The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-04-01
Ifenasrof Interest.

Rsa. The Lowell factory girls are ION a
striken for higher wages Hundreds Of
them parade the city daily.
gR The Police COMMISSIONERS of New
| York have Instituted 1000 suits against per-
sons in that city for selling liquor without
license. 80 ssfst ss5.ftis5 aI
la Nineteen ocean steamers have lain
idle in the port of New York during this
winter. p fp, s y
Das~ Not single hide dealer suspended
business during the panic of 1857.
RsA, Hamilton, who shot his wife at st.
Louis the other day, and then put n ball
through himself has died from the injury
sustained His wife is recovering.
/ nEa A child died in Rochester, N. Y, a
few days since, from swallowing cent of
the new coinage.
BS Great Britain is now paying twenty
eight millions of pounds sterling, or nearly
one hundred and forty millions of dollars, a
year interest ON the war debt which she has
contracted in times past. In addition she
| is paying over one hundred millions of dol
lars a year to maintain her present defenses.
| The glory of Great Britain, therefore, costs
about two hundred and fifty millions of dol
| lars year. Who will deny that John Bull
has right to boast of his military achieve
ments and his glory, when he pays so much
| for it 2
Rag The cost for lighting the city OF
| Cincinnati with gas the past year was
| $50, 1853.
B0y@ A cat got into an I" orthodox organ
in Plymouth, last Sunday, during religious
| services, and set up solo in opposition to
| thesacred harmony
| Nc Dan Rice is now performing at the
National Circus, Philadelphia. Dan announ-
ces that the present week is the last of his
| professional career, he being about to retire
from the arduous profession in which he has
attained so much celebrity and accumulated
a handsome competency.
| beg The revival at Baltimore, Nd, in
creases in power, and has reached the rich
and fashionable classes, as well as the lower
strata of society. Several prominent des-
| peradoes have apparently becom converts, and
have exchanged their revolvers and bowie
knives for bibles.
lB1 The Dayton (Ohio) Journal tells a
story of young man from Drake county,
who was engaged to marry a girl of that
city, had given her fifty dollars to buy her
| wedding clothes, and was to have been mar
ried on Sunday evening. But when the
| time came, and everything was ready, the
| girl did not appear she ran off with some
fellow she liked BETTER
| Bay A sleeping car has been built for the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad by Mr.. Henry
| Pyson. 1t is described as most perfec tcon.
| trivance. The cost was So, 200.
BesS@ The New York papers mention the
| discovery of the body of q missing man u
| who was addicted to excessive drinking,
subject to fits, and near sighted He was
hardly worth finding.
Beas- The Milwaukee Ne,cs gives an &c
count of a German, who, on account of I'M
RENTED love, determined to destroy him.
self. The first dose, ten grains of arsenic
failed to have any effect on him. He then
| increased the dose five grains, and has con-
tinued increasing it ever since; and at last
accounts lie was taking forty-fve grains
| without being able Ito make a die; but
is, to his horror, growing fat on it.
ge4s3 In South Carolina the whip-poor-
will has been heard, and the young figs are
as large as pigeons egsg. In Florida stht
air is heavy with the fragrance of orange
| blossoms, and the thermometer stands a
| eighty in the shade.
! 8Sa, Mad. Piccolomini has been unable
tOiproduca any sensation in New Orleans
Indeed, her concerts have been pronounced
II failure in the Crescent City, where til,
| most cultivated musical taste prevails of any
! city in the country