The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-05-07
sIisceIIaneous Items.

E6y Great deStitution Is said to exist IN
the inland counties of Canada. -5
asa- All soand in public speeches is not
necessarily sound sense.
B<S- Mr. Browne, the new editor of the
Government organ, is said to be an unnat-
uralized citizen, recently from Ireland
nea- A letter from planter in Florida,
says that il has been raining almost inces-
sanity inthat region for the astthree months.
ma. Our Texas exchanges are talking of
dishes of Strawberries and cream, and "corn
waving breast high. 1. ..-s
Be- Recent adyices from the Sandwich
Islands, state that the volcanoes of Norma
Loa continued very active fFf-s
( asA- The bishop of London is preaching
I To the oRaibns drivers and conductors OF
! that metropolis, who attend the services in
large numbers.
/ i H. Strawberries and all kinds OF yege-
tables are becoming plenty in Charleston
and Savannah, having ripened this year
much earlier than usual ---- cd.
/ Ba~ Mires, the Paris banker lately gave
I life by selling old stoves-then, as now, n
crate fnancier.
j gsa- Ii Mr.. Buchanan had got the thirty
millions we wonder which he would have
bought--Cuba or the Charleston Conven-
ton?
DsHr Two boys were recently arrested at
Liverpool tor putting chromatc of potash, a
corrosive poison, into the holy-water font OF
Catholic church
nA. The revival spirit which was so
powerful in many of the congregations of
Cincinnati, during the past winter, has near
ly ceased, and the special meetings of the
week dispensed with.
ura., The ball swinging in the tower of
st. Stephens's Church, East Haddam, is over
a thousand years old. IL bears the date of
A. ID. SIS, and there is no reason to doubt
the correctness OF that date.
ia. The editoc of an Illinois paper, wri-
ting private letter to a friend, says: 1--WE
are Republicans, of course. Everybody who
fears the Lord, and can Erite legible hand
'cithOut running Out has tongue, is n Repub-
lican"
psg" The little son of Mrs.. Earl, of New
London, Huron county, o., few days since,
placed his mouth to the spout ofs sea-kettle
filled with boiling water, and drank a swal-
low. lie survived in great agony, till the
next day.
ca Every dog in Massachusetts,, ,SlsO
would have the right to live, must be reg
istered, numbered, and licensed by the town
clerk, and every dog must wear collar
with his owners name and his own number
registered on it.
L., An effort is soon TO be made by some
noble women of New York, to establish on
Long Island, Horticultural School for
girls, where they may be practically in
structed in vine dressing, the cultivation Of
fruits and flowers, and the related depart
menss of Rural Industry. '-
S- In New York, Mrs Stroud, finding
her husband had been taking liberties with
Jane Latin, seized O teakettle of hot water
and threw it at the girl, scalding her in
terrible manner. Mrs. Stroud has been ar
rested for assault, and Mr.. Stroud for seduc-
ton.
GSs5- On Queen Yictorias visit to Lam
caster Castle, the debtors confined in that
stronghold had commemorative dinner, at
which they feelingly drank the following
toast" May the tree of liberty be planted
in the castle-yard, and every one confined
within its walls eat has stick from it.
Rsy~ Among those talked of as likely 20
succeed the late Bishop Doane are the Rev
Dr. Mahah, DIR. Odenheim, of Philadelphia,
Bishop Southgate, and the Rev. Samuel A.
Clark, Rector OF st. Johns, Elizabeth, \. j.
Mr. Clark is a brother OF the Right Rev.
Bishop CLARK, of the Diocese of Rhode
Island, and OF the Rev. Rufus W. Clark, of
Brooklyn. ...
lea. The New York Etoning Post 81 Sat
nrday says: We learn from reliable author
iiy that Gen. Wm. Mulligan, in command
ol small army of shoulder-hitters, pot
! hsase bullies and fancy men, goes on to
! Washington 10y this evening train, 10 eS-
cort Mr. SicSIes back through Baltimore
next Sunday, on his triumphal return to
this city
Bsay-The extraordinary affair of General
Van Gunkel, who administered a poisoned
sausage to his mistress, Ebra, killing her
maid servant and her brother, who ate the
dainty, is now before the Tribunal of the
Hague. The veteran culprt is 81, and COM
manded, at Waterloo, the combined Bel
gium and Dutch artillery.
8eA. The City Council of Salem, Mass,
have, lry an ordinance. forbidden the smok-
ing of cigars in their streets, ih the evening.
A man was arrested on Saturday evening,
and was obliged To remain over Sunday in
the lock-np. On Monday he was fined 50
and costs, and his friend, who attempted To
prevent the officer from arresting him, was
fined S. and costs
nat. 4 Mr. I. Bown has commenced suit
against the Directors of the Ohio Mechanics
Institute, for $1,000, for two large frames
one of them being that which surrounds the
full length portrait of Miles Greenwood, and
the other, which is alleged TO have been Or
dered for a portrait of Mr.. Allen. The bill
is refused payment, on the ground of its
being exorbitaut-Llouble that which was
agreed upon.
gA- With pleasure we hear from all
quarters, the encouraging reports of the
prospects of the coming season, as fruitful
one. The farmers in this coDnty and vicin-
ity, many OF whom we have made inquiries
relative to the appearance Of wheat on the
ground, aud the condition of embryo fruit,
all concur in the opinion that wheat never
looked better at this time of the year and