Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-07
VARIETIES,

| NJ Two fNlVerS, WlHCOnSlu. he was bkhJlnR
on the river, and when close in TO the marshy
ground, the ice broke and let him through.
Either from the shailowness of the water, or
his own efforts, he kept his head and shoul-
ders out Of the water, but was not able 70 get
out. No one knew Of his situation, and the
poor lad was found the following morning,
frozen to death.
We are told that smelters are paying in
the neighborhood of $40 per thousand for
mineral, the price being considerably spirited
by the late British Mason and Slidell news.
Forty dollars per thousand is high figure
| for mineral, price reached but once or twice
in our recollection, and then only for short
period, and by speculation.- Grant County
! We Herald
We notice by the Detroit papers that Mrs.
| Perry, the actress aud lessee and manager Of
! the Metropolitan Theater in that city, for
! some time past, has left those boards. She
went away quite unceremoniously, and in
| private sort of way, leaving more OF less
creditors to mourn her sudden departure.
A vagrant, on Friday evening, contrived
to raise the wind among the Worcester mer-
chants by hasty call at every store for two
cents to pay his penny post.
The town of Millbury, Mass, is now fully
employed, the majority Of her artisans work.
ing for the war. Guns, bsyonets ramrods,
| rifles, army clothes, etc, are turned out in
great profusion.
VIM. Bartlett, formerly editor of the Ban
! Ror Mercury was found fcozen to death in
the snow near his house on the oath ult.
An effort is making to establish public
libraries in each town aud plantation
throughout the State of Maine, using as a
nucleus the State reports which are distrib-
uted annually.
The comet discovered at the Harvard Col
lege Observatory, by Mr.. Horace P Tuttle,
on Sunday morning last, is easily seen with
small telescope In the zodiacal constella
tion Virgo, which does not rise till toward
midnight. Encke's comet is just visible to
the naked eye in the zodiacal constellation
Aquarius which is little west of the mer-
idian, early in the evening. The comet of
last summer is fast getting beyond the reach
of the largest telescopes, and is upward of
three hundred millions of miles away.
A nondescript fish has been caught in the
Connecticut River, and is now kept in au
aquariam at Hartford, which puzzles the
! icthy yologists. 1t seems to be cross between
an eel and pike, has no scales, voracious
mouth, and an eers tail.
The Charleston fire swept over space Of
a quarter of q mile in width and a mile in
! length of the most populous part of the
city.
Three flower vases of fine Sevres porcelain
sold insParis recently for $4,000.
The Lynn horse cars are heated by fur
naces placed beneath the floor. Why could
not this method be applied on the steam
care? Some of the latter are wretchedly
uncomfortable, being either too hot or too
cold for almost all the passengers.
The Michigan Central Railroad has post.
poned its customary dividend, owing to the
lowering aspect of pubic affairs.
Congress very wisely, as it now appears.
voted $4,000 year for ten years, to aid in
constructing line Of teePr ,ph to San Frau,
cisco. No better investment was ever made
by the Government,
We observe in a London paper that Colo
uel Fuller, formerly editor of the New York
Mirror, has been announced to deliver q
lecture in the British metropolis, advocating
the Secession cause. 10 1856 he supported
Colonel Fremont for President.
An English sailor about being married
, could NOT fud change enough for the parsou's
fees. Tie reverend gentleman, unwilling tc
lie the couple without the accustomed fee
demurred. Jack, placing his haud in hi:
pocket, drew out a few shillings, saying
"Never mind, brother marry nae as far as il
will co."
Mr.. Dorion, upon his vaccinatiug toar.
among the natives in the settlements neal
Honolulu (SaDdwich lslands), has met with
numerous cases of disease resembling len
rosy, ard which has proved fatal to macy
The appearance of the patients is reported
as shocking, and the disease appears to b,
contagious.
Whu ia tho xuhiob
rte year which follows it2 Because oue i
eighteen hundred and sixty, and the other #
eighteen hundred and sixty tool
''The uglest trades" said Jerrold, "hav
their moments Of pleasure. Now if wer
a grave-digger or hanguan, there are som
people could work for with great deal 0
enjoy yment"
Mrs. Prudence Sto6dard, of Noauk. Conn,
aged ninety four J ears, sends pair of stock
ings of her own shifting to the Soldiers All
Society at Norwich, with a note attache,
: stating that che has had the pleasure of kuit
Ting stockings for our soldiers in three wars
beginning with the Revolution.
During the last thirty years the quantit
: of lumber surveyed in the city OF Bangor
Maine, was nearly four thousand millions c
feet.
Mr. Cheever, of Ware, in this State, calle
Is Miss Rich out of singing school last Mon
, day evening, and shot her with a revolver
in his own house, because she declined I
, come and live with him, his wife being sic
with consumption.
A new rifled cannon, which it is elaine
will throw q pTOjectie of six pounds weigh
/ a distance of six miles, is to be tried at Ston
lDglon, Conn, this week.
. In st. Louis, on Christmas morning, th
mothers of three children locked them u
together in room, aud went to marke
. The children set fire to basket of chipl
and when their mothers returned were a
dead from suffocatiOn.
A young man named Irvine, of Blooms
= burg, Penn being enRmored of two yOun
5 ladies, married them both on last Sunda
evening. The girls, of course, were ignorau
7 that they were marrying the same man
, almost the same time, and were greatly dis
tressed when the fact was discovered TW
3 days afterward the bridegroom was in III
county Jail for taking more wives than th
| law allows.
The Eufala (Als) Spirit of the Sout
/. chronicles a rumOr that persons ia Barbou
County have been engaged in shippin
3 cotton from Eufala to Columbus and theme
/. to ApalachicOla, whence it is clandestinel
!, conveyed to the ensmy's vessels and take
to the Yankees North.