The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-05-24
CLIPPINGS.


gsIy" At the law school of the university at
Cambridge Mass, out of 800 graduates, $40
were from the South.
B-SF" The snow is just beginning to melt
on the mountains Of New Hampshire, and
the rivers are rising in consequence.
gtlS- The New Albany Ledger contains
torty-two notices OF application To sell liquor
in the city of New Albany.
Be- An inOrdinate desire to obtain pos
session of secrets, is an unerring indication
of inability to keep them.
aE3,. BostonianS are talking of establish
ing line of steamers to Europe. They are
tired of being dependent upon New York.
Hen. The Newark Daily Adgertiser saws
that the firemen of that city are paid thirty
dollars a year, without reference to the
amount of service performed
BSs"Louis Murat, Il lineal descendant of
Joachim Murat, King of Naples, was found
drunk in San Francisco, and taken TO the
station house, few weeks since.
BSyn The wharves at Lachine, Canada,
are completely lined with RATS, and a great
part of the St. Lawrence opposite, is also
crowded with them. They are principally
from Ottawa and Hawkesbury.
Bm. Miss Eliza Mcdonnell, a wealthy
ward of guardian, and Thos. p. BRYANT
eloped from Nelson county, Ky, q few days
since, and were married at the Spencer
House, Cincinnati, on Wednesday last.
gas~ A pickpocket, CO years old, was
lately arrested in London for plying his
profession at a wedding where he pretended
to be one of the party, and wore mar
| rage favor. He found no favor with the
magistrate.
B1s~ Last Saturday, man in Canada,
feeling ILL., sent his wife for some salts and
SIENNA. Instead of salts, alum was sent; the
man mixed the drugs, drank nearly the con-
tents of tumbler, and died Immediately
after.
n@, In Philadelphia, on Friday, a party
of boys who were bathing in the Delaware,
off the end of Reed wharf raked up an old
canvas bag containing about SlOO in doub-
looms. Since this, numerous young divers
are searching for other relics of ancient
wealth.
saS~ We learn from gentleman of Dan
vile, Ky, that the son of tavern keeper Of
Salvisa, was drowned in well yesterday
We have not learned the particulars. The
only remaining child of the family, daugh.
ter, is lying i'll and expected TO die.
B6y- A writer in one of our Philadelphia
exchanges, describing a fashionably dressed
young gentleman, says he wore ga bin,
silk neck-tie, knotted with the graceful cas-,
of one of Macaulay's sentences Who say;
we are not literary people?
B6g- The Baltimore Patriot records tn,
death of venerable woman--relict of tn,
author of the "Star Spangled Banner" ant
mother of the unfortunate 7. Barton Key
She died in that city at a good old age, es
teemed and loved by all who knew her.
nen. The College of New Jersey has :
larger number of students than at any for
mer period. The Theological Seminary al
Princeton was never more flourishing. \
number of the students proposed devotins
themselves to foreign missions, and severa
have left other professions to serve in the
ministry.
RGa EX-PreSident Van Buren, is in Phil
adelphia, the guest of the Hon. p ID. Gil
pin of that city. The Ex-president wa
born in 1882, and is now seventy-seveT
years of age. His health is excellent
thanks to his temperate mode of life, and h,
bids fair to live many years longer. He
Secretary CaSs, Daniel Webster, John G
Calhoun and Thomas II. Benton, were al
born in the same year.