The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-03-05
Varieties.

HOW 10 grow OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES SNOFt-
horned Durham in fly time.
THE NEXT Illinois State Fair will be held
in Jacksonville, in Morgan county, from the
10th to the ! 9TH of September.
IT IS thought that Mrs. Henry Ward
Beecher will not recover from the effects of
injuries received by being thrown from
carriage on Wednesday last.
THERE are rumors of union of the Re-
publicans and ti-Lecompton Democrats
in the coming contest for Z. S. Senator in
Oregon.
A NEW NAME. FOR THE PREsIDENoY.-Gen.
Harney was nominated as President at
public meeting held at Olympia
THE New York papers denounee the prac-
tce OF sailing the streets, as producing
great abundance of slush, and creating
damp, unwholesome atmosphere.
THE City Council of MaysviIle have
granted to John G. Miller the exclusive
privilege for the term of twenty years of
supplying that city with gas.
KILLED BY TEN-PIN BALL.-A man by
the name of Tobey Lee was killed at ten
pin alley, in Benton, Alabama, a few days
ago, by blow given by young man, with
an alley ball.
THE Westminster Review states that
Whitfield the great revivalist preacher, was
at one time STAKEHOLDER in Georgia, being
at his death the owner of fifty slaves, men,
women and children, whom he left in his
will to the Countess of Huntington.
THE Dutch Government has swept away
the last vestige of slavery from its East
India possessions. On the Goth of Septem-
Der last the institution ceased to exist. The
Government offered an assessed compensa-
tion in money to the owners many of whom
however, refused TO take it, while others
took it and made it over TO the emanci-
pated slaves themselves
FLORIDA planters, in large numbers, ac-
companied by their slaves, are said to be NOV
! ing westward to the Mississippi Valley and
| Texas in search of more fertile lands. The
| New Orleans Crescent thinks the loss of
| population will rather benefit Florida than
prove detrimental, as the places of those
rich planters will be supplied by small
/ farmers and workingmen.
| AT one of the recent Wbig meetings in
! North Carolina, the following resolution was
adopted "1'hat the formation of Northern
and Southern sectional parties gives the
| North the advantage in numerical ma aiority,
and that the safety of the South and of the
| Union requires that u Conservative Nation
]
enough for every true patriot of every sec
tion TO stand side by side"
A CASE is on trial in the Detroit Police
Court, involving the right of fellow to
take back the presents he has made to
! girl, when she says she wont have him, and
is getting ready to marry somebody else.-
| 4 young man who had disposed Of about
S75 worth of iewelry in this way, during a
three years courtship, is on trial for larceny
in invading the lady's bedroom and seizing
the property, when he had discovered it was
10 adorn another mans wife.
LOST OCEAN SrEAMERs-The Hungarian
is the fourteenth steamer that has been lost
since the commencement of steam naviga-
ton between Europe and America. Those
which have been destroyed before are: The
President never heard from; the CoIunl6id
and Humb0LdL on each of which all hands
were saved; City of Glasgow, never heard
from; City Of PhiIadelphia, all hands saved;
Franklin, all hands saved; Arctic, a few
saved; Pacific, never heard from; Lyonaise,
few saved; Tempest, never heard from
Austria, burned, great loss of life; Indian,
three lives lost; Argo all hands saved.
GRANT THoRBURN, at the age of more than
81, sends us the following from New Haven
q In l 796 | heared Il farmer narrate the fol-
lowing incident when the British troops
held possession of New York and the Ameri-
can army lay near West Point, one morn
ing at sunrise I went forth to bring home
the cows. On passing clump of brush
wood heard moaning sound, like per-
son in distress on nearing the spot, heard
the words of man at prayer. | stood be-
hind a tree. The man came forth it was
George Washington, the captain OF the
Lords host in North America. ~ I.
Tribune.
Bk7s1 The Owen county Journal announ-
ces the death of John Dunn, brother OF
Williamson Dunn, and one of the early
settlers of the White River region, at Spen-
Ger on Monday last, at the ripe age of 81
years He came to Jefferson county in l81
from Kentucky, and removed to Owen
, county in 1917. When he settled there but
two other families resided in the county.
For some time the Circuit Court of the
county was held in lis house. In 1882 he
was elected Probate Judge, and he held the
Office till 1849, discharging its duties with
great fidelity and ability. He was an unale
of Hon. VIM. NJ. Dunn, and also of Hon. g
G.. Dunn, we believe.-Ind. Jour.
: BSE The Chicago Times, Mr.. Douglass
organ, publishes a very significant article
upon the platform which is to be laid down
at tCharleston for the Democratic Convention
: 1t charges Mr.. Bright with the intention o
; constructing this platform so as to kill OF
Mr.. Douglas, and declares that no man nom.
mated upon Mr.. Brights platform can win
r the Presidency, and furthermore declares
/ that no man can be elected President who
does not adhere to the doctrine of Popular
Sovereignty. The whole tone and bearing
of the article points to the conclusion tina
5 MIR. Douglass friends mean to "bolt " from
z the nomination if they are not permitted t
have their way in the Conventon.-Er
, change
BILLIARDS Practically CONSIDERED
The Bucyrus CO., Journal thus speaks of th
game of billiards:
I Yes, sir, can tell you all about bill
lizards. 1t is game consisting of two mel