The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-06-21
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NhPphhess II
huyA Strawberries are worth only 81 so
per pound in San Francisco.
aay- The Israelites of Montgomery, Alag
are about Ia erect handsome synagogue at
that place. Is
D1y- Three young men in New Bedford,
Massachusetts,, recently PINT on 400 hsthes
in one day. Il
aeS. During a thunder storm which pass
Cd over the town Of Ripton, VT, lately, 90
sheep were killed by one strokeof lightning.
neA. The Illinois Egypt is overrun with
rats. Frogs and mice we're the curse OF the
old EgyIs. =
Beg When the administration men n
New York have a meeting they announce
that Hon. Dan. T.. Sivkles is expected TO
speak.
Gkay" Horace Greeley says il takes three
log houses to make city in Kansas, but
they begin calling it a city as soon as they
have staked out the lots. e.
EsSs- No little excitement has been created
in Vermont by the elopement OF a young
Miss, of Brandon, from the Seminary, with.
a tin peldlar, who hailed from Rutland. =
nkB~The Boston Traveller says with great
truth that /" it is easier to get twenty good
writers than one good editor The fact,
however, is not generally appreciated.
HI- The citizens of Athol, Mass, pro.
pose to celebrate theiFourth Of July in an
unique and novel manner, by erecting a
monument in the Oldest graveyard in the
town, dedicated 10 the unknown dead.
Bay One Of the war writers remarks, at
+ ter much able speculation, that military
. men are famous for brave appetites, and a
couple of hundred thousand of them can
eat up a small State like Piedmont in few
4 weeks ~ - ~.
pGy DR.. e. Brown, formerly of North
ampton, Easthampton and vicinity, known
AS ssthe great scrofala doctor, died at Hart
< land, VI, May %, of dropsy, aged 40. When
Z in Western Massachusetts hessweighed $50
pounds, and at the time of his death, he
weighed SIP pounds. -.-~.r
M The "novel feature of horse
race for the benefit of the sufferers by the
! recent whirlwind was enacted last week at
Iowa City The Republican says: " Many
attended who have ordinarily conscientious
scruples about visiting such shows" q Is
WA, ut 81 SldiicfiIc TN. Oo<eue "a :
J, that vein Of antimoy, two feet thick and
almost solid, has been discovered within two
miles of ST. Clairsviile. Autimony is one OF
4 the ingredients of type-metal-worth about
forty cents pound-and it has been sup
posed that it was only 10 be found in Ger
many. ..f..a-s4
En- The Philadelphians are in a terrible
bother about a name for their new hotel
About "A thousand names, more or less, rang
ing from the sublime TO the ridiculous, have
been suggested, none of which seem to meet
I the public approval Bodkin suggests the
y" Pitch la House" He is aware that this is
not very euphoneous; out what is OF more
. account il is very significant.
H3s. Trappers are resolved to lead some
part OF their years jolly, in the citizen
sense Thus An old trapper recently came
into 81. Louis with a pack of beaver skins
which he had carried on his back more than
seven hundred miles. He sold the skins
laid in supply of ammuniiions with part
of the money received for them, got drunk
on the rest, and kept so for a week, then
got sober, and started off for another long
and lonely trapping tour. -..s Z