal Library at Copenhagen, 10 the New
| York State Library. i9,1si5i rtq q
= nss- The New York and New Haven Rail-
Yosd Com pany have placed Helpers Impend-
| isq Grisis on their ;ndep erpurgatorius, having
forbidden the venders Of literature on their
line to sell that book. le
| M%Two new towns have been created in
Steuben County, New York, one from the
eastern part Of Bath, to be called Savons, and
one from the southern part Of Addison, to be
called Tuscsrors. aplu
~ Issssc N. Hawkins had quarrel with
John Crutoher, in Frankfort, KY, day or
two ago, during which the latter struck tho
other several times with brick, causing Il. to
stab q. 80 severely that he died in half an
hour. The survivor was examined and &C.