The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-12-18
News Summary.


RS@ Two thousand maekerelewere taken
in one haal of Provincetown, Mass, last
week, and in three nights ten thousand
were taken.
~ A fellow who had robbed the resi-
dence of Mr.. Harris, Brookline, Mass, tum-
bled into the cistern in the cellar, and was
found there almost drowned.
By They have second Burritt at Mount
Vernon, Ill., named A. c. johnson, the son
of farmer, who, without a teacher, and
with such odd books as he could buy or bor
row, has become master of a. dozen languages.
Hs5The total value of steamers aioat on
the Mississippi and its tributaries is more
than S6O 900, 900. They number as many
as fifteen hundred-more than twice the
steamboat tonnage of England, and equal to
that of all other parts of the world.
BE- So far as modern history extends,
there have been thirty-one men killed III
prize fights-most of them in England
In only one of them was verdict of " will
full murder" found-and that was against
every one concerned in the fight.
BsE In some Western localities it is be-
coming the custom with newly married pcO
pie to send with the marriage notice for
publication the price of a year subscription
to the newspapers. This is a very sensible
beginning, and we hope the custom will be-
come general.
Asa In the Chicago Post Office mails are
received daily from twenty railroad trains
Thirtv-five hundred mails, the Press says,
are made up every day. Over five million
letters and six million papers were handled
the last quarter.
| BGy% A small box has lately been got up,
| in Newark, n. j., with kind of opera glass
attachment, and mirror inside, in which
six eggs are placed at time, and, the light
being excluded, a glance tells the spectator
whether the eggs are sound or otherwise.
1t is called an oyoscope.
RE- Mrs. Swisshelm says it is marvel
ously strange how a woman can think her
self contaminated by the slightest inter-
course with the victim of a seducer, but
cover her face all over with smiles to receive
the seducer himself. Mrs. Swisshelm talks
like a lady of good sense.
BE3y Sonora, over which Mr.. Buchanan
proposes a protectorate, contains 5000, 600
acres of land, and population Of 10000
including Indians. The number of white
inhabitants does not probably exceed 80, 600
Sonora is believed to be one of the richest
mineral regions in the known world.
RYg1 A child in Woodstock, Maine, re
Gently dislocated its neck at the second yer
zebra, by falling down stairs, so that th'
head was turned half around, and there re
manned fixed. Chloroform was employed
to relax the muscles and the head was re
placed, and the child has recovered.
RSy@ The Grace week at Charleston
| South Carolina, in February, will be yer.
brilliant. Messrs. Hunter, of New York
Boswell of Virginia, and Hardens of Ten
nesSee, are already on the ground with thei
stables; the first named bringing Nichola;
, by Glencoe, out of Mamie Rhodes b
, Wagner,l who is claimed to be the best fou
, mile racer in America.
. ESy@ A barrel of saur krout, which Ina
laid in a cellar in Cincinnati for some year
: exploded as some laborers attempted to re
, move it, as if it had been gunpowder, throw
tno ttIe1 di r4a5 iaa striltin
faces arms and breasts. What a delightfl
smell must have followed that explosion
BE-. The orange crop of Louisiana tn
season is very large, and the crop is sellin
= from plantations at from six to eight dollar
: per thousand. Last year a planter belo'
: the city was offered for fifteen hundred do
a lars, small tract OF land adjoining his, an
which was planted with orange trees of FIJI
{ growth. He refused and this season I'll
3 owner of the tract in question has sold h
IS orange crop for three thousand dollars.
/ asa. A Japan letter says: "The female
; of Nagasaki are of the ordinary height, an
some of them are very handsome, and woul
u create quite a stir in New York, if the
G should happen that way. The married Is
dies are known from the single by paintin
q their lips either green or bright red, an
y their teeth a jet black. They are frequentl
q married as young as ten.
y, Rea., The Guthrie Greys, of Cincinnati,
> is said, have rendered their aid to Unite
States Marshal Sifford, in case the presel
:. conflict of jurisdiction between the Stat
:, Court and the United States Circuit Cou
= should assume serious aspect, which it
- present bids fair to. The Sheriff will hay
to call for volunteers and the militia to PR
= tect himself, should the worst come to Il
= worst.
e aess An old villain, named Thompson
living on Eighth street, near Broadway, Ne
York, recently made murderous attack Il,
. on his wife, who is a cripple-all one side
her being paralyzed. Thompson came hon
drunk, and his wife reproving him for i
! he seized small hammer and sank it int
- her skull The point of the hammer pent
: trated about half an inch into the head II
= was about repeating the blow when his arr
:, was arrested by neighbor The woman
- badly injured, though she is not considere
= in dangerous condition.
# nSa. Mr.. Palmer, the celebrated sculpto
IF it is stated, will soon enter upon the depar
ment Of historical sculpture. He is TO PR
pare for the family of Gov Marcy POI
trait bust of that distinguished Statesman
Il and then bust of Alexander Hamilto,
r which he is to mould for the library OF Han
81 ilton Fish. During Mr.. Palmers summC
= residence at Aurora he lost an interestin
child, who bore the name of the sculptor
u intimate friend, the gifted painter Churcl
III This artist has drawn, tR He1aOriunl, a pit
Is ture which represents, upon a calm an
! placid lake, the setting Of q single star.
" agA- The lady managers of the Mour
Vernon Fund Association deserve muc
: credit for the energy and financial abilit
IS displayed in purchasing and paying for th
d old homestead of Washington. on the 2
of the month Miss Cunningham Regent
the Association caused $500 to be pal
=" John A. Washington, being the amount dut
:. with interest of the first instalment of til
10 purchase money of the Home and Tomb
y Washington. Two new vice-regents bav