The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-01
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is stated, that they went home sober, it may
be considered proved that lager beer will
not intoxicate.
eG~The Empress Eugene is busily en-
gagged in collecting autographs Of the Bona
parte family. She collects everything they
wrote everything belonging to their history,
and has already assembled enough to fill
twenty-five volumes which she has richly
bound in her Library.
Hea The New York Journal Of Commerce
shows by tables that the total imports for
January have been more than double the
corresponding total for last year, the increase
being S11, 142,243.
nag The Holly Springs Democrat of
Thursday, says that Pleasant NJ. Mask, who
has been confined for the last four years in
the Jail at that place, for the murder of the
young lady, Miss Smith, has received his
final sentence, and will suffer the extreme
penalty of the law on Friday the 4th day of
March next, at Holly Springs.
BG- The st. Charles Hotel at New Or
leans, for the first time since it was erected,
was brimful on the 18th instant, and not a
bed to spare-containing the large amount
of eleven hundred and sixty-nine guests. A
small town.
AeA, Col. John F. Mills, the well-known
planter, has recently sold his estates near
Helena, in Arkansas, for the sum of $685.
900.
Haya The Homestead bill was indefinitely
postponed in the Senate by the casting vote
OF Vice President Breckenridge.
R@L. Horace Greeley has been lecturing
in New York on Great Men. He says the
way of mobiles cndeavor lies over burning
ploughshares.
BSy1 1t is said that in the ill-starred town
of Northampton, Mass, there live on one
street thirty-five marriageable and accom-
plished young ladies, individually and col
lectively willing TO get married. Just to
think of the vast amount of female lowell
ness that must there fall inevitably into old
maidhood, or be developed into school
marms. The consideration is appalling.
Beg Miss Alice j. Chase sister of Gov.
Chase, died in Columbus, last Wednesday,
after a few hours illness, in the SD year of
age.
B9T- Nine of the Burns poems sent in to
the English Prize Committee were from the
United States. The second poem in the es-
timation of the Judges WAS written by n
boy of fifteen, named Myers, and is consid-
cred quite as extraordinary performance
for boy of that age as anything of Chat
tertonis.
BE- Wells Commercial Express shows
deficiency ia the receipts of wheat at Chi
cago of over five million bushels, and esti-
mates that the deficiency 10y the LIST of Au-
gust will reach 5000, 900 bushels.
sEAz There are new rumors of dissolu-
ton of the Cabinet One is that the Presi-
dent has requested Mr.. Toucey to resign, in
view of the coming report against him OF
the Sherman Investigating committee.
Gay Lord Lyons left England in the war
steamer Kuracoa, and is expected on the
18th of March Lord Napier will return in
the same vessel, leaving New York about
the 10th of March, He will spend several
months in London before proceeding to the
Hague.
HN- The people of Paraguay have i'm
proved on the Georgia costume shirt
collar and spurs. They wear only a hat.
ncH. The first regular total abstinence So
ciety of which there is any record, was or
ganized February Is, 1926 thirty five
years have passed; still, however, it costs
the American people great deal more tc
drink than it does to eat.
mSy-The unclaimed funds in the Savings
Banks of the State of New York are estimat-
ed at from three to FIVE millions of dollars
BsA. Cabbage contains more muscle-sus-
tanning nutriment than any other vegetable
whatever. We Away supposed that peas
had the first claim to that distinction
MaTDelazon Smith, who was admitted rs
United States Senator from Oregon last
week, for the short term, which expires on
the 4th of March, will make a profitable jot
out of his two weeks service. He will get
full pay, and about $4,000 of mileage!-
No wonder he wants to be elected Senator
again.
When you negotiate for a house hav.
ing all the modern improvements, don't for
get to look for mortgage as one of them.
rEH. Every member of the Boston Board
of Aldermen for the year 1882 is dead, anC
seven out of eight who served i'll the yea
1887.
q gss" The bill providing for the construc
ton of a series of city railroads in New Or
leans, has passed into law, and the Con
troller is to advertise three months for pro
posals, for building the roads. The lease
~ to run for twenty years.
nsA. The Santa Fe New Mexican) GA
xette states that los, 0o0 sheep are about t
be taken from Benaville and Valentia coun
ties, in that Territory, overland to Califor
MIA. There is also a drove of 10000 fror
Ohio, now at Santa Fe, bound for the sam
QeStlnatlOn. SO l-sr-
nA, Three American deaths have recent
ly occurred in England-all young mel
s7 members of well known families, and a
three of consumption. One was a son
Stephen Van Rensselaer,. of Albany al
other a son Of Col. John w. Preston,
Charleston; and the third son of the Hol
Joseph Ingersoll, of Philadelphia.
sA. The Jackson monument: at the ba
tie ground, New Orleans, has reached Il
height of 20 feet, and has cost $780, 900.
re- The Scientific American pronounc
the cigar steamer of the MeSsrs. Winans
Baltimore, failure.
Bog The wife of General Miramon, wi
has lately become President of Mexico,
said to be a regular trump card. She moi
fed her husband-a young man of twent
seven years-that he must fight his WI
into the Presidential chair. or she wou
not live with him. What woman cam
do, it is not expedient for man to undertak
rsA. For views on the Rhine, look into
pork barrel.
Rssz, An effort is going TO be made by
company Of American gentlemen residi
in Paris to purchase a certain journ
which can be had for, perhaps, sum
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