The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-01-13
News Summary.

aea A Spaniard named Felix Sanches,
brutally murdered his father-in-law and
wounded his wife and mother-in-law recent
", in New York city. The cause assigned
was jealousy of his wife. The murdered
man met his death by interfering to protect
his daughter.
BGg@ The Democratic State Convention
of New Hampshire met at Concord on the
9th and unanimously nominated Asa P.
Cate, of Mortified, for Governor and Fred
erick Vose for Railroad Commissioner.
BSs@ The Panama Railroad Company
have recently secured from the governments
of Costa Rica and Guatemala the exclusive
right, for ten years, of steam navigation
along that coast, and will doubtless secure
the same privilege from the States of San
Sals ador and Nicaragua. They have already
one steamer-the Columbus-on the route,
and launched one Wednesday, in New York,
called the Guatemala, which will run i'll
connection with the Columbus.
RAJ The Archduke Charles, of Austria,
has arrived at Rome, with the intention, it
is said, OF becoming Capuchin monk.
H6Sa In the Crawford, Ohio, Common
Pleas Court, Mr.. H. Johnson, polite young
man of loose principles, was compelled to
pay Miss Jarvis $500 for trifing with her
affections and So, 800 for compromising her
reputation.
nG The Cooper Opeaa Troupe commenced
an engagement in Louisville on Monday
evening. The Democrat predicts them a
success.
gsa correspondent of the Louisville
| Democrat, writing from Washington, in ref
erence to the eulogies delivered on the death
| IF Ov.;f
| casion of the kind have | known so much
| feeling. The eulogies were all of high
order. That of Thompson, of New York,
was for beauty of thought and style of de-
livery, a gem. 1t would be hard to equal
and impossible to excel. A number on the
floor, we'll in the galleries, wept freely
during its delivery.
gGF The Milwaukee, Wis, Meas says
that on Saturday evening passenger got
on board the evening train, near Cedarburg,
on the La Crosse road, when the cars were
running twenty miles an hour. 1t was a
fine German boy, and by next New Years
| will be a year old
| nea. The Louisville Democrat in spe k
ing of the late Convention in that State
says 1t will be seen that Beriah Magofin,
who made such handsome race for Lieut.
|
is our candidate for Governor, and the Hon
Lynn Boyd has accepted the Lieut. Cover
norship. The men are emphatically the best
! 1t only remains to know the platform upon
which they stand.
EsSa The Petersboro &c, W. Repiet
says that recently Mrs Elmhurst of Otana.
bee who had, for some months, been under
strict supervision, on account of insanity
Ii oFl
deliberately chopped off the head of he
youngest child, a girl only 15 months old
The wretched woman was taken to tht
county Jail.
RE.g% The State of Arkansas has not
t single telegraph wire within her borders
A project is on foot for establishing one be
tween Memphis and Little Rock.
Bza5@ A portion of comb, bearing TIL
name of George Washington, has been fount
at Valley Forge, and is supposed to be on
lost by him during the Revolutionary war
Bf5S3 At the last Spiritual Conference il
New York, believer informed the audienc
that woman in that city was recent,
, quitting down carpet, and having temper
arily left her hammer and tackS OF the foo
near the hall, behind an open door, she sool
after discovered that the spirits had driver
f several of the tacks into the wall, in such
manner az to form the initial letters of ne
name" Very likely.
GG@ An ingenious downeaster has con
3 structed miniature factory village, witt
engines, wheels, windmills, carriages, water
falls, persons walking, playing, swinging
&C., and the whole so delicately arranged
and so nicely adjusted, as to be put in com
plete operation by a single mouse, whic
: travels in a small circular cage, as squirrel
are often seen doing.