Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-16
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see, was received at Colts, on Saturday. OF
course it was not filed.
The chap who recently converted his hat
into brick-yard has plucked the feathers
from the wing of house. .f
Mrs. Margaret Mosselyn, a resident of Pine
Plain, Mich, gave birth TO twins last week,
though she had reached her ffty.ninth year.
Oscar Dalton, editor of the Crockett TEX
as) Printer, recently died from wound he
had received in an ARRAY with rival editor.
Z A family named Plots were dangerously
poisoned recently at Wheeling, Va, by ar
lenic mysteriously placed in their coffee.
In Memphis, Tenn, last Friday, the burial
of the American flag was publicly celebrated
by the military and citizens.
Three Cinnamon were hanged, some weeks
ago, in Tuclumne County, California, for the
murder Of one of their countrymen.
A German named Robert Schaller, was
most brutally murdered by his wife, Katrine
Schaller, near Chicago, ILL.,, on the 10th inst.
Fiiz James O Brien, the we'll l-known writer,
is carrying musket in the Seventh Reg
iment, National Guard, at Washington.
"My son, you must start up from this leth.
argy." "Would you have me an upstart,
dear fatherW
Some one accounts for the devotion of
General Leslie Coombs to the Union, by the
fact that his wife is a Rhode Island Mann.
Printers are always patriotic. 1t ia esti-
mated that not less than five thousand have
volunteered to defend the Stars and Stripes.
Il. Jacob Pillow, assuming to be French,
was ducked in the Erie Canal at Loekport,
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with the Southern rebels.
James Myers, in ft of anger, threw a
fork at another boy, Hamilton Bell, in New
ark, N. j., the other day, across the street,
and put his eye out
Newspapers are dying rapidly in these
times Of financial pressure. The Commercial
Journal published at Pittsburg, Penna, has
become defunct.
A volunteer was horse-whipped in Phila-
delpbia, on Monday, by his wife, because he
had enlisted without her consent. He eyi-
IDENTIFY wanted to 60 to war for peace.
John Lauless, section overseer on the
North. western Railway, was killed at Dam
ton, Illinois, the other day, by the explosion
of a grindstone.
A volunteer company, to be composed eu-
tirely of Christians, is being organized in
Albany, N. Y, to act as missionaries as well
as soldiers. They'll have good time.
Horse whipping Seoessionist has been
decided by jury in Wyoming County,
Penua, as perfectly legal and constitu-
tional act.
On Saturday evening Simeon D. Moore,
jr, of Boyle County, KY, was shot and fatally
wounded by the accidental discharge Of a
rife.
The total number of deaths in Brooklyn,
N. Y, last week was l22. The principa.
diseases were: consumption, 10; scarlet fe-
Vel, IA; diptheria, 81 smallpox, 3, &c.
Apumber of the personal friends of SEN
ator Douglas, in Chicago, have presented
him with a span Of Black Hawk horses, VAL
ued at s goo.
The West Point Cadets, arrived in Wash
irgton, are TO be detailed to instruct the
volunteers in Hardee's drill, including firing
and target practice.
On Wednesday last Nathan Boulden, an
old and esteemed citizen of Miilersburg, KY,
committed suicide by cutting his throat with
a razor.
General Sutphen, who recently COM
msnded the Somerset militia, New Jersey,
committed suicide few days ago from mem
tai dependency.
A number Of houses of ill.fame were de-
molished at Terre Haute, Ind, the other
morning, by an organized band of women
opposed to such institutions.
Upward of five hundred noble women
have applied at the State House, in Boston,
for permission to serve as nurses at the seat
OF war.
II. G. Brigham of Norway, Me-, commit
ted suicide in that town on Monday, by cut
ting his throat from ear to ear. No cause is
assigned for this dreadful act.
Advices from all parts of the South state
that the people are terribly alarmed at the
prospect of slave instructions; the white
population being in constant dread.
Henry N. Curmosslen killed his wife near
Montreal, Cauada, recently, because he dis
covered her iHcestl0uS LoUe for her OaVn brother.
Horrible
Two men were tarred and feathered in
Abbevile County, S. O., on the 4th instant,
because they stated their belief that the
South would be eventually compelled to
submit to the Government.
Union Bank, HaverbilI, Mass; SIS; Wig
nette, Washington's portrait in frame; 2
| on upper left c0Iner-"Two" underneath +;
letter A red. tinted. are-in circulation in the
North.
Letters received in New York from Kansas
| say that the crops promise splendidly this
year. The prospect has not been so good for
several years, in agricultural matters, as at
| present.
The threat of General Twiggs to visit Lam
caster Penn8. and Chastise Ex-President
| Buchanan for calling him coward is con-
! sidered the best Secession joke yet-better
| than j. D.'s ''iet US alone"
A negro in Philadelphia has presented q
horse worth $500 to the State. Others are
drilling, in quiet way, in preparation to
defend their homes in case the city is at
tackled
Lawrence Mooney, volunteer belonging
to the Second Regiment New York State
1 Militia, died recently in New York, from the
effect of wound in the neck inflicted with
his own bayonet.
i William ". Smite, a native of Yonkers
N. Y, fifty. two years of age, committed gu
icide on Saturday night, at his residence
by seyeripg the arteries OF his am with
razor.
Thomas Owen was killed and Louis With
ers was seriously wounded near Hopkins
vile, KY, the other day, by third boy
Lud Payne, who foolishly pointed a gun a
them, end pulled the trigger, not knowing
il was loaded. ss
Since the port of Hakodadi, Japan, ha
been opened 10 foreign trade, It's population
has increased from twelve thousand Il
twenty. eight thousand. Sulphur and salt
peter are its largest exports.
In New York the deaths for the past weel
were from acute diseases, two hundred AMI
twenty. two; chronic disease, one hundred
and fifty. two; external causes, &C., thirty.
seven. Total, four hundred and ten; an in
crease of twenty.four over the preViou
week.
AN ADVENTUROUS PATRIoT.-A worthy sol
of "Little Rhody,n a sailor soldier, started
on foot from Washington on Thursday night