The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-01-21
News aummary.

untrue, %DuL dDSurQy anu tOtally WIJuOuI
foundation. The same paper also adds, that
Greeley, who is now absent in the West,
| win probably retain his present controlling
-positionlin the Tribune as long as he con-
tinues to take any part in human affairs.
B6F Bella Squires, widower, married
| Mary Cromac, a widow, few days since,
in Hartford, Connecticut EThey commence
their matrimonial copartnership with a stock
of 81 children ''
nF The Prattville (Ala) Statesman of
the sth inst, publishes the following COM
munication, and the editor vouches for the
| yeracity of. the writer: ss4a- sls y.ii ..--
In your last number you copid from the
/ Tuskegee Republican q communication res
pecting the hen rooster This has had gen.
eral notice from newspapers. In confrma-
! ton of the above, i will state that similar
4 freak of nature occurred on my place four
teen years since. When / purchased the
place / also purchased the poultry. The hen
/ of which am to speak-one of the number,
| how old she was at the time of her purchase
4 / can't say; from all appearance she was an
old hen-she, however, laid eggs and
Matched out several broods of Chickens
Finally she plumed herself afresh and as
sumed the appearance of a young rooster
I"
most persons were at loss to decide wheth-
err she was male or female. She crowed
different from either; her voice being as
clear as that of rams horn, but not as
| much volume. She would side up to the
hens and put on all the air of a rooster, but
the hens always evaded her and seemed to
look upon her as an anomaly, indeed, as she
was. This is literally true, and / dare say
the editors of this paper, who know the
writer of this, will vouch for its correctness.
B6@ On Monday last policeman in Gin
cinnati arrested three vernon upon charge
of vagrancy. The officer testified before
! the Police Court, that he found the female
trio in hog-pen on Broadway between
Seventh and Eighth. The pen had no floor
and the roof was more than half gone
: They had been there several days, drinking
whisky all the time. aaI G-lF 13--a
nag Ascomplimentary levee was given. te
: Prof. Mitchell, of Cincinnati, at the Spingle
Institute, New York, on Thursday night
A large number of the scientific and litera.
) ry celebrities were present. e3zs vsi
Il n6r At Omaha, Nebraska, on the nigh
! of the 9th inst, two horse thieves, named
Bruden and Daily, were taken from the jail
( all shaekled as they were, and hanged BY
the mob. .lis h9bilcs
BeEr Madame lie Vert is about to publish
. a book entitled Souvenirs of Distinguished
. | Americans" embracing "reminiscences o
: persons with whom the author has been &C
!, quainted.
DGF Nearly all our secular, as well a
4 religious exchanges, make mention of
: continued and spreading revival of religion
|. The great feature of the revival last yea
seems to have been the establishment al
z over the land of the union prayer meeting
!, the effects produced by them were close
2 union of effort and feeling among Christian
. of different sects. ha
, Ba-An important feature in the poultr
> trade has been established by several enter
prising firms for the supply of the New Yor
N market, which is worthy of imitation for til
supply of the city markets OF the West. W
It eJffe to tbAv eaf HnpltEY, faf
e the interior. There are several of thes
Is poultry-fatting establishments New Yor
n One in Aurora, two in Chantaqua coun
IS ty, and others in Ohio. 1t is estimated tina
u each of these factories will furnish fiftee
/ tons of poultry for the city market of Nel
q York. Alarge number of men and team
u are employed in collecting these bird.
n which are brought alive, and if not fat al
fed till they are, and rendered fit for marke
q They are then dressed and packed in tn
most approved manner, and sent by expires
K to market, where they readily comman
T, several cents more than much of the coun
n try dressed poultry that is brought to MAJ
o ket by farmers and hucksters generally
n BkHr Two leading friends of the Admin
II istration have said to the editor of the Ne,
of York Courier and Enquirer recently, this
k the editor of the New York Herald ha
II more power with the President than all til
II Democracy of New York combined an
IL he not only believes it, but says he coul
l. prove the truth of the declaration were
7, not improper to bring into discussion privat
T affairs.
aAp story is told by Canadian pape
of Mr. CASTOR, who was standing beneat
Il a trap door when a sack of wheat fell fror
If an upper story directly upon his head, dis
locating his neck He immediately raise
up his hands and pulled it back into place
10 az the workmen who "heard the bone
snap back again into their sockets" Wi
= swear Mr.. CASTOR is supposed to be a
!. we'll as ever.
nsA.. The Judiciary Committee of the Al
. kansas Senate have reported bill to eS
L clude free negroes from the State.
d ssA. slave, belonging to Mr.. Ladon, G
81 Nd, who ran off several months ago, ha
written home from Ca, requesting his mas
" ter to come or send for him, as he has seel
-, enough of negro freedom.
HGA. A club has been formed at Wash
ington City for the purpose of pressing Joh
g Minor Bolts, the man who slept with Presi
l. dent Tyler and promised to head him or di,
and didn't keep his promise, as the oppos
j. ton candidate for President in 1860.
II nA- A sailor visited a church in Ne,
; York, Sunday night, to warm himself
IS While doing SO he took a bottle of whisk,
% from his pocket and imbibed. In the kind
L ness of his heart he passed his pocket com
: panion to an old lady who looked as if sh
needed nourishment The consequence wa
y his arrast and a fine for disturbing re
= ligioas meeting. -r'z s-fssz
j. BG~M. Ballogh, a Hungarian, asserts tina
= he has managed to square the circle, and h
y has just sent copies OF his work ON the sub
y ject, which contains numerous diagrams, t
d the Academy of Science in Vienna an
Paris, and to the heads of the Universitie
of Cambridge and Oxford. $3.50
,- B@r A jewelry store in North Vernon
l. was sptered by burglars on Thursday nigh