The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-05-16
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H6- The United States Circuit Court will
sit in Indianapolis on the 10th inst
49, Some men are SO good that they are
good for nothing.
RA- The .Anti-Rent troubles are being
renewed in New York.
Bay The Spanish Senate has provided for
the erection of a statue to Murillo the ia
nous painter.
HA- There is a well near Brandon, VT,
| which freezes over every night. Ice also
incrusts the stones around the water from
fifteen to thirty feet from the surface
D65" A dealer in ready made linens adj
vertises his shirts and chemisettes under the
mellifiuous appellation of "male and female
envelopes"
WT A public dinner has been ten
dered TO James Robb, Esq, who is about re-
moving to California, by the citizens of New
Orleans.
BkB A Cleveland editor says he would
walk ten miles any time to see the photo
graph OF merchant who was n non-adver-
tiser and at the same time liberal dealer.
Bd5- Brigham Young keeps shut up, from
fear-it requires the opening of twenty
doors, exclusive Of gates to reach his sleep
ingapartments.
nsA. Jacob Mclaughlin, long known in
Cincinnati as a quondam broker, died very
suddenly i'll tina! city on Tuesday, while in
Dells Saloon. lntemperanee the cause.
wa. The real name Of Matt Peel, lhesde-
ceased minstrel, was Matthew Flannery. -
He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in
1929, and was, consequently, thirty yesrs
ct age.
EeS~ A. III. Avery, Esq, died in Memphis
Oh the sth inst, OF consumption He was
a native OF Buffalo, n Y, bat had long been
connected with the newspaper press OF Mem
phis.
BtSnln New York, on Saturday evening,
an unfortunate mechanic, whose wife had
abandoned him because he could not sup
ply her with fashionable clothing slipped
out of her fashionable society by quietly
swallowing dose Of laudanum.
DeY- The Bedford Qnd.,) Lndependent
states that Enoch Morgan, one of the "regr-
larors," charged with whipping and taking
the life OF Edward Bingham, some time since,
in Monroe county, has been sentenced TO
the penitentiary for nineteen years.
asa., Salem, Mass, believes in trees
| There are six thousand two hundred and
fifteen trees on the streets, commons and
squares of Salem, of which 1856 are elms
$50 naples, 3l3 horse chestnuts, CO lindens,
1873 ash, "a poplars, &c.
| SUDDEN DEATH.-A woman residing on
| Hill street, " nardscrabble, Pittsburg,
while in the act of getting dinner, on Sat
urday, fell and died instantly. She was
we'll few minutes before, and had returned
home from market but short time
The Vicksburg Wing contains descrip-
| ton of n iTsuS nature in the shape OF
couple of well developed young turkeys
Joined together at the head. The editor
vouches for the truthfulness of his descrip-
| ton.
HSy- The Democratic town council, of
Sullivan, Sullivan county, have enacted a
stringent prohibitory liquor ordinance for
the government of the dealers in ardent in
that Democratic region. The corporation
license is 500 in addition to the county Ii
cense of $50.
BkSyn We learn from a Southern paper
that the most extensive plantation in I.ouisi-
ana, is managed by woman-Mrs. A. f.
Flint. During the last year she raised
], 800 bogsheads Of molasses and 400 bales
of cotton-the largest crop produced on any
plantation in that State If the women beat
as in farming, what cant they do, when
there is will
EsA- A large WOODEN Factory in Water
town, n. Y, was destroyed by fire on last
Friday, and Miss Angelina Sloan, aged
twenty-one, killed by jumping from the
fourth-stCry window. Twelve other per
sons were severely injured The fire gained
ground SO suddenly the scene among the in
mates is described as fearful in the extreme.
gSy. David X. Atchison, says cores
pendent of the Boston Journal, still enjoys
the sweets of private life on his plantation
in Clinton county, Missouri. During re-
cent revival OF religion in that section he
seemed seriously inclined and some of his
relatives, who are jealous and consistent
t Methodists, really had hopes Of his CONVEX
sion. But Just then some friend sent him a
barrel of his favorite old rye whisky, (like
Mr. Buchanan, he drinks nothing but old
rye) he returned to his idol, and from that
day he has been the same old "Dave At
: Gibson az Of yore.
a BkS-A few afternoons since we SAW one
|. of our large wholesale merchants standing
d, near Trinity Church, on Summer street. Hi
" attention seemed to be devoted to the ladies
8 but his eyes did Lot scan their faces or theiI
s forms, but appeared 10 glance rapidly at the
ii material which they wore. The object o
his visit to this fashionable thoronghiare wa
to notice what amount OF goods of Ameri
, can manufacture were worn. We joined IL
d the inspection, and it WAS singular to notice
e that not one female in twenty, OF high o
low degree, passed who was not dressed ii
foreign fabric. 4 nation which thus pay
J. such enormous tributes to foreign countrie
h must expect a crisis oncein awhile.-BostoJ
Gazette.