The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-02-05
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Rsa The annual fair of the United States
Agricultural Society, for 1859, will be held
at some place in the valley of the Mississippi
or of the great lakes west of Ohio.
BsS@ A variety of names is proposed for
the Pixies Peak Territory. Jefferson
has been proposed, but it is thought that
Dosage" will finally be settled upon.
I By= The Mayor of Mobile issued orders
on Saturday last for the police to prevent a
sparring match advertised to come off on
that evening at the aanphitheater in that
city between Heenan and Jones.
RsA- On a tombstone near San Diego,
California, the inscription reads thus =
" This yere is sakrid to the memory of VIM.
Henry Shanken, who calm to his death by
bein shot by Colts revolver-one of the old
kind brass mounted and of such is the
! kingdom of heaven.
! BI@ The Paris "fashions state that
bonnets are fashioned entirely of velvet, and
simply ornamented with lace. There is a
new colored., velvet-peach blossom "a
/ color exceedingly becoming to most COM
| plexions. rosette of the velvet is placed
on the top of the hat, with long ends falling
on each size. Under the end on the left
side, is placed long curled feather. This
ought to be sweet, pretty, but posy or two
additional would improve it,
B2H John Travis, the great pistol shot, is
| at Huntsville, Ala, where he proposes to
shoot at half dollar in the hands of boy
who travels with him.
BF Col. Tai. P. Shaffner says that
'during the coming summer, with engi-
neers already engaged, he intends to travel
over and examine the route via Greenland,
Iceland and the Farce Isles, which, in his
opinion, is the only one practicable for
telegraph between Europe and America"
H@- Great preparations are making
throughout Germany for the celebration of
the centennial anniversary Of the birthday
of Schiller, the poet, on the 10th of Nov
next.
Be- i son of L. D. Vansand, of Middle
town, Conn.,, was drowned last Summer, in
consequence of defect in 4 bridge on the
Middletown, Durham and New Haven turn
pike. Mr.. v. has sued the company for
Sl0, 900 damages, sustained, as he alleges, by
the loss of his son.
Beg Moderate estimateso of the population
of Illinois, founded on the returns of the
late election, show that it amounts to l, 50O,-
900, and that at the next decennal appor-
tionment will rank as a second class State,
old Virginia not excepted.
BsA.s The christening of the twenty-sixth
child of happy couple named Wonters, at
Lierre, in Belgium, is celebrated in the for
eign pepers. Twenty-Five of the children
still survive.
BeS@ During the present season a whole
sale hardware house in New York has sold
upwards of 1900 pairs of skates Oue-third
Of this mum Aer-v-rc fUI the "a fair ones.n
GaS@A man named Patrick McKewen,
took to the strange sport of throwing eggs
in the streets of Lynchburg, Va, the other
day, at everybody he met. He was soon
fioored, however, with rap of a brick bat,
which stove in the back part of his head,
and he was then Gagged.
GsA-The lottery business is again in
tlourishing condition in Cincinnati. The
sales of tickets are said by those who ought
to be posted, to be enormous.
HsAp New York exchange remarks that
no circumstance connected with prize-iight-
ing has ever elected such striking revela-
tions OF depravty in the conduct of the
public press, as has been evinced in connec-
ton with certain recent quarrels among our
noted politicians. Every hasty ebulition of
temper which may chance to be reciprocal
ed is caught up, and magnihed, and bruited,
with manifest eagerness opush the parties
on to bloody combat and, if this benevo-
lent intent is baffied, intense are the thinly
| disputed disgust and chagrin of the bottle
holders.
Ea5@ One of the most agreeable surprise
parties of the season occurred to Rev. DR..
Bangs, Of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
in New York city, on the evening of the
! 22d. About three hundred of his friends
assembled at his house, and after an inter
change of courtesies, presented him with a
handsome walking cane. 1t contained two
! thousand dollars in gold.
BlyeA housekeeper insists that the proper
article to put on slippery sidewalks is saw
! dust. When this is carried into the house
! on your boots or shoes, it becomes dry and
is easily swept back into the street, without
| iujuring the carpets in any manner.
Rsa. Two negro men and negro woman
were suffocated near Norristown, Pa, by
going to sleep near the edge Of lime kiln.
The wind changed during the night, and
blew the smoke and sulphur over them.
ReA. Thomas Hart Benton, jr. has been
appointed Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton in Iowa.
Rs No Prosecutions for treason will be
urged against the Utah Mormons. The U. s.
District Attorney, Mr.. Wilson, has so de-
clared. A free pardon has been extended to
all.
aa. Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania
and Mr. Buchanan, have become reconciled.
Wonders will never cease. About two
years since, the President wrote d" that letter
to Harrisburg in favor of Forney for Sen
ator over Cameron; now Forney is dis
carded and Cameron taken as a conidant
Politicians will of course be looking afte
the moccasiu tracks around the White House
UNITED IN DEATH.-A few days sine
was seen in Portsmouth, Oh 0, the solemn
spectacle OF funeral, in which were TIVE
hearses in succession, bearing to their las
resting place the remains OF husband anc
wife, who, after a pilgrimage OF forty-hv'
years, had together, on the same morning
gone upon that long journey from which NJ
, traveller has yet returned. The husband wa
Mr.. Richard Fitzgerald, at the age OF 81
he died in the house which his grandtathe
built, and in which he and his mother wer
!. born, and till the last weok of his life h
Q occupied the rooms which were his birtt
n place, and that of his mother. He neve
q entered a rail car or a stage coach in hi
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