Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-14
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The Albany IN. " Lunatic Asylum now
contains 12O inmates.
A mad dog killed fifty sheep, at North
Brookfeld, Mass, on New-years night.
Eugene L. Sullivan, appointment politician
in California, won $4,000 on Lincoln's cleo
tion.
The famous Seventh Regiment" of New
E York, has decided not TO accept the invita-
tion to visit England. @
Why was Pharoah's daughter like bro
kerr Because she got little prophet from
the rushes on the banks.
A young Methodist minister in England
is preparing to start for Italy soon, to open o
Methodist Church there.
An escaping prisoner named Perkins was
shot, fatally, in New Orleans a day or two
ago. Hh.- ,tLT LII aGl
The receipts of the United States Coloni-
zation Society last year, from all sources, was
$l4,363.
Hon. Pierre Soule, at meeting of Coop
erationists in New Orleans. Friday night,
addressed the assemblage in French.
M. S. Crockett, formerly editor of the
Richmond (Va) Morning NeWs, died in
Wythe County a day or two ago.
The Belgian Minister Of Justice recently
declared against the abolition of passports in
that country.
In Best, France, woman died in Decem-
her, in the hundred and twenty-second year
of her ege
The San Francisco Gazette, Republican
journal, recently deceased there for want of
support.
Twenty patriots of the Revolution died
during the past year, eighty-two are all that
are now left. q F..T9 stsaa
An old woman who has used glasses thirty
years, has perfectly recovered her sight at
Salem, Mass.
Hiram Crafts was suffocated in the cabin
offs schooner at Portland, Me-, while she was
under fumigation to kill rats, the other night.
The whole number of postofices in the
United States is 28,69S-a decrease from
1853 Of forty one.
The imports of British Columbia for the
quarter ending September 80, were valued
at $3lZ32s.
An unknown suicide cut his arm entirely
round, to the bone, and soon bled to death,
at Marine, ILL.,, on Thursday.
James Harvey went into saloon in West
| Troy, N. Y, one day last week, took drink,
and while beginning to sing song, fell dead.
Some rowdies amused themselves at AL
bany on New-years night by breaking the
exposed windows nall the principal streets.
There is call loan in a Wall-street insti-
tuition which has been running since 1855
1t is abundantly secured, and could be called
in at any time.
The Buffalo IN. " Express says it is fast
becoming fashionable, in that city, for ladies
to wear the Balmoral without any dress
over it.
The intended performance of La ZFaViatd
in Berlin has been forbidden by the authori-
ties, on the ground that the libretto is unfit
for the ears of Protestant city.
A distinguished physician, who died some
| years since in Paris, attributed much of the
| mortality among infants to the barring OF
their arms.
Oliver Mansfield, of Currituck County, N.
| c., aged seventeen, was accidentally shot and
killed while hunting in Princess Anne
County, Va, the other day. -.
The ice Of the st. Lawrence, at Montreal,
| @. E., is so weak that number of persons
have fallen in, and two were drowned on
Monday. IN rlt.s-vrrs
A citizen of Webster County, Va, cap
tured, recently, two large panthers; one
measured from tip to tip nine feet and six
inches, the other six feet and eight inches.
Jacob Coif, excused himself from his friends
| at dinner, the other day, in Shenandoah
County, Va, and retiring, cut his throat
with razor.
Three highway robbers attacked man at
Schaghticoke, N. j., on Saturday evening,
and gave him fatal cut on his head, but OBJ
tanned no plunder. lIt &tA E
Agun exploded in the hands of a small
boy, at Yarmouth, Me-, on Saturday. The
| charge took effect in the head of a compan-
ion, killing him instantly.
Leonardo Demetri, an Italian engineer
while on visit to Yonkers, N. Y, with his
wife and daughter, fell off the foot-bridge on
Friday night, and was drowned.
The snske has been quite appropriately
adopted as the device on the Secession ban
ner. 1t is the shape which the Devil took tC
cause the loss of Paradise 10 our race.
For giving slave drink, in recompens-
ing him for showing him the road, Thomas
WNyson was fined $50 by the Mayor o.
Mobile.
A merciless landlord in Washington tool
| poor widows last bed for So debt, lately
leaving her with two small children to lie or
the floor.
The mail-bags have been rihed at Albany
n. T., several times since the Sd, and valu-
able haul has been had. The postmaster ha:
sent for Mr.. Holbrook to sift the matter.
la negro slave struck q white man, the
other day, at Thonlastille, Ca. with an ak,
cut his throat ffom ear to ear, and dlsem'
boweled his victim.