Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-05-25
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i Two men were suffocated to death by foul
gas in Q well in Penobscot County, Me-, on
the Goth inst. 'a" tNt
A young man in Vermont feeds his geese
upon iron filings and gathers steel pens from
their wings. ,1 ..5.
James Viers wantonly insulted and then
dangerously stabbed NJ. Pierce, at a picnic,
near Bedford KY, day or two ago. t.
of scales, near Scio, Mich., recently, burst a
blood vessel and died. - 49, -. -. ...., D..
The New York Colonization Journal says
more free negroes are now favorably contem-
plating emigration than ever before.
Mrs. Catharine Lawrence was robbed in a
church ht Nottingham, Penn, of purse Of
$2oO-all the money she had in the world.
John Arlington committed suicide at Alex
andria, Virginia few days since, by shoot
ing himself ir. 1ra. a a.'i
Twelve swans will arrive from Hamburg
in New York. about the 26th proximo, and be
placed in the Central Park. rHflg
pany have lighted one of their cars with gas,
and are preparing to introduce it generally.
Mrs. q L. Mitchell, an aged lady, was run
over and. killed, by a light wagon, in New
York, on Monday. I7l.
The lightning struck house at Richmond,
Virginia, the other day, doing considerable
damage-the third time a bolt had fallen in
the same spot. .l9I1id-jiilY "U- '1i
An old man named Hugheston, while at
tempting TO cross the track of the O., G. 4 G.
II. r., near Cleveland, on Tuesday, was struck
by the Locomotive and killed.
The new valuation Of Maine, as given by
the State Assessors, is $l64, ia, 1853, against
s$l0o;037, 1853 in the yedr 1850. The increase
Of polls is 23,634. i''r.
A correspondent of the Ohio Cultivator as
serts that the only way to make sure of a
crop of peaches, every year, is by grating
upon the wild plum stock. -..r. 4 J. -r-...
The slaves of Huntsville, Ala, recently
made common purse and purchased splen-
did hearse, TO be used for the interment of
their dead. Iilpt - - i .rai Do
George and Henry Grobeck, brothers, quar-
relied about family matters near st. Paul,
Minn., last week, when the former fractured
the others skull with a club. 'srf
A runaway mulatto slave who resisted an
attempt to capture him, near Camp Mont
gomery, Ala, few days ago, was mortally
shot by the police. "a d'.. -.'
Perry Haynes youth of fifteen, stabbed q
man, VIM. lKile, near Urbana, in this State,
on Tuesday, with a pitchfork so severely that
he, will not recover. ~t...f...t.
Jesse Norcross, one of the leading business
men of Bangor, Me, YhHe conversing with
friend in the street the other evening, sud-
denly fell dead.
The residents Of Staten Island, doing bdsi-
ness in New York, have purchased a ferry
boat, and had the fare reduced from twelve
to six cents
v Lazarus Marion, man nearly ninety years
old, destroyed himself by laudanum in 0non-
daga County, N.rY5 . few days since, having
become disgusted with his infirmity..
Col. B. r. Gray, residing in Madison Coun-
ty, N. O., is reported to have expended $780,
900 in helasttwo years in purchasing lottery
tickets. CllliJi7'Af. i'.f'
Theodore Yeatman and his child was
drowned while crossing a swollen stream,
near Parrish, ILL.,, in buggy, on the 10th
inst.
hi John Hard had quarrel with Daniel Worth
in Lincoln, Mo-. recently about hogs, and
shot the latter fatally with revolver, through
the heart. Il nn ", %dN w -
4 The product of four different oil wells in
Pennsylvania is four thousand three hundred
and sixty gallons per tWenty-four hours, or
an average Of one thousand and ninety gal
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