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

whole conspiracy will be uplitted, and facts
viii be disclosed and developed the moment
Gus import of which will send an electric
thrill through the country. We remarked
the other day that the brain of the enter
prise was the French Emperor; the theatre
where the plot has been slowly thickening,
Paris.
B1g@ AT New Orleans, 0. J. Varhorn, of
New York, blew his brains out at the Infrm-
airy, while lying at the point of death. 1t
seems that Yarhorn had taken from his car
pet baga single barrelled pistol, and not
having strength enough to puH't trigger,
being dreadfully emaciated, had placed a
silver spoon across the trigger, Through the
guard and pressing both hands against the
spoon, brought down the hammer. He was
lying at the time, and when discovered had
hold of both ends Of the spoon. His disease
was consumption, and he could not have
lived two days. oa.~-'i. IF
8y>A burglar in New York city, being
detected in the act of blowing open a safe
in soap store, attempted to make his es-
cape by leaping from the third story window
He landed on face, which was shocking
ly bruised.
Eg Capt. Ludlow, ofthe steamship Ariel,
follows: About II A. N. of the 9Th, while
Capt. Ludlow was standing forward, near
the wheelhouse, giving orders to his crew, q
terrible wave came over the bows and swept
everything before it. The Captain was hur-
ried against the bulwarks with such force as
to rupture blood vessel. He was Immediate
ly carried aft and received every attention
from the surgeon and his officers. Their
kind Offices awaited not however, for he had
barely time to send few words to his own
ers, and q farewell to his wife ndson, when
his spirit passed away.
In New York on Saturday morning
a person awaited upon Edwin Forrest to
solicit his professional services in aid of the
dramatic .tete at the Academy for the Mount
Vernon fund. The great tragedian said it
would give him great pleasure to comply,
but the committee having engaged the SER
vices Of "that woman, they must count hirs
out. That woman was his divorced wife
who appeared in the 50 Morning Call"
BG5-The Masonic fraternity are cautioned
against man representing himself to be a
member of the craft, who is on his way from
New Orleans to Baltimore, appealing to the
hospitality and charity of the brotherhood.
He is represented as being about twenty
five years of age, light complexion, and
wears goatee, and processes to be French
man by birth. At Atlanta, Georgia, where
he is alleged to have imposed upon the fra
| ternity, he called himself F. Pennington.
| aea Hiram Powers Masonic statue of
| Washington, it is said, will be finished in
three months. II is modelled after the
statue of Washington executed by Powers
for the State of Louisiana, and adorned with
the regalia' copied from the similes of
those worn by Washington when master of
lodge in Alexandria
B1r The delinquent tax lists of San
| Francisco, CAL, for the present year, fill
nearly eight columns of the city papers, and
comprise nearly one-half of this years as
sessnent This indicates great revulson
since the fast times of the early gold dis
coveries.
! gJ" Austria, it is said, will expend no
less than 100000 this year, on her
squadrons, and for 1859, will increase the
amout to S4,OO0,0OO Russia is about to
appropriate s., 50O,0 00 for her navy. This
time next year France will possess no less
than forty screw line of battle ships
| REag@ Some of the Vermont papers argue
that the steam engine under the chamber of
| representatives in the State House, is liable
to blow up at any moment will induce the
| legislators to act more conscientiously than
they would in a safe place.
HeA. On Tuesday afternoon a German by
the name of Nicolar Runner, living at In
dianapOlis, was run over by a freight train,
and his arm terribly smashed and bruised
HeA, In Cincinnati Codrt last week,
Francis Heck was discharged from custody.
The prisoner had been committed by a Po-
| lice Court to answer "A charge Of having
passed counterfeit ten dollar note on the
Bank of Louisville and the grand jury in
dicted him. When the prisoner was ar
raigned the ,7'ote 2caS pronounced geaujne.--
4Rr- Heck has hljH IN tie county gal 0lcoit-
| ing trial on lie aJoUe charge since September.
BeS~ Late adyices from Arizona inform
us that continued discoveries are being made
in the gold regions, aud that emigration is
| still pouring into the territory from Cali
| fornia. Some fouror five miners have pene-
| trated to the Bed Rock, on the ella river,
| and were extracting some $50 per day.
! Emigration was moving from the eastern to
| the western portion of the territory, and
additional numbers were being daily added
! to the mines.
g&~ Lamartine thinks of retiring to
Syria, where he viii occupy the house in
which Lady Stanhope resided.
! na5~ Two thousand mackerei were taken
/ in one haul off Provinceton, Mass, last
week, and in three nights ten thousand were
! taken.
asa.. More than three hundred lads are
/ seeking appointments at Albany as legisla-
tive pages.
/ agAs There are i've hundred applicants
I for the vacant cadetships at West Point
| G An old Indian chief, called Okemos,
died lately near Lansing, Michigan he
was supposed to be over one hundred years
/ old. He was in the wars OF 1892, both for
and against Wayne and st. Clair, at differ
ent times. He had a saber cut clear across
his back, made by one OF Mad Anthony
| Waynes troopers. At Fort Meig's he re-
ceived wounds which left holes in bis skull
! into which three finger scould be laid.
Ne A little fellow, FIVE or six years old,
fell through the ice on Back Bay, Boston
Mass, and was rescued by little Miss, some
ten years of age, by the name of Lizzie
Thitmore, who happening 10 see the red
scarf above the water, crept to the hole,
seized his haads, and by pulling and strug-
Cling, finally succeeded in dragging him
upon the ice. Sac then took him in her
arms, ali covered with mud and water, and
| carried him to his home