Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-04


The Kingdom of Prussia, according to the
last statistical tables, contained LIS physi- |
lcians, and l,526 chemists shops.
The report that the Moors in Spain had
refused to pay the remaining portion of the
war indemnity is officially contradicted.
The Charleston Is. o. Courier heads its
telegraphic account of the Boston mob "The
Power of Slavery"
The Wadhams Manufacturing Company,
in Wolcottville, Conn.,, has contracted to
make 100000 pairs of skates
Anthony Trollope, John Hollingshead and
George Lewes are the principal contributors
to the CornhiU Magazine besides Thackeray.
Poets may tell us that Art is long-but
who doesn't know that artists are always
short2
Louis Wilcox fell on the ice at Buffalo,
N. Y, recently, fracturing his skull, of
which he died.
The Washington monument was COM
menced thirteen years ago, and is still un-
finished.
The last number of the London Atheneum
contains a short but favorable review of Z.
G. Stedmsn's Poems Lyrical and Ldyllic.
A shilling edition of Emerson's Conduct of
Life is published in England despite the
unfavorable reviews of the AtheRRum and
the Critic.
The Fall River (Mass) Ne,cs says that the
eight cotton mills in that city which have
been running for the few weeks on three
fourths time, are now running full time.
The Caledonian (Scotland) Mercury ceIe-
brates its 200th anniversary by giving fac
simile reprint of its first number, the Murcu-
rius Caledonius.
The two first volumes of French trans
lation of German work called EnigmaticaI
Personages and Wonderful Histories, have
just been published in Paris. .-.-
Mr.. Marion, of Mariaville, Ne, was found,
on Monday Of last week.. lying in the stall of
a vicious horse, by which he had been kicked
to death. q ...
Bears are forsaking the mountains in Yale
| County, California, in great numbers and
committing great ravages on the settlements
in consequence of the scarcity of acorns.
A guy-rope gave way in the erection of a
store in Boston, on Thursday, and one by
one five huge granite pillars were knocked
down by the other. 0
A party of Indians deliberately cut an
Indians throat near San Joaquin, CAL, one
1 day last month, because he was over 100
| years old.
Bill Bright who seduced a woman at
Central Hill, Cal, recently, was found on
the evening of the 10th ult. with seven balls
through his heart
The leather inspectors at Philadelphia,
stamped 48O, 598 hides in 1860, nearly $4,000
more than in 1859; the largest number ever
inspected in one year was 496, 500 in 1855.
The notorious DR.. Eads, defaulter to the
School Fund of the State of Iowa in the
amount of 5000, is publishing paper at
Warrensburg, Mo.
Barnum will open branch museum at a
suitable locality in the upper part of Broad
| way, New York, as soon as proper build
ing can be erected. r. -.
/ Squlres, the table-lifting medium, from
4 Boston, is making sensation in Paris. He
has performed before Napoleon, and may
perhaps marry Russian heiress, as Hume
did. M
The Charleston Mercury recommends a
voluntary embargo on the cotton export,
for the purpose of securing foreign recog-
milton of the independence of'the seeding
/ States tt -
Tuscany is SO rich in metallic ores that
ships in the channel of Piombino have to
allow for the variation of the needle. Sar-
dinia has begun to utilize these mineral
riches.
A fire, supposed to have been caused by
spontaneous combustion, broke out in Whit
ney's ,armory,. New Haven, Conn.,, a few
nights since, hut was discovered and extin'
guished just in time.
Virginia Lorini, the daughter of Whiting
the New York actor, is the PTima Donna o.
the Italian Opera Company, at Berlin. She
has attained marvellous degree of facile
forid execution. Ha
/ The region about Green Bay, Wisconsin
was visited by the heaviest snow. storm
known there for five years, on the 10th inst.
the roads being rendered impossible by higf
drifts.
The City Council of Halifax, N. s., hay'
sent the Mayor and one Alderman to the
United States, commissioned to buy three
steam fre-engines, in consequence of thu
late destructive fire.
A man shoveling snow from roof il
: Portland, Me-, with rope round his body
slipped with a mass of snow the other day
and hung dangling in the air until takel
into window. ,.