Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-01
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in the morning, and mist at night.
Half million packs of cards are made
annually in London.
A new post-office has been established at
West Baden Springs, Orange County, Ind.
Senator Benjamin declares he will prose-
cute for libel some Of those who have pub
lished him as thief
A mob visited and partially demolished
two or three houses of illfame in Vicksburg
a few nights since.
Courting has almost been reduced 10 an
art; it can be gone through with as one
plays on the guitar-by little tfnger-rirlg.
A Manila man named Paulo was stabbed
to the heart by an assassin in Mobile, Ala,
few nights ago.
To the man efstrong will and giant energy,
possibilities become probabilities, and proba-
bilities certainties.
Mrs. Ann McTsgue has been arrested at
Albany, N. Y, for the murder of her child,
by placing it upon piazza to freeze to death.
It is to be feared that the quality of ten
derness is much more frequently found in
beef. steaks than in husbands or wives.
Eschines, the Athenian orator, in his old
age turned pertumeT, because he was dis
gusted with fame.
japanese Tommy is said to have either
died of delerium tremenS, or to have been
decapitated since his return home.
The wife of Mr.. Newson, residing in Henry
County, Ala, wss recently burned to death
while drying her dress before the fire.
A maiden of forty. five lately induced a
youth of nineteen years to elope with her
from Madison, Va.
Eight prisoners escaped from the Tippe-
canoe County Qnd.) Jail, at Lafayette, day
or two ago, and have not been arrested.
He who labors for mankind, without o
care for himself, has already begun his i'm
mortality.
George P. Marsh, of Vermont, predicted
that Mr.. Buchanan would be the last Presi-
dent of the United States.
About $4,000 bushels potatoes have been
shipped from Belfast, Me-, 10 Boston and
Southern ports the present season.
A fast young man was cowhided by a
woman in Lafayette, Ind, the other night,
| because he had made some disparaging re-
mark about her virtue.
The largest snow-drift in Massachusetts,,
| lies near the town of Florida, and is thirty
feet in depth, and one-third of a mile in
length.
Seventeen members of the new company
recently formed at Currituck G. H., N. O.,
are six feet three tall and many others above
the medium hight. .--rr
A father and son named Pritz were
drowned in Bayou st. John, near New Or
leans, the other day, by the overturning Of
skiff. ed
The store of Darrcott, Harris & Co.,
Richmond, Va, was entered, recently, and
robbed of two thousand dollars worth Of
clothing.
The house of Henry Ferris, in Montgom-
cry, N. j., was burned the other evening,
and a child of Mr.. F.'s destroyed in the
flames.
H. F. Gorin was drowned in fording q
creek near Cadz, N. Y, on Monday. When
his body was recovered, $45,s5O were found
in his pockets.
Mrs. Causin died literally of broken heart
recently, at Little Rock, Ark. She was the
mother of Hon. j. M s. Causn, who deceased
at Cairo, ILL.,, some weeks before.
The Hudson Bay House, in Montreal
Canada, has been purchased for the Congre
gational Nuns, for the sum of f2,050. They
will take possession on the lst of May.
Last Friday two men named Peteat anG
Laws had fight near Memphis, Tenn, and
both were killed, one being shot and the
other cut. ..
Mitchell de Richardville died at Vinceunes
Ind, on Wednesday. He was a descendant
of the old French settlers of that section, anC
served in the war of 1912.
The Commercial Bulletin states that thu
Boston mechanics connected with shipbuild
ing never had such an abundance of work a
during the present winter.
The Syrian Relief Committee in New Yorl
have completed their work, no further ali
being called for, the amount raised in sil
months by them being $4,000.
A Charleston correspondent of a New Yorl
paper writes that the Quartermaster of th,
South Carolina army wants 5000 pairs o
shoes and 1000 uniforms for his troops.
A Virginia negress, lO7 years old, died il
Louisville, KY, on Monday. Her mind ant
eyesight remained unimpaired up to tn
hour of her death.
Oliver Everett Durivage, a well;knoWl
actor and dramatic author, died, at Ohslsea
Tenn, lately in the forty seventh year Q
his age. He was nephew of Edwar
Everett.
A Norfolk (Va.) paper says that Mr.. "
A. Graves is busily employed in cutting a
10000 cubic feet of white oak, for gun car
riages, to the order of the Tredegar Work
; at Richmond.
There are several powder mills in Sout
= Carolina. One is in the Pickens district, nC
: far from Wahalla, built some years ago b
MSjer ]. A. Wagner.