The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-13
The News

We learn from the Bowling Green Stand |
torS-Mr. Gannaway-rcsided, belonging to
Frank Cook, ESQ.,, was destroyed by fire on
Thursday night last. Mr.. Cooks loss Is
about one thousand dollars. Mr.. Gamma |
way lost all his household furniture, cloth.
ing, &c. - ~ 49,
We learn from the Fayetteville Arkan-
sian that a fatal rencounter took place in
Huntsville, Ark, on the 25th ult., wherein
Forester Black, and Warren Sans, a mer-
chant in Huntsville, were killed, and John
Black and DR.. James Smithson, of Fayette-
Vile, and Constable Moody and James Suns,
of Huntsville, were severely wounded.
A young Frenchman named Louis Le-
veiglee, seems likely to furnish his biogra-
pher, quite rapidly, with matter for his his
tory. Lately he reached Cumberland, Pa,
in an exhausted state, sealed up in a freight
car, where he had crept to save fare. Since
then he undertook to commit suicide, ard
failing in that, robbed store. He is now
under arrest.
A young man named Perry Shirley, %
years of age, hung himself, near Gosport, in
this State, to an apple tree He had been
deranged for some time before.
The Lafayette Courier reports that Mr..
W. Dewey of that place lost an eye on Fri
day morning, by getting muriatic acid in it.
1t destroyed the outer coating of the eye
ball as rapidly as red-hot iron would do il.
His sight is considered lost forever.
The yicksburg San says that Mr.. Barnes,
who resides on the Louisiana side of the
river, has a large Durham COW which swims
across the Mississippi every morning and
evening. She swims over to the opposite
side to eat grass, and back again in the eve
ming to be MIXED. ....,7--', -
= A short time since, man calling himself
|. Anderson Bell, alias Vim. Anderson, was
: detected playing the gay ,Lothario with
some of the school girls of the village OF
I Hyneville, Alabama. With some he had
improper interviews, with others he was
/ making arrangements to elope. This COM
{ ing to the knoH ledge Of the villagers, the
= gay fellow wSs se.zea, strapped across q
r whisky barrel IL. !. .;.fcd TO forty lashes.
a The impression SINS stronger that Amer.
: lean volunteer regnieif,4- viii be employed
e to aid the Constitutional Government &c
S conquer the rebellion in Mexico In that
# case, it is thought that Juarez will have nc
r difficulty in raising loan in the Unitet
e States on the hypothecation of the govern.
ment lands, estates, and securities.
n Abiding to the late balloon voyage from
st. Louis eastward, the Philadelphia Ledge
: says that short time ago, NJ. Gervani,
Partisan, Travelled in an arial machine, par
u balloon and part flying machine, to Algier.
= and back, fifteen hundred miles from til,
starting point, in eighteen hours, or eighty.
: three miles an hour. These facts would in
L dictate that the power of controlling the di
, rection of the aerial machine is being ac
: quired by balloonists, and that we may We
find "a greater increase to our powers of 10
? comoton than is afforded by the railroad
lie II is becoming quite fashionable for a Ia
,r dy to appear with hair cropped closely be
y hind, the front locks being long enough 4
At curl. So rapidly has this fashion gained il
ir favor, that it will not be wonderful shoul,
p it become general for a time. But it mus
70 necessarily be short lived. Long hair is
N glory. to woman, as st. Paul observes, an
m its grace cannot well be dispensed with b.
no the handsomest face IS 1r--'f4
Id Porters Spirit says that The horse JAG
IN Rossiier has been matched for $4,000 i
IN England to trot twenty miles in one hour
as The terms of the match are, that the partie
who bet against the horse, wager $500 tbs
I'm he viii not complete seventeen of the mile
We within the hour, 5000 more that he will nc
We do eighteen, $500 more against nineteen, an
nd $500 more against twenty, making 81, 90
AL in ALL
CoNyIcTS IN THE PESrTENrIARY.-Tl
lie number of convicts at present confined
n the State Institution at Jacksonville is Fl,
o. hundred and nineteen. This includes eleye
he women, twenty-five murderers in the fir
it, degree, three in the second degree, and
he teen convicted of manslaughter.
lg, On the 4th, one of the above, Jack Gi
cd more, escaped, but a chap of the name
oil Reed, convicted from indianapolis, w
us hourly expected, winch will make up Il
D" number named above.
IN MAILING LETTERS AT THE CARS II
try privilege allowed of mailing letters at 4
&c, cars has been so much abused at mai
be points upon the lines of railroad, that I
Try Postotiice Department has found it necess