Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-04
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bered eighty-thres.
William Estess was stabbed and killed by
N. G. Burton, at Hawkinsyille, KY, few
days ago. EsF .stE Eeft - sf6
Walter S. Hay, one of the proprietors of
the Memphis (Tenn.) EUening Argus, died in
that city on the 3lst ult.
The Orthodox Church edifce at South
Braintree, Mass was destroyed by fire on
Sunday night Loss about $1,000. -l1
A life Of William L. Haskell, the distin-
guished Tennesseean, is in course of prepara-
tion by George Baber, of Gallatin, Tenn.
The amount of coal annually mined in
Great Britain, and for the most part COM
sumed in that kingdom, is 66,OoO.00O tuns.
Several lnrge-sized Eficcson engines have
been ordernd for Spain, and a mandatory
OF these engines has been set up in Holland.
Can those ten-pounder guns shipped from
Pittsburg to the Secessionists be properly
called A-pounders of the Constitution?
Lamartine, in a recent letter, speaks of
the metropolis as "that forest Of America
which one calls New York. = ~ d. = ABS
Counterfeit quarter dollars are in circula-
ton at Charleston, S. G. They are dated
1881.
Gov. Seward is said to be preparing a
speech for delivery in the Senate at an early
day. -....-.
They are playing dramatization of vii.
kie Collins's Woman in White at Philadel-
phia. -.s.'-.... ..,r. st|-t
Christmas is said to have passed off very
dolefully in Charleston, S. O. The weather
was bad, and peoples spirits were low.
The King Of Siam has expressed his admi.
ration of American character by naming his
youngest son George Washington.
The works and correspondence of Alexis
de Tocqueyille, the great political philoso-
pher, have just appeared in Paris.
Maurice Sands's George Sands's SOM,
Mosques Ell Bogfons illustrated by fifty en-
cravings on steel, is very successful in Paris.
A sweet potato was raised last season at
Oyster Creek, Texas, that weighed twenty
nine pounds.
Louis A. Deville, of New York, committed
suicide at the City Hotel, in Augusta, Ga q
day or two ago. by cutting his throat.
A well. known dramatist and Htterateur,
NJ; Louis Lurine, the director of the Yaude-
vile in Paris, is dead. -. .-..-...
Joseph Martin Peregoy, well-known law
reporter of the Sln, died in Baltimore day
OF t"oPgo' -rK1 or EgEE a
The Richmond, (Va.) Examiner, has ceased
to be daily paper; but cessation is not to be
permanent. -.r
The citizens of Taunton, Mass, have
started q subscription for the purchase of q
sword to be presented to Major Anderson,
the hero of Fort Moultrie.
The ,Rhig, of Vicksburg, Miss estimates
that it will cost at the very lowest figure,
$4,000 900 to sustain that State out of the
Union.
Within two days after the delivery of his
recent speech, Senator johnson, of Tennes-
see, received l63 letters of approval from
Maryland and Virginia.
An attempt was made the other day to
flood Chicago, Ill, with counterfeit fives on
the Merchants Bank of st. Louis. The
guilty party was arrested, HARD
The French Minister of Public Instruc-
ton is about to interdict the use of tobacco
in any form iR- the educational establish
ments Of France.
Or. D. Hallway was killed at Memphis
Tenn. the other day by the accidental dis
attempting to take from his brother-in-law.
The Louisville (Ky.) DemOcrat has this:
Wanted TO nurse, by an able-bodied woman
in excellent healtb-llO Louisville Minute
men," -i--e''.-
On Hew-year's day, the ,lkase Of the Rus
sian Gear took effect, emancipating 100000
600 serfs, and making personal liberty uni
VersaI throughout his domintons.
The receipts of the Grand Trunk Railroad
show an average increase of ten per cent.
over those of last year, at corresponding
dates. fa 10 lS
The success of Edmund About's Rome
CoRtefpOrains increases daily, and il is pro- I
nOunced the chef d'eWrs ofthis witty yet
profound writer.
The inquests held in Chicago last year
were 348, including III inquests held upon
the bodies Of the victims TO the terrible Lddl
Elgin catastrophe.
Thomas j. Holton, editor of the Charlotte
IN. C.l Wig died recently from the effects |
Of being thrown from his buggy few days
Soup houses were opened in philadelphia
on Christmas. Only eleven persons called !
the tirst day, and they received thirty-thres |
pints ofsonp. y" i'I i'.f 'an- % ? ''i'alli
Charles Robinson, the great burglar who
was wounded and afterward escaped from
tne Vhaf1ty Hospital at New Orleans, has !
since been reeaptured. 4
During the past week 45O,O pounds of |
poultry have been shipped by the Camden |
and AmbOy Railroad for the New York
market. Il
4! The Florence correspondent of the ProVi- |
dence, tR. ~ Journal says that no less than
MY American families are now domiciled |
IN that city. w eft aa
Anna Maria Bennett, four aud han years