Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-07-21
VAR RIETIms.

Inc new IOrk fIW0Ttdi the new renBlOuS
daily, is losing, atpresent, only $500 per day.
The cost of tobacco smoking in New York
City is estimated at SIS, 600 annually. n
The Courthouse at Kosciusko, Miss, was
destroyed by fire few days ago. .--
L The wool-clipo this State, this year, is over
1000 900 pounds, and has all been sold at
price little over $4,000000. gIug leie
An immense bed of white marble, said to
be equal to the finest Italian, has been dis
covered in Presque, IDle County, Michigan.
The weather continues excessively hot in
New Orleans. Eleven persons died of sun
stroke there day or two since. .-a
Sparring pays in England-the exhibitions
given by Heenan and Sayers, for single
week, bringing in $4,000.
Vienna is said to- be the cheapest city to
live in in the world-and one of the most
disagreeable. $a WV W
The number of deaths in New Orleans last
week was 300; not one of which was from
yellow fever. u
Five men were drowned on the 18th inst
while in q sail-boat in Mobile (Ala) Bay, by
the upsetting of the craft in squall.
Alexander Dumas, the famous novelist, is
said to be one of the most unprincipled and
prohigate men in all France.
A man in Lyons, France, recently died
from drinking dozen bottles of wine OH a
wager Of 200 francs. .. ..ur .-..t
George Winans, Charles Lock and Tim
othy ORGY were all simultaneously killed by
lightning in Choctaw County, Miss, on
Wednesday, the llth inst. .....
No portion of the peach-raising district of
Maryland seems to have been saved from the
destruction that has attended the crop in that
State. rr.-Hs .r.-f..
A statistician asserts that there were more
suicides in the United States during the past
year than in both Germany and France for
for the same period. t-I1l-IU /.
"Mother," said a little urchin about five
years old, "why don't the teacher make me
monitor sometimes? can lick every boy in
my class but one"
A woman was recently arrested in Bor
deaux, France, for inveigling country girls
into bagnios--a horrid business she had fol-
lowed for many years.
A fashionably-d woman waved a per-
fumed handkerchief across a mans face in O
New York street car the other day, and al
the same time stole his diamond pin.
A brute in the habit of cruelty beating his
child in Lafayette, Ind, was most vigorously
chastised by mob committee, day or tive
since.
VIM. Owens; a clerk in the Utica IN. VI
Postoffice, was recently arrested there fol
robbing the mails. He had previously borne
q good character. 3real. a'aiHn
In Paris bankrupt young profligates otter
al,
from woman's estate, psovided they secure
her as connubiallprize. -tA
A boy, Stephen CranlX slipped out of I
swing near Shoaltown, Florida, last week
and in his fall struck girl in the abdomen
injuring her fatally.
81 think, wife, that you have great many
| ways of calling me a fool" ~ think, hus
band, that you have great many ways o
being one." ........ .,,.,
Mr.. s. Harbaraugh, who was recent.
driven from Lexington, Mo-, for advocating
the Republican cause in his paper, talks 9
fe-establishing 1t elsewhere. = aN'' Wv ava
| In Florence, Rome, recently, three mel
were suffocatee from the fumes of charcoa
furnace, accidentally left burning in thei
room. q GA T0T-utAF IItlls.'-l-
| An old woman, Henvella Zieger, died il
| Berlin, Prussia some weeks since, wort
about $4,000. She had been beggar al
her life. -s GE 1A -. -l-a- ~
The famous slave yacht Wandersr has bee
| purchased by Galveston (Texas) trm 10
the Rio Coffee trade under the name of Cha
II. Jordan.
3 An ingenious French philosopher is Q
present maintaining the hypothesis that th
feeding of the negro races continuously o
animal food would effect their conyersio
into white men. srs i1ili..t 9e.3
While several boys were firing d sma
cannon in Linn County, Iowa, few day
ago, an explosion occurred that resulted Il
tally TO two Of them, John Gill and Wn
Prince. yls.gil- il-T.U lf G.t-if fnt
The celebrated German traveller D
Vogel, having been murdered in Africa, b
the King of Bargow a demand has bee
made for the effects Of the unfortuna'
man. df.. .aaHN VI