Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-16
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The deaths in New Orleans La, for the
week ending Tuesday, numbered LOG, Of
which fifty-two were children.
&C. Conner was frozen to death in driY-
ing team from Winchester to Paxton, Mass,
the other evening.
A knave has been arrested at st. Louis
for gathering subscriptions for bogus be-
reaved widow and five small children.
The story of Tom Sayers's arrival in this
country, in the Canada, is bosh. He is still
in England.
An aged woman was found standing
against fence, frozen to death, near New
Hartford village, N. Y, on Thursday.
A little boy pulled basin of boiling water
on himself, and was scalded to death, at
Schoharie, on Saturday. CID
A poor, shelterless, blind man was found
in the streets of Buffalo, nearly frozen to
death, on Thursday night.
Why is a solar eclipse like woman beat
ing her boyH Because it is hiding of the
un.
The cotton wadding factory of NJ. Gorgas,
Friday night. Loss, $4,000; no insurance.
Goddard & Co.'s Bank, of Canton, N. Y,
has failed; but the billholders and depositors
are secured. aH
A contract is now being executed in Phil
adelphia for the manufacture of a number of
cylinders of compressed gas, to be shipped to
England.
Since Secession troubles have begun, a
Boston house has sold 1000 sets of infantry
and rife equipments, which have been sent
South. ,s'--
Willard Jackson was instantly killed at a
jewelry establishment in Providence, R. L.,
on Monday, by piece of steel which, flying
from his work, entered his groin.
In the Boston Directory there are 305 Sui
liyans, sixty-four of whom are Johns. One
of the latter complains that he "seldom liver
gifts his litters riglar."'
There are about /, 100 Indians in the State
of Maine. They are the Penobscot, number
ing about 525, and the Passamaqoddy, num-
bering about 5T5.
The Norfolk Hosiery Company, Connecti-
cut, have sold ten thousand dollars worth of
knitting machines the past year. They are
now running full time. ..r'4 .
A large steam. carriage, somewhat similar
to an omnibus, was tried recently in Paris,
and worked with the greatest facility, with
out either noise or smoke.
Two negro slaves, gambling in the woods,
on Sunday, near Thompson, Georgia, quar-
relied, fought and killed each other on the
spot.
Two burglars twelve and fourteen years
old, were arrested at Newark, New Jersey,
on Sunday, for an ingenious robbery at a
clothing store the week before.
A travelling Snowman, who two months
ago seduced young girl from boarding
school at East Fairfield, Vermont, has been
arrested at Albany.
Giorgione, the italian artist, declared that
the loyliest woman possible looks like fury,
after rising in the morning from her slum-
bers.
{ A little girl the other day rocked the
cradle, containing her baby sister, so hard
as to throw her out on to the red-hot stove,
and burned her dreadfully, at East Boston.
VIM. D. Westcott, a New Orleans mer-
chant, was recently murdered in Palestine,
Texas, and his suspected murderer, negro
boy, hanged by mob.
The essentials ofconsistent and unvarying
politeness are beneVolence, perception, and
a perpetual self-eommand and readiness fol
self sacrifice.
Boldness is blind; whereof it is still in
counsel, but good in execution. For in coun'
sci it is good to see danger; in danger, not tC
see them, except they be very great.
The mind of man of genius is focus
which concentrates into one burning focus
the languid lights and fires of ten thousand
surrounding minds.
A burglar was arrested, last week, II
Dauphin County, PENN and fourteen bibles
and five hymn books, which he had stoleI
from church, were recovered.
Rabelais thought that women were tht
creatures of the devil, and that God per-
mitted their existence that they might tor
ment men.
A flaw of wind struck two ice-boats, a
| Poughkeepsie, on Wednesday, and they
colided.' Three gentlemen were severely
| injured. r- '.'
Sir Isaac Newton's house still stands il
London, but the place, where his great min(
worked, is rapidly falling to decay, and j
now used as poor-school. ..lIr
Rocking chairs are an American inven
tion. twenty-five years ago they were sen
/ to Europe as presents, and in France wer
then regarded as great novelties.
The ice gave way in pond at Elizabeth
n. j., on Monday night and precipitatet
thirty boys and girls in eight feet Of water
all OF whom were rescued except one lad.
The Baltimore boot and shoe trade is un
usually brisk The amount of New England
work sold there during the past year wa
valued at $2,650,OOO, and of home manufac
ture 81, ,Te5,000. p ll alsi., ,Ii.. ..IE
The winter has been mild at Lake Supe
Tior, the harbor being open at 0nt0nagpl
January. 10 when usually there Is ice froI
one to two feet thick at that time Of th
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