Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-18
VAHIM TIE 9.
ARRIVAL AND pIPAnFunu or TRAINS.


The city of Houston, Texas marshals a
police force numbering four.
The taxable property of Massachusetts, is
valued at 1915, 495, 1926.
There is no truth in the rumor that Fort
Gibson had been seized by the Cherokee
Indians.
Monagas, once famous Venezuelan chief
tain, was on January dying of starvation
ct Trinidad.
The value of foreign goods imported into
Boston during the past year was $39, 1893,
, against $44, III, 7ls in 1859.
A. J. Hinckley has contracted to clean
the streets of New York City for five years,
for $279,00o year. 81 ..f.at
; An Eastern admirer of Henry Ward
Beecher calls him the "Mirabeau Of the
American pulpit" 81 ID r
The Charleston Is. C.) Mercury notices the
result of the Virginia election under the
heading Distressing Foreign News"
The snow in northern Vermont is deeper
than has heen known for ten years past, and
has seriously detained the mails.
A man named McGrady, who. started
home, few miles South Of Joliet, Ill.,. was
found on Monday, frozen to death.
A flock of from 5000 to 5000 wild ducks
alighted few weeks ago on the beach near
Dieppe, France, apparently fatigued from
long flight. -.rg. > --
The other day, Mrs. Caroline Mahnken, a
German woman, living with her husband in
New York, died from the effects Of an abor-
tion recently procured upon her. D rro
A married woman, named Marvin, died in
Rochester, New York, the other day, from
the effects of an overdose of opium, taken in
fit of intOxieasion.' s,r7 r1g, A'r' -f---f
A contract for 1000 military coats for the
Palmetinello volunteers has been concluded
with New York firm, the coats to be made
| in Baltimore.
A man become insane by the recent loss
| of his wife, seized sleigh at Hartford, Conn.
| and drove furiously about the streets until
stopped by the police.
The clothes of a girl, Catherine Waters,
| took fire while she was dressing for ball,
at Boston, the other night, and her person
was fatally burned. .~,,.,..- .--
A wallet containing $500 was lost, re-
1 Gently, by John Webster, Palmer, Mass. In
the evening, an honest man, who picked il
up, Travelled eighteen miles to return it.
James Parton, 'tFanny FERNS" husband,
is engaged upon life of DR.. Franklin, and
will probably give the public another of his
minute biographies. --.-
A friend was lately asked the question,
'What is your fighting weight 2" 81 will
wait long while before do my fighting,
was the response. ...tlr qs7s-
Garibaldrs exploits have been done into
verse by Miss NJ. 3. Braddon, of London
who recounts the feats of the hero of Italy
in Spenserian stanza. 81 rE-
"a As a proof of the intense severity of the
winter In EnglandIa fine jack snipe lately
few into a warehouse in the heart of Man,
chester, Utterly exhausted. ttsl q H.
Brown, of the Auburn Guards, was re.
Gently killed by Belts, of the TnskegeC
Light Infantry, for insulting the latter
wife, at Pensacola, Fla. ~
Ascoundrel having grasped at young
woman's ankle at Utica, N. Y, on Monday
she promptly kicked him In the face will
her high-heeled boots, and laid him low.
More than half the conviots in Massachu
sets State Prison are under twenty-six years
old. The youngest prisoner is fifteen, an(
the eldest is seventy years old. ,v-- ...
E. II. Pressy has recovered $l75 from
l.
is to be doubled, for the bite of dog, a
Boston. .., ......7af
A gang of thieves broke into the rehearsa
room of the National Band, at Worcester
Mass, on Sunday morning, and stole sil
hundred dollars worth of music.
The soup societies of Philadelphia ar,
making strenuous efforts TO feed the suffer
ing poor; 4,493 persons are daily supplied
with bread and soup, and the demand is in
creasiDg.
The appearance of the ocean at Lynn
Mass, on Friday, was that of sea on FIRE
the vapor rolled up in immense volumes higl
in the air, overtopping the highest portion
ofNahant, ..-.... I-.tar n
Stewart, the New York dry goods mil
lionaire, was so much pleased with some
thing that Fanny Fern wrote, that he sen
her the richest silk dress-pattern he had il
his store. li q 1r BIO
Georgia offers to give up, on certain con
ditions the pieces Of ordnance she has take
from the United States. Does she mean
asks the louisville (Ky.l Journal this as
pieee-ofering2 fr.. nUe r.F.iV
Trust no man in this crisis, says th
RALEIGH IN. C.) STANDARD, who SAYS ther
is no hope for the Union,n He who does no
hope for the Union will not work to preserV
it. rl7IT--a fo1E
r-.aefa Qlf f..4Ir4 .NlfF fT
A writer in Tennessee paper says he
welded to Secession. Then all we have I
say, observes the Louisville GKy.) Journal,
that Secession, like q certain result in chess
playing; Is "a fool's mate" NHi /"
Mortimer Thotnsor, asDoasticks,p is 500
| to wed the daughter of. Mrs. james Parton
Fanny fFern.A AZ this Is his second con
! nubial enterprise, no more doubt can now
! entertained Of hisi idantity with his late CON