The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-01-20
News SUMMARY.

BkS 10 make a PAIR OF large and hand-
some Cashmere shawls, requires the labor Of
twelve or fourteen men for half year.
A.Roger A. Pryor, the Virginia writer
and politician, has been presented by his
friends, with q splendid service of plate, as
" a tribute of their admiration of his bril-
liant talents, private worth, and distinguish
ed public services"
BsA Jenny Lind, Crnvelli, Artot, and
Frelzolini, are all to sing together at
charitable concert at the Crystal Palace in
Paris. Seven thousand performers will take
part in this monster concert
B9 Spectators are in Chicago, selling
lots at $50 each whose pretended location is
at Pixies Peak, the new gold country, but
real location nowhere. The lands have not
been surveyed yet. ......-.
BeS The prisoners in the Charleston, Ind,
jail, made an attempt to escape few nights
ago. The jailer discovered their prepara-
tons, and they were then ironed.
be- Half dozen negroes stampeded
from Morgantown, Virginia, a few nights
since.
B1-On Monday last the boiler of saw
mill on a plantation at Hampstead, the resi-
dence of Mr.. Henry Welt, in the upper part
of New Kent country, Nd, burs ted and kill
ed valuable slaves on the spot g
nsaI The Council of Richmond, Va, have
ordered l 800 bushels of coke per month for
the poor.
/ RagA ball in honor of Lord and Lady
Napier will be given in February, in Wash
ington.
H@S Seven or eight points have petitioncd
Congress for. the location of the proposed
National Foundry.
BDA weekly paper, devoted to the adj
vocacy of the claims of Senator Douglas for
the Presidency, has been commenced in Bos-
ton. 1t is called the Boston North.
B9rIt is said that the Legislature of Del
aware will pass an act granting lottery pri-
vileges, so as to aid the construction of
railroads in that State, without involving
the States credit. By the present new con-
stitution of Maryland, lotteries are totally
prohibited in that State after next April.
Ex-Governor Walker is said to be a
candidate for the United State Senate from
New Jersey. He now resides in Hoboken.
nee 1.-The Detroit Tribune says that, at a
recent election for Councilman in the town
ship of Raleigh, Kent comfy, near Chatham,
Canada West, a negro, named Shadd, was
triumphantly elected, beating his opponent,
white man, by handsome majority.
BEy@ Boston, with the single exception of
New York, is the largest flour market on
the Atlantic seaboard. The receipts at this
port the present year will be about one
million two hundred thousand barrels
Ba5Fanny Kemble's charity readings in
Baltimore yielded $1,000 for the Home of the
Friendless. = 81
Notwithstanding the great prosperity
of thc Fuo1icl, "a cturaro
to be steadily gaining on England in the
consumption of cotton.
nS- A billiard match for 500 side was
to have come off at Pittsburg on the 18th
instant between w. henderson, of Pitts
burg, and Mike Geary, of Detroit, Mich
Both gentlemen are said TO be excellent
players. sT sEsIE
Dkag@ A row occurred in a jury room at
Pittsburg, Pa, on Friday last. They stood
eleven against one on a knotty case, when
the one becoming insolent, and giving the
lie to an old man, he was put through in
good style. Three broken chairs were found
in the jury room, and there were other evil
dences of a general muss.
BGE@ James A. Abbott, we'll known
lawyer of Boston, yesterday morning fell
over the bannisters, from the third story
of the Coolidge House, and was instantly
killed. G-s S. F-za -.s.,sE -'F.4GE
nea, Fanny Kemble's popularity in New
York continues as undated as when she
first appeared on the boards of the old Park
Theatre eight and twenty years ago. On
Thursday evening a crowded house assem-
bled to hear her read Cambeyline, notwith-
standing the reopening of the Academy,
the demonstration at Trinity Church, and a
large number of private parties Her voice
retains that wonderful mellow and sympa-
| thetic tone for which she was remarkable
when girl.
nsa. Counterfeit IS bills on the Traders
| Bank, r. H. have been put in circulation in
New York. The bill is well engraved, but
| the printing looks pale. The vignette is a
spread eagle in the fore ground, with ship in
full sail, and city in the distance. The bill
is unlike the original.
| asa. Gamblers in Savannah, says the Ne,os,
are doing good business. The business
men were recent sufferers to the amount OF
$4,000 con the turn
R9 Some idea of the state of the female
labor market in the metropolis may be col
slected from the fact that an advertisement
in London weekly paper for fifty dress
makers brought seven hundred applicants,
| many of them from long distances, to the
establishment of the advertisers
B9 The Washington Union is mute as
death upon the reelection, ovations and re-
turn of Senator Douglas. The President
has put Burgundy pitch plaster over its
| mouth.
| mE- Prof. Mitchellis lecturing on "Com-
ets at the Academy of Music in New York
| city. -1 ala~a
HS An Iowa paper says that the reason
of Clancy jones defeat in the Ber-ricks
District, was that somebody had told the
people there that General jackson is dead,
and that Buchanan is in favor of law
to make smooth quarters passforonly TWEEN
| ty cents.
HsA Delaware is one of the original
thirteen States, but not very large one
Its revenue last year was a fraction over
$40, 900, while the expenditures for the same
time were about S39, 900.
Btas~ John Weston, a pick-pocket was
arrested at Detroit, few days ago, and, on
the Recommendation of the County Physi-
clan, who stated that he was too far gone
in consumption to live in Jail, was commit
| ted to the Hospital. That night he belied
the physicians statement by leaping from
the third story window of the Hospital, and