Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-09
VARIRTINs

during 1904 J0r6e times as many
came to this country as in 1860.
In Brooklyn, N. Y, 12O deaths occurred
during the week ending January5.
Three hundred marriages took place in
Paris on Saturday, 22d November.
A beautiful church has been raised to the
memory of George Herbert, in his own par
ish, Bemerton, village near Salisbury.
A little boy died after drinking a pint of
whisky, induced by some other boy COM
panions at Toronto, @. w, on Saturday.
A convict in Windsor, (vt.) State Prison,
locked the keeper in his cell on the 26th,
scaled the wall with ladder and escaped.
Professor Aytoun has been elected Honor
ary-President of the Associated Societies of
the University of Edinburg.
Ladders have been placed alongside the
wharves in Philadelphia, to assist persons
who have fallen overheard.
The midnight assassins of the Hill brothers,
in Kentucky, have been arrested and COM
mitted for trial.
Edmund Yates, who criticised Thackeray's
nose, is the London correspondent of the
New York Daily Times.
In fight between two Irishmen at Charlie
mont, Mass, last week, one bit the others
ear off close to his head.
Eugene Longuemare, of the st. Louis
Bulletin, has sold his interest in that journal
to NJ. Niedner, and retired from the paper.
The Pons Asinorum for new aspirants to
the championship of the world - Staley
Bridge.
The Philadelphia Press doubts whether the
actual resident population of New York is
equal to that of the former city.
The Philadelphia police appear to be very
efficient, rs burglars are captured almost
nightly there.
The best education woman can receive is
association with refined and cultivated
man of elevated character, with whom she
fully sympathizes.
Dora Shaw, the eccentric actress, is said to
be engaged in writing her biography, in the
form of a novel. If Dora tells all, her book
will be sensational.
Sharpers are going about the neighbor-
hood of Concord, New Hampshire, frighten-
ing the farmers with panic and ruin, and
then buying up produce at depressed rates.
The sexton found 800 bill while sweep
| ing the church at Plymouth, Massachusetts,,
recently; one of the deacons claims it, and
they have gone to law to see whose it is.
The Duke of Newcastle, Earl Clarendon,
and Mr.. Gladstone, were among the pail
| bearers at the funeral of Lord Aberdeen, on
the 2lst ultimo, at Stanmore, England.
Garibaldi has declined the invitation, re-
Gently extended to him, TO visit London.
| When asked by the deputation, he said: u
can not and would not leave Caprera at
present"
Arrivals at Philadelphia in 1860, from
foreign ports, 582; from domestic ports,
| 37,746. lnterments in Philpdelphia in 1860,
1l,7l4.
Rev. G.. G. Gubbns, vicar of Ballingary,
Ireland, lectured in Philadelphia few days
ago on "The Castles and Monasteries Of Ire
land in the Middle Ages"
The old Royal Palace at Linlithgow, Scot
land. is undergoing restoration, so that il
may present the same appearance it did be-
fore being burnt, in l745.
Several slaves have been arrested at Man.
chester, near Richmond, Va, on the charge
of naturalization and cQnspiring to form
an insurrection,
The clerks in the Boston Custom house
did not receive their months salary Oh
Saturday, as usual, no draft having been re-
eeived from Washington.
The two distinguished French huaRcs
Leyerrier aud DeLaunay, had a severe
tongue-icuf setto lately about astronomica
matters.
Fire Marshal Blackburn, of Philadelphia
has had fifteen persons convicted of arsoT
during the year 1860 He has nearly broker
up the crime in that city.
A female witness, detained in the New
York Perry abduction case, begged to b
discharged on certain day, as she was Il
be married.
A poor Irish woman named Mallory wa
burned to death at st. Joseph, Mo-, the othe
day, while endeaVoring to save some valu
ables from her burning dwelling.
On Sunday little girl, daughter of Ly
man Perry, of Skowhegan, Me-, was so badl.
burned by upsetting dish of melted suga
into her bosom that she died.
There are nineteen steam-engines in Phil
adelphia, twenty-five hand fire. engines an
b sixty-eight hose carriages. Total members
1923.
G.. f. Train, of Boston, in letter to tn
London Daily NsVs, enthusiastically offer
4 to 60 out to lay team road for horse car
riages from Tientsin to the Chinese capita
An English paper says that Lord Clyde
,, late Sir Colin Campbell, and the Duke {
Cambridge, recently honored tailor's ba
with their presence.
Owing to the marked inefficiency of th
Troy IN. " police, the Troy Citizens Corr
I have gallantly stepped forward and VoluI
} teered their services for night patrol.
1t is said that the editor of the Chdrlesto
, Mercury, who writes its fierce disunion art
{ cles, is one Gordon, native of Massachl
sets, who has been in the South but two {
three years.