Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-29
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The total loss by the fire at Whitehall, N.
Y, is estimated at $50,000.
Tolls on the Erie Canal have been reduced
from one-third to one-half.
The railroad between Charleston, S. c., and
Savannah, Ca, has been finished.
P. T. Barnum is building another house
not far from his old Iranistan, on the Hudson.
Rarey, the great original horse tanner, is
now on visit to Egypt and Arabia.
For the week ending Tuesday, the oath,
there were l72 interments in New Orleans.
The African NJ. E. Church holds property
in the District of Columbia valuedat 1928, 200.
Coyle, levee contractor, was shot and |
killed in De Soto County, Miss, recently, by |
Thos. Noonan one of his laborers.
There are now in the Massachusetts State |
Prison, at Charlestown, 5l2convlcts-a larger |
number than it ever before contained
The Masonic Lodges of Paris are about to
present an address to the Emperor, thanking
him for his services in Italy.
Robt. Higman, one of the earliest settlers
of Tippecanoe County Ind, died recently
near Lafayette.
A man who often gets "high" through
drink, soon gets loc in purse rs well rs in
person.
Why are ladies' eyes like friends separated
by distant climes! Answer-Because they
correspond, but never meet.
81 come to steel" as the rat said to the
trap. "And spring to embrace you" as the
steel replied to the rat.
The woman who gives birth to two male
children is like the world-renowned banking
firm of London-she is Barring Brothers.
Many have an idea that Gen. Houstons
Christian name is Samuel, but it is plain Sam
Houston, and nothing more.
The Charleston Is. C.) Mercury publishes
in full the speech of Owen Lovejoy, which he
delivered in Congress last week, and produced
such a sensation among the ''chivalry."
The worst form of ingratitude is to refuse
to accept a favor from the hands of person
to whom you have had the pleasure Of rem
dering one.
A sailor, in attempting to kiss pretty girl
received violent box on the ear. There"
he exclaimed, 'just my luck-always wrecked
on the coral reefP'
The railway conductor, by whose negli-
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occurred, has been arrested recently for man
slaughter.
Samuel Douglass, of Lincoln County, KY,
was found dead recently with his skull frac-
tured, near Danville One of his slaves has
been arrested on suspicion.
John Kimball, son and servant, living near
Red River Iron Works, in Estill County, KY,
were day or two since, struck by lightning
and badly injured. ... ..
The body of a man with hole in his head
was found in the water near Stony Point, N
Y, night or two since-supposed to be one
ofthe murdered crew of the sloop Spray.
Mr.. John Snow will publish shortly, Thre,
Years in Turkey: the Journal of a Hedicd
Mission TO the JeDS, under the Auspices Of th'
Free Church Of Scotland.
A mouse-nest was recently discovered il
Ellenville, N. Y, composed of bank-note
stolen by the little animal from the owne
Of the premises adjacent.
About sixty persons have professed con
[ version at Amissville, Va, after a thre,
weeks meeting in the Methodist Church o
} that place. 4.. .n.a..t.. .
Last Monday night, the paper-mill of Dr.
Flagler, called the Pocahontas Mill, nea
Morristown, N. j.. was destroyed by fire
with all the machinery.
Mosquitoes grow so large in Texas tina
they hunt them with rifles. After they ar
slain, their suckers are cut off and used b.
house-carpenters for augers. 7rTua
The oil-springs in Western Penfisylvani
y are estimated to be yielding five thousan
gallons per day. Nearly all the oil has bee
contracted for by one house in New York.
The official vote of Connecticut has bee
declared; the number of votes cast Sc, ,38i
being 5000 larger than at the last Presider
tial election, and 1859 larger than last Sprinl
In New York, Nicholas Biernbach, Frenc
bar-keeper, recently shot himself twice
the mouth in the presence of his mistress, {
whom he was jealous. .. .'
The forests in Natchitoches, La, are lite
ally strewn with the carcasses of cows, sheel
hogs, and other animals that have died frol
famine during the winter. I.r.r
Children bring up their parents very S
verely now. We see 1t stated that ms
failed, the other day, only because he couldn
pay his sons bills
q The Savannah (Ga.) NsacS describes Il
performance ofthe caloric yacht Maria Louis
at that port, and says she proved "the enti
IN adaptation of the caloric engine to the pr
pulsion of small vessels" H.
The Central Railroad Company in Missi
sippi, running from Jackson TO Canton, Ia
g. week discharged one hundred and eigh
Irish employees, an2 put negroes to work
their stead.
The woods in Groveland, Mass, have be-
us us set on fire several times during the past wee
o. and some fifteen TO twenty acres burnt ov'
the growth OF which was for the most pa
Q destroyed. ....
le' A German, name not given, was, f
days ago, arrested at Galway, Allan
County, New Jersey, charged with the mi
der of a step-ehild by causing it to eat po
u dered glass. .. b.
The Commissioners appointed by the MI
sachusetts Legislature to take measures
exterminate the cattle disease have begun
slaughter the affected animals by the hi
dred.
n The Yarmouth Nova Scotia) Herald ,
scribes five bodies, all men, with one exc
ton, which have been picked up at o.
r Sable doubtless those Of passengers lost W
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