The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-06-15
News Items.


sS-The women will bs glad to learn that
there has been carpet-sweeping machine liz
vented.
ar 1t c.,sts tweaty- six dollars an hour to
light the new h,il OF The House OF Repre.
s.ntafiv-s. AZ Washington. with gas
W Dipsomaniacs IS word coined in |
England TO denote persons who have q
craving Tor Intoxicating drinks. thai par.
take, Of insani y.
1Hos. w SrtEsoS dc on yesterday,
q, the residence Of the late John NJ |
S.inson. His funeral will take place q,
two o'clock this afternoon.
viScExyEs, Juue, 1I-Nooo.
The Wabash river j. Us high as Ut
any time this season, and still rising
very fast. Immense damage is antici-
paied.
~ II is reported that Geo. ID Prentice.
Esd, OF the Louisville Journal, has united
himself with the SONS of Temperance. AMI on
his admission made an address expressing
deep regret ior The great error VI his past lie
5TL-t rrs from the bon. Robert Dale
Owen, at Naples, avOw an entire change oil
re igious views, and contain a declarat ion
very grat,Iul IL many al his friends, that the
writer Ind abandoned his philosophical inf
deity, n I'd was now sincere believer in the
christian doctrines rs taught by the church.
NEW ORLEANS. June l2.--Colton un-
changed. Wheat is very dull. Corn
dull /; decline Of &c. chiefly OH fine
qualities. Provisions very dull. India
bags held at I4aI. Freigh,s on Cotton
to Liverpool, 2 IL.
0JOn the Terre Han'e, Alton e ST.
Louis Road, an embankment twenty
feet high, and nearly one hundred feel
in length. vas washei away, but fortu-
nately the accident happened on Thurs
day afternoon. and was discovered in
time to prevent accidents.
OF We have received the frs, mum
Der of tire New Harmony Advertiser,
very neat and readable paper, just com.
menced ut New Harmony, by G. w.
Slater, formerly Of this city. LIS poll
tics are not yet indicated, but nothing
else than snii-Lecomptonism can pros
per in that intelligent neighborhood.
MONSIEUR ToNsoN CONE AGAIN
Gen. Walker, Of Nicaraguan fame, has
the perseverance of a spider. which will
spin its web a hundred times over in .
diy rather than have il broken. He Is
getting another expedition, we learn, AT
Mont .omery, and Mobile, Ala. aud
strange To say, many Influential and
wealthy gentlemen, are jpinins in the
movement.
! ees A traveller in Weizel cou ;iy. Va
struck with the university Vt thu name Vt Nor
=. l. l.. -. II
| was referred To an old lady ninety Hour years
OF age. lie ascertained that she was the
mother of twenty ole son. AMI four daughters,
! that she had ole hundred and twehty-one
| grand children. one hundred and eighie, q
graaf granl children, and on, g. granl.
child Twin. IN The ne. h5orhood ,me oil
her sons had sixteen 81 liren, another twelve
| and ano her tleven OIL, OF her daughters Is
the mother Of Twelve. and another thirteen.
! The Hoo CnoLrEs.- Mr.. Kirkman OF
Princeton, says the Clarion, has up to this
| time, lost between 2v0 and 225 head of hogs
by the hog cholera. aud some others of his
lot are giving evidence Of departure. Of all
the remedies, he thinks one fourth alum
| and three fourths salt, with an occasional
tarihg Of tie corn, does them the most good
He advises all those who find any OF thcii
hogs sickening to separate them Immediately
from the gang to prevent contagion.
CIsCISSArI, June ii Noon.
Flour higher, sales OF eigh; hundred
barrels al 1926 a $3.50 tor superfia.
and eX IA. Receipts UGly one hundred
and thirty barrels since Saturday. Wits
ky advanced Gle, in active demand
better demand for provisions, at sma
decline; no sales yet.
! Weather cloudy in part. The rive
has risen l3 inches since last evening
There is 40 feet water N the cha mel.
| N, report east OF Cincinnati.
WV. CoNSELrY who was convicted OF aid
ing in the escape OI fugi tive slaves before TIN
u =. Circuit Court, in Cincinnatf, was liber
ased from prison, ON Friday night, havin;
fulfilled his sentence OF imprisonment Tn
GermaT Turner'S to the number OF 1000, as
scrubbed escorting MIN in torch light pro
ccssion, with nfissics from the Jail to TN
Turner'S Hall. where ne was receved by vas
multitude with deatsning cheers and congraru
latory adlresses;-to which Connolly replied
in speech defending his conduct, and avow
, ing that his principles and feelings world in.
pei him To repeat rhe offence, should me Inee
a slave fleeing from bondage. These exhi
billions show that the law gains no force by ih
attempts to execute il with violence 10 publ
opinion.
J DERBY, THE PREuJER, AS RACER AND NIyIsTEE
The British Parliament. on the S,h, adjourn
, cd over Tor two days, in order TO give mem
bers opportunity TO GO to the races. The Firs
Minister OF Crown Lord Derby. had ''fas
horse" -..tO no purpose. Ion the course, an
was anxious that he should win--;he stake
I being f5,0OJ. II ''crisis:: with the Pre-
mier i'm the House ct Commons, on motion
. TO censure, but politics, for once, had to Civ
Q way, by common consent Ia that nobl
animal, the horse" On the day OF the rue
o tho Times said:
ut is hard to say which, i'm B. iiish estima
non, Is The most important question at iSsu,
= The same man has the greatest interest i
> both: To-day the question IS whether To,
q ophilite is the fastest horse i'm the countr,
/. on Friday, the question Is whether his masts
!, is the best man Tor Premier. Il Is shrewd
u observed tina the stake in both cases Is f5
?. O00; bat honor Is above oil reckoning. Pr,
II fame people wickedly suggest that Lord De
by cares more for the success Of hi, hor.
than for that OF his administration, and that
- Toxophilite wins to-day, he cares not wi
ID grasps the n ins Of power on Friday"
IS "loxophilite," however, was beaien---l
came in second best--but then, as If in ODE
diencc to the great law OF compensation, h
4 owner won grand victory in the House
}. Commons two days afterwards on the mo
Il ton to ccnsure." Better to have beaten Pa
n mcrstor, Russell, Caldwell, & Co., than
- have won fj.0O0 on the horse.
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