Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-28
VARIETIES.

mere is place IN Soutn Oarollne called
Punch 'em Slightly 71 y.rAy ...-
The live stock ofIninois is estimated to be
worth nearly $lo0,0O0o0O. ~. ST.. !
When is pugilist's eye like cider keg2
When it is bunged up. ''' < g..
The Empress of China is said to be young,
and is considered a beauty in her own. land.
A New Yorker calls the fancifully-attifed
Fifth-avenue footmen cod-liveries. bra
David Aiken, an old and prominent citizen
of Winnsboro', S. c., died last Sunday.
The Lynchburg (va.) Banks have all sus-
pended specie payment. .11..
The Republican 'wig wan" In Philadel-
phia has been sold at auction for $2l0
Conscience is said to be the sweetest of
bedfe1ows but q newly-married chap de-
clares her name is Mary.
No man can whistle "Yankee DOODLE or
hum the air of the "Star-spangled Banner"
in the Cotton States, without danger of being
mobbed.
Admiral, the Earl of Dundonald, is to be
buried in Westminster Abbey, beside his
old commander, Nelson. .e
The Jewish residents of Kingston, Ja-
Christians in Syria. - F
Queen Victoria is about to create new
order of Knighthood, that of Knight of the
Indies, for natives Of the Indian Empire.
Charles Wiener, a notorious burglar, was
fatally shot, the other night, while entering
thehouse Of Gen. B. E. Pratt, inst. Louis, Mo.
1t is stated that Blondin is about to visit
England for the purpose of giving his extra
ordinary exhibitions on the tight rope.
10 Jeff. Bendscommitted suicide at Lawrence
burg, Tenn, last Sunday by cutting his
throat. He was crazed by intemperance.
Two little negroes were poisoned by drink
ing a decoctiOn of the Florida coffee-weed,
at Camden, Florida, last week. ,-.l.. DO
"A dog was found devouring the arm Of
corpse, washed ashore at Green Bay, Wis, a
few days. since. -.-,..., -,....-i,
While walking in her sleep, the wife of
| Mr.. A. Reed, Paris, G. W., fell into the cistern
and was drowned, last week. '1H SOD .a q.
Marcus, the notorious Washington gam
bier, has been sentenced TO three years in
the Penitentiary. ssuj =
The average crop Of Texas is 500 pounds of
picked cotton, thirty bushels of Indian corn,
or 300 bushels Of potatoes per acre. SSO :
The cityof. San, Antonio, Texas, accord.
Z ing to the late census, contains 1885 white
inhabitants, and 3l4 slaves. Total, 1899.
The coal from the Ouachita Mines, in Ar
kansas, is found to be richer In oil aud paraE
fine than any other in the United States. =
Frank LittlGohn, compositor, and at one
time reporter for the ST. Louis Eueraing Ne,ps,
died in that city day or two ago.
Peter Brogasco attempted to kill his mu-
latto witness in Mobile, Alabama, on
Wednesday, and afterward cut his throat.
VIII any military gentleman inform us
how many spokes there arei in a ''right
Wheel" --....-. .....--., .......
The British Legation at the city of Mexico
has been sacked, and 81, 900, 900, belonging
to the British bondholders, carried away.
The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the
first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness,
the third of repentance.
The American Ecclesiastical Year Book
sets down the population of the world at
2,296, 1000, ,000-more than double the usual
estimate. " .-a f''- " ---
A camp was burned at st. Croix, on the
borders of Maine, few days ago. John
Burns and John Boody perished in the
flames.
Some scoundrel went into the shop of an
industrious mechanic, in Memphis, Tenn,
the other day, and cut to pieces several
finished carriage bodies. aIott
The wife of Franklin Wetherbee bar
keeper at Wasson's Hotel, Worcester, Mass,
committed suicide, day or two ago, by
taking poison. III ,ta3r
John Black, a Prussiarl, who has recently
shown signs of insanity, cut his throat at
Buffalo, N. Y, last week. His insanity was
attributed to electioneering excitement.
Among the late sales of war munitions to
the South, by firms in New York, are two
batteries, one of rtfed six-pounders and one
ofsix-pounders. s...0. sf. sgs .
A little boy picked up very valuable
package that had dropped ffom a jewelers.
wagon in New York, the other day, and ran
away with it before he could be caught.
"Have you found averdict," said a Judge to
the foreman Of a jury, "No, your honor, we
have hunted in every corner Of the room,
and there isn't one there
What is the difference between a candle in
cave and a dance in hotel2 One is a
taper in cavern, aIs94he other caper in q
tavern. y. ~ - -LL -
A clergyman in Berkshire County, Mass,
recently advised his congregation, from the
pulpit to buy and read paper containing
poem written by his wife, -,--u ru~-.
The Cheraw Gazette says that the real
and personal estate, capital empl Dyed in
manufacturing, banking and railroads, in
that State, amounts to $342 626,3 ,37s. r-VrcT
The pawn-office of Mr. Scoyille, Syracuse,
N. Y. was broken open TIE other night, and
robbed of over one thousand dollars worth
of jewelry pledges. uiftn rETHlfn
Some miscreahts pulled down the shaft Of
the monument of Chsuneey f. Belknap, at
Newburg IN, " Cemetery, on Saturday
night. 3ult lyi1h llLE
q, American travellers are already arriving ct
Beirut. Some hesitate about Yenturing to
Damascus, hut they readily visit Jaiia and
Jerusalem. shII
Carroll, who eloped two years ago with
Mrs. Graffam, of Portland, Me-, and has since
married her absconded from Boston last
week, after swindling his employer.
"A woman was disfguFed for life by the ex-
plosion Of fluid lamp, which, against urgent
protestation she was filling while lighted, at
Philadelphia, on Sunday night az
The notorious ex-clergyman Kalloch, al
though in the law in Kansas, still breaches
almost every Sunday, and is much liked, es-
pecially by the Women. q 1Fi-ig FsIr 81T
"A uaukicaI enriosftv 4 noVv IN avh;h;tian