The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-01-05
NaWs Summary.

committed at Laurel, Franklin county, On
Tuesday night last. The sleeping apartment
of William M Doughty, Esq, was entered,
and his pantaloons taken to the yard below,
his wallet and the keys to his store and safe
taken therefrom, and both were opened and
robbed. TIE safe contained about $500 in
money which was taken. Mr. Doughty also
lost fine gold chronometer and chain.
BGP Col. ]. ". feathers and George A.
Tails, of Covington, Kentucky, are having
newspaper controversy. The last broadside
is from Leathers, who winds up in the follow
ing elegant style:
suppose this publication will dispense
with the necessity of any further notice from
me o. this miserable fax-headed, goat-jawed,
noisy, swill-fed, drunken, seuatter sovereign
ty, low-life scamp, G. A. Tails, and his ac-
complete for whom have the most ineffable
contempt.
Fea. An Irishman called at bookstore
in Jordon the other day, to purchase steel
pen. The clerk handed him one, and after
examining it a moment he threw it down,
declaring that he didn't want to be " chat
ed " in that manner. TIE clerk picked it
up and asked " What is the matter with
it2p "Its broke said the man, II want
a whole one or I'll not pay We fort" The
clerk assured him that it was whole and
good one, but was effectually silenced by
the Irishman, who, pointing out its defect
exclaimed" An will ye be after calling
that whole one? Don'tyou see it's split!
EJ@ One of the curious facts, recently
revealed by the publication of custom house
tables is, that there was imported into this
country last year, 100000 pounds of opium.
n 49, Z So OH al li1hl q
data, that no more than one-tenth is used
for medical purposes. The habit Of eating
opium is known to be spreading rapidly
literary men and enormous etiaIVrvtvs
used by the manufacturers of those poison
Gus liquids which are dealt out in drinks
in the saloons and groggeries that infest
every city and village in the country.
u.s.. A few days since the people OF An
derson, Ind, "asserted their sovereignty"
and cleared out fourteen liquor shops and
low groceries, An effort had been made
to inaugurate a revival in the churches, but
poor success attending the religious effort il
was thought the dog geries were the cause Of
it, and an organized crusade was made
against them and their destruction was com.
plete.
Jumped fro1a the roof of HE house, in Gin.
cinnati, on Monday, and died the follow.
ing day from the injuries he received. HI
was crazy.
"a 4 Washington dispatch says; "Ar
| effort is being made to send the Hon. Calel
Cushing to Mexico as special Minister
to adjust the existing complication of diff
! culties.5
ga. VIM. Lyon Mackenzie, tia leader o
the Patriot War or Canada Rebellion, seem
to be in high favor in Toronto, the cit,
/ from which he was driven when the wa
broke out. He has since been a member o
Parliament, and was recently pominatet
Mayor of Toronto, but declined the honor
and ia soon to have homestead presente'
to him, for the purchase of which owe
$4,000 have been subscribed.
nA- The mother-in-law of Grafton Pow
ell, Esq, of Washington, died in the rqids
of her granddaughter wedding festivities
on Tuesday night Every one of her chill
dren, and almost every living relative, wit
messed her last breath, and soothed her las
aeA VI Lord Napier's recall the NeS
York Albion says: f" Unless there be roy
al marriage in prospect, OF chance of col
lision with the Dutch East India COMPANY
it is difficult to imagine how an accomplishe
and active minded British Minister, trans
ferred from Washington to the Hague. wi
find congenial occupation
BsF A meeting of grocers was held i
Philadelphia few days since, for the pun
pose of considering the action of importer
of coffee, in agreeing to abolish tare in COTE
after the lst of January. 1t was resolve
that there was no just cause for the Pre-
posed change, and TO, insist on the continu
ance OF tare OF two per cent. A commit
tee was appointed to confer with the Ne,
York and Baltimore committees in regar
to the matter.
Bk5@ In the G. 8. Senate, recently, a pe
tition was presented by Senator Brown c
Mississippi, from Oscar J. E. Stewart, sci
ting forth that his slave was the inventor {
useful agricultural machine, for which tn
Commissioner of Patents refused Il paten
on the ground that machine invented b
q slave, though it be new and useful, coul
not be, IN the present state of the law, pal
euted, and asking that the patent law ma
be so amended that patent may be issue
to the master.
BgB@ " Doesticks, in his amusing sltetche
of fortune-tellers, entitled the switches c
New York, describes a waiting maid c
Madame Cargo as "a shabby looking CIR
with her hair in as much confusion as
the city had contracted to keep it straight
BsF A private letter from London say
that Jeffs, the well known agent there ha
sold not less than 10000 copies of Coun
Montalemberts pamphlet, printed in Londo
while the Brussels edition is also importe
in large quantities. Louis Napoleon ha
thus advertised the counts W rk in man
ner only to be rivalled by the ingenuity c
Bonner. The pamphlet is thought to tel
against Palmerston and to help Derby.
BEP The Supreme Court at Oswego ha
, recently held that an action against ban
, on protested bill cannot hold on the sim
pie endorsement of A. B cashier, unless tn
avowed purpose of negotiating the bill, 0
the specification of the name and authorit
of the bank supposed to be represented, shal
accompany such endorsement.
A startling, but not altogether unexpecte
movement has been commenced il Australia
1t appears by the report of recent speec
delivered by the Rev. DR.. Lang, in Australi;
that be advocated, particularly in the even
! of o. war between Great Britain and France
a ser 2ration from the mother country, an
the establishment of sovereign and indepen
| l.