The Evansville daily journal., 1859-01-28

EeA. During re Flval meeting at Metho-
dist Church in Massachusetts,, last week,
party of rowdies egot .into the basement
and saving through the floor constructed
trap-door with draw, and during the even
ings exercises pulled the bolt and let the
Minister, pulpit and all into the cellar.
EE= A New York paper says the Rev.
Mr.. Corbitt, an eloquent Methodist preacher
of that city, was formerly tailor, and that
the best volume of sermons in the language
is the production of a Jer. Taytor.sss..
Bgge Another attempt was madeN Mem
phis, on W ednesday night, to burp the office
of the AUaLanche. A considerable quantity
of stationery was damaged.
Rea. The Washington Star thinks that
the President has transmitted to the Senate
the nomination of Judge Samuel w. Black,
formerly of Pittsburg as the nominee for
the Governorship of Nebraska.
asax The Bay State Mills at Lowell,
Mass, which cost $4,000, 900, were sold last
week for 100000. Should their business
chance to pay six per cent. on the reduced
capitol, the fact will be quoted as an evil
dance of the prosperity of the manufactur-
ing interests, and the loss of 81 500, 900 will
be quite overlooked.
sa. Jean Baptiste Campan murdered his
wife in Detroit, Michigan, last week, and
then secreted the body, which was discov-
cred and led to his arrest. They were both
Incorporate.
nea Hoops have taken the starch out of
petticoats, according to the Buffalo Express,
which states, on the authority of one inter-
ested in the business, that starch factory
recently put in-operation in that city, with
o1 0F hoo And
| tions or is doing comparatively nothing; and
also that another celebrated establishment
at Oswego, which has heretofore paid its
ten per cent dividends, is also running only
OF very small rate, and such is said to be
| the case with these establishments through
out the country. Skit; have given place
to wood and steel stiffeners, the demand ia
now almost entirely limited to darkies, shirt
! collars and wristbands.
ayThe New Orleans Delta notices a
5. s.woman's rights lecture in that city, call
1 ing herself Lady Indiana, who is said to be
| a sister of the famous Florida chief, Billy
Bowlegs, and who was stolen from the Ever
/ glades when a child, and subsequently edu-
! Gated in Maryland. She is said to be re-
markably intelligent.
BG Modern modcsty is nondescript
sort of creature, anyhow. There is not
day of its life but it "strains at gnat and
swallows camel" We are afraid it will be
"klled entirely" If it keeps on in its
present habits Flora McFlimsey came
near to fainting the other day, because her
old-fashioned grandmother came into the
parlor, actually knitting a garter; and that
same evening she reclined fearlessly and
fondly in the arms of moustached young
gentleman, who clasped her to his bosom,
and gazed down upon her snowy neck,
while be whirled her in the giddy maze of
the waltz, so swiftly that her crinoline made
great show of certain dainty founcings
which just hid pair of siken "elastics."
BgSr The MoRtreal Herald of Tuesday
week says that on Monday the mercury fell
upwards Of forty degrees below zero. This
is colder than has been know anywhere else
the same day
Bsg~ In view of the increasing abundance
of silver, the director of the United States
Mint in his annual report inquiries whether
some measures can not be adopted where
by bank notes, under the denomination OF
twenty, or at least of ten dollars, may be
withdrawn from circulation, and whether
it would not be expedient to extend the linn
it to which the silver coinage is offered as
Il legal tender, TO fifty or even one hundred
dollars.
ssa- The Paraguay expedition, sent out
by this governmen to get satisfaction, con-
sists of nineteen vessels with lS3 guns, 285
officers, and 2,5l0 men. Look our for the
navy appropriations of the coming year.