The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-10-05


Harrisonyille Thursday, %.
P0sey county-Mount Vernon, Monday,
October 4th New Harmony, Tuesday. 5th;
Wadesrille, Wednesday, 6; Union church,
Thursday, 7th.
Speaking to commence at o'clock, P. N
Mail Items.
Beg~U Upwards of $50, 600 copies of Spur
geon's sermons have been sold in the United
States.
BEsS~The distance between the earth and
the comet is computed to be only 40, ,ooo,o 900
miles. t ..-s =
g<H~The wages of lator in New Or
leans have advanced to SEQ and SO per
month.
Bege.A defalcation of $780, ,ooe has been
discovered in the Bureau of Assessment,
New York city.
bESy'A child fell into well fifty feet
deep in Wheeling the other day-was res
cued, and in twenty-four hours was run
ming about IS usual
asa.By the recent Convention of Rail-
road officers in Philadelphia, it has been
agreed to cut off MI free passes without dis
tinction
ESJ@The Pope derives a yearly revenue
Of about four hundred thousand dollars
from the Government lotteries, drawn in
Tuscany and the Papal States.
Gg"The Vinccnnes Gazette says several
trains of emigrant wagons have recently
passed through that city On their way to
Texas. ..-s....r..r
EeS~ Another chess prodigy has turned up
in the person of boy at Worcester, Mass
a year since he didn't know the moves, but
only lately he played three games at the
same time while blindfolded.
Rs Death has at last divided the oldest
pair in the United States Mrs. Ludwick
Snyder died few days since, in Burnside
Township, Clear6eld county, Pa. at the age
of los. Her husband, who is 1l2 years
old, yet survives her.
HEAVY DEFALcATIoN-The cashier of the
Brighton Bank, Massachusetts,, R. N. Wood
worth, has been detected in, and confessed,
defalcation of twenty thousand dollars. He
has given up to the bank his house and fur
n;ture.
EsS-It is stated by the Kentucky papers
that A. keene Richards, of Georgetown, in
that State, has concluded to purchase the
celebrated English race-horse, Fisherman,
for the sum of $4,000.
EE~ The New Orleans Picagune says that
the invention of Geo. G. Henry, of Mobile,
by which cotton yarns are made directly
from the gin, has been successfully tried on
several Mississippi plantations. This inven-
ton promises to be of vast importance to the
South.
HeE From Arkansas we learn that with
the exception of a very few localities, the
corn crop viii be more than an average one.
Fruits of all kinds are abundant; peaches
and apples, pears, &C., are now in market,
selling cheaply.
By~ Formerly, in France, a great foot
was much esteemed, and the length of the
shoe, in the fourteenth century, was mark
of distinction. The shoes of prince were
two and half feet long those Of a baron
two feet; those of knight, eighteen inch
es.
Lesson TO PRINTERs--Andrew Kessecker,
the compositor who set the first type in
what is now the State of Iowa, is worth
$50, 1000. He located at an early day in
Dubuque, stuck to his business, never
'tramped," and now reaps the reward of his
steadiness of purpose in an independent
fortune. He, however, still acts as COM
positor in the Times Office.
CHANGED HASDs.-We have heard from
good authority, and which is the general
rurnor, that the Gazette will change hands
to-day. The old firm to be preceded by
DR.. Fl. M. Smith and r. Y. Caddington.
We nave no idea what the politics of the
new firm will be-whether Republican or
| Know Nothings or both mixed up together
doubtless the latter will be their aim
VnaceHnes .Snn.
of Ogdensburgh, N. Y, is another remarka-
bic illustration of the French proverb, "L'eau
Coule la riviere,n water runs to the river. }
His uncle, the baron of Scuftenberg, in Bo-
/ hemia, and knight of several orders, has
| JuS1 O4Su, iCANiiS Hiui utii W HIS lltiC hlu
vast possessions. Mr.. Parish, our baron, is
now in Bohemia making all the arrange
ments necessary in connection with the sue
| cession.
The FARTHEsT WEST YEr.-Within the
last six months a city has sprung up on the
bluff opposite Fort Riley, Kansas, which re-
| ioices in the name of "Junction City,
/ This is an appropriate name, as it is not on
I T. - ,
Eastern railroads and telegraph lines are
tending, but is also the point to which the
of departure Of the several government roads
to New Mexico, Utah, California and Ore
gon; and lastly, from this city line ot
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