Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-25
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funds from the bank ....s.I...
Punch tells us how TO make money, thus:
Get situation in the Mint
The city debt of Hartford, Connecticut, is
81, 100, OOO-a snug sum for a small place.
To speak harshly to person of sensibility,
is like striking a harpsichord with your fists.
Colonel William Mure, the well-known
writer upon Greece and Greek literature and
history, died last month. g~N
Bombay Hook Island, containing about
six thousand acres, was sold by the Sheriff,
at Smyrna, DEL, last week, for $4,000.
1t is one of the worst of errors to suppose
that there is another path of safety beside
that of duty.
Miss Lizzie Petit, of Charlottesville, Va
is to make her debut in New York, as a
dramatic reader, next week. t"l.
Joseph Lane, farmer while plowing, near
Carlinville Illinois, on Monday, was struck
by lightning and instantly killed.
The pork packing business is to be intro
duced at New Bedford, Mass. Whale and
hogs should go together very well.
J. @. Terrell, for the murder of Ananias
Graham, his grandfather, was hung at Ben
nettsyllle 3. u, on Friday last.
A portion of the Female College at Spar
tansburg S. c., with fourteen pianos, was
burnt few days ago. E-t" Is
A Frenchman, intending to complement a
young lady by calling her gentle lamb,
said-"She is one mutton as is small"
Senator Stewards barn and carriage-house,
in Auburn, N. Y, was burnt, with two
horses, few nights since.
A young woman living in Alstead, n H.,
weighs over seven hundred pounds, and re-
quires twenty yards of calico for dress.
Benjamin Thacher, of West Dennis, Mass,
died of lockiaw few days since in that
town.
An Opposition meeting in Crittenden
County, Arkansas, has nominated Sam.
Houston for the Presidency.
A child about four years old, belonging to
a family at Utica, N. Y, was fatally injured
by swallowing oil of yitriol on Sunday.
Mr.. Sala says that if "a man has strong
lungs, and continues bawling day after day
that he is genius, the public will at last
believe him." r-...a .-H... -t'H.
The scamps who stole the safe from the car,
belonging to Adams 4 Co., may comfort
themselves with the fact that just beside it
was one which had $139,000.
An attempt was recently made by two
negro slaves, in Anne Arundel County, Md,
to poison Samuel Purdy and family, by
putting ground ivy in the coffee-pot
The dress of Mrs. Fasset, of Winchester,
N. H., caught fire from stove, on Monday,
and her body was so badly burned that she
died the fOilOwinp mOrninp
The wise Lockman, on his death bed, Or
dered his son to approach, and said: when
thou feelest disposition to sin, seek for a
place where God can not see thee"
A confidence man, pretended speculator
in hay, lately victimized hotel-keeper and
speculator, at Chicago, ILL.,, to the tune OF
$2,500
The proposed reduction in the duties on
sugar, coffee and cocoa in France, will, il is
calculated, diminish the custom receipts by
53000,000f
The mercury went as high as 500 in the
shade at Rome, in Georgia, few days ago.
In portions of Middle Georgia it was up
to 800.
The French Vice Consul at Sierra Leone,
some time back, gave information of the
Bishop and of four priests, of fever. d.
"Well, really" said soldier, whose hand
was shot off at Cerro Gordo, "those yellow
Mexicans have an off-hand way of doing
things" 'r ..
The tide of travel is setting out strongly
for Europe. Three steamers left New York
on Saturday, carrying b67 passengers and
$655o00 in specie.
Joseph S. Canady, young mechanic, in
Wilmington, n; O., recently struck himself
by accident with dagger on the breast, and
fell dead almost instantly.
''If had strength enough lett to hold a
pen, would write how easy and delightful il
is to die were the last words of the cele-
brated VIM. Hunter.
The Academy of Sciences of Paris occupied
part of its last sitting in discussing the
question whether there still remained any
bears in the County of Michigan, United
States. ..rf......r.. r