Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-22
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Chamber-street, New York, is to be ex-
tended to James Slip, at cost of $sOO,OOO.
Purser Samuel Forrest, U. S. n, died re-
Gently at Staunton, Va.
The last levee held by Queen Victoria has
been pronounced "a failure" by the London
press.
There was q thunder storm at Woodstock,
Va, on Thursday, and snow storm on Fri
day. ..|.'' .
Worcesters Dictionary has received care
ful and highly tlattering criticism in the Lon
don Literary Gazette.
Col. Colts pistols do not go off as fast as
they used to; he has $500, 800 worth now on
hand, and is reducing his manufacture.
The cost of taking the United States CEN
sus this year win reach 81, 500 900, and the
enumeration will exceed 81, 100000 of people.
There is man out west whose memory is
so short that it only reaches to his knees,
consequently he never pays for his boots
George W. Boyd who died in Portland,
Maine, few days since, bequeathed all his
property, worth $4,000 to Bowdoin College.
George Wood, an old citizen of New York,
and forty years practitioner at the bar there,
died recently in that city.
A day or two since, boy twelve years old,
John Ward, stabbed fatally negro who was
chastising his brother in Memphis, Tenn.
Sixteen thousand persons were present at
the laying of the cornerstone of st. Pat
rick's Church in Louisville, Ky.
An act exempting from attachment one
sewing-machine, not exceeding 800 in value,
has passed both branches of the Massachu-
sets Legislature.
June, 1910, and from that month up to the
23d ult., $4,000 people have taken up their
residence in the silent city.
"Dawkter" said an exquisite the other day,
81 want you to tell me what | can put into
my head to make it right" at wants nothing
but brains" said the physician.
Soon after the battle of Leipsic, wit OBJ
served: "Bonaparte must now be in funds,
for he has received q check on the banks of
the Elbe"
The benefit for the widow of George w.
Wilkins, in New York, proved a real success.
After all expenses were paid his widow re-
ceived 50, 500.
. Washihgtons birthday was celebrated for
the first time in San Domingo, and the city
rendered gay by the display of flags and the
firing of guns.
A Mexican horse thief named Jesus, des-
cribed as "a very bold greaser, of villainous
mein,' was hung in Caaveras County, Cali
forniq,- on a recent Sunday.
The Orleans IN. W American notices the
passage through that place of a freight car
which had been through from Chicago to
Boston with a load of dressed hogs.
. The last arrival at Denver, Kansas from
Pixies Peak brought about 81, ,00O-a poor re-
alization of the wondrous stories once in cir
culation about that auriferous region.
The German journal published in Paris, the
Pariser ZeituRg, states that Prussia has de-
termined to elevate (2) Meyerbeer to the dig
nifty of Prussian gentleman.
The New York Spirit of the Times esti-
mates that over half million persons visited
Central Park skating pond during the past
season.
The taxes for the ensuing year on real
estate and personal property, in San Fran
cisco, are fixed at two-eighty y-fifths per cent.
on each 800 valuation.
Numerously signed petitions have been
presented to the California Legislature pray
ing that the crime of highway robbery may,
hereafter, be punished with death.
Ithas undecided in Washington City that
an Omnibus driver is not common carrier
of freight, and can not be held responsible for
packages put in his possession for delivery.
A deceased Italian Prince has left in his
will bequest of three millions of scuddi for
the benefit of the Pope, but the money is to
be dispensed under the direction of the En-
perOr of Austria.
1t is announced in the Illustrated London
Ne,oS that some legal documents of unim-
peachable authenticity relating to the family
and property of Shakespeare have been
brought to light.
They have thirty-fve hotels in Chicago
whose rates range from one to two dollars
per day, and the Press and Tribune says they
will not advance upon their rates during the
Convention week.
The wife of Richard j. Blunt, who de-
stroyed himself recently in Richmond, Va,
attempted to hang herself day or two after,
and was cut down just in time to save her
life. - rs...
A returned Californian named George Rob-
inson, was robbed of $500 ON Sunday by "A
courtesan named Mary Pierson, with whom
he was passing the night at a hotel in Troy,
New York.