The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-04-11
Varieties.

GEO. A. WHITNEY, Boston merchant,
who died a few days ago, had his life insur-
ed for $50, 900.
A SoUrHERN paper describes Wendell
Phillips as an " internal machine set to mu-
sic"
GEN. JOHN DEYEREUx died lately in Lon
don. He raised the Irish Legion, which,
under Bolivar, engaged in the successful
struggle for independence in Colombia.
TnE rumor that Senator Hunter has writ
ten to the Illinois anti Donglas delegates
that they would be admitted TO seats in the
Convention, that gentleman authorizes TO
be contradicted, and pronoanees it Ialse-
hood.
O. Jennings WISE, the duel fighting son
of Ex-Governor Wise, OF Virginia, aud one
of the editors OF the Richmond Enquirer
has hecome Il cOmmunicant Of the Episcopal
Church.
DEmocRATIc paper is TO be started at
Mesila, Ari1oiia, with the Hon. Philo T.
Herbert, who shot the waiter at Washing
ton, as its editor.
North CAROLINA AHEAD.-From the sta
tistics it appears that it 1869, about $4,000
bales of cotton were manufactured into
CiOJL III NOIIu ChTOlIuii, HniiC llt 1tOTREt
"tIIe Empire Stale of the South" the num-
her of bales was 2G, G,0O0.-dlem. A0aLanche
Grg--The fruit trees in this vicinity are
now in full bloom, and the crop OF fruit, if
not cut Off by the late frOstS, will be at
least fair, it not abundant. The genial
spring weather and warm showers of the
past two or three days is bringing on veg
itation very rapidly Mad. C0aw.
In DR.. MAGooN's Church, Albany, lately,
the first person baptized was young girl,
sixteen years old, in the last stage OF con-
sumption. She was literally arrayed in
her grave clothes, it being understood that
the white robe in which she was baptized
was to he worn by her in her coffin. The
scene was very affecting.
SOME of the friends of Douglas intimate
that he will "boit" if the Charleston con-
vention repudiates squatter sovereignty
Oh, to besure, he'll bolt any mess the con-
vention prepares for him.-Seygnour Times
The Frankfort (Ky.) Commonwealth, one
of the oldest and ablest Journals in Kentucky,
for years the warm advocate of Mr.. Clay,
and the proprietor of that paper, Col
Hodges, for a long while the warm person.
al friend of Mr.. Clay, says
The great Clay so regarded il slavery
an evil), and we confess that we would have
supported him none the less readily ON that
account
SAD MoRTALITY-We learn that Mr.. Nu-
gent of the 4th Ward, has lost three chill
dren, within the last ten days, by the fear
ful disease called Putrid Sore Throat. Fat
bacon, cut i'll thin slices and applied to the
throat and changed frequently, is said to be
an inialible remedy, and about the only one
we have heard of. 1t is very simple and for
this reason we fear it will be rejected by
many as an absurd prescription.-Spr
fetd (O.) Republic.
THUNDER STORM AND Snow IN BELGIUM
On Sunday, Feb. 10th, Il violent thunder
storm, accompanied by AN unprecedented
heavy fall of snow, overspread Belgium.
Twelve churches were simultaneously struck
by lightning, three of them being totally
destroyed and the others much injured.
TIGHT RoPE PERFoRMANcE.-The Kansas
City MehopOlitan says that Senator Douglas
is engaged in "tight rope performance on
Mason and Dixons Line, but, as he has
"mighty small chance of legs thai" it ap-
prehends he will fall and break his neck or
hurt himself considerably.
The AFFAIR IN MADIsON-We are in
formed that the whole of the band of sym
pathizing Republicans who attacked the
Committee at Berea on the 26th nit, have
fed the county, taking their families with
them. The information, though not direct,
is believed to be correct. We trust it is
Lon. Journal
The Davenport Gazette says that singu-
lar disease has attacked the cattle in that
vicinity, chiefly the young ones, who had
been fed on June hay. Six yearlings, some
of them very valuable, have died. The
first symptoms of the disease were lameness
and n swelling of the hind or fore quarter.
1t generally proved fatal in ab0ut twenty
four hours, resisting all medical treatment.
Mrs. JOHN WHEDoN, the last of the survi-
of the Wyoming Massacre, died in
Columbia, Lorian Co, Ohio, on the 3Oth
inst, aged SO years. Her husband to whom
she had been married 62 years survives