The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-10-10
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of Fredericksburgh, Va had an undersack
for bed filled with straw by negro man.
1T was brought home and placed under a.
feather bed, which was slept on by a daugh-
ter of Mr.. II. The young lady complained
on a number Of occasions, Of having her
slumbers disturbed by distinct thumps from
underneath, but examinations revealed
nothing. On Thursday morning, while Miss.
+. was sitting down stairs, facing the steps
which led to her room, she was startled by
curious noise, and looking up discovered
a moccasin snake descending, blowing and
Kissing in a style peculiar to that reptile.
An examination Of the upstairs premises
was made at once, when o small hole was
discovered il the4 sacking, and on ripping
open the bed, the full length skin of snake
was found at thehole, which bis snakeship
had shed. skAA ILL., -htsii u sS-4sA ~
m "A correspondent of the Hamilton
| (Canads) Spectator tell the following anec-
| dote about Wisden, one Of the All England,
Eleven. now in New York. Ake.M4
At the ST. Lawrence Hotel, at supper
some corn was served along with other
dishes, and, being offered to Wisden, be
took some. But how to eat it? Wisden
looked around the table, but there were none
partaking of corn, 50 he was left to his own
resources. After some meditation, and acau-
tious survey of the table to see if any were
| observing him, he took it up boldly and
stuck it between his teeth, endacise. Imagine
his disappointment at finding cob in the
middle of the luscious morsel.< l. Il u =
GREAT YIELD or CoRN.-We understand
| that there were a large number of compete
| tors for the best ten and five acres of corn at
| the late Indiana State Fair. The first pre-
MUM was awarded to a citizen of Dearborn
county, who presented the necessary affida-
wits from responsible men that his field of
| ten acres produced on an average l96 BUSH
| els to the acre. The second premium was
awarded on LA bushels to the acre. On
the best FIVE acres, the first premium was
| awarded on lS6 bushels to the acre, and the
same person had incontestible evidence that
on one of these acres there grew 2l4 BUSH
elsY This exceeds anything ever produced
in this or any other country, and certainly
we should not complain of the products Of
the earth the present year.-Riehmond Pal
ladium. 90
DSrIt is stated that Colonel Fremont has
written letter declaring that he is not, and
will not be Presidential candidate in
1860. He is represented as closing his let
ter in the following language: al consent
ed to hold that position in 1856 against my
| better judgment and will, but was assured
that those who would rally around me pos
sessed the power essential to my election !;
and confess that the " bauble,D as it might
have been called by Oliver Cromwell, pos
sesse6 attractions which could not well re-
sist. But / would not again encounter all
the yexstiOn, modification and annoyance
then encountered, ii the reward wero to be
ten thousand presidencies."
| nA. Wilkes Spirit of the Tines, in an ar
ticle reviewing the achievements of the season
of American horses in England, says: The
great fact of the campaign, however-the
fact which is deepest broadcast most COM
prehensive and conclusive on the point we
set out two years ago to make-is, that the
Umpire, the American colt, by an essentially
American sire and dam, stands pre-eminent
above 222 Of the flower and pick of the
thoroughbreds of all the British Isles, and
rates as low as to 1, in opposition to that
brilliant field, for a race at English distance,
at equal weights and agel a-.
nrA- Private letters state that the King OF
Sardinia has intimated his intention Of con-
ferring the Order Of the Annuuziata on the
French Marshals who commanded in Italy.
This Order, one OF the oldest and most dis
tinguished in Europe, is generally accorded
only TO princes. 1t gives the possessor of it
the title of "Consin to the King" and con-
fers on him the privilege Of sitting near His
Majesty in all official dinners Mt court. There
are in all only thirty-four members of the
Order.
Il BA- The President has again illustrated
his eminently Democratic principle of re-
warding those whom the people repudiate
Hon. Samuel A. Smith, for six years Con.
gresham from Tennessee, was overwhelnl-
ingly defeated at the last election, probably
for too faithfully serving the President in.
stead of his constituents. Mr. Buchanan
has just made him Commissioner of the
General Land Office.
How TO GUARD AGAINST FRosr.-A lady
in Indiana, at the time of the June frost, tho
previous evening covered her cucumber and
tomato vines with newspapers, and on ex,
aiming them the next morning discovered
that every vine was preserved except one
and that was covered with paper she has
borrowed from q neighbor, the subscription
{ of which had not been paid for three years
pdy. The Washington dispatches to tn,
New York Tribune have the following:
1t is said by Col. Forney's personal friend
here that he has consented to be supported
by his anti Lecompton Democratic friend
for the Clerksbip, with the understandin,
e that they will 60 with the Republicans 70
: Speaker, the latter, Of course, to vote TO
Col. +. He does not expect approval by Mr.
Douglas.
p% The yincenncs Gazstasays it is in
formed by Mr.. Thomas Jourdan that NOR
: than fifty carcasses of deer killed by tn
"black tongue" have been found in Law
renee county alone. We have noticed be
fore that this disease was reported to b
l doing mischief among the deer, but we haG
no idea it was so fatal, or so wide spread.
D6 Rev. w. H. Sheets, expelled from
: church membership by the South Eastern
Indiana Conference, has taken an appeal Il
the General Conference. Some of his friend
, think that death will arrest all furthe
church proceedings in this case and leav,