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Volume Fourteen begins sept. IL, 1855.


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London Cordial Gin, but little, on which they
Club House Gin, hope % realize hrse profits
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Royal SchRaPps, pared SStO pass for good
a. 6e ke lLiqu1F, except With the best
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liar titles the liqnor mixer uss onIy tne lop8 IS
Of this city are hottng large w renowsea genn-
quantities OF adulterated ino ihno WOLsEs SculkDAM
unWholesOme trash, costing AROMATIC SchNAfPs
UD0LPHO WOLFE, Sole Importer,
4Su q Beaver street, New York.
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A Medicinal Diet Drink, Of
eminently sAlutaTy qualities
manufactured by himself ex
clusiyely, at bis factory o.
Scheidam, In Holland, and
well known during the last
twelve years throughout the
Atlantic and Western States,
Il Is made from the besi
Barley that can be selected
10 Europe, with the essence
Il an aromatic Italian berry
Of acknowledged and extra
ordinary medicinal qualities.
It has long since acquired q
higher reputation, both In
Europe and America, than
any other diuretic beverage.
Analjzsd, It Is q PER-
PEcTLY PuRE LIoUoR, in Its
effects a mild and whole
some tonic. It Is exten
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uaolpho Wolfe,s sehnapps.

lively used and approved by
the medical faculty, the
temperance people, heads
4 families, &c.
In Gravel, Gout and Rheu.
natism, in Distinctions Of
the Bladder and Kidneys,
and In general Debility, its
effects are prompt, decided
md invariably reliable. And
4 Is not only a remedy fnT
shese maladies, but, IN all
iases in which they are pro-
iuced by drinking bad va
ter, which IL almost univer-
sally the cause Of them. Il
bperates as a SURE PREvEN-
TIVE.
For Fever and AVue Il is
me Of the most eflicaciOus
1reventives that can be re-
'orted 10.
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IN the stomach and bowels
to which they are especially
subject. as well as In the
cholic Of grown persons.
Its judiCious adoption In
connection with the princil al
meals, or when q sense Of ex.
hanstion dictates lis use,
aever fails 10 relieve the
debility attendant upon pro
traeted chronic m ladies low
temperament and exhausted
vital energy, by whatever
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testimony, and which are
5OrrObotated by the highest
written authorities.
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with my name on the bottle,
cork, and fac smile Of my
dgnature on the label.
For sale BY all the respect
sble druggists and Liquor
dealers In California and
Oregon.
UDOLPH0 WOLFE.
Beaver street, New York.
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: The ArOmaI!s "rhrllnm Srhnapps

Is consequently In great de-
mand BY persons travelling,
or about 70 settle In thOss
parts Of the country espe-
cially, as well as by many 10
every community where Il
has become known on &C
count Of its ether remedial
properties.
In all cases Of DrOpsical
tendency, Il Is generally the
only remedy required, when
ad Jpted In the early stagee
OF the disease. 10 Dyspepsia
maladies, when taken inprO-I
per quantities, rs . diet
drink, and especially at din
neF, II u found, by uniform
experiep q, TO be eminenily
eliicae.O4J In the most obsti
nate cases, when even the
best Of the usual remedies
have failed 70 afford more
than tmporaTy relief. To-
cases Of Flatulehcy q Il an
immedlltc, invahable specI
lie; and g. may he admins
tered In diluted and proper
tomato quantities even to
young infants, IN all th0s.
Faioxysms Of gripping pain.
Sole Importer, q
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The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-08-16
A Suspected Murder.

= Oh the 10th inst, the bodyof man,
with several severe wounds on the head and
a pistol shot through the neck, was found in
a retiredplacc about two and -ass7half miles
from Terre Haute. lie was lying on the
banks of a creek, with his head out of wa
fer, and was naked, except his shirt. There
was suit of clothes near him, but too small
to have been worn by the deceased. In the
pockets were a two-dollar bill and some
change; by him lay pistol. The coroner
jury rendered verdict of murder by per-
sons unknown. lowering around the body
was a young dog, about n year old, that
could not be driven from it. The murdered
man is supposed to have lain two days be-
fore his body was discovered. y farmer
living near 10y says the dog came to his
house frequently, and after showing signs OF
restlessness, would go of in the directionof
the body. When the body was removed
from the creek to shop near by, the dog
followed it, and could not be induced to
leave it. There is no doubt the afIectionatc
animal belonged the murdered man, and
may be the instrument through which this
mysterious matter may in time be unrav-
eled.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-08-16
sas- In New York, Philadelphia, Balti-

M In New York, Philadelphla, bail-
more, Cincinnati, ST. Louis, Chicago, and
other large cities, most strenuous and success
full efforts have lately been made by thepubhc
authorities TO enforce quiet observance oil
the Sabbath. OmnibuseS and railrod cars
have been stopped-bar-rooms shut up ana
places of boisterous and immoral amuse-
meuts have been closed. All these cities
now present new aspect of order and quiet
ON Sunday, and exhibit a cheering triumph
of the moral ana religious sentiments OF the
community over the profigacy and rowdy-
ism of the day. 1t is the m ost valuable and
durable benefit of the recent religious move
ment in the country. But while these i'm
portant and cheering moral determinations
are taking place in the great seats Of social
corruption, the heretofore peaceful city of
Evansville is progressing in the opposite di-
rection. Notwithstanding the devout prayer
meetings that are assembled each morning
before the beginning of the labors OF the
day, and the frequent religious meetings,
and the increased attendance upon churches,
crime and profigacy were never more rife
than now. Bar-rooms and rum-holes do as
free business on the Sabbath as on any
other day of the week. Bacchanalian songs
rise from the drinking saloons on one cor
ner to drown the hymns Of devotion and the
anthems of praise from the church on the
other. There is a most incongruous ming
ling of the voices Of devotion and the noise
of drunken carousals in the same street.
The citizens of the Second Ward, on Locust
street. on Sunday last, while listening to the
devout exercises and the anthems from
church on one side, were RECALLED oy the
bacchanalian and ibidinous songs of q
bossterous party of jewellers on the other,
only few hundred feet apart. The closing
hours of the holy Sabbath in the most pop.
ulous Ward of this rural city were "made
bideous," and sleep chased from the eyes Of
all its moral and peaceable inhabitants, by
midnight orgies that would have sent al
the jewellers, in the proAigate city of New
Orleans, to the calaboose. Our city author
ties, with quiet consciences over neglected
duty, slept in blissful Inconsistencies o.
any breach of peace. Yesterday the pro-
prietor of the house was complained of and
will have his trial before His Honor thi:
morning 1t would have been better tc
have arrested the disturbance at the begin
ming, than to punish ever so severely after
wards. ta
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-08-16

\ LARGE HAUL OF CONFERENCE.-The
police officers of Louisville and Cincinnati,
on Thursday last, seized trading fiatboat
with its inmates, at Harrod's creek, about
twelve miles above Louisville, and found it
to be den of counterfeiters, just starting
out on an expedition against the people along
the rivers. Under the pretense of trading,
their object was to put counterfeit money in
circulation. They were from Rising Sun,
Indiana, and the principal characters in the
party were man named Johnson, who had
been in the Indiana Penitentiary, and his
two sons. On searching the boat the off.
GERS found concealed in trunk rolls OF
counterfeit bills amounting to about $780,
600. These bills were ones on the Bank OF
Kentucky, payable at Bowling Green, and
threes on the Southern Bank of Kentucky,
ut RusSellville. They also found bank
note press, engrayers' tools and ink, mate
rails for printing colOred backs, and a large
roll of bank note paper. The prisoners were
taken to Jacksonville and committed
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-08-16


EsGLIsH NAVAL PREPARATIoSs.-The En-
glish Naval Estimates for the current year
amounted to more than sixty millions of dol
lars, (sl2,ss2,o550 and very nearly equal
to the sum total of the expenses of the
American government for the year 1867.
About one-half of this vast sum has been
already expended, aud the rest is rapidly
passing through the Treasury and the Ad-
mirality Board. According to the Navy List
forpuly, there are now eleven new ships-of- the
line nearly ready for launching at the Eng.
lish dockyards.
In addition to this new feet of ], 1913 guns
in al, there are sixteen trst-class new screw
steamers and nearly twenty new screw
sloops and coryetes now under weigh. Severa
sailing vessels are also near completion
among them the Aurora, Of 81 guns, and tht
Narcissus, Immortalite, and Newcastle, of SC
guns each.
With all the talk about peace aud dis
banding Of armies lin Europe, England in
tends, evidently, not to be lulled into any
false security in regard to her dominion up.
ont he ocean; she isstill resolved to be mis-
tress of that realm.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-08-16

4 DEPLoRABLE ACCIDENT.-The New AL
bauy Ledger says that while a respectable
citizen of that place, who follows market
ing, stopped at Portland, KY, on Wednes-
day, with his wife in his wagon for the pur-
pose making ofpurchases at store. During
the absence of her husband, his wife got out
and was standing on the tongue of the wag-
on adjusting some things IN the bed of the
vehicle, when 4 drayman going at furious
rate, drove against the wagon with such
force rs to throw the woman of, striking
her head against the curb stone and fractur-
ing her skull. She lay unconscious till The
next day when she gave birth to q living
child, and then expired The draymau es-
capped, and no measures were taken for his
arrest. f....H ...,..-
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-08-16

The ToMAro.-The New York Erening
Post controverts the generally received
opinion of the value of the tomato ms n veee-
table, and says;
AS an article of diet, il must be wholly
useless, and even deleterious. Indeed the
blarny which for twenty-five years has been
written and printed about this esculent
ought by this time to have passed into OBJ
livion, along with the exploded doctrines Of
remedial virtues possessed by the carcasses
Of living spiders, bugs, reaches and heas,
which some generations were so =. rife.
As q dietetic the tomato has little value, be-
ing more than nine-tents water, and almost
destitute ofnutritive elements. Its medicinal
virtues consists in the acid it contains,
which probably acts beneficially on the
system in hot weather; though in those
respects, it is greatly inferior to the apple
and other fruits, while its close relationship
TO the night.shade ando other poisonous herbs
must give it always suspicious character
Its merits, whatsoever they be, have been
overrted; and so far from being particular
IL healthfn as an article of food, tits of
little value, either for the nourishment it
| gives or the healthful condition of the BODY
it is said TO induce.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-08-16

s65- The steam ram which is now being
built by the English Government as new
instrument of naval power, is an American
plan, that was first urged upon our Govern
ment many years ago by Commodore Baron,
and subsequently improved by Mr.. Elicit,
the eminent civil engineer, who recommend
ed its adoption by our Navy Department
The ram is ship with bows Of solid timber,
and sides that can resist the effects of the
heaviest shots. The design of the ram is to
run down and sink an enemy's ship by pass
the directly over it.