The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-04-02
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eG There is not single daily paper in
England outside Of London itself.
Ba@ DR.. F. A. Noyes was Tilted in Boston
by dashing young widow, since which time
he has been raving, incurable maniac.
Z re-. Jefferson's birthday, April 18th, is
to be celebrated in Boston by the anti-slave-
ry and state-rights party. Many leading
members of the Republican party are invi-
ted to attend.
BI A young lady, named Clark, was
abducted from her house in Albany, N. Y,
ON Wednesday night of last week, since
which time nothing has been heard of her.
The abduction took place at midnight, and
the cries Of the lady for help were heard,
but not in time to rescue her. The affair has
caused great excitement in Albany.
Dl The Hon. Caleb Cushing, IN speech
in the Stephens poisoning case,". used this
language in reference to the Sickles case:
Go to your National capital and see there
one of your most rising statesmen immured
solitary. And why The serpent entered
his garden and whispered in the ear of his
Eve, and he slew the serpent. Ilai
BgE-On the 18th inst, stranger Damed
Joseph X. Butts, while riding through the
Alexander Balm, on the street, with Halo
Aleck, how are you 2" To this offensive sa-
luton Aleck responded by firing three shots
at Butts, all of which took effect, one in the
right breast, one in the right hand, and one
in the groin. The wounded man died the
same evening. a3
The United States sloop of-war Decatur,
having anchored in q cove near San Juan
de Sur, ives mistaken for a fillibuster, ard
President Martinez, with four hundred
troops, Immediately took possession of the
Transit route, to prevent the landing of the
supposed fillibasters. On being apprised of
the truecharacter of theIDecatur he retreated
but destroyed the bridges. In the mean
while the French officers with fors3 cross
the Ia Ike 20 the river San Juan, ans seized
the White steamers, and forcioly impris-
oned the officers and crew. They had not
been released when the steamer left San
Charles. ls5 81 .s3ae - - 4iti A ~
EIGHT CHILDREN AT BIRrH.-Aboat FIVE
months since, the wife of Jacob Abbott,
living about ten miles east of Golconda, in
Pope county, G. W., presented her husband
with eight pledges of affection at one birth.
These children survived till six weeks old,
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remaining six are still living and thriving
finely. The whole eight were very small
specimens of humanity when ushered into
the world, as might have been expected
The statement is literally true; it is vouched
for by numbers of respectable witnesses
who saw the children.-Lockport Journal.
BG~ Elections for members of Congress
are to be held in the course of this year as
follows: Connecticut and Rhode Island elect
early in April; in Virginia, on the fourth
Thursday in May; on first Monday of Au-
| gust In Alabama Kentucky and Texas on
first Thursday of August in Tennessee; on
second Thursday of August in North Caroli-
ma; on first Monday of October in Mississip-
pi and Georgia; on second Tuesday in &c
tober in Minnesota; on first Monday 9TH
of October in Louisiana; and ON first We'd
nesday of November, (2d) in Maryland
| Nearly all these States were represented in
| the last House by Democrats.
G6 Late California dates state that al
no period during the last FIVE years has
Providence smiled more benignly upon the
land than now. The prospects are bright
ening in every section, and although the
snow and ice as yet compel idleness among
the people OF the extreme north, there is
abundant promise for the coming spring, and
it may be summer too. The gracious rains
have fallen in great quantities all over the
/ State, and on the lofty sierras and the foo
hills the SHOWS are already sufficient for
liberal supply of water through the warm
| weather. All have cause to be gratfied
and all rejoice in golden expectations.
ri nsA. DR.. Wright, of Halifax, Dauphir
county, Pa, met with shocking death OF
the 18th inst. He had taken his two chill
| dren, one a boy and the other girl abou
six years of age, out walking, and, when OF
the bridge above Halifax, he was met by
locomotive and coal train. He seized til,
little girl in bis arms and attempted to run
but the cars were too close, and he was un
able to escape. The locomotive knocke,
him down and passed over him, causing in
slant death; the wheels also passed owe
the arm of the little girl, cutting it off nea
the shoulder. The boy was more fortunate
he crowded himself into a small space along
side of the bridge and escaped unhurt.
neA- The wife of Lemuel D. Patterson
who lives not far from Clarksburg, Va, re
Gently persuaded her husband to sell his LAM
and household effects, with the view of goin,
10 Columbia City, Indiana. The wife man
aged to get hold of the money, having con
WINGED Mr.. Pattersonthat it would be mucl
} safer i'll her hands. The wife started west
tho husband remaining to collect up. b
the time Mr.. Patterson joined his wife, sh
had fallen in love with another man, wit
whom she was running away, when tn
husband met them accidentally at railroa
depot. Mr.: Patterson wanted his money
when his wife paramour swore he shouldn
have it. A Adesperate fight ensued, in whic
both parties fell off the platform. After tn
fight, Mrs. Patterson and her new lover lei
for Chicago, and Mr.. Patterson returned t
Virginia with black eye, bruised nos,
and with cooper box and pair of saddl
bags full of clothes. having lost his wifi
daughter, and all cf his money, aud seen th
elephant.
GH@ The New York Express contains a
account of case OF intense wretchedness i
that city. In the miserable attic efa hous
in Division street, says the paper of Saturday
there lies a young girl, far advanced in cor
sumption. She was born in Vermont, We
educated, and brought up accustomed I
every comfort. Change of circumstance
obliged her to come to New York and see
her living by the needle. Friendless an