The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-01-29
News Summary.

BaE@W hosoever is honest generous cour-
teous, and candid, is a gentleman, whether
he be learned or unlearned, rich or poor.
B-The Ohio Legislature has a bill to
reduce the salaries of Supreme Judges from
| $4,000 to S., 900. Bad policy.
re- Nearly half the winter is gone, and
in portions of Southwestern Virginia not a
pound Office has been gotten.
Registry laws are now pending in
the Legislatures of New Jersey, Michigan,
Illinois, and New York. = = . . t.
HeAI 1t is said that Mr.. w ". Corcoran
intends to have erected in Washington a
building for art pursuits, to be given TO and
for the use of artists of the county Contain
ing gallery for painting, another for stat
ary, another for school of design, &c.
1t is also said that Mr.. C. is to literally en-
dow the institution.
BAsThe report that Fred Douglas daugh-
ter was about to be sold as a slave in Ten
nessee, is not true. He has no daughter in
slavery
BGFA pamphlet has been published in
Paris, entitled, ga Letter to his Majesty,
Napoleon ILL.,, on the French influence in
America, apropos of the message of Mr., Bu-
chanan. By Man of the Latin Race
said to be N. Belly The letter calls upon
the Emperor to take in charge the destinies
of the Latin race in America, and to protect
it from the trace of brigands" people
of the United States-who care seeking to
extend their famous protcctorate over
Arizonia.' The writer is hard upon the
people of this country, which he calls "a den
of outlaws and filibusters, intent on stealing
Cuba and Central America. 4zEY.
Hss.J Jenkins, the brilliant personal para
graph writer of the newspaper press, now
calls Miss Hosmer " sculptress.p Fer the
benefit of those who do not understand the
Jenkins vocabulary, we will say that
sculptress is one who " sculpts." sIa
HeA. The Bloomington (llls.) Pantagrdph
mentions the elopement of a young man
with his stepmother.. The husband and
father takesit philosopieally, and does not in
tend to trouble himself about the runaways.
HA- A German girl living in the family
of Mr.. John Cross, in Madison, was burnt
to death Tuesday afternoon. Her clothes
took FIRE in the house frantically she ran
out into the street, the FIRE playing high
above her head. The byssanders, as soon as
the frantic girl could be caught, wrapped
their overcoats around her and extinguished
the fire, but she died in few hours after
the accident.
GSA. Francis Baxter, SON of very re-
spectabIe dealer in glassware, in Ketter-
ings, England, shot himself through the
head on Christmas day, just as he was about
to be married to Sarah Merris-a very nice
young woman, who waited long and vainly
for him in bridal array for the ceremony to
take place-beeause his father opposed the
match. He was fine youth, of pleasing
manners and steady conduct.
GAp A party of ruffians entered the
house of Mrs. Eliza Hunter, in Wheeling, on
Sunday night, and after holding high revel-
ry, beat her and her child most brutaliy.
On Saturday night, in the same city, Mr.
John Taylor was beaten in merciless man
ner by a party of rowdies ia the street.
and other outrages, says: uFor 1ilafthh5stas fthh5stas
cut-throats at heart, who only wait an OPP
portunity to execute what they feel, this city
is not surpassed by any other town OF equal
population in the country"
Hesa, Whether or not Gen. Putnam had
command of the American forces at the
battle of Bunker Hill, is a subject of dis
cusson with some of the Connecticut
papers. 81
nR The Nisi Prius Court of Philadel-
phia has decided that the loss of one parent
only will constitute a surviving child an
/" orphan" The case arose from the refusal
of the Board of Directors of Girard College
to admit into that institution pupil on
account of its not having lost both parents.
B The State of Arkansas has not a
single telegraph wire within her borders.--
A project is on foot for establishing one be-
tween Memphis and Little Rock.
B3yH A bill has been introduced into the
| Illinois Legislature making Christmas, New
Years Day, Thanksgiving Day, Eighth o.
january, Twenty of February, and
the Fourth of July legal holidays. Its an-
thor is Mr. Bryant, of Bureau county, q
| brother of William Cullen Bryant, the poet
ney The Rev. Mr.. Sullivan, a Catholic
priest, of Charleston, S. c., paid over to {
lady of that city, on Monday, the sum o
$500, received through the confessional
| He received it from person who it sait
was to satisfy an indebtedness rightfully
due the hairs of the lady's father. Th'
| debt had remained unpaid for at least I
period of twenty-five years, as the paren
of the lady has been dead over twent.
years