Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-19
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A flatboat, loaded with ice, has arrived at
New Orleans, from the interior Of Illinois.
English silver coins depreciate in value by ]
wear lf2OOth part Of their value every year.
Dumas end newspaper editor, an Italian,
were about to fight duel at last accounts.
Samuel B. Harvell, aprinter, died in Co
lumbus, Ga, recently, of consumption, atthe
age of thirty six years. -.-.r.--- -r,a
They put the cigarettes in New 0rleansu up
in wrappers, each having print of the Con-
federate flag on it. II n
Professor Munich, the most learned man in
Norway, Is geographer, historian, chartO-
grapher and poet. ...
Edmund @. Stedman, the poet, one of the
editorial staff of The World, is appointed to
q deputy -collectorship at the Custom-house.
A young man, printer, named Osterhout,
died at Hampstead, Texas, a few days ago,
from an overdose of opium.
Young ladies are said to like cold
weather, because it brings the chaps to their
lips. ''.A
It is said that some of the police of St.
Louis run negroes off to Illinois and then
catch them for the sake of reward.
During Charles Dickens's last English
provincial tour, il is stated that he cleared
upward of 100000 after paying all expenses.
A negro barber in Omaha, Nebraska, last
week bought for Sc, and married, bronze
checked princess Of the Pawnee Indian tribe.
The city of Chicago, at the present time,
contains within fraction Of 100000 900 bush
els of grain.
A painting by Rosa Bonheur, subject
'Sheep," 2b15 by TX inches, recently
brought f6ll in Paris. eE.
Carl Formes, the great basso, has been
offered an engagement at Covent Garden,
London. H
A cotemporary describes girl waltzing
as a mere quantity of clothes, with head
and face upon it, revolving on its own axis
about the room.
A public meeting of the citizens of South
bury and Oxford, Conn., was lately held, at
which person was elected to do the swear
ing for the ensuing year. -
In ten years the number of churches in
this State has increased 1850, and the value
of them So, lO3, 437, being 30 and 36 per cent.
respectively.
The oil-wells in Pennsylvania and Ohio
furnished over 900 barrels of oil to the COM
merce of Cleveland, in January. The total
IeCelptS WeIe cioOo LuuSs
| The allowance of air for a man in prison
should never be less, says DR.. Hutchinson,
than 800 cubic feet. Here is a suggestion
for the Prison Society of New York.
On Saturday, 1000 shad were taken to
| Alexandria, Va, and sold at SIS per hum
dred. Herring sold at $l0@l2 per thou
sand.
William Jones, a mulatto, threw his wife
into the fire at McKeesport, Penna., a day or
two ago, and the poor woman was burned
| to death.
AT Troy, N. Y, recently, young woman
applied for a situation as teacher and out of
| twenty-five words given her to spell, spelled
twenty. one wrong.
In Portland Maine, on Monday, a horse
| put his hoof through la1y's hoop.skirt, and
| to extriCate it three men were required to
hold the horse and two to hold the lady.
! Secret kindnesses done to mankind are as
beautiful as secret injuries are detestable. To
be invisibly good is as godlike as the invisi-
bly, evil is diabolical.
The House of Representatives of Pennsyl-
vania has refused to permit the banks of the
State to issue bills of a less denomination
than S..
Charles L. Blevins, medical student from
Selma, Alabama, aged nineteen years, blew
his brains out with Derringer pistol, at
New Orleans, day or two ago.
Water and gas-pipes made of paper pre-
pared with bitumen, have been inVenteda and
used in France. They are very cheap, and
will bear an enormous pressure.
The Rev. Henry Hovey has been found
guilty of drunkenness, and with travelling
with women he calls his wives, in Wis
consin.
Bentley, the London book. publisher, has
| induced Mrs. Yelverton-the unloved one
to write book. What bright thought in
Bentley.
The Wilmington IN. g. Light Infantry
have adopted for pompon natural pine
burr, which, in the case of officers, is gilded,
and for privates is vanished.
There is scarcely crime, said the English
Judge, Coleridge, comes before me, that is
not directly or indirectly caused by strong
drink.
Governor Morgan, of New York, has lib.
Grated seventy. six prisoners, and restored
/ ffty.two. persons to citizenship during the
past year. o..
Peter Moran and his wife quarreled and
injured each other so badly at st. Paul,
Minn., on Wednesday, that both died Of
their wounds.
The public garden Of Boston is progress
ing in satisfactory manner. The commit
tee expect it will be completed by Septem-
Der /.
Hon. VIM. Barksdale, late representative
in the United States Congress from Missis-
sippi, has been appointed Brigadier. General
Of the army of Mississippi, in place OF Earl
Van Dorm, resigned.
Fecbter, the German who is now playing
English tragedy, is said to be of surprising
ability. In the character of "Hamlet" he
has no living equal on the stage, and his
manner is very original.
Drunkenness stalks onward in Philadel-
pbia; sixty one drunkards out of seventy
one srrests made in tweAty-four hours, end
ing Thursday noon. The newspapers adVo-
cate tread-mill as a remedy.
The South 10 be n Military DespOtIsm
Tuesdays New York Evening Post re-
marks; n.
Deceived by the cumming words of the
Southern traitors, the Masons and Hunters
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