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

Leavenworrh, Kansas, is now illuminated
with gas.
Willie Moore, sprightly little boy, was
drowned in the canal, at Terre Haute, few
days since.
The sore throat disease has made its APP
pearance in Detroit, and. thus far, has been.
fatal in almost every instance.
TIE Opposition party of New Jersey will
hold State Convention on the 8th day of
March.
The total number of hogs packed at Gin
cinnati this season amounts to 456,o51-an
excess over any previous year.
A wag being asked the name of the in
ventor of butter stamps, replied that it was
probably Cadmus, as he first brought letters
into Greece.
APPOINTMENT OF A JUSTICE IN NEW MExI-
Gov. A. Davidson has been appointed As
sociate Justice of the Supreme Court of
New Mexico, vice B. F. Boone, deceased.
Virtue is always praiseworthy, except in
cases where old maids make virtue of me-
cessity.-Lou. Jour.
Cassius NJ. Clay, in a communication to
the Country Gentleman, states that for many
years he has grazed a thousand cattle a
year.
GREAT FIRE IN HoUsToN, TExAs.-The
Houston Telegraph of the 10th inst. has an
account ola great fire in that city, by which
Whitmarsh's cotton press, 200 bales of cot
ton, $50 hhds. of sugar, &c, were burnt.
Loss $4,000.
"Late Montgomery Ala papers chronicle
the marriage, on the same day, of two edi-
tors in that city-that of Henry F. Coyne
of the Mail, and E. A. Banks, of the Con-
federation"
From the above, it is reasonable to pre-
sumo that that town will, in the course of
time, be well supplied with the " circulating
medium Indiana american.
The People" of Jackson county are to
hold a convention on the 18th of February
to appoint delegates to the Opposition State
Convention.
1t is said that rather distinguished
Democrat, who died the other day, has
since announced himself, through the spirit
mediums, an Opposition man. We are not
yet quite ready however to recommend this
mode of converting Democrats.-Lou Jour.
PEAcHEs.-A note from friend at Bloom
iugton Informs us shat the peach crop in
that section will be comparative failure.
The same may be said of that region about
Bedford and other peach producing neigh
borhoods in that part of the State.-Laf.
Cour.
GnAT TEN MILE FooT r ACE IN ENGLAND.
jackson, the American Deer, was beaten
by Jas Rowan, at Hackney Wick, near
London, on Christmas day, ten milo race
in SO min and % sec.
Mr. Andrew Wilson, of Madison county,
KY, recently slaughtered hog weighing
1850 pounds gross.
A legal friend informs the Chicago Times,
that he had just drawn up an assignment
for the proprietor of an extensive millinery
establishment in that city whose failure was
occasioned chiefly by the prevailing fashion
among the ladies, of wearing upon their
heads the wooden articles called q clouds "
and hoods, instead of bonnets. This assignor
declared that he had sold scarcely bonnet
this winter, and the case was similar with
the millinery business generally.
GRACE Greenwood IN THE, ONO PENITEN-
TIARY-Grace Greenwood gave lecture or
address to the convicts at the Ohio Peniten-
tiary the other afternoon. About a thou
sand persons were IN attendance, and her
opening remarks about the endearments of
home, fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters,
were exceedingly affecting, moving many to
tears.
A LAw-OBEYING PEoPLE.-It is said that
out of German population of fifty thousand
in the State of Wisconsin, there is not a
single individual from the Faderland con-
fined in the penitentiary of the State.
IRoN WORKS IN THE UNITED STATES
There are 1855 iron works in the United
States-ss2 furnaces, 4s8 FORCES, and 225
rolling mills, which produce annually about
$50, 900 tons of iron, worth in ordinary
years S5O,OOo,0 900. There are but FIVE
States in the Union which have no iron
works.
Mr. Douglas proposed in his lastspeech in
the Senate that provisions should be made
TO prevent the invasion of any State by
citizens of another State. The proposition
is very well indeed, and it would be still
better if it embraced a provision for the
threatened contingency of a dissolution of
the Union in the event of any mere partisan
triumph in Presidential election.-L6u
Jour.
ETIQUETTE AT WASHINGTON Wash
ington States says it is scarcely respectful TO
the Executive Office to decline an invitation
Of the President, even though there be a
prior ergagement. He is virtually, in a
ooiacsl point of view, the pere de faaaiLIe
Of the nation, and should be honored in soci-
81 Intercourse as children honor father, by
q c9rpliance with his request to join him
at the banquet board, even though they had
promised previously to meet brother at
the same hour. If any of our readers in
tend to visit Washington, they will make a
note of this fact, in the event of receiving
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