The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-12-30
News summary.


g. There is news about Junius' Mr. Parkes
Joseph Birmingham very we'll read
and a scholar with advantages which
few have possessed, is to give us, before six
months are over, life of Sir Phillip Fran
els, the Junius of Macaulay and Broug-
ham, but not the Junius of Mr. Dixie
Mr.. Parkes possesses all the papers of Mr.
Dubois, the Secretary of Francis and the
executor of Tom Hill. Surely Tom Hill
must have happened to know who Junius
was"
Bgy There are now, says the Union, thir-
ty-six coast survey parties in the field and
afoat-on the Atlantic coast, 10; on the
Gulf coast, IL; and on the Pacific coast, 6.
These are distributed for the winter as fol-
lows; In the vicinity of Chesapeake Bay,
Va, 2 coast of North Carolina, 3; coast of
South Carolina and Georgia, I; Florida
peninsula, reefs and keys, IL; coast of Ala
bama Mississippi and Louisiana, 4; coast
of Texas, 2; and the coast of California
Oregon and Washinhton Territories, G.
BESs'' " An hev ye voted to-day Pathrick?'
" An is it for the biggest fool We liver seen
We take Inc to be, Mikael OBlarney ? It's
yerself Pm afther behaving bad no better
better sense nor to vote early in the day,
when votes were only goin for five dollars
pece!' Its thrue, Patrick, and T hope
the holy Father'll forgive me. Me con-
science been gnawin at me the whole
blessed day, for thinking no more o me
liberty o votin' in this blessed free country,
nor tos ellEit for FIVE dollars, while | conId a
got fifty or a hundred just as easy
e B9y~ The Philadelphia papers are discus
sing the severity of the sentence of Alexan-
der Robinson, who short time ago, in Del
aware, induced young girl to leave home
on the pretence that her brother was sick,
and then committed violence on her. He
has been tried and convicted of the offense,
and'sentenced to be hung, it being capital
offense, in Delaware. The sentence is too
mild.
HSA, Montalemi ert who has been the oc-
eason Of so much sympathy in this coun-
try in his contest with the Emperor Napo-
leon, it seems brought good part of his re-
cent condemnation upon himself; for the
statute under which he was tried convicted,
and sentenced was passed, in l849, by his
own especial and publicly expressed consent
and appreciation.
HGA,, In Cincinnati the Sons of Malta dis
tributed five thousand loaves of bread to the
poor. Through the liberality of W. B.
Smith, Esq, they occupied the Industrial
Palace for their headquarters A number
of children and poor women called and were
sent away with their arms filled will bread
and glad hearts. The Sons also went into
the highways and by-ways and freely dis
tributed the staff of life among the suffering
poor
nsa, The Charlotte (lEich.) Republican
States that few days since in Barry county,
a singing master had difficulty in his
school with some rowdies, and dismissed the
school. As the master was going out, one
of the rowdies stabbed him dead on the
spot. a young man caught mp a stick and
striking the assassin blow, killed him in
stantly.
BEIs~ \ cool thing was perpetrated by the
grand jury of Buffalo, week before last, in
sending for the counsel of three or four
persons charged with burglary, for the pur-
pose of hearing them tell what they knew
concerning the transactions with which
their clients were charged.
Biagn The Wheeling Times says Owe
learn that girl at the hospital, who has
been sick for some time, died last Sunday
Owing to the exceeding inclemency of the
weather, the burial was postponed till Tues
day, when consciousness returned to the
little creature, and she is now recovering.
Ne, Last week prize dance came off in
a saloon at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, between
an Irishman and muatto girl. The girl
danced hours, and the Irishman 8, win
ming the prize-Sl0.
n@A Two physicians in Washington, who
have examined Mr. Montgomery, declare
4" that the marks incontestably prove that
the blow was struck by some person stand
ing behind him. There was no bruise or
mark in front whatever.
nGa, Hon. Theo. Frelinghuysen, who ran
for Vice President on the Wing ticket in
1914, is spoken of as the successor of Hon.
VIM. Wright, in the L. S. Senate, from
New Jersey. Hon. VIM. l.. Dayton posi-
lively declines.
REa.A gentleman in Cincinnati stepped
into store on Fifth street, on Christmas,
and spent about $50 for presents giving
them out indiscriminately to the children
who CHANGED to come in. The Times says
he kissed the little girls, patted the boys on
the head, gave each a kind word of advice
and then walked off as happy as a king.
gSyAt Cumminsville suburb Of Cincin-
natl, Jacob Hoifner, Esq, invited all the chill
dren of the town to call on him. Hundreds
did SO, and he gave each handsome Christ
mas present, making the whole town joyful
through his liberality and kindness.
neA. Every eighth man in Massachusetts
is a shoemaker. Boston has 2l8 shoe
houses, doing business of $G2,G00,0 900 an
nualy. New York has 80 houses in Il e
same trade doing business of $4,000, 900.
ESS@Dr Harriet X. Hunt has issued her
annual protest against paying taxes without
being allowed to vote She has repeated
these protests yearly since 1858. She says
the subject will yet be submitted to the
Courts.
pg1 The New York Express says it can
not fail to be observed that our ladies of in
disputable ton and fashion wear only the
plainest dresses in the promenade.
rsA- Martin Zorg of Greensburg, y. "
publishes a card in the New y orE papers, in
which he accept Heenans challenge for
$4,000 fight
Rsaz 1t is rumored that George w. Mat
sell, is about TO be restored to the head OF
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