Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-02-14

Laura Keene, the famous New York ac-
tress, is dying Of consumption.
Lord Palmerston's horoscope predicts his
death in March, 1862.
The number of female postmasters in the
United States is four hundred and eleven.
The importation of meerschaums is said
to reach 5000, 900 annually in the United
States.
Steam passenger cars have been in sue
oessful operation in San Francisco for six
months past.
The United States Government has be-
haved to the people like father, and some Of
its children are very fond of pap.
The Winsted Bank, c.. having been
robbed in December last, refused to redeem
any Of its bills dated prior to Dec. %.
The butter distributed among our SOL
diers on the Potomac is thus classified by
them; Strong, bad, rancid, vile, abomina-
BILE and Suffers.
Jacob Baker, son of Jeremiah Baker, Of
South Yarmouth, Mass, is condemned 10 be
shot, for desertion from the navy.
The old soldiers who served in the war
with England, in 1912, have determined to
organize company or battalion for the
purpose of aiding in putting down the re-
bellion.
Four hundred and ninety-two Union
prisoners left New Orleans on the 9th for
North Carolina, to be exchanged.
Gen. Hunter has put Kansas under mar
tial law for the purpose of putting an end
to jayhawking.
In the interchange Of leaden and iron
compliments between soldiers it is thought
more blessed to give than to receive.
Mr.. Russell, the London Times correspond
ent, was in Toronto on Saturday en- route
| to Quebec and Montreal. He will return
to Washington in a few weeks.
An organ. grinder, having accidentally
killed his monkey, committed suicide at
Cleveland, Ohio, few days ago, by taking
arsenic mixed with beer.
An agricultural laborer died lately
in Devonshire, England aged 100 years.
A son who attended his funeral was 70
years old.
The Memphis Appeal recommends, on nc
count of the geat scarcity Of envelopes,
turning old ones wrong side out, and using
them, after pasting them together again.
structed over the Gauley River, Western
Virginia, in place of the structure which
Governor Wise burned while retreating
from the National forces.
Passing along the streets few days ago
we observed, in u partially vacant house
the following notice: "The upper part o.
this house to let, containing three rooms
cellar, kitchen, and backyard"
The New York Tribune recommends tina
no man should be elected to the next Con
gress who ever made q speech more thar
fifteen minutes long.
A man died recently at Frankirk, Eng
land, leaving behind him fortune of elO,
600, and who had such a reverence for tn
first sixpence that he earned that he KEEP
it for sixty years
Professor Lowe is about shipping a bal
loon and equipnge from Washington Il
Cairo for the Mississippi expedition.
The Dubuque shot tower'is turning ou
: about tun and n quarter of SHOT per day
and is hardly able to keep pace with the de
mand.
; 1t is inimated that proposition will b
made TO the Legislature, now in session a
Harrisburg, to repeal all laws preventin
: Sunday travel. Petitions to this effect hav
been circulated.
a woman residing in Shippensburg, Penn
! recently gave birth to child which ha
four ears, four legs and four arms-al
4 with the rest of the body, singularly we
f developed.