Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-07
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The new staple of the Southern States
| Gun-cotton.
A lap dog recently brought $4,000, in
London, at auction.
The Old Eagle gold mines, in Virginia,
lately yielded ST. 020 in one week.
1t is reported that the Great Eastern will
sail for New York during the present month.
Rufus Sumpter Brothers committed suicide
in Yates County, N. O., a few days since, by
the inhalation of ohloroform.
Mrs. F. A. Tradewell was burned to death
in Columbia, S. c., on Monday night, by her
dress taking fire.
Look we'll to your daughters; sparks fall.
ing upon your house are often less dangerous
than those coming into it.
The report that Crittenden Coleman. A
grandson of Senator Crittenden, had been
killed in duel in Florida, is hoax.
A "White House. has been hired at Mont.
gomery, Ala, for the use of the President of
the Southern Confederacy, at $4,000 year.
Thirteen of twenty-five nunneries in the
City of Mexico have beeen Suppressed" by
the Government, causing much excitement
Snow. flakes, it is said, fell at Buffalo, New
York, Friday afternoon, which measured
four inches in diameter.
The gallant Major, of Fort Sumter, and
the fugitive slave before the Canada courts
are regarded by thousands of persons abroad
as the same individual.
'The earth," says Carl Ritter, 'fs star
among the stars; and should not we who are
on it prepare ourselves by it for the contem.
plation of the universe aud its author"
Anacletus Crcca, native and citizen of
Smyrna, in Turkey, graduated at the Ho-
meopathic College of Medicine in St. Louis
on Tuesday. ......
On Wednesday night the sash factory
of s. P. Iyey, at Wilmington, N c., was
destroyed by fire. Loss $4,000. No insur-
ance.
The soul, in its divinest moods, is ever an
orpban-a wanderer that kisses old grave.
stones, and dreams of old homes in new
heavens.
Body. snatching by Montreal (Canada)
medical students, has created a small riot in
that city among the friends of lamented de-
ceased.
In fit of detection from lack of employ
ment Martin Boggs jumped overheard from
steamboat, near Cairo, Illinois, last week,
and was drowned.
Our sugar maple tree has been planted
experimentally in the wood of Boulogne
and attempts will be made to acclimatize it
in France, for its yield of sugar.
An American correspondent of New
York paper, writing from London, says that
Spurgeon is the dullest and most disgusting
clergyman he ever heard in the pulpit.
A gentleman, just from Washington, says
he never saw such a change in Buchanan as
has taken place within the last ten days.
he has grown quite feeble, and complains of
ill-health. r-4 -.
N. Eugene Guinot, popular .testiIletonists,
has just died in Paris. His principal book,
A Summer at Baden. Baden, has been trans
lated into English, and extensively read in
England. D.. .a . .''r r
To travel, says the celebrated De Lacy, is
"to sre the devil habited in all kinds of
fashions, German, Italian, Spanish and En-
glish:" 1t is, however, always the devil
which we see. .a
The London ReView asserts that railway
managers, engineers, surveyors, officers and
counsel, as rule, soon lose their health, If
not their lives, in consequence of their
brains being Overworked.
1t is stated that there is great opening
in Spain for company to manufacture
wheels, tire, axles, and the ordinary ''plastn
of railways, there being at present none of
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