Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Article from Cincinnati Daily Press Nov. 22 1860


PICTURE OF A SLEEPING INFANT. - A lovely child lay sleeping, the moonbeams kissed its forehead, and in every ray of light an angel sported! No Wonder they should leave their Eden home to linger awhile on earth to gaze upon aught so lovely. Pure as the snow wreath which mantles the Alpine hills, or the lily with its brow bedecked with pearls, was this infant - sin had never touched it. Its little heart was far from guile as was the seraph’s which looked down upon its beauty. Nor were the angels alone gazing; no, no, a fond mother watched it, and as the moonbeams played around its neck, she thought of the innocence which dwelt within the heart of her cherished infant.

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PAINFUL PICTURE OF DEPRAVITY. - An abject Scottish pair, Arthur Keenan and his wife, were found in a hole in the ground with four children, at Philadelphia, on Sunday; two of the children were stark naked, and all scantily covered with straw. Rum and fighting have long been the business in life of the parents.

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DEATH FROM A NAIL ON THE BRAIN, - Geoffrey L. Levalle, who was shot in a fight with T. B. Kershaw, at Petersburg, Va., died a day or two ago. The wound was inflicted on the 15th of October, and the pistol was charged with a horse-shoe nail. The nail was found in his brain, where it has been for nearly a month.

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A CONNUBIAL SECEDER’S MISTAKE. - “Lay over to your own side, or I’ll secede, darn quick,” exclaimed William Barlow Price, at Newark, N. J., on Saturday night, while making his bed on a door-step. He did not sleep with his wife that night, but in the station-house; when found by the police he was nearly denuded.

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NARROW ESCAPE OF A RAILWAY TRAIN, - The express train had a nearrow escape between Syracuse and Rochester, N. Y., on Saturday; a large rock, in a cutting, on a sharp curve, became dislodged, and fell across the track; the engineer seeing the obstruction, reversed the engine and thus saved many lives.

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DESPERATE RUFFIANS. - On Friday evening, as William Barrett, of South Malden Mass., was leaving his store for home, he was fired at by two ruffians. The ball not taking effect, they beat him, knocking his teeth out, and otherwise injuring him severely.

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ACTIVE TRADE IN SHIP-BUILDING. - The vessels launched within the pst year, from Long Island and New York ship-yards, and now on the stocks, foot up as follows: Steamers, twenty-three; sai-vessels, twelve; ferry-boats, seven. Total, forty-two. Tunnage, 26,249. Value, $4,862,000.

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FILIBUSTERS ON A MURDEROUS EXPEDITION. - Forty armed filibusters from Los Angelos County, Cal., left on the 10th ult. For Lower California to capture or murder Governor Esparza. On their way they obtained fifty Indian recruits; in Lower California they took horses from the ranches by force.

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CONSUMPTION OF GOLD-LEAF IN LONDON. - The weekly consumption of gold-leaf by the bookbinders in London, on the exterior of gold books, amounts to 3,000,000 square inches; and the weight of paper-shavings, annually, cut off the edges of books is about 350 tuns.

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