Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-31
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Savannah, Ga. l
The thermometer fell to 400 below zero at
Montpelier, Vt, on Sunday.
Auber's new opera AIeris, is in rehearsal
at Paris; the hbretto by Scribe. A.
Fruit-trees planted around barn. yard in-
yariably thrive well, owing to the abundant
supply Of liquid manure. .'' r
Major Middleton, a captain in the War of
1872, died on Saturday night at Syracuse, N.
Y, aged eighty-seven years.
L. Gallait, Belgian painter, is at Oaprera
at present, busy painting portrait of Carl
baldi. p"
The popular air of 'Dixie's Land" is the
composition of the late Stephen @. Foster, of
Pittsburgi Penna.
A lot Of live prairie chickens have been
shipped from Chicago, ILL.,, to Frankfort-on-
the-Maine, for private parks there. GA
President Buchanan has invited Gen. Dix
to remain guest at the White House during
his short term of Office. 90.
James H. Perry, printer, was shot by
another of the craft, one Hoag, in Galveston,
Texas, recently, and died a day or two after.
A little girl, six years old, named Donovan,
was scalded to death on Monday in New
York, by the upsetting of coffee-pot.
The deaths in st. Louis, last week, num-
bered only sixty six, of which forty were
five years old and under.
General James, of Proyidenre, R. l., has
declined furnishing any of his rihed cannon
for the use Of any of the seeding States.
Mary Shimoy destroyed herself in LINER
ick, Ireland, on the I'd inst, because her
lover had been killed by a locomotive.
There were ls,553,5I1 pounds of lead
shipped from the Galena (Ill.) mines the
past year, which was sold for 81, ,O29, ,443 10. .
1t is said that the Pope has recently dis
posed of some fine works of art, from the
Vatican, to the Emperor of Russia
The deaths in Brooklyn, N. Y, last week,
numbered ITO, twenty-eight less than the
previous week.
The Empire block was burned down at
Olean, N. Y, on Wednesday morning. The
loss is nearly $4,000.
The Pope being short of cash, is about to
"raise the wind" by disposing of the presents
sent him, in lottery. q H---o
Mrs. Catharine Hagey, the wife of a revo-
lutionary soldier, died at Nashville, Tenn,
recently, aged LOG years. err ra
The Vicksburg (Miss) Sun says the South
is extremely reasonable in her demands, and
Reasonable in her actions. aia
Arsene Houssaye, the well. known French
historian and memoir writer, is engaged on
the staff Of the Paris PresSe. -
Some political vandal knocked of three
stars of the shield over the door of the Su-
preme Court, at Washington, on Monday
night. -,.fu a'rs...
An alarm of FIRE at the Oswego IN. W
Savings Bank, proved to be two burglars,
whose dark lanterns betrayed them, but
they escaped.
A horse ran away at Pennington, Ct., on
Tuesday, and the sleigh careening, Joel
Beckwith struck his head against tree, and
was killed. ..' ...
A fire at Fall River, Mass, broke out on
Saturday night, In a boiler-room, and de-
stroyed the building and work-tools. The
loss is over $1,000.
Colonel Braxton Bragg, Of "a little more
grape" celebrity, and Captain j: X. Duncan
and j. M. Taylor, have been selected by the
Governor OF Louisiana as his aids-de-camp.
The Havana papers are publishing as q
JtHttttOH n llunoldbiOu Vi OCldF6 HGunlbL D
Romance Of a Poor Young Man, under the
title of Un JoVen PObre.
AIboni, the Marchisio Sisters, and Jetty
Treffz, are all engaged by Beale for the next
concert season, in London and the English
provinces.
Gluck's 0rpheus with Madame Viardot,
has had such a success at the Theater Lyr-
iquc, Paris that the management intend to
produce next Spring his Armide. TT1
In some places in Maine the snow is from
six to eight feet deep, and fears are enter
tanned that it will seriously interfere with
lumbering operations.
Mr.. Lyster's English and Italian Opera
Troupe, Madam Lucy Escott, pTima donna, }
after very successful California campaign,
have sailed for Australia.
Lucy Escott, the English prima donna,
was recently presented, at San Francisco,
with magifcent diamond cross, and q
breastpin oEnamented with pearls.
The swill.milk nuisance continues in New
York. The City Inspector says the sale of
the distillery- milk is as general as ever, and
thatmilk was never worse. " a
Ellen Oonran, the Irish prin1a donna, has
given concert at Rio Janeiro, under the
patronage of the Emperor and Empress of
Brszil, with the greatest success. Ifill
DR.. Charles Lowell, the father Of James
Russell Lowell, the poet and clergyman
well known in Boston for the last half een-
tury, died a few days ago. 'ii s-ri
The French and Piedmontese Governments
have sent officers to purchase 5000 horses
for their cavalry in Eastern Prussia. Already
1000 have been delivered. sl1s
No less. than seven co1inst each contain
ing its solitary remnants Of mortality, passed
over the New York Central Railroad on
Wednesday evening.