The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-01-31
News Summary.

las when asked recently, regarding her pol-i
tiles. Her reply was: II am an old line
Wing, with pretty strong Douglas procli0i-
ties. "
no. A barkeeper of Jacksonville has
been doing Land Office business in entic-
ing Kentucky niggers to run away from
their masters, and returning them when a
reward was offered for their apprehension.
nsa. An Exchange speaking Of the mare
with a snake in her eye, says it is no great
curiosity, since it is not unusual to see the
Mayor of that town with snakes in his boots.
B6E@ "Sylvanus Cobb, /" who swrites
only for the New. York. Ledger is a print
er, employed upon the Star in the West,
religious newspaper, in Cincinnati. So says
the Enquirer of that city.
B9- The Buffalo IN. W Express says
that young man named John Wisner, of
Aurora, Erie county, was arrested few
days since on charge of attempting TO kill
his father. Itappears that the father and
son had some difficulty with regard to the
sons conduct, when the father told the boy,
who is only seventeen years of age, to seek
home somewhere else. The boy became
enraged, seized an axe and attempted to strike
his father on the head. The father seized
stick and succeeded in disarming the son
before any violence was committed, and
then had him arrested.
B9P Death has consigned many man to
fame whom longer life would have consign-
ed to infany.
SLAVES HUNG FOR STEALING.-The sever
ity with which slaves were punished for
comparatively trivial offences will strike the
reader with feeling akin to horror. The
following cases occurred at Louisville in
1884: Tom, a slave of Robert Daniel for
stealing "a yards calico, some ribbon thread,
was tried and sentenced to be hung. His
master was paid EGO by the State of Vir-
ginia Pete, the property of Francis Vigo,
for feloniously stealing sundry merchandise,
was also hung.
BI The actor, Henry Placide, lives the
| life of farmer on Long Island, New u rk.
He enters into no permanent engagements,
but his home is at such a convenient distance
! from New York as to enable him, whenever
it suits him, to go up to the city and play
| few nights, without inconvenienee,or loss OF
time. -7.t1 sao5-.ai
u.s., Mr. and Mrs Dalton, whose divorce
| trial and its attendant circumstances pro-
| duced so much excitement in Boston nearly
! two years since, are still living in Lawrence,
Kansas, apparently enjoying an enviable
degree of domestic felicity and business sue
| cess. $3.50 sa 81
re- Thirty-four years ago Randall Nc
! Gayock was Mayor of Nashville, a village
| containing about four hundred persons,
without even a turnpike approaching it.
| Now his granddaughter, Randall w. McGav-
| ock, is Mayor of Nashville, a city with thir-
ty thousand inhabitants, approached at three
points BY railroads, and with several others
in contemplation. - ,as-,.
fkSEThe sons of Malta in Louisville, have
contributed 1000 bushels of coal to the
Ladies' Benevolent Society for distribution
among the poor 'a
Roy A man named VIM. Converse was
arrested at Springfield, ILL.,, few days ago
charged with having been concerned in the
robbery of the American Insurance Com
pany, of ST. Louis, Of some ten or twelve
hundred dollars about year since.
nag A DR.. Richard Madison Smith, who
has recently returned to New York from the
West, has been arrested there for having
three wives. <s2 ..es Z MA 1a1 81 W
asa. The Auditor of State gives motto,
that protest for non-payment of the notes o
the Bank of Gosport having been filed il
that office the whole circulation will be re
: deemed at the Auditors Office, in coin, a
f par, from and after the Goth of Februar,
, next ls-s
BsSWhen Mr.. Douglas shall fill out tn
term in the Senate to which he has just beei
elected he will have served twenty two year
4 | in Congress-four in the House and eighteel
in the Senate. Eas. q r-- IL.
. HGs~Dr. Livingston, who writes from tn
Zambesi, Africa, September l4,a speaks c
: that river as navigable for small draugh
y steamers for ten months in the year, if No
q constantly. He also mentions a fact {
great importance to the future of Africa
q commerce. that there is an immense COS
A field at Tete, ON the Zambesi, where man
# of the seams crop out, and remarks tia
y "with coal and the best iron ore in abunG
Q ance, surely Africa will not always be tn
: trodden down nation it has BEEN
e The Cleveland Plaindealer says tha
It the City Fathers of that city are moving
: the matter of street railroads There al
capitalists ready to take stock and build I'll
= roads as soon as the right of way is gran
e ed. - ..a.- =
If BS rGreat trouble has been experience
d in California to make Cinnamon understan
/, the solemnity ola oath. They will take
a readily, but they are not afraid of breakin
Z, tat least when prescribed in the ordinar
t way. Knowing the horror that the Chimes
is havesof dying or being buried any whel
s. except in their own dear native land
d shrewd California Justice of the peace la
a hit on the following oath to bring job
e Chinaman up to "taw." "You solemn
g swear that you will tell the truth in I'll
r case now hearing, and if you don't yo
is hope to be drowned on your way to Cantor
$ and go to hell afterwards
is asaCary Wyse, second son of Capital
h Joseph Wyse, Alfalfa county, Miss, W,
is accidentally killed on the sth inst, by tt
10 discharge Off gun. His rife was lyin
Is on his bed, and in pulling it toward him b
= the barrel, the hammer caught in the cove
lie let, discharging the contents through b
4 body.
Y, BAThos. Connery was arrested in Ne
of Orleans on the 9th, charged with havir
III killed his own brother in Baltimore, la
November. He was met in the street by
t. man who knew him. Ga-
al HaA A white woman, the wife of &c
IS, man, eloped with darkey, sable as Il
to hinges of the doors of Hades from Cinci
m NATL ON Sunday. The husband thinks h
w wife was bewitehed by the negro.
le nfA,A bill has been introduced into Il
lis Louisiana Senate authorizing gamblir