The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-04-20
The News


Edwin Forrest has been awarded $500
damages in q libel suit against N. p. Willis
The damages are small, but the costs OF the
suit, We apprehend, win make Mr., Willis
squirm.
Mrs. Svisshelm, in Boosting of the Min
nesota air, says it is the very elixir of life,
and she shouldn't wonder to see some enter
prising qusck doctor bottling up the Janua-
ry air and selling it all over the rest of the
Union, as cure for everything in general,
and a positive prevention of the blues
D0r An extensive FIRE occurred in st.
Louis on Sunday morning. on Main street
between Olive and Pine, in the store of l..
c. Speck b Co., dealers in hosiery, gloves,
jewelry, &c, The stock of Messrs. Speck 4
Co, was exceedingly large and varied, the
greater part ofwhich was entirely destroyed
and the remainder very much damaged.
The bnilding, which was owned by the
firm, and built on leased ground, was dam
aged about $3oo0-covered by policy in
the Mound City Insurance Company The
stock is estimated at about $92, 900 on
which there was an insurance OF So, 900.
The stores adjoining were badly drenched
with water, but their loss was comparative
ly small in proportion to the size of their
stocks.
The Metropolitan Theatre. in Indianapo-
lis, is to be re-opened on the 18th. inst. by
Mr.. George Woods, of Woods Theatre, Gin
cinnati.
Mr.. E. I. Sherlock, late vi the Metropoli-
tan, opens Theatre ia Detroit on the same
day.
The Trustees of the Indiana University
met in Bloomington, pursuant to call OF
the President on Thursday last there not
being Il quorum present, they adjourned To
meet at indianapolis, on Saturday last.
which meeting took place, and Professor
Lathrop, of the Wisconsin University, was
elected to succeed Rev W. NJ. Daily, D. d.
Mr.. Lathrop will take charge of the lnstitu-
ton in few days.
The New York Herald says that the Reg
istry law, recently passed by the Legislature
of New York, so far as that city is con-
cerned, will prove failure One clause in
it the Herald regards as peculiarly objec-
tionable That is the section wherein it is
provided that by an elaborate process names
may be added to the registry list on election
day. As it Is now, many votes are shut
out when an exciting election takes place,
on account of the fact that there is not time
to receive all that are offered, and under this
law it would be easy to keep away half the
registered voters from the polls, while the
inspectors were taking proofs az to the
rights of the unregistered.
DR.. Wetherill, of Lafayette, has analysed
some painted confectionery, particularly
that favorite of children, candy dogs, and
finds that the coloring matter of the green
hues is composed of arsenite of copper, a
deadly poison. single piece of such can
dy contains enough poison to kill several
children. Cohfectioners must look out for
this.
The New York Tribune says it learns that
the publishers of Websters Unabridged
Dictionary have in press a new edition of
that work, with fifteen hundred pictorial il
lustrations; several thousand new words
added to the vocabulary; table of syno-
nyms by Prof. Goodrich, with various new
features. 1t is to appear, We understand at
an early day, and will be looked for with
much intereet.
A letter from the little town of Cromwell,
Middlesex county, Conn, says that SO acres
! Of tobacco were cultivated i'm that town last
season, the value of which is $4,000, and
more than three fourths OF the crop WAS
grown within half mile radius, upon the
loamy soil everything the sandstone forma-
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