The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-08
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Bs2y~Sir William Gore Ouseley, it is be-
lieyed, has made an advantageous treaty
with Nicaragua, and has gone home
The Cass- risSarri treaty, meanwhile,
which secured certain small advantages to
the United States, remains unratihed Our
venerable President has been most lamenta-
bly, humbugged by his Jealous friend, the
English ambassador.
HsA A hog which had been running wild
in the woods in Fayette county, Pa, near
UnlOntown, for the last four years or more,
until 1t had become perfectly wild, was cap
tured recently in Centre township, and is
now confined oil the premises of Mr.. Devin-
ny. The animal is OF large size, and will
weigh, when fattened, at least 800 pounds.
1t is said that no less than four dogs, four
cows, five calves, and some twenty head of
sheep were killed by this animal during the
time he was ut large in the woods.
BsfsH The Delaware Legislature has re-
pealed the law which prohibits the issue of
notes under the denomination of five dollars.
kDn Every year the Pope blesses sword
and a pot, which are forwarded to the mon
arch best deserving of them. This year tn e
Emperor of Austria gets His Holiness pre-
sents.
nA Spanish quarters are generally re-
| fused by dealers in Cincinnati at over twen-
/ ty cents, and no doubt they will be driven
out of the market altogether, as they should
! have been long since.
neA. Lake Erie is so clear of ice that the
shipping interest is already beginning to
. look up at Toledo, Sandusky Cleveland,
&c.
EIS@ The war OF races continues in Yucca
tan. The Indians in insurrection had re-
fused the profered amnesty, and the whole
department OF Tizimi had been invaded BY
them anew, and the white race threatened
in turn with determination. The Govern.
mcnt therefore resolved to prosecute the
war to the end. In order to get supply o
PROVISIONS the Governor has abolished all
duties on foreign coru for four mouths
Vessels carrying $50 tons of corn are free
f,Om tonnage duties for the time specified
aGS5@There are now three hundred patients
in the Indiana Hospital for the Insane-tht
largest number that has ever been within
rs walls at one time.
sgN A little orphan girl died. as wa
supposed, iii the hospital OF the Sisters 0
Charity, at Wheeling, Va. Her funeral wa
arranged, but owing to the inclemency o
The weather it was postponed. III the mean
tine, while ore OF the Sisters W Is Arranging
something abont the coffin, the little cir
raised up and asked for drink of water
1t Is supposed that she was n trance anC
and it was nothing but the heavy rain tha
averted from her the horrible fate of beinI
buried alive.
asa, Every day something new turns VI
in relation to Mexican politics. The las
story is land clans to be on excellent au
thontyl that two Commissioners have beel
dispatched TO St Thomas by Miramon, witt
: instructions to invite Santa Anna again t
take charge of the Government. 1t is be
lieyed that England and France are at tn
! bottom of this movement
aea, A man named Clark Crooks, peni
Tertiary graduate, residing in Newark, O.
undertook to poison his wife on Friday. II
forced the bottle containing the poison {
/, her mouth, and by choking compelled her t
swallow a portion of the contents. TIL
scounGrel fed, but was arrested in Column
= bus. The death OF the poisoned woma
was considered nearly certain, in spite c
medical skill.