Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-13


Folks, are quite popular in England.
Near st. Paul, Minn., on the 5th instant,
six horses were frozen to death in one stable.
By transposition of two letters, Punch
makes the United States the United States
A Texas letter says that State will ratify
the Secession Ordinance by $4,000 majority.
In France Americans are considered the
most imperturbably cool people in the world.
Henry Ward Beecher cleared 81 900 in
Boston recently by the delivery of four lee
lures. ....r.,..-.
Captain John G. Foster, Captain of the
Engineer corps now in Fort Sumter, is ma
tive of Whiteheld, N. II.
Patrick Mullen, while intoxicated, mur-
dered his wife at Bridgeport ILL.,, day or
two ago.
Hereafter in Paris seats are to be sold at
the regular rate, so that all who choose may
retain them in advance.
God, according to Schopenhauer, the Ger
man metaphysician, is great will rushing
into life"
William Roberts was shot dead at his resi-
dence, near Lake City, Fla, on the night of
the 9Th, by some unknown person.
Two persons in Marshall County, I'll were
found in sled with load of grain the
other day, frozen to death. -
The night of the 9Th of January was the
coolest of the year in London. The ther-
mometer was 40 below zero.
The word Lent, in old English Saxon,
means Spring-so the forty days of the
Spring-time fast came to be called Lent
A man in London recently threw stone,
l. it is said, over the spire of st. Pauls Cath
edral-a feat never before performed.
James H. Picken, who served during the
Mexican campaign under Generals Scott and
Taylor, died in Philadelphia recently.
There are now 1904 inmates in the ehari-
table and criminal institutions of New York
city.
VIM. Abson has been convicted of murder
in the first degree, in Hudson County, New
Jersey, for poisoning his wife.
Business at Athol, Mass, is represented to
be very lively. The cotton'mills and shoe
business there employ large number Of
hands on full time. ..F.
ting at Worcester, Mass, Clark Fairbanks, of
Harvard, was found guilty of arson and sen
fenced to imprisonment for life.
MT. OODuen mas reJuru6u from AlglerS
He had an interview with the Emperor at
Paris, on the 23d ultimo, and then went to
London.
Prince Napoleon and the Princes Clothilde
are preparing for departure to italy, and are
to spend six weeks with Prince Umberto and
the Count dAoste.
During the progress of a bar-room fight at
Atlanta, Ca, recently, Henry Bates was
struck on the head with an earthen pitcher,
and killed. .... ., .
A German, at Frankfort on. the-R Rhine,
some weeks since, ate twenty-nine large
bologna sausages on wager, and, strange
to say, lived three hours after.
One of the greatest feats of pedestrianism
we have heard of lately, is that Of a young
scapegrace who ran through an estate OF
$4,000 in one year.
One-dollar bills on the Exchange Bank Of
Attica, Ind, have been raised to fves. The
work is said to be well done, and calculated
to deceive.
fThe brightest dreams awake to the dark
est realities" May we not say with equal
truth that the darkest dreams awake to the
brightest realities?
young woman, Catharine Bullitt, lately
diedin Manchester, England, as her physician
stated, from the effect of wearing very tight
garters.
Mary Harper and two small children wert
frozen to death near Quebec, Canada, on the
Sd instant, by exposure, having no place II
lodge.
A Paris physician of eminence declares thu
extreme cold of Siberia more conducive u
health than the temperature of any othel
; country on the globle. Doubtful.
In st. Joseph, Mo-, on the 5th inst, Mar
garet Haines was burned to death by a cam
phere-lamp explosion, and her husband, il
attempting 10 save her, shared her fate.
An English paper announces that Soutl
Charleston has gone out of the Union, an'
that Georgia, Mobile and Alabama are abou
: to follow.
: The Paterson IN. J,) Guardian says tina
: two men, Andrew Ackerman and Bartol
well known there, have been sacrificed to tn
mob violence Of South Carolina.
Joseph Cunningham, student Of law a
/, Huntingdon, Penna., died on Monday fror
. having swallowed part of the "wish-bone
: Of q chicken.
A citizen of GAINESVILLE, in this Stat
named Wesley Sherman, is missing, an
: idicAtions go to show.that he has been mul
T dered.
. The Charleston Is. o. Courier alleges tbs
Major Anderson destroyed fifteen thousan
dollars worth of Government propert
: 4 when he evacuated Fort Moultrie.
: The fifth volume of Lord Macaulay's III
: tory of England, ending with the death I
q William III, is preparing for publicauo
n | under the editOrshiD of his sister, Lad