The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-02-11
VARIETIES.

Ten thousand gas burners are required TO
illuminate the Continental Hotel, Philadel-
phia.
A bill appropriating $4,000 for the de-
Tense of the frontier of Texas has passed the
Senate of that State, and will probably pass
the House.
There are already between three and four
hundred men at work making the excava-
tons for the Parliament buildings at Ottawa,
the new capital of Canada.
We learn that the petition to Congress for
n reform in the mode of electing a Presi-
ident is receiving a long list of signatures
from among our best citizens-Cfn. Com.
A correspondent of the Ohio CaLtiVdtor
recommends, very highly, white washing
trees in the fall--it destroys insects. The
writer is said to be very successful in cul-
tivating trees.
The Paris Patrie says it was confidently
asserted that, in pursuance of arrangement
between England and France, the fleets of
those countries would no longer remain in
the Algerian waters.
Advices frem Ruatan to january 18th,
say that the inhabitants are determined to
maintain their independence of Honduras,
and have sent to New Orleans for arms and
ammunition.
Mr.. Andrews, proprietor of a newspaper
at Delavan, Wisconsin, together with his
wife, have been arrested on a charge of set
ing FIRE to the building in which the Office
was located for the purpose of obtaining
| 800 insurance.
The Boston Herald tells story of child
which narrowly escaped death in conse-
quence of having the blood sucked from its
IL L. Id
which the child lay asleep were saturated
with blood.
IGNoRANcE IN HIGH LIFE.-FashiOna5Ie
Lady Ito her husband )-"I wonder how the
children are2 haven't seen them for ever
so long. 1 declare, am getting quite anx-
ious. / say, Henry dear, wish you would
show me the way up to the nursery" y
| Punch
| The London Times has published "Ieader'
ridiculing the memorial being prepared for
| in the Maryland Legislature, praying for the
ensIavement of the free colored population
of that State.
Gov. Pennington is the second citizen of
| New Jersey, who has been elected Speaker
| of the House of Representatives. The first
was Jonathan Dayton, who was elected iE
1875 and again in 1897, thus filling the of
fee for four years.
STATE CAPITOLs.-The Capitol of the State
of Tennessee, at Nashville, not yet finished,
has cost so far $4,000 The Capitol of
Ohio, at Columbus, unfinished, is estimated
to cost when completed, 81, $50, 20T. The
Capitol of South Carolina, when finished,
will cost 50, 100000.
Mr.. David Harmand, the famous centena-
rian of Montmartre, has just died, in his
109th year. He served under Louis XIV
and Louis XVI. during the American war,
and was in the first campaigns of the French
Revolution. Up to the last moment he full
ly enjoyed his intellectual faculties.
A CHURCH BUYING SLAvE-The New
| York sam says that on Sunday morning
last Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's congrega-
ton subscribed $1,0OO.O7 to secure the
freedom of little slave girl, nearly white.
The sum required was only $500. Beside
the contributions of money, there was a
neat gold ring, set with opal, which the
pastor placed upon the child's finger, bid
ding her rememberit as her " freedom ring. u
The vicissitudes of business life in Cali
fornia are striking enough. The gains Of
Page, Bacon & Co.'s branch bank in San
Francisco, from interest alone, were $780,
900 month, beside the incidental profits
on bills of exchange and other operations
They failed through speculations in Eastern
railroads. Palmer. Cook & Co. failed fol
millions, paying little or nothing, and SO did
Adams & Co. All these firms would have
accumulated great fortunes had they but
confined themselves to the legitimate bust
ness of banking.