Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-07
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Rosa De Nrles Is singing at Amsterdam.
Flotow has composed new opera called
La VeuVe Grapin.
Gazzaniga is winning new laurels at Lis
bon in "Luisa Miller"
Meyerbeer's Dinorah is meeting with !
great success at st. Petersburg.
Cambridge, Md, was lighted with gas, for
the first time, on Saturday night.
The liberty of the press has been consid-
erably enlarged in Spain.
When our hatred is violent says Roche
foucault, we sink beneath the level of those
we hate. 'l'
Elder down petticoats are now worn by
the English ladies, in consequence of the
cold weather.
Edwin Booth performed "Macbeth" last
Monday, in New York, for the first time,
with fair success ttl 81
Fourteen men are now confined in the
'Tombs," in New York City, awaiting trial
for capital offenses.
Jenny Lind Goldschmidt, on the 9th inst,
while in England, presented MI. .Goldschmidt
with another son. 9.t H'
There are twenty-five savings banks in
Rhode Island, holding $s,l63, 76O, belonging
to 30, 405 depositors.
Applications for patents are made as usual
from seeding States, and are acted upon as
| ifthe Union was intact.
Easy tillage and scanty harvests charac-
terize that Kind of fancy farming known as
raising expectations"
The emancipation of the serfs in Russia
will be finally effected by an ukase in the
month of March next.
An attempt is making in England, by nu-
merous societies for that purpose, to obtain
repeal of the duty on hops.
There have been seven thousand dollars
worth of goods obtained from the New York
Custom-house by forged vouchers.
The municipality of Naples distributes
$4,000 loayes of bread each day, paying the
difference of two sous to the bakers.
The autobiography of the celebrated Mrs.
| Delany has appeared, edited by Lady Liam
over-a very curious and instructive memoir.
| Streetsboro, in this State, is healthy
| place. 1t has about loo inhabitants, yet
but one person died there during the last
year.
New Workers conduct their public wor-
| ship with more pomp, circumstance and ex-
travagance than any other people in the
world. ..-.--..
John Jolly, while drunk in New York,
threw boot at his wife, the other morning,
missed her, and striking an infant, killed it
instantly.
-Crescimano, who failed at our Academy of
i Music, has recently made successful debut
/ in "Lucrezia," at the Carlo Felice Theater in
| Genoa. .... -.-4 -I" f-
The man who would shine in conversa-
ton, must possess original ideas and strong
sympathies-be able both to communicate
and listen.
| Recently, woman obtained divorce in
| Defiance County, in this State, and married
/ second husband in the afternoon of the
same day.
La Grange has recently met with tri-
umphant success at the Victoria Theater,
Berlin, in LuersziG BoFgid, with M. Carrion
as the tenor. -L-.
Many men die martyrs, and then have an
impartial Judgment passed upon their lives,
just as the posr whales are killed first, and
tried afterward. es
Willis Wilson and II. e. MeGrow, were
shot and wounded, from house of ill-fame
in indianapolis, the other night. The per-
petrator has been arrested. y
\ An opera, Ls Mari sans le SdUoig, which
has recently been successfully produced at
the Bouffes Parisiens, is said 70 have been
composed by the Count de Mouy. Io
4 "No smoking allowed here" said the cap
tain of a steamboat to a cigar-pufhng passen-
ger, an Irishman. "And surely" answered
Pat Pm not smoking aloud"
Heroic toll, and silence, and endurance,
says Carlyle, lead to the high places of this
Universe, and the golden mountain-tops
where dwell The Spirits of the Dawn.
Abraham Lincoln is model husband
For three successive nights, each stormy
with snow, he waited at the Springfield
Railroad Depot for the return of his wife.
One day last week man named jaime.
Wilson stopped boy driving sleigh, neal
. Williamsport Pa. took off the cutter and
horse, and the boys watch, and sold them,
"A new tenor, Labat, has appeared at Paril
in La JlsVe. In power of voice he is hardly
, inferior to Tamberlik, though not 10 be com
. pared with him in musical science and dra
matte energy. ..a5.sa .as ,ri.
.Liehtning-Rod Spooner was the meanes
man out. He begged his last winters Woo
of Ase Gregory, and then tried to knocl
! Ase down because he wouldn't haul 1t L
him. etta g
II the speculator misses his aim, every
body cries out, Shes fo0l,D and sometimes
"Hes roguep II he succeeds, they be
siege his door and demand his daughter i
marriage. Id. ~
An old oak, under which Rabslais wrOt
"Pantagruel," still exists on an estate nea
) Mendon, formerly belonging 10 Scribe, th
> 'dramatist, and now the property Of a Boz
deaux broker,