Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-27
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Two emotions says Rarey, fear and anger,
true horseman should never feel.
Rooul Pugno, pianist and composer, only
eight, years old, is giving concerts in Paris.
There are now l, 200 United States recruits
at Fort Columbus, N. Y.
Tiberini, who sang here several years ago,
is to sing at the London opera this Summer.
Richmond to the Virginia Convention, is a
grandson of Thomas Jefferson. F
The banks of South Carolina report for
February, $l4952 486 cseital, SI649,41 cir
culation, and S ,393 25l specie.
l1 AT Bangor, Maine, the other morning, the
Thermometer stood at ten degrees below zero.
At Burlington, Vermont it was six below.
The dirt. cart men in New York have
struck for higher wages. A reduction has
been made under the new contract.
Money and time have both their value.
He who makes bad use of the one will
never make good use of the other.
There is nothing so true that the damps of
error have not wrapped it; nothing so false,
that a sparkle of truth is not in it.
The valuation of taxable property in New
Haven, Connecticut, foots up $26, 1899, l5O an
increase over last yeor of $2,9ls,4O5.
Mrs. Bloomer, inventor of women's short
dresses, has become one of the editors of the
City Item, at Waupan, Wis.
A new opera, by Gounod, called The
Queen of Shebd, is in rehearsal at the Thea
tire Lyrique, Paris. @ H.r
Jay Gibbons, a member of the New York
Assembly, has been expelled from that body
for trying to obtain bribe OF 500. -r
Mrs. Gladstone, the actress, is suing the
Philadelphia Press for damage sustained from
an unfaYorable criticism.
Up to Thursday no less than 10000 ap-
plications for postmasterships have been filed
in the Postoflice Department. -r r.
Henry Ward Beecher has prepared new
lecture entitled, "The Hive and its Honey"
which he regards as his very best.
Burch, the Chicago banker, and his wife
will not live together, it is now said, but are
negotiating for peaceful separation"
W. v. Wallace has retired from the pro-
fessional fellowship of the Musical Society of
London, and Jules Benedict has been elected
to take his place. t.,'' ..
The London papers all record the brilliant
success of WaIlace's new opera, The Amber
Witch. 1t will shortly be issued in this
country.
M. Duprez, the once famous tenor, with
his SOD, daughter and three most eminent
pupils, assisted at Rossini's last musical
SOiTse. ..r
With a due sense of their Importance, the
| New York Common Council have presented
themselves each with a gold badge, at cost
of $l2 or SIS piece.
Over 100 recruits for the regular army Of
the Confederate States, left Baltimore in the
Norfolk boat on Thursday, en- route fol
Charleston, S. O. VIZ
Gen. Winfield Scott, it is said is engaged
in writing full and accurate history OF his
many campaigns. The second volume ha!
been completed.
Our recent Australian advices speak of tht
failure of Davy Jones l. Co., of Sidney. W.
presume that somebody has been tamperini
with his locker. ......'
A rural girl on visit to the city, havin!
been asked "How she liked the country 2
replied, "Id like it very well If 1T was onl.
in the city"
AT Parma, new opera, Shakespeare, tn
work of young composer, Tomaso Ben
venuti, has been produced with signal sue
cess. .... .....r.
A new tenor, NJ. Ronzi, who is also
composer of some merit, is about to max
his debut in Paris. In Italy and in Spain b
has already had considerable success.
George W. Gilman, of Meredith, N. H
was accidentally killed at Center Harbor O
Tuesday, having been struck by leyer use
in moving building, .,.. ... .y,..
The cathedral of Halberstadt Germany
had an organ as long ago as the year 1856
1t was built by NikOlaus Faber, one of th
oldest organ builders on record.
As an evidence of the healthinass of Nan
tucket, Mass, it is stated that, among tn
600 voters in the town, l3O are upward G
seventy years of age.
The appropriations out of the Girar
estate (Philadelphia) for 1860 exclusive {
the College, were $l69,4S6 The grants ou
of the estate for. the College were $4,000.
} A Miss Gilmore was eourted by a ma
whose name was Haddock, who told herth
he only wanted one gill more to make him
perfect fish.
Some mischievous wag, one night, pulle
down turner's sign, and put it over a law
yer's door. In the morning it read, A
cOAAo va nslAt NS@AS -SAS'
. The mint in Madrid is about to reissue ne
gold coins of one and two dollars, chiefly fC
the purpose of replacing the silver coli
which is nearly all carried away from Spail
Mr. Forney, Clerk of the House of Reprt
sentatives, has disbursed nearly $7000C
since the beginning OF the late Congress; nj
a single item of his accounts having bee
disallowed, r....fy -.~-r ii ....,
Grisi and Mario, it is said, are engaged
give series of operate performances dn
ing Summer in the Sydenham Crystal Pa
ace. A theater will be erected for the pu
pose in one Of the transepts.
The Pittsfeld (Massachusetts) Sun, starte
in 1900, and one of the Oldest papers no
publishtd in the State, has several subscribe
who have taken and filed every paper stint
its commencement.
Recently, two little boys, in Freebol
County, Mimi, were playing at hangin
: when one of them got the rope 80 firm
Ground his throat, that the play ended in
! tragedy.
Patrick Skennell, of Bethlehem, N. 4
. has been committed TO Jail on suspicion
} having killed his wife. She has been mis-
3 ing about six weeks, when she was fouI