Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-03-19
PEN AND SCISSORS.

~ nrCmcn tournament, open 10 all engines
South of the Potomac, is to take. place in
Columbia, S. c., on the 18th day of May next.
James Robb the well-known banker of
New Orleans, was married near Athens, Ca,
recently, to Miss Elizabeth Church Craig
A man named Boutright was recently mar
ricd in Cooper County, Missouri, to his tenth
wife. Certainly he was not a-bout-right.
A blacksmith in the employ ofthe Overland
Mail Company, was killed near Fort Chad
burn, recently, by the Camanches.
A Constantinople dispatch says that the
typhus fever is carrying off the fugitive Cir
cassians at the rate of one hundred per day.
The London Times announces that the cir
culation of that paper has been suppressed
throughout the Austrian empire.
Friendship is possible only between wise
and good men; others are but companions.
No MARVEL then, the rarity of friendship.
VIM. Lloyd Garrison's Liberdtor has an
article denouncing the late speech of Senator
Seward in the most violent terms.
There are ten OF twelve murder cascs-now
pending in the Casey Circuit Court of Ken
lucky.
A little daughter of Mr.. Letcher was burnt
W.
Albany Ind, day or two since.
A steam fre-engine, almost completed in
Richmond, Va is for the city of st. Peters
burg per order of the Gar.
There are two thousand five hundred and
sixty-two students in the various medical
colleges in the United States.
Charles Warner, Treasurer of Dan Rice's
great show, was lately married, in Philadel-
phia, to Ella Zoyara the famous equcstriene.
John Mitchell, the "Irsh patriot" who has
returned from his visit to Paris, is about to
lecture in New York on the subject of ''Na-
poleon."
Thomas ]. Anderson, citizen of Fayette-
vile, N. c., died on Friday from the effects
of a brutal attack made upon him by Isaac
Bletcher.
A little boy named Thredgall, of Allen
County, Ind, died from the effects of eating
wild parsnaps last week. Two other boys
were sick from the same cause.
A committee, at Auburn N. Y, consider
resin gas at SO per thousand feet, cheaper
than coal gas at So 80, and so the resin and
the price have been agreed upon.
The Courtland County IN. W Republican
| published 1000 extra copies of the sheet con-
tanning Gov. Stewards speech, for gratutous
circulation.
| Vanity Fair, the new play of Dion Bourci-
cault, the Colley Cibber of the time, is pro-
nounced stage success by the New York
! papers. .s
John Reynolds, of Southampton Township,
Penn, one day last week, effected the whole
sale destruction of fourteen foxes by two
shots from his gun.-.--~ q
!
Mr. Bowden, Sheriff of Monroe County,
| Ga, was shot and killed, on Monday, by a
man named Hinesley, upon whom he was
attempting to serve writ.
John Ford, q revolutionary soldier, died in
| Bibb County, Ca, some days since, in the
one hundred and fifth year OF his age. He
was married five times.
| An agriculturist in London on the first of
| April, goes to the Geological Gardens, with a
recommendation to be shown the two-horned
Dilemma.
| Negotiations are progressing favorably for
the extension of the Grand Trunk Road to
Boston, by broad guage track, on the line
of the Eastern Railroad from Portland.
The Imperial Library at St. Petersburg
! contains twenty-nine thousand five hundred
and sixty-four volumes, written by foreigners,
| about Russia. 49, ...
/ A Western Chess Congress will be held in
St. Louis, commencing April II, at which
Morphy, Paulsen, and other great players
will be present.
The swiftest horse ever known was "Flying
| ChiJders," which performed four miles, three
hundred and eighty yards, in seven minutes
and a-half which is at the rate of over thirty
| three miles per hour.
In church in Norfolk, Va, last Sunday, a
loaded pistol in the pocket ola boy went off,
penetrating the leg of a boy named Henry
Brown, just below the knee. Good place
and time to carry weapons.
A sailor james Fletcher, II resident of Pc
ducah, KY, committed suicide on board the
steamer Uncle Sam, between Cairo and the
former place, on Sunday night, by cutting
! his throat. ...........-..-
1t is now believed that the yellow fever
having broken out with great virulence al
Havana it may not be entirely safe for North
erners to 60 to Charleston on the 23d of April
next. .... ....r.. ..r.r r-| |rr E-
A petition, numerously. signed by citizens
of Clay County, Mo-, was recently presented
| to David R. Atchison, requesting him to be-
come candidate for Governor-an honor he
declined. q. q. ,.-.. -.... .........
An old negro, supposed to be dead having
been thrown out of the hearse in which he
was going to the grave, near Cleveland, Ohio
the other day, came to life again, greatly to
the terror of the "mOurners."