Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-25
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The French distillers are making brandy
out of coal.
Toast of the Dsunionists-The President
Long may he waver
Ledru Rollin proposes to return TO France
under the last amnesty.
The number of persons who arrive to the
age OF 100 years annually, in France, is 14s.
Samuel H. Black was arrested on Friday,
in New York, on charge of counterfeiting
copper cents.
|, Albert Broyer lost six children from
scarlet fever, during the month of January,
in Crittenden County, Vt.
Since 1851 600 naval cadets have Joined
the British Navy from the Royal Naval Col
lege.
( The manufacture of beet-root sugar in
France has fallen off the last year about one
fifth.
The price of Kossuth notes in Hungary
has advanced as much as forty to sixty per
cent.
From 1000 hills of hops planted one year
ago, in California, 1000 pounds of hops were
gathered last fall.
There are in England and Wales 100000
Sunday-school teachers, and 100000 Sun
day-school scholars.
The estimated number of persons indi-
reotly dependent on cotton manufactures in
England is 100000. t"l
In the year 1850, as appears by the census,
tne number OF slaves that escaped from the
South was l,011. st
The total number of new buildings erected
last year in Boston was 9S4, costing in the
aggregate $5,978,16l.
A writer in the Medical Times recommends
sulphur as highly efficacious in the treat
ment OF rheumatism.
In China, the owners of female slaves who
do not procure husbands for them are liable
to prosecution.
The copper coins at present in circulation
in England, are equal in weight to 5000
tuns, and in number to 500,000,000.
A gentleman of veracity" asserts that he
saw horses nose frozen in, while drinking
at trough, at Portland, Maine, last week.
The Spanish Carlists propose to proclaim
the oldest son of Don Juan, King of Spain.
He is yet minor, and his father objects.
Russia is rapidly extending her telegraphs
into the Amoor country, intending to reach
the Pacific and the vast country of Siberia.
Joseph Pierson, residing in Bucks County,
Penn, is said to have realized $5O0,O00 in
six months from coal oil in that State.
The weight of the cattle sold by public
auction in 1860, in Paris was IL 373, 924 kilo-
grammes. The pork sold amounted to /, l,090,-
1913 kilOgrammes.
The King of the Netherlands and Prince
Henry are making tour of beneyolence
among the towns recently injured by the
floods.
The walnut trees in Great Britain have
become very scarce, having been bought up
by the Government during the Crimean
War, to be made into musket-stocks.
On the change of Administration, March
q, there will be five living ex-Presidents OF
the United States-Van Buren,, Tyler, Fill
more, Pierce and Buchanan.
Two hundred thousand bushels of peanuts
are raised for export in and about Scots
Hill, South Carolina. They are more profit
able than cotton.
FIRTH, the English painter has had an or
der for picture, for which he will receive
engraving, copyrighting and all-$43, 750.
Ii is Life at Railway Station"
A man in New Albany, the other day, on
that in case there was no war he was forty
one, but If there was war he was forty-six.
In six of the public schools in Pbiladel-
phia drill exercise is taught by Capt. Harvey,
and with manifest good results. The cost to
the pupils is bat cent per week.
Henry Mayne, middle aged man, COM
mitted suicide near Augusta, Ca, recently,
because, as he said in note, he was too peer
to live. r.n.. ..tr
"Rev." Samuel Clutch, of the Methodist
Church, lately eloped with the wife of one
of his congregation, in Austin County,
Texas, leaving his own spouse behind. /
Mrs. Eliza Pritchard died in Exeter, En-
gland, on the Sd inst, in the 10th year Of
her age. She had been four times married,
and had had nineteen children.
a Out of 440 prisoners for life, sentenced
during the last sixteen years, IN New York,
there remain in the three State Prisons only
90; 243 have been pardoned, and l04 have
died. -lLI Ta II a.0
The millinery establishment of Miss, Still.
man, in Memphis, Tennessee, was entered
by burglars, on Saturday night, and robbed
OF about twelve hundred dollars worth of
goods.
A Quebec paper continues TO speak of the
"United States,D "because we must admit
the neighboring country TO be one until the
British Government recognizes its diYi-
siOnSp u t.a t.Ua Pro
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SURPLUS OF FooD ron ExPoRTATIoE.-It is
said that this country will have one hundred