The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-11-16

sEa- 1t is estimated taat at least $780,
600 changed hands in Boston on the defeat
of Mr.. Burlngame.
RETURNING Pixies sPeaker, passing
through Elwood, KIT, last week, had for
pets grizzly bear, two "buffler calves.
two blacktail deer and two mountain lions.
THE following resolution was unanimous
ly adopted by the Republicans of Hartford,
Conn, on Thursday last
RsS0tced, That the election of honest Abe
is " big thing and g we can see it."
AMONG Abraham Lincolns visitors on
last Thursday was John c. Heenan, the
champion of the world, who, being en-
route for ST. Louis, stopped over at Spring
field long enough to see Old Abe.
The MANUFACTURERS LowELb.-In
Lowell, Mass, there are ffty-two mills with
a total capital stock Of $I3,4OO,0O0 total
number of spindles, 40039O; of looms, Il, 80;
of females employed, 8,77l; of males EN-
ployed, 1880.
Hoe cholera is prevailing again and ia
tally, in portions of Harrison county, the
Argus says, and the Hessian Fly is doing a
good deal of damage to growing wheat in
that region. Hardly a farmer IS seen but
complains of its rayages As unusual for the
season. ...e
To the statement in the papers that Mr..
Buchanan is about to make Union demon
stration Douglas paper says: eve beg
he will not. His success in defeating De
mocracy, by claiming to be Democrat, is
! a terrible portent of evil to the Union if he
claims to be for the Union.
! BagHA countryman was iazily sauntering
along some Of the principal streets OF At
lanta, Ga, when his attention was attracted
/ by a placard on one of the business houses
which appeared to astonish him not a little,
/ Presently he was heard TO exclaim, The
devilhe is Who then will run on the Amer
lean ticket now ?" "Bells hung" was the
inscription on the card.
BgE@Dr Lyman Beecher, who cast his
first vote for John Adams, was taken by
his son, on Tuesday, to the polls, that he
might east lis last vote for Lincoln. As
the venerable man, with flowing and silvery
/ locks, entered the room, the crowd parted
right and left and silently made way for
I him.
CURE FOR THE DIPTHERIA.-A lady OF
Port Byron, Cayuga county, New York, has
cured six children-five of them her own
of diptheria by the following remedy:
When the symptoms are first discovered,
take Spanish flies, pound and mix with Ven
ice turpentine, spread it on piece of cloth,
and bind it on the throat, which will raise
a blister, and soon remove the disease from
/ the throat.
A PREDICrIoG.-The Frankfort (Ky)
Commonw ealth predicts that in a few weeks
Breckenridge will issue U Mon manifesto,
calling upon his friends in theSouth to stand
by the Union, and all that sort of thing, and
will claim the title of the great pacifcator,
parading letters and speeches to tlat effect,
held in reserve for the purpose.
THE London American announces that
Messrs Howes & Cushing's great circus,
which has been on exhibition for some time
i'll England, Will he sold on the 18th inst.
Mr.. Howes, who retires upon Il large fortune
acquired from his profession, purposes buys
ing a large estate upon the Rhine, on which
is a baronial castle. The title accompanying
the estate will give our great American
circus proprietor the title Of Baron Howes.