The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-12-22
News Summary.

BE- Hon. John Kelly, sheriff elect of
New York has filed his resignation as a
member of Congress, to take effect Decem-
Der 18th. A special election to fill his
place will take place on Wednesday, jan
uary 9Th.
B4r The correspondent of the New York
Herald says:-We learn that there is some
informality or improprieties in some Of the
returns from Putnam county, and also from
one or-two TOW Mi Westchester.a Affida- /
Wits, it is said, are forwarded to the State
canvassers. If these reports be authentic,
Goyerneur Kembie will have majority over
John B. Haskin, and win, of course, be sent
to Congress"
Ia The public delalcations and defcien-
cies on the part of corporation officials of
New York city are enormous. In one case
collector of assessments is shown to be
deficient in his returns to the treasury to the
amount of $44, 1873 SO; and another hold
ing the same Office subsequently, to be de-
ficient to the tune of STAT, 1873 70.
gGy@ Samuel Barnes, Esq, for many years
the able editor and conductor of news
paper at Frederick, ND and more recent
ly editor of the Clipper at Baltimore, died
at his residence in Baltimore county on
seventy-two years. He has filled many pc
sitions of honor and trust in his native
State and city, and always with marked
credit and ability. He possessed cult
waited intellect, and was highly esteemed for
many social and domestic virtues.
B6y- A well posted friend il Washington
says, in letter dated the 9th inst, :" Bigler
and Green are going to bring in an anti
poligamy bill to show their contempt for
squatter sovereignty, and at the same time
to make Douglas face the music on it when
he comes here" aasa .=t 81
neA- There are in France 1887 printing
offices, which employ $500 compositors,
5000 pressmen, and 900 overseers and cor
rectors. The average annual number of
works printed is 5000, and the produce of
the whole is estimated at $5,000,000.
BGr The Pittsburg Gazette shows a
blunder by Thackeray in The VtTginians, in
getting his troops on the wrong side of the
Monongahela River.
In the last number of The Virginians,
| narrating the escape of George Warrington
| from Fort Duquesne, which took place in
the autumn, occurs the following paragraph
GAS we advanced, the woods became red
der and redder. The frost nipped sharply
of nights. At this time of the year, the
/ hunter who live in the mountains get their
| sugar from the naples" .-.....r t....
This will be news to the makers of maple
sugar, weo, so far as we have observed, do
their work in the Spring.
nea., The debt of Boston, which in l64s
was $l,354,3 1872, has increased to nearly
50 ,000,O 900, or say 1854, 46l.
B9S~ Lieut.. J. NJ. Gilliss, U. S. Navy
whom the Smithsonian Institution some
time since dispatched on an astronomer
expedition TO South America, has returned
| home.
BGa,. Hon. Thomas RufIin, of Alamancc
county, has been chosen to fill the vacanc,
on the bench of the Supreme court of NortI
Carolina, occasioned by the death of Chic
Justice Nash.
BeSy~ A young English gentleman, from
Oxford, who passed through Chicago few
days ago, gave Volk, the sculptor, an orde
for Il portrait cameo bracelet, to contain
likenesses of six of Americas great men
The names selected were Washington, Jei
ferson, Franklin, Webster, Clay and Scott
HsA, James and William Mason, aged
and 20 years, undertook to float raft dow
g the Illinois and out in the Mississippi o
their way to the mouth of the Missouri
When near the latter place their raft wa
: broken up by steamer and clinging to
E | log they fioated down the river to Wilson
| Island 10 miles ahnun- Sc Louis. uel
, they remained FIVE days and nights withoU
! | food or fire, and on the 9th of Decembe
tthey stripped to their shirts and swan I
: the Missouri shore and reached farm houst
6 1t is probable their feet will have to be an
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