The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-12-08


A man is at present living in Hartford
says the CoraRt) VINO has been rather ian
fortunate in his connubial relations. He i:
j. living with his third wife. His two frs
left him, as he did not, they claim, act the
: part of tender, provident husband. Neither
of them ever applied for or received di-
vorce, yet each of them has another husband
with whom they are now liying,-one in
Fairfield county, and the other in Wind
ham county The father of this luckless
individual lives with his second wife, IN
Litchfeid county. His mother lives with
her second husband in Rhode Island neith-
er the father nor mother were ever divorced.
The statement herein set forth is a true
copy" and parallel case, perhaps, can be
found in no 0theI part of the civilized
world.
Washington Irving was never married.
An early disappointment preyed upon his
over sensitive u lture, and caused him to re-
main to the hour of his death unwedded.-
He was not, however, a churl. He loved
and respected women with sincere and ho-
Iy devotion that is manifest in all his writ
ings. There is not one word in any Of his
volumes where there can be found a word
disrespectful concerning woman. For the
honored relations of mother, wife, sister, and
daughter, he entertained the highest adnlira-
ton, rs he has clothed them in the sweetest
and noblest prose poetry. And it is graft
flying to know that his last years were
soothei by the kind attentions of the daugh-
tiers of a beloved brother.
A German doctor, supposedto be descend
ant of DR.. Faustus, in Hanover, Pa, recent
ly attempted to apply phosphorus TO a
daughter of Peter Reed, for the cure of sore
throat; the phosphorus ignited, set fire to
the girls clothing, burned her severely, and
also set the house in flames. So disgusted
was he at this result, that he attempted to
blow his brains out the next day, and was
only prevented, it is supposed, by lack of
something to blow.
A report, believed to be well authentica-
ted, prevailed at Aspinwan to the effect that
the japanese Commissioners would leave
Yedio on the 22d of February for the
United States via Sandwich Islands, San
Francisco and Panama, and that the United
States frigate Roanoke, now at Aspinwall,
was to be fitted up for their reception, and
would convey them to this port.
Amt there no exceptions to your law
about punching a fellow?3 said scamp to
a judge. No, sir; no exceptions what
ever. Now, Judge | gness ynn are mis-
taken. Suppose, fer instance, that | should
brandy-punch a man, what. then 2 g No
levity in court sir. Sheriff, expose this man
to the atmosphere
\ Scotch girl was converted under the
preaching of Whitefeld. When asked if
her heart was changed, her true and beauti-
ful answer was: g Something, | know, is
changed it may be the world, it may be
my heart; there is a great change some
where, I'm sure, for everything is different
from what it once was"
Two married women met in the streets of
Baltimore, Tuesday, and at once pitched
into each other. A fearful destruction of
bonnets and crinoline ensued, and finally,
one OF the tigresses being knocked down,
the other seized flour barrel and broke it
upon her. Jealousy melted the combat.
A woman OF the town was buried i'll St.
Louis few days SINCE when only the dri-
yer of the hearse aud Il negro sexton accom-
panied the body to the grave. Five years
ago, she was the highly respected and lovely
daughter of a wealthy merchant of that
city.
The last legislature of Texas, it is said,
contained thirteen "men of mark Not
one of them could write his name.
Archbishop Hughes received $4,000 as
the fee for marrying Senior Oviedo and Miss
Bartlett.
A young tyro in defamation in a
neighboring seminary, who had been told
by his teacher that he must gesture accord
ing to the sense, N commencing a piece
with
The comet lifts its fiery tall
lifted his coat tail to take a horizontal posi-
ton.
NEGRO ELoQU EECE.-Joe Duncan, a ne
gro preacher at a Methodist camp meeting
recently held in one of the Southern States,
uttered the following eloquent thought
&" When come to the swelings of Jordon,
o my good Shepherd let me try the waters
by Thy staff.
The Alton, ILL.,, Courier calls the attention
of the authorities of that city to the shifting
of the channel of the Mississippi river,
which is growing more serious every day,
and threatens, if not checked, to make AL
ton an inland city, half mile from the
river.
The London clergymen are melancholy
over the fact that of the population of three
millions in that city, there are only 15900O
commuRicants.
SANDS FROM THE NEW ORLEANS DELTA.-
That's rare work of art, said connois-
seur, gazing intently on Church's great pic
ture of Niagara Falls.
" Not at all, was the suggestion of a
prominent gastronomist, " it seems to be re-
markably we'll done.
4 Large Confectionery Establishments
Camp street, corner of Poydras, on account