Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-19

XARIR TIMs.

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Wits best function is to minister to wis
dom.
For the last quarter, the revenue Of France
has decreased 100000.
The Catholic Church in Carlisle Penn,
was entirely destroyed by fire on Sunday
evening.
1t is a current belief that wolf is never
more dangerous than when he feels sheep
ish.
Why is any thing reconsidered accounted
"proftable2 y Because it is considered
again. f
1t is reported at Paris that the Italian
part of Lamoriciere's army abandoned him
early in the action. 4s area r
There were forty-one deaths in Charleston,
s. O., last week, of which only on was from
yellow fever.
The works of Thomas Hood have been sue
cessfully translated into German by Mr.. H.
Harrys, of Hanover.
Leotard, the brilliant trapeze performer of
the Paris circus, has been engaged in Lon
don, for one year, at salary of $4,000.
There are forty acres of vineyard in forty
miles of Chattanooga, Tennessee, pro-
ducing 10000 gallons of wine per annunn.
Hon. John P. King, of Augusta, Georgia,
has been elected President of the Augusta
and Milledgeville Railroad. r,--
Three negroes, connected with the late
insurreetionary troubles in Talladega, Ala,
were hanged on Friday, the 4th inst.
There is no truth in the story that Stew
arts dry-goods establishment, in New Y ork,
is to be converted into lager-beer saloon.
The deaths in New York City, last week,
numbered 1856, an increase of nineteen over
the corresponding week of last year.
- Barnum's Museum, New York, narrowly
escaped destruction on Wednesday night,
one Of the transparencies taking fire.
The loss to the Pittsburg and Cleveland
Railroad, by the destruction of their engine
house at Manchester, win not exceed SIC, 900.
The Auburn IN. " Prison, during the
fiscal year which has just closed, has earned
a surplus of $4,000 over expenses.
A new town, to be called "virginia City,"
has been laid out near Portsmouth, Va, by
a company of capitalists.
The Norwegians are raising money to
build college in Iowa. Twenty thousand
dollars have already been raised for this
purpose. ....r
An unfortunate cripple, of Pittsburg,
Penn, committed suicide on Tuesday, by
throwing himself before railroad train, in
st. Louis. -,.sHT
A jury, in Detroit, Mich, has rendered a
verdict of $4,000 damages against Robert
Edwards, farmer of Greenfield, Mich, for
accomplishing the ruin of Elizabeth Reed, a
girl of fifteen. tt
A law is before the Haytien Senate to
perpetually exile Salomon, Ex-Minister of
Finance under Soulouque and now with
him in Jamaica. e E.f D
Rev. Henry Grafton Guinness, the cler-
ical BORE was recently married in Dublin,
Ireland, to Miss Fitzgerald, niece of Lord
Fitzgerald. '.....' ..-. az b.
John Bell, the Union candidate for Pres
idency, was recently hung in effigy in Jack
son, Miss. The people there must be bell
hangers.
The Omaha papers say that the bankers
of that city are purchasing about ten thou
sand dollars worth of dust per week from
returned Pixies Peak miners.
Michael Cummings, driver of street car
died of hydrophobia in New Orleans on
Sunday, having been bitten a few days be-
fore by his own dog. -ft f--
The Norfolk (Va.) Day Book says that
Gov. Wise, of Virginia, is engaged on the
Eastern Shore to defend two negroes, who
are accused OF running eff slave.
If a merchant manages to get his stock
without paying for it, you had better not
believe him when he sdvertises to sell under
cost.
A little girl about five years old, daughter
Of Mr.. John Gilmore, of Providence, Rhode
Island, was burned to death, Saturday, her
clothes having taken fire. rasF ar sla.E
Shields grist and saw-mill, at Hale's Cor
ners, Milwaukee County, Wis., was de.
stroyed by fire on Friday night. Loss Sc, ,0OO
no insurance. = II ST - n II -
In few days two army posts one at Los
Lunas and the other at the Pawnee Reserv.
alton, will be broken up, in compliance
with orders from the War Department.
A detachment of United States Dragons
left New York City few days since, to re-
enforce the troops concentrating at Carlisle
for Oregon.
]. W. Booth, an actor, was accidentally
though not fatally shot, with pistol in the
hands of Mat Canning, the manager, at Co
lumbus, Ga, a few days ago.
f.
II wasn't etiquette to invite the Empress tC
the Duchess d Alba's funeral in Paris. Mar.
riage to the sovereign destroys Relationship
| It seems.
A new shawl-pin has been invented in New
York. It displays the Princes feathers, Will
the motto, HIeh dieR.N Very appropriate
" serve" to fasten the garment! -'-'sl. I
The Prince ofWales doesn't crook his elbow
AT Mount Vernon Mr.. Washington rendered
him a genuine glass of cold rye" The
Prince merely tasted it and set it aside.
The other day John Krouse, of Green
| Township, in this State, committed suicide
by throwing himself on the track of the
Peru, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad. =
The illinois State Penitentiary had mar.
row escape on Sunday. A fire broke out a
Joliet, in the engine-house, entirely con,
sUming the roof and all the Woodwork.
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