Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-31
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The ninth volume of BdncrofTs History is
nearly ready for the epress. $685. d. .''t'
The second volume of the life of Madison,
by VIM. @. Rives, is announced.
The public schools of Connecticut educate
$4,000 children, at $5 year each.
The mother of the Hon. John Hickman,
of Pennsylvania, died on Wednesday.
The Syrian Relief Fund, in New York,
now amounts to $751; 544 SO.
The yellow fever at Honduras has swept
off the entire European population.
Diptheria is prevailing all over the coun-
try, and causes many deaths.
The railroad between Charleston and Sa-
vannah will be formally opened to-day.
The Worth monument, erected in New
York, is at last completed. .
Greenough, the sculptor, has finished a
beautiful bust of daughter of Mr.. Mason,
of Boston.
LaUanin is the title of the new. novel by
Ruffini, author of DR.. Aatofio and Lorenzo
BeRoni.
People who wish to lead peaceful lives
should never go to balls, for hops produce
great bitterness.
Disunionism and Diptheria are very much
alike in one respect. They are both diseases
of the throat.
The quantity of fbeet-sugar made in France
this year is l26 900 kilogrammes, which
is 100000 kilogrammes less than last year.
A writer in one of the Eastern magazines
calls'children the delirum tremens of matri-
mony. ~'r.
The Rev. Mr.. Higginson is about to collect
his contributions to the Atlantic Monthly, and
publish them in book form.
The Prince of Wales paid $4,000 for his
entertainment at the Continental and Fifth
avenue Hotels and Revere House.
There are now between two and three
million copies of the Bible printed annually
in Great Britain
The total amount of the auction for which
the objects of art left by the late Alexander
Won Humboldt were sold, is 10000 thalers.
Rossiter is painting the visit OF President
Buchanan and the Prince of Wales to Mount
Vernon.
James Redpath, the friend of John Brown,
was the recipient of popular ovation at
Port-au-Prince on the 9th of September.
Several kerosene oil factories in New York
have been indicted as nuisances, which is
quite natural.
The old Spirit Of The Times is to be sold,
by order of the court; Colonel Thorpe hav-
ing carried his point over Jones and Hays.
When New Hampshire and Massachusetts,
were colonies, only church members were
allowed to vote.
Slavery is very near its end in Delaware
Between 1850 and 1860, the slave population
decreased from 2, 200 to 1906.
Thomas F. Marshall, of Kentucky,is lectur-
ing at Poughkeepsie, N. Y, on the "History
of Christianity"
The London Commercial Record states that
the Great Eastern steamship is so shaken up
and weakened that she is unseaworthy.
DR.. Stewart, of King George, Va, recently
sold forty-seven slaves to gentleman of
Arkansas, for about SAL 900.
At Rome, Dauret Thompson has COM
menced an ideal bust, which he happily terms
the "Western Trapper." Although it is
rough, fine work is evident.
The second volume of Rudd & Carleton's
edition of Balzdc will be published next
week. 1t is to be "The Little AnnOyances of
Married Life"
DIR. Cahill has leased dwelling at Rome
| not in Italy, but in Oneida County, New
York-with the intention of becoming a
permanent resident there.
Mayor Wood has made an application to
| have the expenses of the Princes reception,
in New York city, about 10000, paid out of
the city treasury.
Major VIM. Black and James Humphreys
met at Ellaryille Ca, recently, and ex-
changed pistol shots. Humphreys was
wounded and died in twenty-four hours.
We may expect accounts of the earthquake
| from all parts of the continent. II was felt
at San Francisco on the 25th and at Benieia
on the 26th ult.
The telegraph cable between Nantucket
| and Edgartown, Mass, which had worked
one year without interruption, parted last
week in Nantucket channel.
The Congress of German artists, which met
| at Dusseldorf this year, has established an
Albert-Durer Fund, for the assistance Of
| poor German artists.
The average annual manufacture of beet
sugar, on the continent of Europe, Is reck-
| oned at 300,O00,00O or 3l0,O00000 kilo-
! grammes.
The amount of salaries paid to the En-
| glish Bishops is S775,oOO year, a sum sutii-
tient to give an income of 81, 900 a year to
775 clergymen.
The best sugar manufacture is carried on
larger scale in France than anywhere
else, there being l37 beet sugar manufacto-
ries in that country alone.
William A. Davies, a wealthy resident Of
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, has just completed q
church building at his own expense $50 900
in that place.
Wolves are very numerous about No
lunkus Aroostook County, Me-, about this
time, and have lately been committing Sc.
rious depredations among the sheep.
A report has been extensively circulated
conntss tbSt GsTbaSi Il no otSsr sbs
John Sadlier, Of Tipperary Bank notority.l