The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-05-10
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eG> The San Antonio TEXAN, states that
General TwiggS has been dangerously i'll,
but is slowly recovering.
proposed to be held in Pittsburg on the 4th
ofJuly next. ~ i
Eas TheSt. Louis Directory, for this year.
just published, gives the population of that
city, at nearly 100000. rEg
B6~ F. Walsmau,, of indianapolis, has
bought the billiard table played on by Pie
and Seereitlr, at Detroit, for 81, 5000.
Hg- The Protestant Episcopal Conven-
ton, for the Diocese Of Indiana, will be
held in Indianapolis commencing on the LIST
of June.
ne The merchants of Danville, Va, be-
fore receiving license, are compelled to take
an oath not to pay out any notes of a less
denomination than FIVE dollars.
Dds~ Bishop Cobbs, of Alabama, has sent
| $500 to the county treasurer at Huntsville,
as public fund; stolen and returned at the
confessional.
Bay. Forty thousand dollars was raised,
mainly, in New York City and Boston, to
free the Antioch free negro college from
debt.
Reg A traveller writes from Rome, that
good portion of the Forum, which used to
ring with the eloquence of Cicero and Hor
tensius, is now a cow-yard.
GGe A Southern paper suggests the pro-
priety of sending those persons who are
caught while engaged in the slave trade, TO
the North to be tried, and sending South for
] trial those who disobey the fugitive slave
law.
DasH The British and French Ministers at
Washington both declare that the extraordi-
nary action of the Ministers of their respec-
tive governments in Mexico will be repudi-
ated in London and Paris.
gSy" A merchant in Winchester, Va,
has taken into partnership his daughter,
Miss Virginia, aud announces that hereafter
the business will be conducted under the
firm of j. Wysong and Daughter.
ps" Five of the sweetest words in the
English language, begin with the letter II,
viz, Heart Hope, Home, Happiness, and
Heaven. Ii might, however, be as well
that we studied either a little more pro-
foundly
geH Two heads of bureaus in Washington
are shortly to die the death of the wicked.
One has been plotting in favor of Seward, the
other for Douglas. The latter will not be
allowed the benefit of prayers before his de-
parture.
Prof. F. S. Holmes, OF the College of
Charleston, has unearthed from the site of
an old pond, near that city, bones of a mas
todon, terrapin, deer, and a fragment of In
dian pottery-seeming to establish the fact
that the red man and all the creatures here
named were contemporaries.
ESy" OF the once pow erful tribe of Pequot
Indians, there now remains fourteen males
and seventeen females, residing on a reserva-
ton of one hundred and eighty acres, in the
town of Ledyard, CT. Their property
: amounts to 50, $50, from which they derived
an income last year of S363,42, while their
maintenance cost S4lS.
BY A correspondent of the Providence
Journal recommends asparagus as a cure fol
hydrophobia, in any stage of canine mad
ness. The directions are" Eat the greer
, shoots Of asparagus raw, sleep, and perspir
: alton will be induced, and the disease car
thus be cured" This remedy proved effec
tual to man in Greece, after the paroxysm
had commenced.
d pT- A squirrel having been found among
y the contents OF the paunch OF a pickerel-'
fish so callcd-the knotty question aros
: whether the fish climbed a tree to catch tn
e squirrel, or the squirrel entered the waite
d to catch the fish; but previous to the sub
mission the question to the debating socie
ties, correspondent of the Harrisburg Re
c porter kindly settles it by stating that tn
l. squirrel is in the habit of taking sail 10
lie pleasure occasionally, with a chip for
% boat, and his tail for a sail that he some
n times gets upset, when such voracious fis
:. as the pickerel make meal ofhim instantel