Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-28
VARIR TIE ..

Wild ducks swarm in the river Susques
hanna, at Harrisburg, Penn.
President Lincoln is self dependent man;
he blacks his own boots.
A white elephant, held as sacred in India,
has been imported into Boston.
A store filed with merchandise that won't
sell, is the most improbable of drug stores.
"You can't do that again." said the pig
when the boy cut his tail off.
A shock of earthquake was felt on both
sides of the St. Lawrence, near Quebec, on
the 1lth inst.
Nearly all the bees in the south of England
have died this year. A person in the New
Forest, who had lac hives, lost every bee.
DR.. Richard Robbins, State Senator from
Decatur County, Ind, died, recently, at his
resident in Greensburg.
Robert Blakely shot and killed Michael
Ferguson on trading boat, near Henderson
KY, the other day.
Two sailing and six screw ships are fitting
out at Dundee, Scotland, for the Arctic fish
cries.
1t is proposed to have a horse railroad
through Broadway, New York. This should
have been done long ago.
Drunkenness is rife at Pittsburg, Penna.;
twenty-nine miserable sots were arrested on
Saturday night. r.,
The deaths in Brooklyn, N. Y, last week
numbered ll6, Of which twenty three were
women.
A brute, VIM. Cogswell, was arrested at
Pittsburg, Penna, on Sunday night, in the
act of dragging poor woman through the
streets by the hair.
1t is thought that the United States troops
will not be withdrawn from Texas, but will
remain to serve as basis for Union move
ment.
Charlotte Cushman takes great interest in
the young debutante, Misss kellogg, thinking
she discerns in the pretty PTiR,a donna all the
elements of great actress.
Frank Cross, about sixteen years of age,
of Gloucester, Massachusetts,, hung himself,
Friday night in his employers store.
Captain Thomas Warren, long known as
one of the most respected ship-owners in
Portland, Maine, died in that city Friday, at
the age of seventy-four.
The Pawtucket (Mass.) Gazette says there
is in that town single house which contains
seventy children, sixty of whom are too
young to labor.
Good specimens of copper ore are shown
in Montreal, from Black River Mine, Lothi-
nieIe, parcel of which is about to be sent to
the Longueuil Smelling. Works.
Nancy Coyle was burned to death, suffer.
ing intensely, at Sharpsburg, Penn; her
clothes took fire from CRATE in her bed
room.
A little child drank so much whisky, which
had been ungardedly left within its reach, at
New Orleans, recently, that it died in a few
hours.
A musical society 100 years old, exists in
London, and will soon hold its centenary
celebration. 1t was founded in l76l, and
called the mobility and Gentry,s Catch
Club"
Chadwick Kimball, of Bradford, Mass,
jumped from the bridge on the Merrimac
River, at Haverhill, Mass, on Friday, while
laboring under temporary alteration Of
mind, and was drowned.
The carriage of supplies to Charleston and
cotton to Memphis has doubled the business
of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad
since the commencement of the Secession
movement.
The heroic Mrs. Captain Patten, who, it
will be remembered, nursed her sick and
blind husband, and navigated his ship to San
Francisco, died at Boston on Saturday, aged
twenty four years. .....
Charlestown, Mass, contains a regular
mandatory for the adulteration of milk, the
whole of which is consumed in Boston
$l,5O0OO0 are annually paid for milk by that
city.
The amount of specie brought to this
country from Europe, from December 10 to
March l6, was SIS, ,320,455. During the same
time, about $5,OO0OOO of gold was brought
from California.
A buxom dame lately sued in London
court for divorce, on the ground that hel
husband was Objectionable because he wore
a silver nose. If it had been a gold one
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