Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-19
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VIM: L. Yancey was hung in effigy at
OWensboro, KY, few days ago.
Six prisoners escaped from the vincennes
Qnd.) Jail on Thursday night.
During the past week there were 11e
deaths in the city of New Orleans.
Richard H. Weaver was shot and killed
by Turner Riley, in Tuscumbia, Ala, on Fri
day last. s
Distinction is an eminence which is at
tanned but too frequently at the expense of
peace. =
People would rather pardon the defects
you have, than the atectation of virtues you
have not, +i =
- The greatest coward may avoid shaking
in his shoes by wearing boots or going bare
The best edition of that deeply interesting
work The Testimony Of the Rocks, is fifty.
dollar gold piece.
There are now 1886 convicts confined in the
Indiana State Prisonat Jacksonville, twenty
Of whora are women.
The once national and popular air, Yankee
Doodle was hissed in the Memphis Tenn. J
Theater the other night.
The reason married men are more or less
bald-they scratch their hair off in dismay
at their wives, long milliner bills.
Among 100000 of people, more than
1000 illegitimate children have been born in
the first three quarters of this year.
Rhyming lovers generally woo their sweet
hearts in such wretched verse that it is no
wonder so many of them are Tilted.
The revenue of the island of Jamaica
shows an increase on the year, ending Octo-
ber 80, of $4,000 over last year.
A smart Yankee is coming money in Ha-
vana, by microscope and telescope sta
toned in the Plaza d'Armas.
Three boy-burglars have been sentenced to
STATES Prison, in Fairfield C0nn.-the oldest
nineteen years old, for ten years. ..
A young girl generally loses her freshness
by mingling with fashionable society as a
bright stream does by ningling with the sea
A journeyman baker in Paris has secret
manner of manufacturing antique statuary
with which he supplies English dilletanti.
Seventy-fve deaths, thirty-five of person;
under five years of age, occurred in st. Louis
| last week. %
The library of the great Greek scholar
| Thiersch, has been secured by the Ohio Uni.
versity at Athens, for the sum of .25,OOO.
An American Jew, at New Orleans ha:
bequeathed $4,000 for the building and en-
| dowment of alms-houses for infirm and des.
titute Israelites in Jerusalem. s..
An English company has proposed to the
Italian Government to establish a regular
| steamboat service between Italy and Am.
erica.
| 1t is the great event of life to find, and
know, and love superior person; charac
ter that prehgures heaven and tine saints or
earth. r... r-r
Sixteen scholars have left the Connecticu
Literary Institute, at Suffield, on account o.
the fearful prevalence of the diptheria throa
| disease.
A young man, Phillip Duudon German
committed suicide on Monday evening, by
shooting himself through the head, neal
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
A little boy, three years old, was burned
/ to death at Baltimore the other evening, by
the explosion of Auid can, as he was pour
ing from it, into the fire. ..-.
The public Of Havana considered De
LaVes attempt, or intended attempt to eros
the bull ring on stills as too hazardous, AM
would not permit him to do it.
A young woman, exasperated at the con
duct of a young man in New Orleans, Oh
Friday, saturated his clothes with camphen
and then set him on fire.
Some wretch recently poisoned valuable
horse of Labe Letton, Of Bourbon County
Ky who offers reward of. So, 900 for proc
that will convict the scoundrel.
Peter Barman shot his own son in Bon,
County, Ill last week, because he suspects
him Of extreme intimacy with his wife, tn
youths step-mother. L
In fit of drunkenness, George Shikde
grass took dose of laudanum, at Port Jer
Wis, New York, the other day, in the presenc
of his family, and died in half an hour
Four women captured burglar in tn
house of Mr.. Latin, Chicago, last week, an
kept him locked up till Mr.. l.. came, and re
covered fifty dollars worth Of money an
iewelry. a3 h-e '1-tft
The New York NeDs says an America
gentleman has invented a process, whereof
cutter of thirty-six feet in lengthycan b
turned out of hand ready for the water i
ten hours. 90 Dl d
Marquis said Louis XIV, one day to tn
Marquis de Bierce, ''you make puns upon a
subjects, make one upon me-" "Sire,
replied the cautious Marquis, "you are n
subject" res 1r- sEi4l IIJ
Oriental literature Is indebted to Capt. 3
g. Rayesty, Of the Indian Service for tn
first grammar dictionary and christomath
of the language of the Afghans, just put
lished. -...,,.--. ''''''
A Rochester IN. Y. ).thief had a Aarrol
escape from death on Thursday night; hay
ing stolen and drank what he thought
| hniile of whisky from a drug store. bu