The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-11
News Summary.

BEy@ An expressman, in California, was
chased by eight wolves, on the goth of
January he dropped his letter bag, ran to
pine stump, and set it on fire. The |
wolves tore up the mail bag, ate the ex-
pressman's dinner, then, being frightened
by the blaze of the pine wood, ran away
This is taking the stump to some purpose.
5faF- The Indianapolis Citizen thus COM
plaans: at is strange that police matters
aFe SO dull. Six hundred grog-shops in a
town of this size ought to render BUSINESS
in this line quite fourishing. May be the
hardness of the times operates as a sort of
drawback to their influence"
D6yn The Washington Union says; "Un-
les the Democratic party shall gain nearly
all of the districts now represented by
Southern Americans, they will lose the next
House of Representatives.
nee. As Cardinal Wisemen was returning
frem lecture in Liverpool recently, mob
of some two thousand boys and young men
collected and threw stones Eat his car
riage. 1t would seem that the days of
"No Popery" are about to be revived in
England.
HEA=, Nine young gentlemen, and an equal
number of young Misses, have been expelled
the Groton Academy at Lawrence, Mass,
trary to the rule of the institution.
BaT The wife of Conrad StegInan, who
resides in Cincinnati, presented her liege
lord with two boys and girl, night before
last They are doing well, both mother and
children, but we hope the father may never
again meet with such misfortune
BSF A man in Orange, Massachusetts,,
was married ON the 9th ultimo became a
fathersou the 10th, and advertised his wife
on the l4th, cautioning all persons against
trusting her on his account.
sara dispute about hog has been late
~ in the Indianapolis Court of Common
Pleas. The value of the article in dispute
was probably four or five dollars. The
costs in the case can not have been less than
seventy-hve dollars.
BEaS. The latest news from the Pike 3
Peak gold mines is encouraging to the
miners There is certainly some gold that
may be worried out of the ground, and
there are plenty of town lots for sale.
ReA.. Among the names of the ladies who
graduated at the New England Female Med.
ical College, Boston, on the I'd inst, We fine
that of Almra Fifeld, NJ. D., Valparaiso
Indiana.
RsA, The people of high artistic tastes il
Boston cannot endure Powers statute o
Webster 1t has been proposed to melt i
down and convert il into cents.
RB@ A little boy, four years DID, abou
Gwo feet high, was the means of obtaining
the liberation of his drunken parents from
jail last week, at Baltimore, whittier the
had been sent for six months. A petition
was written for him. and he went roun
and obtained a large number of signatur e.
and then presented it TO the proper authoi
tiles, who promptly acceded to the reques
By Guess nobody pays taxes in Chicago
The Democrat, of Monday, comes to us wit
a supplement containing forty-seUea co
umns of closely printed matter, representa-
delinquents of that city for the past year
Not less than IL, 600 lots are thus advertise
for non payment of taxes
of the poor child.
neA, The "liquid-6re rife shell" inven
ed by Captain Norton, was experimental o.
at Chatham, England, on the | 18th ult. III
object of the she'll is to set on fire any pc
ton of vessel on which it may explode
The shell is three times the size of an old
mary bullet, and is filled with chemic
substance known only to the inventor.
Das~ At Dubuque, Iowa, boy nam,
Flynn was dangerously if not fatally poi
-oned, few days ago, by eating the seeds
Stramonium, or what is more frequent
known as Thorn Apple or jamestown W zee
peAs The amount already contributed
the Mount Vernon Fund by Mr.. Everett
according to the Boston Daily Adcertise
$50, a99 81. About 81, 900 more, accruil
from the delivery of his " Washington y
at present outstanding, but will in a ft
days be received and paid over by n
Everett The same paper publishes a lett
from the Salem (Mass.) Cadets, which
closed check of $50 as the donation
= that company.