The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-11-28

If murder in the first degree, in Philadelphia,
On Wednesday.
no The trial Of Lewis Baker for the muir
Ter of Bill Poole, was set for Monday last, i'll
New York.
The water-cure establishment at Berlin
Nights was destroyed by fire on the night Of
the 18th inst
There was l,245 95 collected at the New
Orleans polls, ON election day, for the Wash |
ington Monument.
In North Carolina South Carolina, Georgia
and AlabamA 10000 have been subscribed for
the purchaseof Mount Vernon.
o. complimentary dinner was recently
given in Utah to John M. Bernhcisel, delegate
from that Territory to Congress.
feTThe venerable Justice Clancy, Of Mchi
gan, died on the 9Th instant at the advanced
age of 81 years.
OF On Tuesday night, John T. Pattison
was arrested in Baltimore, charged with the
murder of John Grasslin, the same day, on
the Bell Air road, about three miles from the
city. -
OF A Washington correspondent of a New
York paper says that the Hon. John P. Ken
nedy is spoken of as likely to be the successor
of Hon. Thomas G. Pratt as United States
Senator for Maryland
KlLLED.-Valentinc Strckley, prominent
citizen Of Lee county, Va, was instantly killed,
on thursday last, by the premature explosion
of blast on the Virginia and Tennessee Rail-
road
MIssouRI.--Gov. Price, of Missouri, has
submitted his message to the Legislature OF
that State The entire document is taken up
with discussion of the policy of the State in
regard to railroads.
| METHODIST Book CONCERN IN PARIs.-Rev
Able Stevens now in Europe, is calling in ear
nest tones upon American Methodism to fur
nish ST 900 with which to start a French Me-
thodist Book Concern in Paris.
DEATH OF SULLEY, THE ARTIsT.-Mr Robert
NJ Sulley, the distinguished artist, who re-
Gently left Richmond, Virginia. to take up his
residnce in Wisconsin, died at Buffalo, New
York, on the 18th ultimo. e~rs COW
| A DEATH SENTENcE.-A negro named
George has been sentenced to be hung in
Wythe county, Virginia, on Friday, December
81 for attempting to commit an outrage upon
Mrs. Granville Stone, a white lady.
1t is asserted in Paris that the Emperor
proposes that the English army should be
placed under French Commander-in-chief
and that on the other hand he will place hi:
fleet under an English Admiral.
4 OF Capt. Geo. Barter, of the steamer st
Clair, was fined $50 at st. Louis for bringing
}, a pauper to that city, and required to ente
into bonds in the sum of $780, that said pau
: per should not become chargeable to the city
~ 1t is the remark Of profound scholar
that there is hardly a sentence in any of tn
best English authors, about the meaning o
which, if a question of property were to depen'
upon its constructions doubt might not b
raised.
SMALL Pox-There is quite panic in Law
! renceville Brunswick county, Va, andsits Vi
cinity, on account of the small pox, which ha
, broken out about seven miles from the village
The Kaleidoscope says there are supposed t
t be five cases, and the people are being vaccin
n ated in all directions.
i OF The Democratic State Convention is t
t meet at indianapolis on the 9Th of Januar,
5 next, to nominate State ticket; also candi
e dates for Presidential electors, and to appoin
four delegates for the State at large to the mex
| Democratic National Convention.
; 0STThe ST. Catherine, (Canada) Journa
complains that numerous seizures of Canada
vessels passing through the Canal, bound t
Oswego, are made by the United States au
thorities, for assumed violations of the Ameri
e can laws. The Journal says that the Canada
n law for the protection of ship owners and ship
t pers is thus made Of no effect, and calls upo
r the Provincial Government to interpose.
= 0ETThe United States frigate Potomac flag
ship of the Home Squadron, Commodor
Paulding, and the sloop-of-war Cyane, are fall
ing out with all possible dispatch, and vii
soon leave the Brooklyn Navy Yard for tn
West India. Both these vessels are YER
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