The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-03-23

He is poor whose expenses exceed his IN
come
Mr.. FoRD, the Printer to the House of
Representatives, was practical printer be-
fore he entered the legal profession.
In recent sermon upon the training OF
children, Henry Ward Beecher gave the fol-
lowing good advice to parents:
"Never strike a child upon the head
Providence has provided other and more al'-
propriate places for punishment
Nor day passes, but the grave of Sena-
tor Broderick, in the Lone Mountain
Cemetery," near San Francisco, is strewn
with flowers.
THE SIx-FEET GAUGE.-Mrs. Frances y.
Gage has brought up six boys whose aggre-
gate hight is thirty-six feet Gin. Press.
IT is now believed that the yellow fever
having broken out with great violence at
Havana it may not be entirely safe for
Northern men to go to Charleston on the
23d day of April next.
In the Forrest divorce case, Justice Mon
cref, of New York, has confirmed the report
of the Referee awarding Mrs. Forrest aliIno-
ny Mt the rate of $4,000 per annum.
The personal safety of his Holiness at the
| Vatican is henceforward TO be more effect
ually provided for by Il guard of twenty
four men from the newly enrolled civic
force, denominated Guardia Palatina.
ONE of the oIl-wells in Pennsylvania is
owned by Mr.. Evans, blacksmith and
poor man. He prosecuted the work of bor-
ing himself, ana struck a vein of oil at the
distance of seventy feet. He has been
| offered it is said $4,000 for his WE'LL bnt has
declined selling on these terms.
! IN REMOVING the dead from the ground of
the First Baptist church, in La Grange place,
| Philadelphia one coffin was opened in
which the body was found to be almost
wholly petriiied. 1t was that of n man
about forty years of age, and though it had
been in the earth one hundred years, the
couutenance was as smooth and placid, and
his white hair rs perfect, rs the day it was
placed in its resting place.
THE New Orleans Delta states that " the
Democracy of Louisiana does concur with
the rest of the South in uncompromising
hostility to Mr.. Douglas nomination, and
in regarding the Territorial question as an
issue involving essential Democratic princi.
pies, and that the delegation will never con-
sent to the abrogation or modification of the
two-thirds rule
! Hon. Frederick p. Stanton, now Of Kan
sas, has announced his determination to
take ground for the Opposition candidates
in Connecticut. This is his first open de-
claration in that way. He seems to have
given up all hope that Charleston will do
right, and therefore identifies himself with
the general Opposition.
Dir. Richard Mead of England was the
first TO introduce the custom of having him.
self called out of church but he practised
this ruse under more favorable advantages
than most could. His father was clergy
man, with large congregation, and when
the Doctor was summoned out, would say
20 Dear brethren, let us offer prayer for the
poor sufferer to whose relief my son Rich
ard has been called" la this way the sol
gained notoriety. --
A HAPPY MARRIAGE.-It is Il gloriou:
sight to see two old people, who have wealth
cred the storms and basked in the sunshine
of life together, go hand in hand, loving
ly aud truthiully, down the gentle declyity
of time, with no anger, nor jeaiousies, MOI
hatreds garnered up against each other, anC
looking with hope and joy to the everlast-
ing youth of heaven, where they two shall
be one forever. That is true marriage-fol
il is the marriage of spirit with spirit. =
Their love is wove into wool of gold thai
neither time nor eternity can sever.