Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-07
RTE TIES.

Cover wisdom with rags and no one will
indorse her.
The darker the setting the brighter the
diamond.
He who knows himself has occasion for
much modesty.
A hunter bags his game. A coquette sacks
hers.
Although the densest of oil principles, truth
is the most transparent.
A Mrs. Brown was frozen to death at
Lyons, Iowa, the other morning.
Mechanics are working day and night on
the Capitol at Washington.
The coal fields of the United States contain
100000 square miles.
A dramatic version of Wilkie Collinss
Woman in White is being performed at a
Boston theater.
Benjamin Franklin thought that the fur
key, being a bird indigenous to America,
should have been the symbol of the country.
The Stockton (Cal.) Republican tells of
two ferrets in that city which killed sixty
rats in hole in less than one minute,
Hon. VIM. Aiken, of South Carolina, de-
'clines proffered nomination for a seat in the
Secession Convention Of that State.
Some natures are so sensitively strung that
they are wounded worse by the point of
finger than others are by the point of pin.
Erastus B. Roberts, ok-keeper of the
Overland Mail Company, has been arrested
in New York, for embezzlement.
The old Levy and Bailey stores on Chest
nut-street, Philadelphia, have been converted
into menagerie.
Two confidence men, named Gilmer and
| Stephens, have been arrested and imprisoned
in Montgomery, Ala.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to burn
the State capitol at Montgomery, Alabama,
on Wednesday.
The jail of Washington County Wisconsin,
narrowly escaped destruction by fire on Sun
day. The prisoners gave the alarm.
Peter Brogasco attempted to kill his mu-
latto witness in Mobile, Alabama, on Wednes-
day, and afterward cut his own throat.
The roughs of Sacramento have lately in
troduced the brutal and now obsolete En-
glish sport of badger-baiting.
Since the New York World has raised its
| price to two cents, its circulation has fallen
off, the public considering it as two cent
imentalf for these times.
Rome is now the chief seat of the art of
cameo cutting, two kinds of which are pro-
duced-those cut in hard stone and those
cut in shell.
Pdrtons Life of Andre,o Jackson, just
completed, is considered miserable failure
to afford any true idea of the heros true
character.
A musical rat comes out in the house Of
Mr.. Ross, at Albany, N. Y, squats on iti
launches, and accompanies the piano with
very good music.
A very fierce Palmetto patriot says: ~
would rather be hung in South Carolins
than die a natural death in any other State.
We hope he will bave his wish.
Paris possesses twenty-three telegraph
offices, principally employed in transmitting
messages between the various quarters of the
capital.
1t is estimated that acknowledgements
annually consume the wood from 100 00t
acres of land; in twenty years, equal tt
100000 of acres.
In New York, last week. 400 deaths oc
curred-an increase of forty over the weel
previous, and twenty-eight more than tn
corresponding week of last year.
Abner Harris, while digging potatoes il
Deer6eld, Mass, discovered an old lndial
morter, for pounding up corn. 1t is mad
of red sandstone, and will hold about tw
quarts.
A set of thirty window curtains, painte
to represent scenes of negro life, have bee
completed for a business house in Mon
gomery, Ala, at New Haven, Conn.
, The New Britain Comm people talk {
,t,,.
contain specimens of all sorts of mani
, factures from all parts of the State.
The counties known as the "whes
counties" of New York, are Niagara, Ol
D leans, Genesee, Monroe, Livingston, Yate
Ontario, Seneca, Wayne, Cayuga, an
Onondaga.
= Mr.. Dolman, the actor, and who is readin
law, has been appointed Court Clerk by Il
new Prothonotary of the District Court
Philadelphia, Col P. F. White.
A farmer in Williamson County Tenr
has made twenty-nins dollars and sevent.
five cents worth Of cider and seed, from tU
trees of the crab species, the present seaso
The notorious Jack Powers was late
murdered at his ranch, five miles south
Calabasas, California. He was killed in bu
h with an AK.
A dastardly incendiary burned down an o
house at Warwick, Penn, on Thursda
which had been given to a reformed inebria
. out of Sympathy.
A valuable young negro was sold in Upp
Marlboro, Maryland, at a public sale,
n Monday, for $3.50. A month ago he wou
. have brought $1,000.
Hon. John NJ. Botts's Lynchburg (V
speech has been stsreotyped in Philadelph
= = and is being printed for general circulate
- South.
g, The thirteenth anniversary of the strugI
All for the independence of Poland, in 1880, "
celebrated Saturday evening last at
Cooper Institute, New York.
By substituting species of South Anne
n can bean called ''dividiVi," in place of Il
o. M, Van CoolbergeR has succeeded in abriC
- ing very considerably the time required
the operation of tanning.
-, PLEASURES OF SOCIAL LIFE IN CAIIFoRN
AT Pine Alto, Arizona, recently, Willi
Dick was shot by one Taylor. They. met
g. a bar and, having had previous difficult
- Taylor fred twice at+Dick, several OF
friends also firing, utwith eight balls
his body, Dick shot Taylor in the thigh I
-, fell instantly dead. Charles Hampton Fl
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