Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-07
" RIE TINS,

Scribe and Auber are employed on a new
opera at Paris.
The quickest way to make "eye-water," is
to run your nose against lamp post.
A factory for the manufacture of firearms
is about to be established at Camden, s. O.
There were $4,000 deaths in New York
city, during the past year.
There is no force in South Carolina's argu-
ments, but great deal about her loans.
Mason, French woman, is just now the
popular prima donna at Florence.
Snow fell at Staunton, Va, to the depth of
eighteen inches, day or two ago.
1t is rumored that the crown of Hungary
has been offered to Prince Napoleon by Kos
suth and the Hungarian Committee at Milan
The library of the Mechanics Institute, at
Quebec, Canada, has been sold to pay for gas
and rent.
A mandatory of iron chairs of all sizes
is being established at Bristol, R. l., which
will work up 1000 tuns of iron per month.
While racing with some girls, the other
evening, John Wheeler, sixty-fve years old,
fell dead at Lee, Mass.
A very old lady was burned to death last
week, at Durham, Me-, in small cottage
where she lived alone.
John Brown, jr. son of "Old Ossowatto-
mic" is about leaving the country, his desti-
nation being Hayti. Y .l-1Ji.t
A person in Boston has written biograph-
ical sketch of the Mayor-elect, within the
lOttors fOrnlng his name.
John z. Tripp, peddler burglar, is held
to answer at Roxbury, Mass, on eight in
dictments for entering houses for plumber.
Dangerous spurious;f bills, on the
Commercial Bank of Wilmington, N. O.. are
in circulation in the South,
The human heart, like well, if utterly
closed in from the outer world, is apt to
generate an atmosphere of death.
At the wedding breakfast of his daughter,
while returning thanks, Rev. w. E. Chap
man, Rector of Somerby, England, fell dead.
Captain Gossett, surveying land in British
Columbia, advocates the use of balloons for
that purpose, to avoid mountain gorges.
Idleness seems to produce crime in the
English army, as at the Maidstone Assizes
there are twenty three soldiers up for trial.
The artistic debris of the studio of the late
very eminentmarine painter, Van Beest was
sold by Sabin, in New York, on Thursday.
The Rev. William Bouton Weed, pastor OF
the First Congregational Church in Norwalk,
Conn.,, has recently died. ...
Jacob Keisinger, one of the founders of the
Memphis (Tenn.) Democrat, died in that
place recently.
A negro was shot dead by the accidental
discharge of gun, at turkey-shooting, at
Coxsackie, N. Y, on Thursday.
Lawrence Thums, a German of dissolute
habits, was found frozen to death in st.
Louis, Mo-, on Friday morning.
The Philadelphia EOening Bulletin traces
the hand of "old Chapultepec" in Major An
derson's coup de NAN at Charleston, S. @.
The citizens of Elwood, Kansas, and vicin-
ity, are about forming Vigilance Commit
tee, to drive out the horse-thieves from that
section. t'@l f.
Wagner's opera, The Flying DutchmaR,
recently produced at Vienna, is pronounced
by critics to be one of his most satisfactory
and least eccentric works.
General Scott intends to be present and
assist officially at Mr.. lLincoln's Inaugural
ton, and will give the prestige of his name
and character to the occasion,
James McCarty has been arrested at Ca
lena, H., charged with numbering his wife
and then burning her up in his house, on
Thursday. a -
The London Saturday ReUiew is very Sc
we're upon Edward Everetts mount Yer
non Papers" calling them "slipshod, mea-
gre" &c. -.-..-'. ar
y The DECENTRALIZATION Opera Troupe at
Covent Garden Theater, in London, are not
doing well this season, and it is supposed
the lessees have lost considerable sum of
money, .- -...s...sr.f fr.--.
A Proaigate young fellow, seeing an aged
hermit go by him barefoot, "Father,I says
he, you are in very miserable condition if
there is not another world i"True, son."
said the hermit ''but what is thy condition
if There be2" M
,"lf place my money in the savings bank
when can l draw it out again 2" t'Sure, an
fyou put it in to-day, you can get It out
again to morrow, by giving a fortnight's
notice. ~ sa.rr 9r'ffl flr..-r
Edmund Phelps, son of the manager of
Sadler's Wells, London, made his first ap-
pearance, on the 18th of last month, in the
tragedy Of Werner. London criticism speaks
well of him. .tf'
There are four things that look very awk-
ward IN woman, viz; to see her undertake
towhistie; to throw stone at . hog; to
smoke cigar, and to climb over gafden-
tense. I'VE W. I'll
An old lady Of our acquaintance is much
surprised that Governments are net stficter
as regards dueling. Her feelings were
greatly shocked at some person "challeng-
ing" whole jury.
"What dogs are .these7' inquired algen-
ueman OF lad, Whowas drawing a couple
Of terriers along. ~ dihna KEN Sir, they
cam WI the railway, and they ate the d.
reetion, and dinna ken wher 10 gang +.