The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-01-26
HSF Lake Champlain is frozen over


President of the Republic of Venezuela.
BB Enamelled furniture, costing in SETS
from SEA to $3.50, is at present " all the go
with newly married'New Workers.
na. A New Zealand Chief maintained.
that he had good title to his land, because
he had eaten the former owner!
Hsa- The reported disbandment of Rev.
Theodore Parker's society, in Boston, is
contradicted.
BgH Rudolph George, New York law
yer, has been communication the charge of
stealing watch from one of his clients.
BGs% Col. Benton's furniture is to be sold
at auction. His property is estimated to be
insufficient to discharge his liabilities.
nA They are feasting on fresh shad in
Savannah and green Peas in Florida Last
Friday there was thunder storm at Charles
ton, and yellow fever is carrying off its vic
tins at Tampa.
R6F Charles Bonelli, the well-known
electrician and director of telegraph at
Turin, is engaged, we observe, in a vast
project for connecting Genoa with Buenos
Ayres by means of an electric cable
B9r The Pittsburg jail has, at this time,
leg inmates. That city exports a greater
number of rascals annually than any city of
the same size in the Union. But it seems it
keeps plenty for home service.
neg Mr.. Kalloch is now the most pop
ular clergyman in Boston-that is, his au-
diences are invariably numerically the
strongest. He very rarely breaches. when he
| is not listened to by at least $500 persons.
Generally, his auditors are young persons.
rs@, In st. Louis, on Wednesday, some
inhuman wretch entered the room of Ellen
Holmes, free colored woman, and stole
some shirts and other articles. To prevent
her from pursuing him, he set her clothes
on fire, from the effects of which she died
after few hours of intense suffering.
asa. The workmen who manufacture
| grindstones at Berea, Ohio, are found to be
subject to fatal lung difficulties, which arise
from the inhalation of particles of the stone
which all expedients, even the keeping up
of strong current of air before the face of
the workmen, have failed to arrest
ARRESTED - Rufus Jones, who killed
Henry Jenkins at Bowling Green, KY, a
few days since, and Henson Wilson, his
accomplish were arrested in Nashville,
Tenn, on Thursday, and taken back. Great
excitement existed in Bowling Green con-
corning the affair.
gaa.. The Sons of Malta had a midnight
parade in Cincinnati on Saturday night
Their strange and grotesque appearance
frightened nervous women and attracted
the undivided attention of tho men.
ExECUTIoN-Bray Sanders, convicted OF
the murder of his wife last October, was ex-
ecuted on Friday, the 14th inst, at Jerusa-
lem, Southampton county, Va. Previous to
his execution, he made full confession OF
his guilt acknowledging the justice of his
punishment, and attributing his crime te
the effects of Intoxicating drink.
Reg 4 sermon was preached in the par
ish church at Crowle by the Rev. H. Phil
lips, B. A., from Except ye repent, yeshal
all likewish perish" Among the congrega-
ton was woman who was dull of hearing
and on her return home she told her hus-
band that the reverend gentleman had takeI
for his text, Except We pay your rent, yt
must all go TO the parish.
BSg% The venerable Bishop Hopkins, o
Vermont is now in New York. He attract:
much attention. He is stalwart in form
with flowing white beard and moustaehe
reminding the beholder of the old patriarchs
as seen in the pictures which adorn and H.
, lustrate the Bible.
BayHIt is estimated that there are al way,
in New York from $1,000 to 900 floating
non-residents a large portion of them con
, siSt of business men from every part of TIT
western hemisphere, aud of wealthy pleasur,
seekers from all quarters of the globe. Thi
estimate does not include the number founC
, floating in the river, ships, etc, every morn
D ing.
: BaS A German Clergyman by way o
, giving point to eulogy of "a dead man at
, funeral, declared that his own experience
would prove that the defunct was the mos
! generous of men, as he had long ago Dor
, | rowed fifty dollars of him, of which, to hi
; dying day, he had never asked the payment
OF the debt thus acknowledged before wit
) nesses, however, the heirs, the next day, de
manded the payment with interest -
e Rsa-. Mr.. Rigault leading writer 70
. | Partisan journals while absorbed in com
position, several weeks since, suddenly los
| all memory of the past and is mere chill
a again; and will be incapable of further Ell
fort, unless a reaction shall occur.
. sep The smiles of home are exceedingl
| pleasant, but there are many persons VIII
u have good houses, who prefer smiling wit
: friend outside.
g pG# The expense of taking the new cen
: sus will be about one million and a half c
e dollars. The North, at the Presidehtia
election in 1864, will be in a mojority c
y about two to one.
~ BsSg~ Nashville was visited by Il youn
: tornado on Thursday night, which did con
: siderable damage to trees, fences, and build
ings. 1t extended over a narrow strip only
D The Washington Star says th
IS charges of corruption against navy agent
G prove, upon investigation, to be all humbue
3 BsH In the Terre Haute jail they have
II most ingenious rascal, who manufactured
+ silver key from half dollar, with whic
e he could unlock tie cells, and that he ha
i, + worked his way to the outer door, whe
/ he was detected and banked in his inter
y tons.
E6 Hardens express, on its way fror
a New York to Boston on Tuesday night, We
robbed of large amount of money. I. B
some means or other, the iron safe, in whic
funds and other valuable articles were COZ
~ veyed, was broken open and the robbery e
- fected. Those connected with the Expire:
:, Company are unwilling to tell the amour
~ of property stolen. 4a az5s--as
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