The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-02-03
reg Green, the reformed gambler, is Civ

Bgiy@ Green, the reformed gambler, is CIV
ing Sunday lectures in Chicago on his abaH-
doned vice, and man named Kneass ac-
companies him and sings "The Gambler s
wife and /" Sabbath Bells
nSa The peach buds in the Northern
part of New York have oil been killed by
the excessively cold weather. In the vicin-
ity of Rochester, where the thermometer was
only 8 to 10 degrees below zero, the peaches
were all killed.
As@ There are 1858 regular drinking
houses in Cincinnati.
Rl5@ Seventy odd persons have recently
united with the Methodist Church in Fevay,
Rev. Geo. l.. Curtis, pastor.
gG@ John NJ. Barnard, ESQ., of Boston,
has offered premium of one thousand dol
lars for the best essay on temperance legls-
lation.
nSa. Serious fears of forthcoming fam
zine in Mexico are entertained. For over a
year very little corn was planted or gath
cred.
BsEF In Rochester, recently, clergyman
was caught stealing large quantity Of
straw from a neighbor's barn. He attempt
ed to escape but was caught. He ascribed
his thieving propensities to some unaccount-
able alteration of weakness of mind.
Bg@ A little girl, about four years old,
was burned to death in Philadelphia caused
by upsetting a camphene lamp on her
dress. Before assistance could reach her
she was dead.
aea, The proposal to knock down the
telegraph poles in New York and lay the
wires under ground does not meet with
much favor A man learned in such mat
-.l.- Al H.,
ground telegraph has been tried in Ham,
burg, st. Petersburg, Vienna, London and
Paris, and that it proved a failure in every
instance, owing to the wires being continu-
ally out of repair.
uA The Mendoza (Iil.) Press says that
two citizens of that town have recently lost
their wives by elopement, and that the Gus
tomary sanitation in the streets, instead of
/" How do you do, sir ?" has become "Is
your wife safe this morning ?"
II Bea. The law allowing parties to be wit
nesses in their own favor, in civil cases, has
now been in operation nearly two years. in
the State of Massachusetts, and the Boston
Post says the testimony from all sides, is in
its favor; and movement for the repeal
of the law would meet with little favor.
Da5@ The Cincinnati Times, in noticing
the Burns Festival in that city on Tuesday
evening, says that Gov Willard, who was
present, was called out by atoast, and "re-
sponded in his usual happy vein" The
Governors "usual happy vein is the Jug
lar vein.--Lgfayette Journal
RGa, Some new buildings in Inner Tenn
pie Lane, London, the benchers have de-
termined upon naming "Dr. Johnson's
Buildings, in memory of the eminent man
whose name is associated with the spot.
BS5@ Wheat has this last season been
raised, for the first time, on the Island of
Hawaii, one of the Sandwich Islands
g35@ The Richmond (Va.) Enquirer says,
Piccolomini is as GRADIENT as d newly ting
ed sunbeam"
Gg@ Montgomery, the leader of the Kan
sas outlaws, was formerly a regular licensed
preacher.
HsA. Capt Mckinley, formerly the editor
of the Holmes county (Ohio) Farmer, and
more recently a captain in the Mexican war,
died suddenly at Otsego on :he Saturday
before New Years. Having met with
friends, he sat down to play at cards with
them, and fell dead with the cards in his
hands.
HEa, The late Senator Benton said that
the buffalo was a good engineer, and al
ways took the best country and the easiest
route The buffalo, said Mr. B., have al
ready indicated the central route for rail-
road to the Pacific.
BsgH One of the Marsh children, was
burned so badly, in Macon, Georgia, the
night before last, that her life is dispared of.
nea. The Senators are dissatisfied with
their new Hall. Whenever there is a
shower, the noise OF the rain falling
upou the roof is so great that they cannot
hear,