The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-11-04
EDITORIAL BREyITIES.

t. A Chicago lawyer has been fined $500
and sentenced to six months imprisonment,
for attempting to bribe the principal witne IS
N- The New York City Hall was taken
Possession of by gang of rowdies on Fri
day last, who got up fight at the very door
of the Mayors office. One man was knock
ed down, and his head stamped upor; his
skull was fractured.
tv During one Of the late stree. fights in
Washington. q pistol ball passed through a
window of the British Minister'S residence.
~ There were but twenty two advertis-
ed letters in the New Albany post Office en-
the lst OF November. The advertising
charges for that Office during the year, at
this rate, would amount to the sum Of two
dollars and sixty-four cents per annum.
@- The population of the United States
is about 25,0oO,000. The New York Herald
says. '.If every individual in this aggregate
were to economic ten dollars yearly, the an
aual saving would be $3.50, 900 ,ooo."
eB- A thief entered the house of the Rev.
Mr.. Strain of Jasper, Ind, a few nights
since, and stole fifteen dollars, which they
took from under his head while he was
asleep.
D Thomas Mcdonald who was arrest
ed in st. Louis a few days ago for stealing q
watch, acknowledged the theft, but stated
That he had eaten nothing for three days, and
that he took the watch and pawned il to save
himself from starvation.
4- Gov. Lyon, Of, Maryland, has with
drawn his injudicious proclamation, and re-
traced his steps in ordering out the militia
to protect the polls. The militia refused to
obey the order, and withdrew from the ranks
of the companies to which they belonged.
~ The Americans and Republicans have
united in New York and nominated joint
ticket to be run alone against the Democrat
&c nomination. Daniel Ullman, the promi
nent Know Nothing, is ON the ticket for Dis
trict Attorney.
~ A small white ant has been in :roduc-
ed into the Island Of st. Helena by vessels
from tie coast of Africa, and is destroying
everything in the shape of wood, provisions
vegetables and clothing. They eat into the
woodwork of houses, aud then eat up ell the
inside, leaving mere shell. New buildings
In less than two years will fall to ruins by
their destructive operations, which entail q
loss to the inhabitants of thousands Of
pounds annually.
~ A fire broke out in Lafayette, Ind,
on Wednesday night, and destroyed whole
row of buildings. A negro vas burned &c
death.
~ Mr.. John s. Wells, land agent a,
Warsaw, No., was thrown from awagon on
the l4th and his feet becoming entangled
an the reins, he was dragged for some distance
and so much injured than he died IN few
hours.
@ The Rockland Cotton Factory, abou
eight miles from Baltimore, with all its ma
chirery and contents were burned to the
ground last Wednesday night. Loss 5000
~ By the local Inspectors Report jus,
published in the Louisville papers, it appear,
that during the past year SO new steamboat,
and ferry boats have been built ut an aggre.
gate cost of over 81, $50 900.
- Editors are noted for being exceeding
ly polite in their interchanges of editoria
courtesies. The Washington (Iud. Bee de-
scribes u brother editor in the followins
highly complimentary language:
s. Fletcher Horrall, the assinine, ape.
browed. ash colored abolitionist, and tn,
notwithstanding, kangaroo looking know
nothing editor of the Telegraph.
- A man named John Moore has beer
mulcted in the sum of $50 by the Circuit
Court at New Albany, for the seduction of
German woman under q promise of mar
rage.
20 A few weeks since, little girl twelv,
years of age, was abducted from her home in
Cnicago, and after being brutality outraged
Is supposed to have been murdered to concea
the crime. Another girl about the same ag,
was taken by hack driver to remote par
OF the city, where brutal outrage was at.
tempted, and then left in charge of an old has
named Moody, a peniteutiary bird, and tn,
keeper of den of infamy. The parties inn.
plicated have been arrested.
~ Let there be no secrets in Medicine