Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-02
VA RTE TIES.

=. A special homicide bureau is proposed for
New York.
1t is believed that the escaped New Or
leans burglar, Robinson, can not survive his
wounds.
Thomas McElrath ST., has returned to the
New York Century, which has been much
improved
The twenty-frst volume of the Eacy-
cIopedtd britannica, the last of that work, is
nearly ready.
Henry Mcdonald died of starvation, at II
Hubbard-street, Chicago, on Thursday last.
Rum was the cause.
Seventy thousand persons, including port
ers, are now employed in connection with
the French railways.
A living palmetto tree has been received
by the editor of the New York DaV- Book.
from South Carolina.
William Harrison, formerly resident of
Holly Springs, was shot and killed in Sena-
toba, Miss, on Thursday, by Mr.. Gooch.
A marriage has just taken place in Paris
between the Prince Bibesco and a grand
daughter of Marshal Ney, Mile d'Elchingen.
There is poet in England, Jas. Onions
by name, whose forte, we should think,
would be to write elegiac lines and obituary
poetry.
= A lad named Roszler blew his sisters head
off in Charleston, S. c., on Sunday, with
an old musket which he didn't know was
loadedW
Eaton, the absconding Town Clerk of Mid
dieborough, Mass. leaves $4,000 liabilities.
in addition to $1,000 he has defrauded the
town of. a4'.t. FE
There is such a scarcity of silver at the
Philadelphia Mint that sufficient can not be
procured to alloy the more precious metal in
its coinage.
There have been 1900 sleighs manufac-
tured at Westboro', Mass, the present season,
valued at $4,000. The demand for them has
been active.
Long John Wentworth says: "Either
South Carolina must belong to the United
States, or the United States must belong to
South Carolina"
DR.. Cssimir Daumas, in an article upon
Medicis who first introduced into France the
use of the corset"
With many it is rare circumstance to
hear thing as it is told, rarer still to re-
member it as heard, and rarest of all to tell
it as remembered.
The New York Court of Oyer and Termi-
ner has decided that suspending the SEN
tences of convicted criminals is Illegal, ex-
cept by the Governor.
Mrs. Lincoln will be accompanied to Wash
ington by her siSsSr, Mrs. Edwards, from
whose roof she eloped with "0ld Abe" then
briefiess attorney.
The only child of the late Thomas Devin
Reilly, the distinguished Irish refugee, died
last week in Chicago, ILL.,, where the now
childless widow resides.
The New York Express says Church's
'Heart of the Andes" does not draw here,
which is of course untrue, as every thing
is the Express states.
At a silver-wedding celebration in Mil
waukie, Wis, recently, the groom dargsnt
presented to the happy old bride deeds for
property worth 100000.
The tax on bread and meat has been sup
pressed in st. Petersburg: the laws which
punish severely the sale of unwholesome
food are maintained in vigor.
Queen Victoria recently visited Oxford,
where her eldest son is at college. The
Prince of Wales conducted his mother
through the collegiate halls.
The head of Osceola, whose body was
buried on SulliVan's Island, is said to be in
the possession of one of his attendant
physicians, IN St.. Augustine, Fla.
D. O. Bloomer, of Council Bluffs, Iowa
husband of Mrs. Bloomer, of short-dress no
toriety, has been elected member of the
Iowa State Board Of Education.
A bald eagle measuring seven feet. from
tip to tip of his wings, was shot in West Med
way, Mass, on Saturday last, by George F.
Cole, with single rife ball.
A grocer of Tours has advertised his in-
tention Of giving TO the Pope ten per cent.
of his profits on the sale Of his chocolate,
called the Chocolate of ST. Peter"
An ARRAY occurred at OonnersYilIe, Ind.
recently, between two brothers named
Smith and a man named Wesley George, in
which the latter was stabbed to the heart.
A confidence man, calling himself A. H
Wainwringt, swindledA Washington jewelel
out of four hundred dollars worth Of jew
eHy on Christmas day, with bogus check
| A letter from Naples says that the bans O
that country is the greed for places. The
Kings Lieutenant has received over 4b,O0I
applications for places in less than threG
weeks.
OF the three Liberal candidates for tbs
representation Of the borough of Southwark
(LondoDl one isdeaf, the other blind, ant
the third is the we'll known Oriental trav
eler and explorer, tayard
The dwelling Of Michael MeOarty, opposite
Galena, ILL.,, wat burned on Thursday night
and his wife periA ea in the flames. McO
was arrested ON SUI sciOn of having caused
the terrible calamity.
i A duel came off on teesday, In New Or
leans, between two gentlemen, Two shot
were fired, and both parties wounded. Tn
first IRE was q single shot, as one of tn
parties had not his pistol eoeked.