Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-09-22
TRAINS ARRIYR.
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The dead are the only people tnat never |
grow old.
A rainbow by moonlight was seen at |
Va, few nights since.
The Republicans at Occaquan, Va, have
erected another pole in the place of the one
lately cut down.
Spencer @. Jones, of Frederick, Md, lost a
valuable young slave last week, having been
crushed to death by thrashing-machine.
An avaricious man is like a sandy desert,
that sucks in all the rain but yields no fruit
full herbs to the inhabitants.
The Duke of Newcastle has written aletter
to Ex-President Fillmore that the Prince of
Wales will be unable to visit Buffalo.
The Board of Stock Exchange in New
York have subscribed $54O to the Garibaldi
fund.
The Philadelphia Agricultural Society offer
premiums for the quickest walking horses
and oxen, with and without loads.
Gerrit Smith is said to be dividing prop
erty to the value of 100000 among five de-
voted relatives.
One thousand pounds sterling has recently
been offered in London for complete set of
the Times newspaper, but without success.
Difference between Persian and Turk.
One worships the sun, and the other the
daughter.
W.D. Marrast, for twenty-five years post
master in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, committed
suicide few days since. Cause unknown.
The revenue of Sardinia is G6,829, 1888, and
the expenses flO,Ol8,5eS showing a deficit
of f3, lS6,S50.
The oldest person in the city of Worcester
MASS, is Michael Quirk, a tailor, who is l02
years old, and has wife 9S
Many persons cavilat high and mean things
alike Just as dog barks with equal earnest
ness at the moon and beggar.
In Warren County, N. c., man is now
residing, whose mother was sixty years old
at the time of his birth.
John Cleveland and his wife were poisoned
in Flint, Michigan, recently, by taking
strychnine prepared for mice.
A cockney's order "Enry, take the ar
ness hoff the 'oss, put the alter hover lis
'ead, hand give i'm 'ay hand hoats."
A woman in Nashville, Tenn, killed her
baby on Tuesday night by pouring whisky
down its throat.
The hucksters of Baltimore are selling
sweet potatoes by weight, in accordance with
the new Maryland code. tr
Myers, the Houston deer-hunter, saws he
has killed 5000 deer in the last nine years,
on the Houston prairies.
Rochester, N. Y, has the largest nursery
in the world, covering 800 acres, each acre
averaging 10000 trees and plants.
A mile of cars, full of grain, is waiting just
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| be delivered. This is a usual Circumstance.
The rowdies in Baltimore have become so
bold of late that it has been found necessary
to arm each member of the police force with
a revolver.
A good country minister in Northern
village, lately prayed fervently for those of
his congregation who were too proud to
kneel and too lazyto stand.
The Baptist Church at Sellersburg, Indi-
ana, took FIRE and was burned down the other
night. 1t was evidently the work of an in
cendiary.
ASK thy purse what thou shouldst buy"
| We asked ours, the other day, what we
! should buy, but echo most perversely didn't
answer "buy" at all. ~ &
The extensive shoe mandatory, of E. &
A. Nudge, of Danvers Center, Mass, was
robbed, on Sunday night, of over one thous-
and dollars worth of goods.
A court martial in st. Louis, is trying
Maj Daniel T. Whiting, of the Seventh In
fantry, U. S. A., for unoficer-like conduct
in an indecent exposure of his person.
Gen. Cass recently presented to Method
ist Society of Detroit, three lots of land worth
$4,000, on which they will erect a church
this season.
The Sandwich Islanders try out their
dead horses, and get half barrel of oil from
each horse, which is said to be equal to
sperm.
The population of Baltimore will not reach
100000 people. There are $4,000 vacant
houses there, and also a great falling off in
manufacturing industry.
New cotton is pouring into Galveston in
a perfect torrent The growth of cotton
since the rains has been such as greatly to
encourage the planters in the hope Of q
second crop.
Samuel Fox, an Englishman, of Middle
town, N. Y, got on a spree on Sunday last
and on Monday evening beat his wife sc
badly that her life was endangered. Fol
fed. -
The wine crop of France is very poor thii
season, and the opinion is that it will fal
short of the last one. Vines are all affected
by the oidium, in the south of Franco, prin
cipally. EE rtf
A woman in New York, recently, caused
the arrest Of daguerreotypist, who ha(
taken her picture and exposed it in public
place, with a card asking the whereabouts 0
the original.
A son of David Decatur, of Bennington
y. ~ was attacked, on Saturday, with by
drophobia, and died on Sunday evening
Some two months before the boy was bittel
by dog W gFWHA ~
Barney Williams's real name Is OFlaherty
A New Orleans editor calls him a theatrica
balloon, and says-swe should like ono
more to rip him open and let his gas OUT