The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-05-18
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B4- The vulgar woman is spider at
tempting to spin silk.
ssn. Strawberries areselling in the Nash
vile market at forty cents a quart.
E9yH Piccolomini coats are the new
est sensation garments in New York.
Bas" The Shelbyville Volunteer defines a
stuffed duck to be young lady crammed
with flattcry by her lover.
Ba5~ The small pox is prevailing to an
alarming extent in the neighborhOod of
Keene, JeSSamine county, Kentucky.
asA, The yellow fever is said to have APP
peared unusually early, and with great viz
ulence, in Cuba.
J BG- Some excitement has been created
/ in Memphis by the finding of dead body
in an old well.
HeA, The body of Mrs. CLINE, the wife of
| the captain of the ST. Nicholas, has been
/ found and forwarded to St. Louis.
nca,. The Sons of Malta turned out in
| New Orleans on the 9th inst, in cOmmem-
Grafton Of the 660th anniversary OF the death
of Richard the Lion Hearted.
Ra% A report is currently circulated
abroad in England, that Sir Edward Bull
wer Lytton, the present British Colonial
Secretary, has gone crazy.
pc. 1t is said that nearly all the flour
mills of Rochester and Oswego, New York,
have stopped running, owing to the very
| high price of wheat.
ne. The State Prison Committee was in
/ Fort Wayne on Friday The Times thinks
] hat t,o oh NJ j. retlnpal n
that city and Lafayette.
HsA. Capt. S. W. Bowers, ofWilcox coun-
/ ty, Ala, cut his own throat with knife on
the 5th inst. Liquor was the cause of his
suicide.
re- 1t is said that Mr.. Everett intends
to make an addition to his Grafton upon
Washington, in relation to the emancipation
of his slaves by that great and good man.
Ba5- A week filed with sel6shneSs, and
the Sabbath stuffed fall of religious exer-
else, will make good Pharisee, but poor
Christian.
Hsn, The PittSburg papers say that di-
vorce mania has broken out in that place
and a large nupber of DEGREES of separation
are being granted. On Saturday last, six
couple were separated in this way.
gI" Green peas are offered in the Gin
cinnat market at four dollars per bushel
As fitting dessert to such peas, strawber-
ries were selling Mt one dollar per quart.
Decided luxuries.
Es3y" Mr.. Wise, the celebrated aronaut,
intends to make an aerial trip from ST. Louis
to New York in June. His balloon is Gs feet
in diameter and will contain 80. 600 feet of
gas.
gay~ A Syracuse, \. Y, paper says a
"a colored lady, attired in the heiEh t of
fashion, sailed into II store and electrified
the clerk by inquiriug if he had one OF
them there hoople skirts with digestible
hustle -
re-" Late Paris Fashions inform MS
that fayOrites for spring walking dresses are
tafieta silks with the skirts plain until be-
low the knee, where they are decorated with
rows Of bOuillOns, or with one, two, or three
founces, SO narrow that they form RULES.
II is a fashion of fifty years back revived.
gsssH At Seliu Grove Penn, on tic Sus-
quehanna river, recently, rs a Baptist min
iSter- was administering the ordinance OF
baptism TO n young lady, in the river, both
were carried away by the force of the cur
rent, and were only saved from drowning by
the assistance ola hystander, who seized the
minister and dragged him out, the lady
clinging~to the latter.
Esg- The steamship Arizonia, arrived at
New Orleans on the 9Th from the Rio
Grande, bringing ST36, 900 in specie.
! Late advices from Monterey announce
that a formidable conspiracy had just been
discovered and frustrated in that city Three
priests are said TO be implicated in the plot,
who have been arrested, and, it is said. will
be male to suffer the last penalty.
, New GYMNAsIUM.-The donation of 500
t 900 for the erection of gymnasium for the
students of Cambridge, Mass, given by some
gentleman whose name has not transpired,
has been put to use. A brick building,
costing about So 900, in octagon form, some
seventy -five feet across, with bowling alley
attached, has been erected, furnished with
all necessary apparatus, and suitably endow-
ed, and Is to be open for the students of Har-
ward University.
HeA. The Philadelphia Ledger is defend
, ing the hand-organ street music. People
! who have means to attend concerts and OPP
eras are endeavoring to have the street or
gans abolished, as nuisance but the Ledger
says that they can by no possibility do harm,
} and that the poor have a right to the enjoy
, ment thus afforded. And if the wealthy
citizens of Philadelphia know what is for
their peace and security, they will rather
afford the people every opportunity to heaI
; the best music Of bands and concerts, than
give the least countenance 10 an attempt To
stop these harmless organs; some of which,
by the-bye, play very sweet music, although
Fashion does not permit her slaves to say
so. IL possible, every child in the State
should be taught music.
Ear The Louisville Journal gives the