Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-05
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United States next spring.
The deaths in Brooklyn, N. Y, last week
numbered 1l2.
The deaths in New Orleans for the week
ending last Tuesday numbered l22.
Smallpox continues its ravages in Phila-
delphia; nine persons died last week.
There is no doubt that coal exists in large
quantities in the Great Basin Of Utah.
There are $50 students at the Virginia
Medical College at the present time. 1t was
never in more prosperous condition.
In thirty. six graves in Virginia City, Utah
Territory, thirty five of the tenants have
come to their end by violence.
The number Of emigrants who arrived at
New York during the year 1860 was l03,62l,
which is about $4,000 more than in 1852
The French Government intends monopo-
lizing the manufacture of matches lin its
hands.
The city of Paris alone has spent SCI, ,000,-
600 in the last eight years in identifying her
self-an expensive toilette
Mr.. Layard, the famous traveller and ex-
plorer, has been, re- elected member of the
British Parliament against great opposition.
Mrs. Burch is to have the charge of her
youngest girl: according to decision Of the
court just made
A. j.. Kilyun, house, carpenter, after at
tempting to poison family in Philadelphia,
the other day, committed suicide.
The wolves are very plenty in the south
ern part of Aroostook County, Me-, and are
in the habit of following the deer.
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mined not to ship any more coal to the South
at present.
Seventy thousand persons, including por-
ters, are now employed in connection with
the French railways.
A widow at Glare Castle, Ireland, sold at
Ennis Market, recently, the wheat produce
of an acre of land for STA.
In the preparation for banquet last week,
in Oswego, N. Y, 300 chairs were made
in one hour and fifteen minutss by thirteen
hands, .ar
Capt. John Dunovant of the Tenth United
States Infantry, has, as already stated, re-
signed his commission in the army. He is
citizen of South Carolina.
The Marquis Marie de Gambia, father of
Mario, the tenor, has been appointed Com
mander- in Chief of the military division of
the Island of Sardinia.
The tax on bread and meat has been sup
pressed at st. Petersburg; the laws which
punish severely the sale of unwholesome
food are maintained in Vigor.
A large number of the native free negroes
of Louisiana have, through the Delta, pro-
posed to fight for her in 1851 as they did in
The soldiers childrenY of the Paris I'm
perial Guard are to be armed with muskets
and formed into company, as the Prince
Imperials Guard.
Harry Perry, the once popular comedian,
distinguished himself, recently, in San
Francisco, by appearing on the stage very
drunk.
The Piscataqris IN. H. Observer states
that the dipthena or putrid sore throat is
prevailing in that county to an alarming
extent.
A statement of the marine losses in 1860
shows total of 385 vessels, valued at Sc, 237,
O00--a decrease of nineteen vessels from last
year, and an increase of $63s,oOo in value.
Yancey, the Alabama fire eater, while at
Williams College, showed his veneration by
pitching a keg of pickles into a prayer
meeting. ..rr ........ ..v
quack doctor physiced his wife to death
at Rochester, N. Y. On Thursday a child
was bora, which died of his treatment on
Sunday, and the mother followed. -
Victor Marot, sugar-broker, was shot
dead on Monday, by another broker, John
Fathers, in desperate affray in New Or
leans
The other night the cattle-yard of Burns
L Diekey, in. Buffalo, Iowa, was destroyed
by fire, and two persons perished in the
flames
During the past year, the Massachusetts,
cotton mills have Pr4nufaetured 30,265, 284
yards Of cotton cloth, or web Of 1870
miles in length.
The silk market in Lyons has been greatly
affected by the unfavorable accounts from
the United States. Many orders for the
United States have been cancelled. E .
AT the late election in California, one fel-
low voted an order for load of coal instead
of the Democratic ticket. He discovered the
mistake when he presented the Democratic
ticket to the eoal-dealer.
The fourth quarter of December, 1860 was
the warmest in the month. In 1859 this
quarter was not only the ooldest in Decem-
Der, but the coldest quarter in the whole
year.
A cow moose killed near Lake Telos, has
been brought to Bangor, which measured
thirteen feet from hoof to nose-hind legs
extended-and must have stood, when alive,
seven feet high. 7
After drinking gallon of whisky day,
on an average, for year, and having
squandered $4,000 on this appetite, and not
having been sober for more than a year, a