Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-04

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Books are embalmed minds. Fame is a
flower upon a dead mans heart.
The man who triAes with young lady's
affections may be said to do miss.
Lohbit Pratt, fourteen years old, was ar
rested at Oharlestown, Mass, recently, for
setting three buildings on FIRE.
Inamill at Saxonville, Mass, they work
and worship at the same time. Prayers aud
spindles are going at once. F
The Cleveland Plain Dealer states-without
any truth, of course-that Abraham Lincoln
is a believer in "Spiritualstl." ..
The amount of Northern manufactures
cold 10 the South in 1859 is estimated at
$24OyAOO0OO.
Small pox is raging severely in New
Haven, Conn; it was first developed in the
hospital of the Alms-house.
Perhaps tailors are not braver than other
people, but any one of them can face dozen
regimental coats without hinching.
The editor of the Princeton Bulletin calls
Kentucky an ass, and the Louisville Journal
asks; "When did she foal him?"
1t proposed to hold National Couven.
tion of Working men in Louisville, KY, on,
the 4th Of July, 1861.
VIM Hardin, a free negro, hasbeen ordered
to leave Warren County, Nd, for tampering
with slaves.
OF the !, l,l6s persons who died of old age
in Massachusetts, in 1859, 460were males and
7os females.
The wheat raised in 1860 averages about
three pounds in weight per bushel more than
the crop of 1859. g.
You need not talk very much to get rep.
utation for sense. One good remark is better
than twenty dull or common ones.
The Worcester (Mass.) Times Ia Douglas
Democratic Daily is to. be discontinued for
want ofadequate support.
Fourteen negroes were sold by auction in
Memphis, Tenn, last week, at an average of
$3.50 apiece.
The Memphis City Council refused to ap.
prOpriate $500 toward erecting battery
commanding the river at that point
Only four persons have been executed in
Massachusetts during the past fourteen
years. 30 '- f'
Governor Floyd is Ancient Pistol over
again; he busters prodigiously and steals
continually. =. .s
The Empress Eugenie sent one of her car
riages to represent her in the funeral pro-
cession of Henri Murger, the French author.
Blessed is he who dies in the flower of
youth it is as if he had risen from the
midst of feast before he was intoxicated.
No genius can recite ballad at first read
ing, as well as mediocrity can at the fifteenth
or twentieth reading. .- .....
When young lady hens handkerchiefs
for a rich bachelor, she probably sews that
she may reap.
We hope, and believe, says the Louisville
(Ky) Journal, that all of the seeding States
will be coerced, but we want the coercion to
come from their own people. f.a.ar-
Patrick Murphy and William Barrett, rela-
tives, had fight while intoxicated, the other
day, at New Fame, N. Y, when the former
was mortally stabbed.
A gentleman in Rochester, N. Y, is the
owner of a musty duodecimo, which bears
upon its title page the following imprint:
"B. Franklin, l746. ...- --.-
The Cuban Messenger says that in every
section of the island the want of rain is still
severely felt, and the consequences grow
more serious every day. -...r. --...,
vantile Mack, the fat boy recently exhibit
ing at Barnum's Museum, died the other
day. The boy was seven years old, weighed
240Ipounds, and died of excessive fatness.
The Arkansas State Telegraph Company
have extended their line as far as Browns.
vile, in that State, where an Office has re-
Gently been opened.
Mr.. Spurgeon's new tabernacle is now
very nearly finished, in London, at cost oi
$4,000, Of which 100000 have been raised
by subscription. r4rrr
FT A letter from Nashville, Tenny states that
the Chattanooga Railroad is now moving
freight rapidly, and shipments will now meet
little delay AT
One of the "pretty waiter girls" IN a
| Bowery saloon in New York, poisoned her.
self recently because abandoned by heI
friend"
Throughout the entire State of Massachu-
setts, in the year 1859, only three deaths
occurred of hydrophobia, all of whom were
males. 7t tsr Ggss .eu.y,ss
Ernest Feydeau, the author of Fanny, ha!
| Just taken to himself a wife, in Paris. Hii
groomsman was Sainte Beuye, the well
known Aeademieian critic, EttLI.r
Alittle girl having become entanglsd in /
thTeshing- machine, in Lancaster County
! Penn, recently, she was whirled round witt
1 great force, and her brains knocked out.
CIV. King has been arrested in Iowa, aut
has acknowledged that, with two accom-
plices, he murdered Dr. Roe in the winter o
le58-59; and robbed him of $4,000.
Edward Walker robbed his father Of $500
at Foster, r l., the other day, and was ar
rested az Providence while squandering hi
ill.gotten wealth.
A northern schoolmaster, and an ALLEGED
Abolitlonist, was driven out of Maryland
last week, for delivering an AbOlitionist ser
mon at school-hOuse. -----.
The Lynehburg Republican thinks it
noteworthy fact that there is not Smith
Jones, or o Brown among the l52 member
of the Virginia Convention. o.
p 1t is stated that there are now about !, ,00
cor loads Of freight at Suspension Bridge
waiting shipment East; and among tn
freight is a considerable amount of cotton.
Three girls, in Jacksonville, VT, braide
fhiry-Si1 full sized mems palm-leaf hats i
fifteen hours one day last week. The quick
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