Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-07
VA RTE TIES.


The number of deaths in Brooklyn, N. Y,
last week was ninety-six.
An unpopular vegetable among sailors
Leeks.
The number of deaths by violence in Ar
kansas last year was about 300.
A female Hawaiian, living at l4ihue, Hawaii,
has given birth to her t'oeHty-thfrd child.
Sampson Gatchell, in endeavoring to lift
a heavy piece of casting in Philadelphia, on
Saturday, ruptured blood-vessel and died.
Four negroes were drowned in the Bayou
Sara, in Louisiana, by the upsetting of a
skiff, on Wednesday last. Loss $4, 500.
In late affray in Iberville Parish, La,
about a piece of property, two men were
killed and three severely wounded
Among the latest literary curiosities are
"Lines Upon the Death of an Unborn In
FAINT" ..
The great Agassiz Museum of Boston, en-
dowed with 100000, is expected shortly to
equal any in the world.
The number of deaths in st. Louis last
week was sixty-eight, of which six were
from diptheria. = 20 F.r... A.
A cobbler in Exeter, England recently
hanged himself because his wife was in the
habit of getting drunk.
What difference is there between forms
and ceremonies2 You can sit upon one and
stand on the other.
W. W. Corcoran, the Washington million
aire, is erecting a building for the purpose
of the Washington Art Union.
Eight negroes and two negresses were
stolen from house in Havana week before
last. A heavy business that
George English, of Franklin County, Va,
hung himself few days ago, for fear that he
would starve to death. ID II
Christian Schmidt, soldier in the Mexi-
can war, hanged himself in prison in Lam
caster County, Penn, few days since.
'Jeff" Davis, the 'disunionist, and Henry
S. Foote, it is said, are shortly to meet and
attempt to blow each others brains out.
Johanna Gates, aged eigbty-two years,
recently committed suicide in Dublin, Ire
land, for fear of dying of old age. A queer
reason, truly, at her time of life.
A courtesan, Mary Thomson, few days
since, put out one of her former "lover's"
eyes, in Galveston, Texas, because he had
abandoned her for another woman.
Several thieves recently entered cabin
near Denver City, Pixies Peak, and carried
off every article in the house, including a
large stove and two bedsteads.
Not less than 100 professional assassins,
says foreign letter-writer, obtain liveli-
hood by their peculiar avocation in Lisbon,
Portugal. -.
A negress drowned herself and child last
week, in a we'll near Wilmington, N. c., be-
cause she had been discovered in theft and
feared punishment for her offense.
man in Jersey City, in attempting to
kick O stone off the railway track, last week.
got the heel of his boot fast, and was killed
by an approaching train.
There are 100, 900 warriors on the right
side of the Caucasus, who are vigorously de-
Tending their independence. The capture of
Schamyl did not end the war. II z.
A ship recently set sail from San Fran
cisco for New York with sixty-seven pipes
of California wine. The shipment will be
regular hereafter.
A writer in De Bows ReUieU says, that
Milton's Paradise Lost is the most obscene
and with one exception the most profane
book he ever read. -g-
The Pope has a regiment of Zouaves, and
HhS DCGn LuuCh CiitlCibCu lOI ttlOpbluk l1lS
MosleIn garb for portion of the defenders
of the Church.
A small alligator was caught in the Passaic
River the ether day. 1t was about two feet
! long, and is supposed to have been taken
there in load of reeds from the South.
The Cincinnati and Memphis packet, Nep-
tune, was boarded by thieves on Thursday
while at the latter port and robbed of$l 900
in bank notes and drafts.
Washington banks have refused to dis
count any paper for sixty days to come and
great distress prevails in business circles in
consequence.
On Wednesday last, between fifty and
sixty persons were discharged from the ship
carpenters department at the Gosport (Ya.)
Navy-Ysrd.
The late Duchess d'Alba (sister of the
Empress Eugenie), was the arbiter of fashion
in Madrid, and was considered the queen OF
the saloons.
James @. Brown, an estimable citizen OF
Taunton, Mass, died recently from long use
of water drawn from his well through lead
pipe.
Two female servants had quarrel in a
kitchen in Liverpool, England, on the 18th
ult., and one of them, Jane Griggs, stabbed
the other, Eliza Wren, fatally with a toast
ing-fork.
EXTENT OF The RAG TRADE IN AN ITALIAN
CITY.-The Anndles du Commerce E1terisuT
gives an account of the present state of the
rag trade at Leghorn, Rags are imported
into Leghorn from all the ports Of the Medi-
terranean, the places furnishing the most
being Greece, Egypt, Tunis and Algeria
These rags on reaching Leghorn are divided
/ iuto five different cateOoriaa and then re-.
| exported. The quantity shipped off amount;