The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-08-22
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Ma. Blondin makes about $500 for each
trip across the Niagara on his rope 81
ma A new steam fire engine, in Balti-
more, has generated steam in seven min
utes. aud threw water to q distance Of 2il
feet.
R1 Charles Timberman, of CinciDnati,
cut his throat with razor on Wednesday.
He was not dead yesterday, but little hope
was entertained of bis recovery.
nA- The Memphis AcaIaneAe says that a
gentleman from Louisville recently lost in
that city $1,000 playing ahigh, low, jack,
and the game" and won it again by virtue
of a revolver.
BSIn one of the crack hotels of Saratoga,
lately, the elderly men were sitting up in
the Office or bar-room, during the jolly
hours, drinking and telling stories, when
suddenly stately lady appeared, seized her
husband by the arm and walked him off to
bed. The action produced quite a melan-
choly effect upon the Others.
nA- The expenses incurred by the rail-
road company in ferrying across the Ohio
river, between Jacksonville and Louisville,
are excessive-Sl6, 900 per year for passen-
gers, and S54, 900 for freight. The people
of the Falls City have it in contemplation
to construct a bridge at that point to accom-
modate the trains and ordinary travel.
na- The balloon ascension Of Mr.. Wise,
from Lafayette, Ind, on Tuesday, was a
failure, the valve having been injured by
coming in contact with the telegraph wire.
On Wednesday he made another trial,
which was successful so far as the ascension
was concerned. He intended to reach an
Atlantic city, but got no farther than Craw.
louisville.
BG- From all that is disclosed here, says
the Washington correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Press, have no doubt that at the
next session of Congress Partially and ia
voritism, of flagitious character, will be
brought TO light with reference to the dis
continuance and decrease of sundry mails,
and the continuance and establishment OF
others by no means so seryiceable, and
more extensive and expensive than those
abolished.
HA- A young woman of prepossessing
appearance, giving the name of Ellen Foster,
has been arrested at Rochester Ohio, for
false pretences. She pretended to be the
daughter of the ticket agent of the Great
Western Railway at Hamilton, and had been
in the habit of writing passes for friends who
desired to travel by the cars A sale of one
of these passes caused her arrest.
E6r The Portland Oregonian, a Democrat
ic paper, in announcing the election of Mr..
Logan, a Republican, to Congress, attributes
the result mainly to the misrule, tyranny,
and egot!sm of 10 Lane, who, in dispensing
Federal patronage while Oregon was a Ter
ritory, had raised up "leaders and subal-
terms" of whom the people were tired. NJ.
Logan was popular man, and the Repub-
licans of the new State worked with will.
The JEWS IN AMERIcA.-This is the gold
en- age, says the n. Y. Post, of the Jews in
America. They number some two hundred
and fifty thousand, who still adhere to the
faith of Abraham. They have forty thous-
| and in New York alone. Two Senators and
four Congressman are of the Jewish faith
which shows the ancient political talent o.
the race. The Christian Jews do not mum.
| Der more than three or four hundred, O
whom one hundred are studying for thu
ministry.