The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-11-28
nIiscellaneo,,sI tens.

miscellaneous Items.
DlPrHERIA, or putrid sure throat, has
made its appearance in Terre Haute.
A WIFE 5 farewell to husband every morn
GEN. WALKER S remains are To be brought
from Honduras and buried at Nashville,
Tennessee.
THE Georgia woods are teeming with a
heavy crop of nuts and mast, and hogs are
fattening rapidly.
"ARrENAs WARD" before leaving Cleve-
land, was presented by his admirers in that
city with diamond pin worth $l75.
THERE were twenty towns In Mas
sachusetts which returned each but one
Breckenridge vote.
THE population of Greene county, accord
ing to the returns of the census-t takers, is
Is, 043, being an increase of four thousand
since. 1850
THE opponents of Lincoln tried hard to
carry the election into the House, but the
people have decided to carry Lincoln into
the HOuse-the White House,
IT Is estimated that the various branches
of the Temperance Orders embrace MEM
bership of over FIVE hundred in this county.
r. II. Journal.
EMIGRAxTs for the West pass through our
town almost daily We think some of
them at least could be induced to locate in
this county.-Pet. Req. RI
THE mode of churning in Fayal one of
the Azores, is to tie the cream up in goat
skin, and kick it abont till the butter
comes. rr~t
LAST Saturday about 400 head of hogs
passed our Office, on their way TO Kentucky.
They were purchased OF G. Morgan of this
place by Kentucky stock dealer.
aG1 Pet Rep.
THE Steubenville Herald says that since
the first of January last, nearly two hnn-
dred children, and abont one-fourth of that
number of adults, have died in that city OF
diptheria. -t1l-
HOG KILLING seems to have generally
commenced in this region. We obser se
| long trains of wagons filled with detunct
porkers vending their way to our pork
houses. M. Yer. Adoo. t19 e
| SINCE our last issue we have learned from
| farmers in the different sections of the
county that the growing wheat never look
| ed better. 1t has come up well, and is
spreading finely. With favorable winter
aud spring they expect an abundant harvest
the ensuing year.-Bowlng Green Gag.
We ARE informed by heavy stock grow
ers living in the timbered region that hog:
are sufficiently fatted from the mast fol
killing, and that they are only waiting fol-
cool weather TO kill their pork. We alsC
learn that there is sufficient mast to keeI
stock hogs in order till spring.
Boeohng Green Ga-.
FIVE thousand three hundred aud thir.
teen bales of cotton were shipped from Mem
phis up the Ohio river, between the ct ant
7th of the present month. The quantity
shipped from that point to New Orleans
during the same period, is put down at 4,
3l8. This does not look much like non-in
tercourse 80 far as Memphis is concerned, a
all events Cairo Ga.
WHEN Mr.. Wiberfo,ce was candidat,
for Hull, his sister, an amiable and wilt,
young lady, offered the compliment Of new
gown to each of the wives of those freemeI
voting for her brother. On which abe wa
saluted with cry OF d" Miss WilberfOrce for
ever J" when she pleasantly observed
thank you, gentlemen; but I cannot sare
with you--for really do not wish to b.
Miss Wiberforce for ever -
Bay~ The receipts into the Treasury TO
the week ending on the 18th were S432, 90
including only $500, GOO from the cns
toms. The drafts paid amounted 4
about S2,U00,OOO, position Tor th
redemption Of Treasury notes, leaving
subject to draft So, l95, 900. The amour
of lands sold during the year ending il
June, was 3, 46l 900 acres, and the amour
received therefor vas l,844, 0O0
The circulation OF the Kentucky bank
on the lst of November was, in round mum
bers $l0,0Oo,000 showing a very heav
contraction during the Summer and Fall =
This is near three millions and thTee-quar
tiers less than their capital and three mil
lion and a half less than the circulation o.
the list of January, 1860. We dout
whether any hanks in the country ca
furnish evidence of greater soundness o
more prudent managemeht.-C Gin. Gaz
| ByNnvigation on the canal is fast sus
| pending owing to the lateness Of the ses
son, and tine probability that before man
DAYS it will be liable to be closed with ict
: Considering the disadvantages which hay
: of late years surrounded this great publ
work, and the fears OF its failure great
r has nevertheless done very consderab
| business the past season and if crops an
times generally are as good next year &
: this, its capacity viii increase and the re,
enue be materially augmented.-ft Way,
| Tunes.
AeaA meeting of bank Presidents
banks with over a million of dollars capit
D sixteen of them--was held in New lor
on Monday. Forty-fve millions of capt.
, was represented. The conclusion to exter
their line of discounts and TO buy sterlin
? bills has been published in the lelegrap
dispatches in the Journal.
a A New York paper says: I" After the cour
O of the banks represented in this meetir
was known in the street, the stock mark
suddenly became active aud buoyant. Gel
: trail advanced rapidly to 73d; Galena
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