Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-11
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VARI EGTI ES.
There are twenty Protestant Churches,
and l04 clergymen in Paris.
NJ. de Lamartine's paternal estate at Milly,
France, has at length been sold.
What man wauts-all he can get. What
woman wants-all she can't get.
Because soldier frequently comes to a
halt, is there any danger of. his coming to a
halter2
It is authoritatively denied that the late
Gen. Moreau's daughter died a pauper, in
Brussels.
Who is the oldest actor? Why, "Super-
huous Lags," the veteran on the stage, of
course.
Felix Marshall, of Rockville, ILL.,, found
buds and blossoms on his peach.tree Christ
mas-day.
Mile. Titiens and Giuglini, ofHer Majesty's
Theater London, are, it is said, soon to sing
in this country.
The Petersburg (Va.) Gas Company have
reduced the price of gas from 81 to So 80 per
1000 cubic feet.
The Rome (Ga.) Courier says that on Sun
day night snow fell at that place to the
depth OF three inches. g5 ,s ap...
Daniel Parks was curbing WELL recently,
in Harmony, Wis, when the earth fell In
and crushed him to death.
Mrs. e. NJ. Simpson was taken ill at ball
at Fairfax (Va.) Courthouse, New Years
night. and died in few hours.
A girl, Amanda Robinson, was burned to
death the other day, in New Albany, Ind,
by her clothes taking fire at stove.
The prices of wheat, -four, beef, pork and
most Oregon products, are now lower than
was ever known in that country.
An exhibition of the paintings and unfin-
ished works of the late French artist,
DecamPs, is to be opened this winter in
Paris.
A machine has been invented in England,
which, being attached to the stern of a ship,
pumps her out with rapidity in ratio to
her speed.
Rufus B. Foster left lamp burning by
his bedside, in Durand, Wis, the other day,
and, the clothes catching fire, he was burned
to death.
A few days since, the eldest daughter of
Curtis Leighton, in Steuben, Me-, was burned
to death while her mother was out in the
barn milking.
A negro slave dray-driver, in New Or
| leans, is held on the charge of murder, for
wilfully running over little boy, killing
him instantly.
Signor Assoni, of the Italian sOpera, died
in New York on Saturday, of dropsy. He
had been, in his day, a famous performer of
bufo parts.
It is said that the Empress of the French
has intimated her intention of returning to
England next summer, and Of making tour
of visits to Scotland.
Randall Kinney, a free negro, from Hem
rico County, Va, and well-known race
horse trainer, was found dead at Charleston,
S. c., on Wednesday. 800
On Monday, Lueius t. Woodruff, a
planter, was seized by five of his slaves, near
Weldon, North Carolina, and his head
chopped off with an ak.
Five hundred feet of petitions for the re-
! peal of the personal---very. bill are said to
have been sent from Philadelphia to Harris
burg on Wednesday.
The schooner W. B. Darling, from Balti-
more, picked up off Chatham, Sunday morn
ing, the boats crew of sixteen men, belong
ing to the ship Emperor.
A nan, pithout hands, has been arrested ia
Wheeling, Va, charged with stealing horses
in Pennsylvania, and bringing them and
selling them in that city.
There are trees in Wisconsin that take two
men and a boy to look to the top of them
One looks till he gets tired, when another
commences where he left OF. ....
A party of calathumpians was fred into by
John West Franklin, Me-, last week, he moi
liking their wedding serenade; tin7par
musician named French was shot in the leg
Ida Ball, depraved young woman in Bal
timore, was found in the street recently
having swallowed, for the second time,
large quantity OF laudanum. Her life wa
saved.
A mail.carrier in Crawford O0Eaty, Iowa
was chased by wolves, few nights since
and finally compelled to take refuge in
tree, where he remained until morning, hal
frozen. .ff..EE .s-stt
The fortresses at Key West and Tortugas
on the Southern point of Florida, are among
the most powerful in the world and every
vessel that crosses the Gulf passes within
sight of bOthA 7r4Ft .I.
A distribution of 1000 francs, not having
been made, according to q decree of Carl
baldi, among the NeapOlitans, they have pc
titioned Victor Emmanuel that it be imme
diately divided.
A scoundfel took up two rails oppoit
each other on the Erie Railroad, near Corn
ing, on Saturday night. Happily the frozeI
ground allowed no settling, and the traiI
passed safely over. rV-uT
Telegtaphic wires from the reporting gal
leries of the Lords and Commons are to b
laid down 10 the offices of the different Lon
don newspapers, 50 as TO serve up the ora
lions hot from that locality, .'l ID
Miss Cynthia Demipg, of South Williams
town, n, r., died recently, aged eighty
eight, in the same house where she was born
never having been outside the limits Of he
native town and New Ashford :. a