Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-23
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The weight of the earth is estimated at
l,25e, 1876 97o, ,OOo, 900, 100000, 900 tuus. b.
A writer in the Ohio CtiltipGtor urges:the
value Of cows for farm labor instead Of oxen.
Don't say you never take suppers, except
ing where you know they never give any.
Small pox has made it's dreaded appear
apce in Warren County, Kentucky.
A tax of $50 is required by the municipal
law, to be paid on each free negro brought
into the District of Columbia. d
It 10 rumored that General Buckley, X. @. .
O., has been indicted for treason in the Fed.
eral Court.
II is stated that the Cloverport (KS.) Coal
oil mandatory was destroyed by fire on
Saturday.
In the eleven years prior to 1859, the
Irish Of America sent over $4,000 TO Ire
land. Epa llf Ell tH
Ifyou intend to do d good thing, don't
change your mind and if you possess Eve
dollar bill, don't change that. '--
DR.. Henry Caswell, PrebeDd of Sarum,
has work in press called The Americdh
Clurchand The AmeJican Union. fJ
President JEFF. Davis's salary is $25, 900,
and the members Of the Southern Congress
voted themselves only 5000 per year.
Gov. Floyd expresses high opinion of
riHed cannon. What's his opinion of rifled
Treasury ..- fLtIT RI E-tir
Our Southern exchanges represent their
growing crops as spromising an extraordinary
large yield.
The man who was a "picture of despair
has been set in 'serious frame of mind y
and hung-in the back parlor.
Old Abe, says the Louisville (Ky.) Journal
has put down his foot, and it is said to be q
foot and half-by measurement.
The authorities of Boston have deter
mined to have two balloon asCensions from
the common, on the Fourth of July, at an
expense of $1,000.
In late number of his paper, Garrison
says; "When think of the warlke farce the
South is playing, | can hardly keep my
countenance."
The working men and mechanics of Balti-
more have petitioned the city authorities for
further appropriations for their relief, they
having already received $4,000.
A ridiculous rumor is prevalent in Italy
that the Federal Government has selected
Garibaldi as its commander against the cot
ton State rebels.
Mrs. Crawford, widow of the late sculp-
tor, has given her husbands valuable col
lection ofcasts to the Commissioners of the
New York Central Park.
The Richmond (Va.) Inquirer thinks that
thousands in the North will give aid 10 the
South. We greatly fear that it will only be
cannon-aid.
The editor of the Richmond (Va) Exam.
iRer advises his subscribers to file his paper
All the filing in the world couldn't make
it sharp.
A brute pamed John ]. Herring has been
arrested in New York for outraging the per.
sons of seven school girls, from twelve tc
thirteen years Of age.
An exploring expedition, partly scientific
| partly sporting, is about to start overland
| from Shanghse, in China, to Sinila, in the
! Himalays Mountains, opening up nearly
unknown part of Central Asia.
| A young woman living near Newburyport
Mass, has been so haunted by the spirit of {
deceased negro burglar, that she recently
endeavored to escape the torture by poison.
ing herself.
A Secession paper says that the Secession
lists want peace. We always thought re.
marks the Louisville (Ky.) Journal they
would be "found wanting"
The Vicksburgh (Miss.) Whig hoists thu
names of Jefferson Davis for President, anG
Alexander Fl. Stephens for Vice. President
| Of the Confederate States, at the first elec
ton.
An Alpine Avalanche of immense extent
fell in the Savoy, recently; fourteen cot
tages were swept away, 400 head of cattlC
perished, and twenty families were reduced
to ruin. Three persons were killed.
De Tocqueville, the learned Frenchmau
in his great work, Democracy in America
says "There are two things which Demo
cratic people will find very difficult-to be-
gin war and to end it." That is Just wha
we are trying on just at this time.
Baron Hochbein, of Prussia, has gone VI
the Nile to explore its sources, with sil
scientific personages and thirty attendants
| He also proposes to visit the Soudan, whert
no European travellers have been.
The salt formed in the boilers of large
steamer would, if not prevented by blowing
off or surface condensation, amount K
twenty tuns per day. We observe in thu
last number of a late English scientific journa
several notices in reference to this subject
A considerable number of rich Arab chief
have arrived at Marseilles on their way Il
Mecca. They are provided with French
passports, of which they are very proud, anC
which will be protection to them in thI
inhospitable regions through which they ar
to pass. l.lf
Two revengeful brothers, Robert ant
! Simon Agens, waylaid Shubald Hudson
!. at Bernardsville, New Jersey, on Wednes
day evening, and beat him in murderou
| manner The poor man had one eye knOeke
out, an ear cut off and his head shoekingl,
cut; his injuries are likely TO prove fata
| The murderous AssaulteTs fled.
A married lady, alluding to the l4st
Psalm, observed that while "young men an
maidens, old men and children" were ez
pressly mentioned, not a word was sal
about married women. An old clergyman
whom she was addressing, assured her tha
she would find them Included in one of th
preceding verses, under the description {
Vdpors and storms
A BOGUS MAN ON THE TRAoK.-The Clarke;
vile (Tenn) Chronicle is responsible for tn
following:
On Monday morning, as the train fror
Springfield was approaching town, on turn
ing short curve, the engineer discovered
man lying on the track, across one of tn
rails, only little way ahead of the "ma
chine" The bell was rung-the brakes a
whistled down, and all hands leaned back
help TO stop her, The train was brought to
stand, and hands sent out TO remeve th
man, but, lol and behold on nearing th