Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-10
VA RTE TIES.


Natural price Of an onion. scent.
The best kind of real estate--Spanish reals.
Standard work--the pictorial description
of the flags Of all nations.
A "cold snap" usually accounts for "biting
weather."
A congress of German artists will be held
at Cologne in September next.
The Oak-tree Hotel in Raymond, Miss,
was destroyed by fire one day last week.
Forty.two County Treasurefs, in Illinois,
have been found to be defaulters.
The Neil House, at Columbus, in this
State, when rebuilt, will cost 100000.
Ives has returned to Rome, taking q bride
with him, and intends to live in Italy.
The Pittsburg True Press, daily journal,
has been discontinued for want of proper
support.
The Helena (Ark.) Shield printing office
was fred by an incendiary on the Sd inst,
and burned to the ground.
The deaths in New York City last week
numbered 377, of which 1876 were under five
years ofage.
The first requisite for enabling young
fast horses.
Mead is the name of a young Vermont
sculptor, whose productions are much
| praised.
Palmer is at work at Albany, N. Y, on
| bust of Alexander Hamilton, and on draped
fgure-piece. = -
A committee has been formed at Turin to
raise funds for the purchase of gold crown
for Victor Emmanuel.
The deaths in st. Louis, Mo-, last week
numbered eighty one, Of wiIich f0rty-eight,
were children under five years of age.
Colonel ]. B. F. Russell, once an army
officer, and who served in the Black Hawk
War, died recently in Chicago, Ill.
Miss Snooks, who was married last June,
is of decided opinion that 1860 was the great
est sensation year in her experience.
Half million of dollars are employed in
the manufacture of beer and ale in the city
of Milwaukee, Wis.
A man in st. Anthony, Mimi, recently
moved his house on sleds from that place to
Northfeld, distance of fifty miles.
Owen Meredith's next appearance as an
author viii be in the character of the trans.
lator of Sebski PeSle, or the National Songs
of SerVia.
The completion of the old cathedral at Co
logne is proceeding; the working classes
contributing offerings that amount to more
than the donations Of the rich.
1t has been disputed point as to which is
the most stupid among animals, but it is
now unanimously settled that the greatest
blockhead of the lot is a clothes-horse.
Miss Harriet Hosmer is at Watertown,
Mass. The three female American sculptors
are now all in this country: Miss HosIner
Miss Lander and Miss Stebbins.
1t has been discovered that Secretary
Floyd has allowed claims to the amount o.
$4,000, which are believed to be a swindle
The claimant lives in Florida. sss
A Russian tradesman of Nevansk has pre-.
sented to the Emperor Alexander topaz
weighing twenty pounds, found by him in
the river Uralga.
A writer says, without truth: "Whatevel
is necessary TO be done can be done; Nature
. is too wise and too benefcent to yoke neees.
sity with impossibility."
; There were 298 fires, involving losses Of
over $4,000, duringSthe last year, in the
United States; the total estimated loss foot
ing up over $l3,OO0,OOO.
The number of persons killed by disaster;
in the past year, not including the Pember'
ton mill, the Iowa tornado, or the late ship
wrecks on the lakes, was 6S5.
While in fit, at Chicago, ILL.,, on Sunday
night Mrs. Mccarthy fell out of bed, anC
was frozen to death, and her husband died il
, the lunatic asylum the next night.
, A train ran over Dennis Towney at Provi
dence, r. l., on the 29th. He was so horribly
mutilated, that his wife could only recognize
I his remains by one of his stockings.
I In a recent rensounter at West Point
Miss, between p. Cash and James Kinney
with Bowie knives, the former received
: eight wounds and died.
The Holly Springs Miss.) Herald says tina
many planters in that section have deter
: mined that they will hold out their cottol
4 for better prices.
I The chances Of longevity in France ar
! vastly superior to those Of our own country
a and the people are much more careful Q
a their health than we.
q Secession, says the Louisville (Ky.) Jour
: nal has raised terrible breeze in Sout
3 Carolina, but ii finds, much to its mortifca
) tion, that ''raising the wind is very dif
1 teTent affair. .--
Z John S. Thomas, carpet dealer in Fal
!. River, Mass, has sued Bison Page, in th
1 same trade, for libel for $4,000 for injurie
by an advertisement ui4-
Documents have been found and are nov
in process Of translation by q learned com
I. mittee, tending to show that Noah visited tn
Il Arctic regions. -.
/ +. Halevy, the composer of the Jevsss an
u Eelai5 has written book called Sougt
r mrs e Portraits, which has just been pub
lished in Paris,