Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-27
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A state of sickness is but partial life-as
a sick man is more or less dead.
The navigation is now open between Dun
kirk, N. Y, and the western ports of Lake
Erie, and steamers are running.
When Adelina Patti sang in 1.-THE Barber"
in Washington, one night last week, FIVE hun
dred persons were turned from the doors.
The New York Central Railroad has issued
orders for the construction of one thousand
freight cars, designed forcarrying wheat.
A well-kuown billiard amateur of Newark,
| N. j., made a run of three hundred and nine
points on Saturday.
Miss Helen Pike, young lady aged about
eighteen, died on the ballroom floor at Ia
berg, n. Y, on Friday morning last.
Barnum's Museum, in New York, was to
have been closed last Saturday, by reason of
certain clock debts. The Museum is as great
a humbug as its founder.
| The author of the "Lamplighter," Miss
| Maria s. Cummins, has sailed from Boston
for London, to superintend the publication of
her new novel, Gel Fureidis."
The New Bedford (Mass.) Mercury saws
that the revival of religion on the vineyard
is the greatest that has been since the days
of Mayhaw, the Indian missionary.
The first time grain was ever exported
from Canada was in the year 1852, when
two ships arrived in Marseilles, laden with
wheat. go. -... .....
Rev. Pitt Morse, Universalist clergyman
of some eminence, died at Watertown, New
York, recently, in the seventy-frst year of
his age. S
The young woman upon whom brutal
outrage was committed few days since, by
four Williams at hotel in jamestown, New
York, has died from her injuries.
The shoemakers of Auburn have held a
meeting and expressed sympathy for the New
England strikers, and appointed a committee
to raise money for their necessities
The extensive woollen factory of P. Mer-
rill & Co., in Felchville, VT, was destroyed by
an incendiary fire few nights since. Loss
about $4,000. ....1 1 ....
The latest news from Texas says that Gov
ernor Houston is actively engaged in raising
minute men, travelling day and night for that
purpose, to oppose the Indians.
The Massachusetts, shoemaker strikers have
already spent as much money in their public
demonstrations, as the increased wages de-
manded would amount to in a whole year.
Piedmont is said to be arming to the teeth.
Letters from Turin speak of the day being
not far distant when Victor Emmanuel will
have 10000 men fit to take the field. -n-
The Terre Haute Qnd) Express says that
some good-for-nothing fellow in that city
lately sold his wife and children for ten dol
lars, and that the purchaser was very badly
cheated.
The Leipsc Common Council has under
heavy penalties interdicted the sale of cotton
goods for ball dresses of a green color, they
being dyed with Schveenfurt's green, which
is arseniate Of copper, and deadly poison.
Richard Taylor, son of President Taylor, is
ana Of. the dsiegsaese tothe Chaflestom Con-
vention from Louisiana. A letter writer
says that he is wealthy, looks very much like
his father and is strongly opposed to Douglas
Mayor Berrett, in accordance with the res
olution Of the Councils Of Washington, has
ordered stand of colors for the New York
Seventh Regiment, of the most costly de-
scription. "t-.a -..-s - a-
The King of Prussia lately become so much
worse that the royal family at one time
thought his death was at hand. He after
ward rallied little but the sad symptom of
| putting his soup on his face, instead of into
it, continued at last accounts.