The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-05
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port. That journal-unlike some of its less
discreet co-workers-says, "These disclo-
sures are indeed astounding, and indicate
the most extensive qualifications of bribery,
compromising and corruption Ii
Hgn A boy sixteen years old, named Hen
ry Randall was recently arraigned at
Brighton, England, for bigamy, and the of
fence was proved. s4a- 5 rs 7si1 80 -
aea-, The Saturday ReeieaU speaks of the
| life of DIR. Kane by DIR. Elder, as written in
a "ranting, screaming, staggering style,
like the strut.of drunken tailoF's appren-
tiee." ~ Haei as ta
HA, Alexander Wentworth, respectable
merchant Of Boston, died few days since
from the effects OF the poisonous medicines
be had been taking as he supposed, by the
dictates IF the spirits. '~s }
NsEa Mrs Smith, the wife of the station
age IF the Pennsylvania Railroad at Bal
| leyf rg, has been arrested for having pois-
one' ner husband, who died few days
sin :, with croton oil. rae
Rsa The number of the diplomatic circle
in Washington is about to be increased by q
new attache to the Russian legation, in the
person of Prince Ouronsnff AS his ances-
tors have BEEN once sovereign in Tartary,
1t may be said that ne genuine article
and not creation by parchment
BET The Sandman marriage, with the
imperial house of Russia, if it is to take
| place, will not be with the widowed Grand
Duchess now Countess Strogenoff but very
| likely with her daughter, Princess Maria
Maximilianowna Leuchtenburg, born Oc-
| tober l6, 1874, it is said
Ha. herival candidates for senatorial
honors in district No. 8, New Hampshire,
Walter and Benjamin F.. Hartman, are
brothers, who live on the same farm, and in
| the same house.
| Bas- Justin Wright, book agent from
Ohio, has been arrested at Clinton, Conn.
| for forging two notes, one for $500 and the
other for $780, saa
BI@ At the January term of the Supreme
| Court of Alabama, it was decided that
person whose grandmother was the
daughter of mulatto, by negress is not
a competent witness against white person,
although his father maternal grandfather,
and great-grandfather were white men.
| RsA, The Commercial says that the fash
ionables of Cincinnati, of the masculine
persuasion" have adopted the latest style of
cravats-a shoe-string tied in bow-knot
with the ends dangling on the shirt BOSOM
nEA. Miss Margaret E. Mcdonald died in
Hardy county, Va, on the 9th instant, be-
ing the tenth member of her family-in-
Guiding her parents-who have died in the
/ last five months. Only one sister now re-
mains out of a family of eleven.
| Ra. Representatives of the leading Rail-
roads are to meet at Buffalo on the 10th of
March, for the purpose of arranging the
summer time tables.
| BGE" James L. TwitchelI, of Montville,
| Me-, has an OK of monstrous size which lie
/ is exhibiting in different sections of the
country. His girth is 81 feet, and his
! weight over 1000 pounds, more than two
| tons. ------.-.. .--...-.-
BsS~ Last Sunday night a fearful murder
was committed in Newcastle, Va. A young
man named Starks, who was probably in
toxic ated, went to the house of Miss Polly
| Tucker and asked admission, but was re-
! fused. He then went to the window, and
threatened to enter that way. Miss Tucker
threatened to strike him with an axe. He
laughingly told her to strike away, which
she did, cleaving his skull open, from the
| effects of which he died in six hours after
The murderess has since asserted that she
had the axe ready for two weeks for that
purpose, and that she committed the murder
eoolly and deliberately.
BsA-The youngest daughter of Orsinidied
at Nice short time since, only six years of
age. She was of a frail delicate constitu-
ton, and since her fathers execution has
been very i'll. go
ssa. 1t is stated that Bonner is about 10
commence the republication OF his Ledger
in London, and that an agent is there now
making the necessary arrangements. What
next? EtGT ..H5>f2..
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flee business in New Orleans and escaped.
The forgeries were all perpetrated. in the
space Of a few days He forced the sigma
ture of Robert Dyas & Co. for 81 900 to a
check upon the Louisiana State Bank the
signature of Converse, Kennett Il Co. for
| 81, 40o: the signature of Gregor & Wilson
for S775 and ]. Fl. Carter & Co. for $500,
drawing the money and leaving for parts
| unkuJ own. $50 ff
| MA correspondent of the New York
CentuTy gives some important information
relative to manufactures in California;
| From this statement we learn that there are
in the State 1876 -four mills, with capacity
for producing 1880, 600 bbls. per arnud;
nearly S3, 00o 900 has been expended in
erecting these mills. q Importation of -four
from the Atlantic ports and from Chill and
Oregon are now nearly al an end.
B The indianapolis journal saws that
a few evenings since little daughter of
| gentleman of that city secreteI herself in a
closet with a yialpartly filled with laudanuln,
and drank the contents Of it, The child
was missed, and on search being made she
was found stupid from the effects of the
narcotic. By the use of proper means she
was saved from death, and on returning to-
consciousness was asked why she had drank
the laudanum. Her reply was that she
wanted TO die and go to Heaven, where her
little brother was. Other questions being
asked it was found that the child conceived
the idea of death and Heaven from the read
/ ing of Sunday School books, and in con-
versation with her playmates about the
stories in them. How she obtained her
knowledge of the power of laudanum was
not ascertained.
/ B9 The Washington Union in an arti-
Gle evidently speaking the sentiments Of
the President) declares /" that unless some
thing be done to reinstate the public ex-
chequer, and reorganize the finances of the
country, the Government will be in state
of revolution, On the 4th of March, ap-