Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-15
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The Fire Department of Baltimore, Nd,
last year cost $50,7s3.
The cost of the Crimean war is said to
have been $250,00O,O0O.
In one family named Heron, in Franklin
County, Ga, six persons died in five days, of
smallpox.
The Rev. Henry Anthon, D. D., Rector Of
ST. Marks Church in the Bowery, died in
New York on Saturday.
Verdi is composing new opera entitled
the Blind Poisoaer, the libretto of which is
said to be full of horrors.
Five Italians choked to death in Florence,
during the week ending December 8, by
eating in too much haste.
DIR. Pierre Chepultier, of Paris, declares
pork poisonous, and that many persons die
oft every month in Europe.
Eight persons, two of them Americans,
were lately drowned by the upsetting of a
sail-bOat in the Bay of Naples.
A little girl, seven years old, recently fell
from the Arch of Triumph, in Paris, without
receiving any personal injury.
Two brothers were executed in Con-
stantinople in September, for numbering
their mother and father for money. i.,
& Samuel Thorne, of Duchess County, N.
Y, has recently imported from England, q
Southdown ram, at cost of s., ,250.
The number of children who have died
during the past year of scarlet fever, in the
United States, is estimated at 48, ,96l. 30 e
Lady Adelaide Keith Murray, an angel of
virtue and bene evidence, died recently at
Ochtertyre House, Perthshire, Scotland.
Mr.. Buchanan don't write for the New
York Ledger. He and Bonner made con-
vention to that effect, but Bonner seeded.
From the number Of States that are Sc
ceding, we are of the opinion that this Union
will be broken up by pieceful secession.
An agent of the French Government is
said to be now in England, deputed to make
an offer for the purchase of the Great East
eTn.
A young woman, ClarIsse Marbet, recently
committed suicide, in Marseilles, France, be-
cause she had lost her beauty by the small
poX.
Murders of masters and overseers by slaves,
in the cotton States, are every day occurrences
now; they were never half so common be-
| fore.
Thomas Lawrence, an American circus
ersault, in Vienna, recently, and broke his
neck.
A girl of sixteen, Jane Graham, died in
Exeter, England, on the 18th ult., as post
mOrt6m examination proved, from eating
slate pencils.
Measles are making broad sweep through
the central school districts of Shrewsbury,
Mass, nearly every house having one OF
more patients.
The custom of committing suicide with
charcoal (asphyxia) is becoming quite COM
mon in st. Petersburg, Russia, in imitation
of Paris, of course. --...
A poor laborer found a purse containing
fl00 in Liverpool, England, on the 30th ult.,
and was so IoverjOyed that he died of apo
plexy the same day.
. A writer in the Paris Steele asserts that
this century is eminently qualified to develop
the principle of love, and that this is the
golden 6ge of passion.
A new buffo opera, by Offenbach, entitled
King Bdrkolf, has been produced at the
Opera Comique, in Paris. Rumor speakI
very highly Of the music.
A boy, eight years old, living in Hooksett
N. H., in the winter of ls59-6O, chopped in
the woods eight and three-fourth cords o
wood, and corded itup.
A gOssiping Paris correspondent of thu
Manchester Guardian, says that Louis Napo
leon has no less than twenty different mis-
tresses. Poor Eugene.
A writer in a late British magazine, at
tempts to prove that William Shakespeare
never existed, and offers an elaborate argu
ment in defense of his position.
A gentlemen was recently challenged il
Paris for looking at the ankle ofa merchant
pretty wife, who was anxious, Of course, U
expose it in crossing the street. 'ie
Theold band of Mohocks, once the terror 0
the British metropolis, seems TO have reviye'
recently in London, as various rnysteriou
outrages are committed there.
The London Saturday ReVisW says Emer
son has the faculty of making nonsense in
terestingi but really possesses no. intellect.
He has not his mental peer in England
Benjamin Ukamp 4 Bros wholesale dry
goods establishment in Edinburg, Scotland
was robbed on the night of the 18th ult. {
twelve thousand dollars worth Of silks.
The New York Herald, in the twelve day
preceding December 20, circulated !, ,T73, ,4a
papers, daily average of n, l07; and in hv
days after the Sd inst, Alb, ,2s0, OF 92,658 pc
day.
Bishop Davis, of South Carolina, has al
ranged the prayers for the government
read, for the "Governor and those in al
. thority,". instead of the President, as herr
tofore. =
Two men in North Milford, Mass, settle
am election bet, few days ago, by prizl
fight. One of the parties has been closel
confined since the occasion, and will los
his eyes.