Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-30
" a RIE TIE ..

Biblical authority for paWning--put up
thy sword.
The best man for taking 'trial balance
Blondin.
Northerner's reply to the disunionists-
you be hanged.
The New Orleans fire department is to be
militiaized. .....
A drug exchange has just been organized
in Philadelphia - u LF r
The worst kind of tax on mans temper
tacks left sticking up inside his boots.
Victor Hugo styles the printing press "the
formidable locomotive of universal thought"
Wheeling, Virginia, has only thirty-one
slaves in population of Il, ,3l5.
O.J. Wise, of the Richmond Enquirer, has
been elected Captain of the Virginia Blues.
DR.. 7. F. Strachan, the Oldest physician in
Petersburg. Va, died suddenly last Thursday.
The Senate of Tennessee has passed the
bill appropriating $5OO,c to arm the State.
A sister of John G. Whittier, the poet,
died at Amsbury, Mass., a few days ago.
A proposition to pay for the United States
property in Georgia, has been submitted to
the convention ofthat State.
~ Delave, the rope dancer, is performing on
the tight.rope at minor theater in Havana.
Ella Zoyara is also performing in that city.
The Gazette Office, Wyandotte, Kansas,
was totally destroyed by fire, together with
several other pieces of property, on Saturday.
Seven buildings in the notorious locality
known as "Vinegar Hill" in Syracuse, New
York, were burned day or two ago.
TI,o Irnn,x, - tgNTnI
Buntline," was sent to prison in Troy, New
York, the other evening, for swindling.
VIM. s.. Bachman committed suicide in st.
Louis, Mo-, on Saturday, on account of fl
nancial embarrassment caused by the panic.
An authors writings almost always be-
tray the soil and climate in which his mind
began to grow.
John S. Jackson, proprietor of the Phila-
delphia SuHddy Transcript, died there re-
Gently. He was Turner in early life.
Several panthers have been seen lately in
Tonawanda Swamp, near LockPort N. Y,
and hunters have gone in search OF them.
A man lay down before fire near Du-
buque, Iowa, the other night, and his clothes
igniting, he was burned to death. ,-r1,
The Kingdom of Prussia, according to the
clans and ,526 chemists shops.
Several ladies regularly attend tho lee
lures of professors of the University of st.
Petersburg, and take notes like students.
Lemuel Gilbert, the Boston piano man,
has been banished from Shreveport, Tenn,
by vigilance committee, because he voted
for Fremont in 1856 a.
The Directors of the Hudson River Rail-
road have determined not to transport arms
or munitions of war to any part OF the dis
affected section. as. .#I.|.
Three. young highway y-robber girls have
been convicted at Boston, having knocked
down Eliza T. Peterson and robbed her of
her hood and shawl.
Two new English magazines are issued in
London; zone of them is called Undertaking
Things, and the other, conducted by the au-
thor of John HaIVd1. a.
Rev. John Talbot, we'll known in north
western Virginia as Father Talbot, Metho-
dist minister, died recently in Lewis County,
Virginia. -.-r r
A correspondent of the Richmond Dispateh,
from Louisa County, Virginia. gives an ac-
count of a sale of negroes there, averaging
$l,lO0. 4or
We know man who, whenever he pro-
poses TO abuse any one like pickpOcket,
begins by telling him that he means to be
frank"
The head keeper in the shoe-shop of the
Auburn State Prison has been suspended on
account of the escape of Sam. Haskins, a
convict, recently, .,--e Z.
The students at st. Timothys Hall Insti-
tuition, near. Baltimore, Nd, recently broke
up the school, because the Principal was sus-
pected of fRepublicanism.
John Graves, a ruralist, was recently
robbed by sWindler at Memphis, Tenn, of
his carpet bag, containing $4,000, all the
money he had in the world.
Z An attempt was made to blow up one of
the market houses in St. Louis, Mo-, re-
Gently with fifty pounds Of powder; but
the diabolical plan failed. .-...-.
A Mr.. Sanders while asleep lately in his
state room, on the steamer California, at
New Orleans, was robbed of $1,000 or 81, 100
in money and jewelry. gi.l tff.. q
The Secretary of the Federal Treasury
acknowledges the receipt, by mail, of $40,
Belonging to the Government" by some
| person unknown.
The Mexican prize steamers General Mira
mon and Marques dc Ia Habdnd, were sold at
| New Orleans on Saturday, The Former
brought $l0, 500 and the latter $4,000.
The salaries of Italian singers is extrava-
| gantly high in Paris. Mme. Alboni receives,
for the season, 72,0OOfs and M. Maria lb,OOOf
per month.
A. passenger car got away, on down
grade, at Stamford, Oonneetieut the other
night, from the mao switching It. II went
through tue end Of bnilding and half way
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