The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-11-25


Eg@Lewis NJ. Kirk shot and killed T. j.
Westmorland, in Lawrenceburg, Tenn, last
week.
BI@At Cincinnati, on Saturday, man
was sent to the dungeon for five days, on
bread and water diet, for carelessly running
over little girl in the street.
B1-The proceedings of both bodies ofthe
General Assembly, are conducted with de-
corum and dispatch; so says the Indianapo-
lis Citizen.
asa. The winter has set in unusually
early at st. Louis. Business is at stand
still, and the papers anticipate much suffer-
ing among the poorer classes.
a9- According to the New York tribune,
a complete failure of the ice crop in the Uni
ted States for any season would occasion a
positive loss OF many millions of dollars.
By 1t is stated that there has been Sc
rious quarrel, ending in an open rupture,
between Caesar Augustus Dodge our Minis
ter at Madrid, and Buckingham Smith, Sec
rotary of the American Legation.
asa- A Southern journal advertises an
exhibition of pugilism to come off on the
following Sunday" front seats reserved
for ladies' This beyond doubt, caps the
climax of wickedness and vulgarity, and is
eminently unworthy the age we live in.
Gsg~ The trial of Rev. Daniel Downey,
Catholic Priest on the charge of the muir
der Of man named Kelley, by shooting
him with a pistol, at Stanton, Va, resulted
on Monday last In the jury finding him
guilty Of murder in the second degree
The term of imprisonment was fixed at
eight years in the Penitentiary.
In BooTs.-The ladies Of st. Paul have
adopted custom of their own, and appear
in the streets wearing good solid boots
Some of the first ladies CT the town have
given sanction to the fashion, and the st.
Paul papers are pleased to endorse the "boot'
as a much needed article for ladies' wear, in
consequence Of the terrible condition of the
streets.
GGz Commercial readers will remember
that the Canadian Parliament last winter
passed law authorizing a change in the
provincial coinage, substituting the decimal,
or American system, for that of pounds,
shillings and pence. $500, 900 of the new
coinage arrived out by the Indian, and will
be put in circulation Immediately They
consist of ten and twenty-five cent pieces in
bronze, very beautifully executed.
ga 4 man named Fanshaw, residing in
Saratoga county, n. Y, offered to allow one
Sanderson to burn down his COW house if
Judge Parker failed to get 6, 1000 majority for
Governor. Mr.. Sanderson won the priv
lege of touching of the cow house, and the
cow house was burnt to the ground. In
burning the COW house, Mr.. Sanderson also
burnt two COWS, worth $50 Mr.. Fanshaw
adnits that his friend had perfect right to
burn the house, but not the cattle. For do
ing this latter, Fanshaw has commenced suit
against Sanderson.
gg 4 stranger in Lafayette, recently
lost pocket book, containing 81 600 while
passing from one railroad to another. The
money was picked up by little girl, and
restored 10 the owner, who, after counting
it to see that none was distracted, generous
ly gave the child quarter! The little girl
Indignantly threw tbs coin on the ground,
saying that she did not wish any reward
for being honest. It would require a sensi-
tive pair Of scales to weigh that mans
soul.
THE WORLDS THREE Booxs.-The Bible
Shakespeare, and Pilgrims Progress, says
Henry Ward Beecher, are the three books
most read and most felt IN the English Ian
guage, and there seems as little likelihood
that the last two viii go out of print as the
first, and greater. Perhaps there are no
three books in the language so little under
stood or so inadequately appreciated; no
three about which there are SUCH varieties
Of opinion, and such conflicting interpreta-
tons And yet, each originally and intrin-
sically Is really simple, com rehensible, ma
tural and addressed to the common human
understanding, and the universal heart of
mankind 4 noted English critic bas sid
there are not three other books in the world
to compare with this immortal triad.
gn European letters received By the
Vanderbilt developed the fact to 4 large
number O. Wall street exchange brokeis
that they had been made the unpleasant
victims of counterfeits on the Nation
al Bank of Austria With such arts
tic discrimination were the spurious bills
gotten up, that the best reported judges of
foreign bank issues were deceived into
taking them as genuine. The Detective Po-
lice, who are sedulously working 10 dis
cover the guilty manufacturers and uttererz,
yesterday arrested three parties--a Hunga-
rian, Swiss, and a German--on suspicion
of being implicated in the matter. Such a
bold and successful counterfeiting operation
il rarely reported.
THE Hoe NARkEr--At louisville, hogs
are quoted from SC % to So 50---the inside
price for those averaging 200 lbs anda little
over, and the outside for very heavy. The
J.nrnaI says:
There We're some sales Of hogs from the
hooks on Saturday, including 1000 head
heavy at Sc %, 500 at Sc, and $50 light at
So. In the product, sales OF 5000 hams at
Il, 5000 tbs boncd sides from saltfor Feb
ruary delivery ct 81, and a small lot of
mess pork at SI7.
The number killed up to last evening
around the falls was about 40. 00Qi most Of
them we're stock hogs We see from our
Illinois and Iowa exchanges, and in fact
from those in the entire Northwest, that the
hogs are very small. Farmers, in conse-
qJence of the high prices and the failure Of
the cosn crop, are sending them to market.
The decline IL Cincinnati . few days ago
has been in part recovered.