The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-11
THE News.


cinnati, was bitten by rattle-snake near
Yanceburgh, KY, on the Fourth, and died
a few hours after. After his death picture
of snake was distinctly visible on one Of
1t is said that since the death OF his father
VIM. B. Aston has "laid upp $1,000, 600 a
year. He had nearly Sls,ooo,ooo to COM
mence life with. 4 chA EEFEE
Gen. Scott has issued an order, directing
the officers OF the army TO give regular and
systematic instruction to the troops in bay
onet exercise, and target practice for small
arms, and in the full use of the several wea-
pons placed in their hands.
II is reported that Hon. Charles Sumner,
now i'm Paris, is about to be married to Mrs
Thayer (nee Granger), widow of the Rev. J.
+. Thayer, of Boston.
Secretary Cobbs annual report estimated
the balance which would be in the treasury
on Saturday at over S7,0OO,oOo. Only So,
100000 were there on Monday, including
receipts from the Treasury notes, which he
then excluded from the account
Theodore s.. Fay, our Minister 10 Swift
zerland, who, it is said, will soon he recalled,
has not been in the United States for 30
years.
Miss Olive Oatman, whose captivity among
the Apache Indians recently excited com
passion, is lecturing at Saratoga upon the
incidents of her life among the savages.
Since the year 1850, the city of Cincin-
natl has paid for printing and advertising,
the sum of s35,e62 80
A Washington letter says that Peter c.
Washington, travelling emissary OF Guthrie
for the Presidency, has failed ia all expert
nents on Northern opinion. Maine witness
ed his last fiZZle
Mr.. Hyde, the local editor OF theSt. Louis
Republican, gives lengthy account of his
trip in the balloon Atlantic
Mrs. l.. Virginia French has resigned the
post Of editOreSs Of the Southern Homestead,
published at Nashville, Tenn
The long continued drought has operated
seriously upon the wheat crop of Southern
Russia. The legitimate effect will be an ad-
vance ia The pr,c,. of wheat in the United
States. The ordinary exports Of wheat from
Russia amount millions OF bushels.
Ii there is :,uy o.. :Ishiou more absurd
or cruel than snoih. 4, il is that of making
little girls drerrs' aud ski,i. 10 he worn en-
tirely of from the shoulder One cannot
meet n child, whose mother is more fash
ionable than wise, without feeling distressed
for the efforts of the little one TO use its
arms, and constant Struggling OF the shoulders
10 get one or the other little liberty This
fashion undoubtedly does much to cause the
almost universal deformity of shoulders oh
servable in women.
A funny writer in the n \ Express
calls the President ga corporation He is
certainly like corporation in one respect
he's got no SOUL
David Conway, Waterman at the railroad
depot ia New Albany, has been arrested foI
stealing money from the company's safe, the
key OF when was left in his charge He
was watched and caught.
The miners are leaving Frazer river in
large numbers, declaring that the mines are
worked out, and have no future. The value
of property in Victoria has fallen greatly
and many of the houses built within the
last year are vacant. 1t is admitted now that
British Columbia must derive all, or nearly
all its emignnts from England and Scot
land