The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-02-17
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Items OF Interest.
gentleman of veracity" asserts that
he saw horses nose frozen in, while drink /
ing in a trough, at Portland, Ne, few
days ago.
The Washington correspondent of the /
Philadelphia Inquirer says the magnificent |
preparations planned by a few gentlemen
for pleasure trip abroad next summer, as |
Commissioners to the Worlds Fair, are |
knocked in the head. Congress will not |
vote the $50, 900 which these self-appeinted |
tourists asked, or even the $35, 900 to which |
they reduced their estimates.
A young man, who has heard of the Nor
gan contracts, wants to know if any of the
Secretaries at Washington have got any
sisters left 2 He would like to get chance
as brother-in-lsw down there.
There will be a rush of women toward
Washington at once. The fair sex will be
excited beyond measure to know that
female clerks are TO be appointed in the
Dead Letter Office to read and return let
tiers.
A man went into the Albany Express
Office, the other day, and wanted copy of
the paper. The price being two cents, be
proposed to take only one half of the sheet
and pay one cent He said he only wanted
the war news.
The Circuit and District Courts of the
United States met on Tuesday, at Indian
| apolis Hon. Judge Treat of Illinois, pre-
| siding in the absence of Judge huntington
who sailed from New ork last week for
Cuba, whefA he goes for the benefit of his
health.
COMMENTARIES ARREsTED.--A man was
arrested at Terre Haute on Tuesday, for
passing counterfeits on the Bank OF the
State of Indiana. He was committed.
The Dubuque shot tower is turning out
about ton and quarter of shot per day,
and is hardly able to keep pace with the
| demand.
The 18th Michigan, Colonel Shoemaker,
armed with Minnie rifles, and battery of
Michigan artillery and Wisconsin regi-
ment passed through indianapolis Thursday
morning for Louisville.
A young man who applied at recruit
| ing station for enlistment, was asked eff he
could sleep on the point of a bayonet,"
when he promptly replied by saying, che
could try it, as he had often slept on a pint
| of whisky, and the kind they used in
Brookville would kill further than any
shooting-iron he ever saw"
Sipples, one of the jolliest members of the
craft, on being asked if he intended to en-
| list, replied that he was the poorest hand in
| the world to stop balls; he never touched
even fsh-ball but it went through him.
| His determination to stay at home is fixed.
A correspondent at Franklin, Massachu-
| chusetts, writes that the bonnet manufacto-
I III.
| every train of cars brings young ladies to
renew their old familiar work after a long
vacation.
TIE Loss OF BRITISH VESSELS IN THE
| WAE OF l912.-The New York Evening
Post contains table of the captures made
by American vessels during the last war
with Great Britain. The number of armed
vessels which fell into our hands was 81,
carrying s7s guns. There were also cap
tured 354 merchant ships, 6lO briggs, $50
schooners, l35 sloops, together with $50 of
various classes recaptured, making 2 500
vessels, carrying 1859 guns. To this is to
be added % vessels of war, lost by wreck
otherwise, carrying about 500 guns, Civ
ing an aggregate of 2, 465 vessels, carrying
9,817 guns.
LICENSES TO NEwsBoYs.-In Chicago the
newsbnys are allowed to sell papers only af-
ter taking out license. The Journal of
that city says that eighty FIVE licenses have
| already been issued. The youngsters with
their bright badges with the numbers on
them, look like a reserve police corps. If
any of the boys are convicted Of a INSIDE
! meanor, their licenses are revoked and they
| are turned out" of the society This APP
pears to US good arrangement-one which
ought to be adopted in this city.
A letter from Philadelphia, speaking of
the rents in that city, says Persons own
ing real estate in Philadelphia, and living
on the same have good rent on them, as
the taxes are enormous. The house I am
now living in rented last year for $500. I
now pay for the same house $3.50, and rent
out a portion of it at that. This $3.50
scarcely pays the owner, yet he thinks him
self lucky to have enough to pay for taxes,
water rent, &c.
A wealthy and amiable gentleman, at
Hinsdale, Mass, who had been lately mar
ried, returning home hastily one night,
found, upon, retiring, strange gold watch
aud chain under his pillow, which proved
to be the property of a dashing young man,
4 who had been quite an intimate friend OF
the gentlemans wife. The husband sold
out and returned to his former home at the
| West, leaving tue uIsBTdceu "le W IolIcW
her downward path to eternal intamy.
AN ITEM FOR THE CURoUs.-As Capt. q
H. Small, of this place (Harwich), was
splitting the butt Of white oak tree of about
, one foot in diameter, which grew on his
own land, he discovered, about three inches
within the surface, a white pine plug, and
at the end of the ping lock of human
hair. The hair was of dark brown color
and very bright and glossy, although it
must have been lmbedded many years, as
the three inches OF wood over the plug was
entirely perfect, aud had no appearance of
Rep.