Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-08
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The deaths in Baltimore last year mum.
bered 4,866.
There are now 975 prisoners in the State
Penitentiary at Columbus.
In the city of Canton, China, there are on
an average about 5000 suicides every year.
In town in Switzerland, a sleigh broke
through the ice of river on the I'd ult., and
drowned seven persons.
In single town of Maine, containing onlv
400 inhabitants, thirty-two people died last
year of consumption.
! Our exchanges received during the past
ten days furnish accounts of no less than
twenty deaths from freezing.
- A carrier-pig was recently captured in
| vera Cruz, that seemed to have flown all the
way from Vienna Austria.
A distinguished English Earl is said bv the
Court journal to have lost 5000, 900 last wear
in gambling on the Continent.
Mr.. Scribe, the retired French dramatist.
mas an income of more than $1,000 a year,
the fruit of his literary labors.
In Lisbon, Portugal, a rich merchant was
| recently executed for violating his wife
sister and then cutting her throat.
:, Some of the Eastern papers say that Edwin
FORREST, the tragedian, is soon to live again
with MS divorced wifo, now Mrs. Sinclair.
Mgr. De Bruillard, ex-Biahop Of Grenoble
WHO is ninety-six years of age, is very SO.
rlously Ill at his chateau at Montheuri.
James Reilly Benjamin Oder and Conrad
vale were drowned in Lake Superior a few
days ago, by being upset from an ice boat.
A Frenchman, Louis A. Deville, ieweler
by trade, committed suicide in Augusta, Ga,
recently, on account Of domestic troubles.
The swindling shop of Madame En-.
glish, in st. Louis, Mo-, was mobbed thera
by number of outraged citizens, on Friday.
The amount of money made in England
py tne cotton-splnners, in the last ten years,
IS estimated at $l6O,0OO,00O in our currency.
A nephew of Major Anderson, the COM
mander at Fort Sumpter, is the class-mate
and friend of Mr.. Lincoln's son at Harvard
College.
Rosa Bonheur has removed from Paris to
Fontainebleu, where she has purchased an
estate and built studio costing $4,000
francs
An Irish paper declares Abraham Lincoln
black man, and says the election of NEGRO
is the cause of the present trouble in this
country.
Lieut.. Col. William Henry Walker has
resigned his position in the United States
Army. He was shot seven times in one day
in Mexico. .a.t
In Baltimore last year, 10,e04 persons were
arrested, ten OF them for murder, while the
lodgers in the station-houses numbered
1882.
The boiler of a sugar-mill exploded in
Plaquemine Parish, La, on Wednesday,
killing two horses and three valuable negro
slaves, 5...E -
In Liverpool England, a poor chimney
sweep recently fell heir to fortune of f46,-
600 S$2OO,OOOl left him by distant relation
in Wales.
Two of the principal representatives of the
British drama now are in London-a French
actor and actress-Masame Celeste and NJ.
Fechter.
An old man named Rutledge, was shot
and instantly Killed by young man, Boil
ing, near the Rolling-mill, in Atlanta, Ga,
day OF two ago. .....
AT Verona, in Italy, peculiar and fatal
disease has recently made its appearance
beginning with intense collie, and causing
death in few hours.
Henry Adrian, an American lost his life
IN Oonstantinople on the 18th of September,
Dy attempting 70 rescue Turkish girl from
burning building in that city.
Baily, who abstracted the bonds from the
treasury Is from South Carolina, and a
strong Secessionist. Pity he had not Sc
eeded before he took the bonds. -
Calvin Burton was murdered for his
money-$l5O--at Chittenango station, on
the New York Central Railroad, a day OF
two ago, by an unknown villain.
G, A. Deans coal-oil factory exploded in
cleveland, in this State, on Saturday, from
the ignition by candle of an iron retort, and
injured two or three of the workmen.
A political difficulty occurred in Halifax
County, N. Y, on the Both ult., in which two
OF the participants, James Trevis and Robert
Randolph, were dangerously shot. II
Peter Balpoole and Giovanni Haeri,g fish
ermen,, fought a duel with knives near Mo-
blle, Ala, on the I'd instant, and the former
was cut to pieces, and died in an hour. i
Timothy Linkman had both his arms cutl
OF neal the shoulders, on the New York
central Railroad, near Utica on Thursday, |
5y falling from freight car, and soon after
George and Peter BrulIer, brothers, quar-
relied about woman near Tallmadge, Mich,
on the I'd inst, and the former strack the
latter with club, causing death two hours
after.
=, Henry Kleindt, resident of Frankfort
dermany, hanged himself last month, be-
cause hls mistress did not write to him from |
Of Werther.
mary Burrkamp was recently murdered
near Liverpool, England, by Joseph Mengis,
her cousin, because she had divulged the |
iact that he had seduoed her before She was
sixteen. Mengis escaped.