The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-08-20
The News.

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ufactured in that city per year.
Da5- The grape crop around Cincinnati is
said to be the largest ever grown there, and
it is estimated as worth one million of dol
lars. El.E4S7 - NleI 5sfE.
ag The Laporte Union reports recent
horse thefts in that vicinity. This still con-
tinues TO be the prevailing style of villainy.
HA. Private letters from Paris state that
Madame Ristori is thinking of visiting the
United States, for the purpose of giving a
series of dramatic r,dtnees. /
@r Rev. VIM. II. Chandler, of Liver
pool, has accepted the call of the Thirteenth
Congregational Church OF Boston, as Sue
cessor of the Rev. Mr.. Coolidge.
p@r Two American officers were at Sol
ferino-Maj. Kearney, who had nominal
position in the staff OF French General,
and Lieut.. Carr, who had leave to "circu-
late" in the Piedmontese camp.
16F About seventy bales of the new crop
of cotton had been received at New Orleans
on the 18th inst, being about double the
quantity received up to the same date last
year.
nay The State of South Carolina is now
taking a census, and in seventeen parishes
there is decrease of over 5000 whites
since 1855, while the blacks have largely
increased. At this rate, the Palmetto State
will soon be Africanized.
BE- A case of something like sun-strokc
occurred at the grave yard, in New Albany,
on Wednesday morning. Mr.. Wesley Con-
ner, during the funeral services of Mr.. Flow
ers, fell to the ground and seemed to be I'M
conscious, and was taken to his residence in
a buggy.
nB- Extravagant dinners at Saratoga are
at present the fashionable folly. One lady
is reported to have given dinner to twenty
friends which cost $500, and New York
banker paid $3.50 for twenty-eight persons.
A Southerner paid 81, 400 for one dinner
the largest private dinner ever given in Sar-
atoga.
bay- Some boatmen have introduced q
novel craft upon the Genesee river, at Roch-
ester. 1t consists simply of two long water
tight tin tubes, connected at each end by
pieces of board, and having in the centre au
elevated seat for tie oarsman. This oa-er
looking affair is said TO pull. with surprising
ease and swiftness. fa
Bay The wife of Sherman Booth, of Mil
waukee, recently tried there for the seduc-
ton of girl of 10, has commenced an
action for divorce. The parties are on good
terms Notwithstanding, and reside in the
same house, but not in " full communion -
as man and wife. Yet they walk out to-
gcther, arm in arm, and excite The curiosity
of the Milwaukeeans.
HkS~ The London Chronicle says: We
can state, on theauthority of private letter
from India, that the Maharajah of Cashmere
is forwarding, as a present to her Majesty, q
most costly shawl tent, which will contain
moreover a bedstead of solid gold. The
value of this regal Offering is said to exceed
ESQ, 900.
| reA- The Philadelphia Press thinks the
{ Administration is at the bottom of the pub.
LEGATION of the Wise letter, and that the
t Herald had a private enmity to crafty
e because Wise sent away its reporter, who
. came to take down his speeches in 1856
"Occasional" writes that Bennett will
shortly attack Buchanan, because the cor
respondents of the Herald are not allowed
the same privilege of obtaining news a
: heretofore. .....
p6 The rowdies appear still to have FIRE,
course in Baltimore. One evening last week
q n party of them entered house, knocke,
the proprietor down with stone, and brok
n clock. On the succeeding night woman
: was knocked down by heavy blow, Will
n standing in her own door, and on another
I chap fired three balls of a revolver into
= group of young women and children, sit
G ting on their steps-one of the balls strikin
3 the sleeve of one of the children, anothe
d passing through a sign and bow window
$ and the other striking the base of the hous,
s No arrests were made
HeA- A letter in the Pontotoc (Miss.) En-
aminer intimates that one Caleb S. Manly
known as "Dr. Manly" who, good man
years ago, had plantation on the Butte
hatchie, Monroe county, Mississippi; VIII
: resided in the upper part of Aberdeen; VIII
had great big" bell to ring his negroe
up before day who worked them hare
whipped them well, and clothed afew of ther
badly; and who was known to be the wors
d master in all those parts-has sold his ne
= groes, put the proceeds in his pocket, reno,
n ed to one of the Northwestern States, an
d become rampant abolition lecturer
EFFscTs OF POISONED WHIsKY.-Th
= Charlottesville (Ind.) Journal reports a cas-
:. of poisoning by whisky that ought to be q
effective as dozen temperance lectures.
says that young man named Lewis, of tina
| county drank whisky ON the both of Jul