Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-23
VARIETIES.

Cotton-Wooll
The atmosphere of Southern Italy is COM
posed Of oxygen, nitrogen and laziness.
DR.. Boyd is the author of The Recredhons
Of Country Pars0n. ..#..
George W. Cherry, rich banker, died in
Memphis, Tenn, a day or two ago.
The ratio Of deaths in Philadelphia, it is
said, is one in thirty, while in New York it
is one in thirty nine.
A novel entitled Secession, Coercion and
CIriI W0r-the Story of 1861, has Just been
published in Philadelphia. 'L
! A sectional view-Many people can see in
the portraits of an "Old Buck" only the
likeness Of "doe-face."
A man named Mulligan and Miss Good
win were fatally bitten by rabid cat, in a
Toronto (Canada) church, short time since.
F. Mallory Sutherland, residing at Null
berry Inn, Va, was beaten almost to death
by one of his slaves on Friday.
The. Alexandria (Va.) papers note the ar
rival there Of another consignment of cotton
Via railroad, from Memphis, Tenn.
A copy of Worcester's new Dictionary has
been ordered for each department of the
Government of the Confederate States.
A COW in Taunton, Mass, has favored its
owner with calf born with two heads and
three tails.
The younger children of President Lin
coin are said to be quite sick, and aPprehen-
sion is felt that they may not recover.
Nearly all the bees in the south of En-
gland have died this year. A person in New
Forest, who had lao hives, has lost every bee.
Cardinal Antonelli, the Pope's Premier, is
said to be compromised with some of Miress
operations.
Mrs Stoves new novel, AgneS of Sorrento,
will be commenced in the May number the
Atlantic Magazine.
Scribe had not been dead three hours be-
fore there were eleven candidates for the
seat he left vacant in the French Academy.
Ogden Yorke, son of Edward Yorke, Of
New Orleans, was killed by highwaymen,
while travelling through Mexico, recently.
There were LAG students attending the lec-
lures of the Medical College at Richmond,
Va, during the season just closed.
The st. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer thinks that
the river will open at that point by the lst
of April-about two weeks earlier than
usual.
The new one cent stamped envelopes are
now ready for distribution, and in few days
will be for sale at the principal postoffices
throughout the Union.
"Ls, ma, what are you beating John so
early for2" "Cause know he'll deserve
it to. night, and haze got to attend meetin'
them"
G. A. Adams an English pedestrian, has
undertaken, at New York, to walk 1900
miles in 1000 consecutive hours, on wager
of $4,000.
PetouJun peep of Day. is the name of a
newspaper, in the Chippewa language, Just
started at Sarina, by the Rev. Thomas
Hurlburt.
Rev. Mr.. Braueninger, one of the German
Lutheran missionaries of Iowa, among the
Indians on the head waters of the Yellow
Stone, has been murdered by the savages.
Isaac johnson, in endeavoring to shoot
mink, at Charleston, S. O., the other day,
seriously wounded Captain Stedman. Bril-
liant people, the Palmettoitesl
Margaret PartwelI, while suffering from
bilious fever at Columbia, S. O., recently
drank a gallon of fresh milk, and died,
thirty-six hours after.
Lieutent Slemmer captured four runaway
negroes found on Santa Rosa Island, near
Fort Pickens, and sent them to Pensacola to
be returned to their owners.
A small boy, son of widow Kinney, of
West Chester, Penna. was scalded to death,
a few days since, by falling into vessel of
boiling slop. ..-.. .r ...
A California paper tells of a marriage
where the bride had just finished her eleventh
year; the groom being twice her age and
| three times her weight.
In San Francisco, recently, a woman
hanged herself because her husband, whom
she had believed lost at sea, suddenly returned
home very much alive.
The guilty unpunished-While the present
crisis has caused many failures among bust
ness men, the traitorous leaders who caused
it escape without the suspension" they
deserve.