The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-12-06

Vs. - nov WHY ~ CnO oi1tlhS tiSie
clergyman, Rev. Theodore Clapp, entitle
Theological Views" will shortly appear.
nsa-The Jews of st. Louis have held a
Indignation meetingsin reference to the Nor
tara affair. s)fflf4i . p
B9There are said to be fully twelve mil
! lions of dollars il claims docketed agains
Mexico in the State Department at Wash
ington. s--..s.7 "a,
Ba Snow lies eighteen inches deep a
Lake Superior. The upper lakes Were visit
ed by a storm of unexampled severity las
week. .--
u.s. William NJ. Porter, ESQ.,, a vel
known literary man of Pittsburg, died near
that city on Sunday, at the age of SO.
asa The Little Rock Democrat says Ar
kansas is now an excellent aPple-bearing
State. ..e,..s5 = II. = 81 q
Ba Mrs. Hope Scott, granddaughter OF
Sir Walter Scott daughter of John Gibson
Lockhart, died at Edinburgh on the 2Sth OF
October Her husband assumed the latter
surname on his accession to the Abbottsford
estate. -s---k sss-
H9yHA committee of gentlemen in Phila-
delphia, friends of the late Judge Conrad,
are making arrangements to have a monu-
ment erected over his grave, in Laurel Hill
Cemetery. 1t is to be done by voluntary
contributions.
Ba5@ The Washington Star says the Attor-
ney General has decided that Ministers Re-
sident, &C., are not entitled to and construct
i've allowance by way of Unfit, but can only
be paid for time necessarily occupied in ira
yelling from the post of duty to place OF
residence. A minister on leave, and at home
at the time of recall, is not paid for time oc-
cupied in returning. 81. /
Beg On the 28th ult., at Mattoon, Ills, a
fire broke out in a tenement occupied by a
man named Hugh Hardness, and before the
alarm could be given, the house was in one
sheet of lurid flame. Hardness and his wife
with one child were burned to death in the
most horrible manner.
Bsg@ A man in Connecticut has Just in
vented revolving toaster, for toasting
bread, broiling steak, or roasting meats. 1t
is small upright machine, with spring,
which winds up like a clock, causing four
arms, with prongs attached, to slowly re-
volve before the fire By this means bread
is evenly toasted, and meat roasted without
burning. What next st.esI
ea.In Shelby county, Ala, there is
large iron mountain, owned by Mr.. H.
Ware. The mountain has been excavated
in many places, and found to be composed
almost entirely of iron ore of the best quail
ty. The mountain is surrounded by well
timbered country, and there is abundance of
water.
B9~ The Norfolk Herald of the 26th in
slant says ei
The car load for Memphis, which left here
yesterday, was the first sent direct from this
city to the Father of Rivers. The car was
laden with an asserted cargo, consisting,
among other articles, of fine variety of
our choicest fish, viz hog, spot, trout, fam
lily red behring's and shad, and lot of SUI
perior old Apple Brandy. ~
ReA Mr.. James Gordon Bennett has been
indicted by the Grand Jury of Westchester
county for a libel ON the Hon. John B. Has
kin-said libel consisting of point blank
charge in the columns of the Herald, that
Mr.. Haskin had materially and wilfully al
tered the record of the evidence taken be-
fore the Willetts Point Investigating Com
mittee, whereof Mr.. H. was chairman.
B9F Mrs Ada Bertha Isaac Menken, a
young Jewess, who recently went upon the
stage, at her benefit at Dayton, Ohio, played
Corporal Max in the '.Swiss Cottage. The
Dayton Light Guard volunteered for the
occasion, and Mrs Ada Bertha Isaac Men
ken put them through dress parade on the
stage. The next day the Dayton Light
Guard held meeting, when Mrs Ada Ber-
tina Isaac Menken was unanimously elected
captain of the corps.
Hsis@ The Missouri Statesman, of the 2Gth,
states that man named Benz. Bruce, living
between SmitRland and Renieh, was killed
by two of his slaves, on the Saturday night
previous. They had learned that they were
to he free at his death, and wishing to hurry
the day of their pardon, killed their master.
H9s% We invite the attention of the sick
and afflicted, to the advertisements in our