Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-08-07

! Father W AFTER mas peIn re4ueete0 Df
the Archbishop Of Baltimore to cease
all controversy relative to Mrs. Surratt's
innocence. -
| Baruum estimates the recent neEspa-
per notices of bis Museum as worth one
hundred thousand dollars.
| A battered Mimic ball was recently
extracted from the head Of recovered
New Haven soldier, after remaining
there one hundred and seven days.
Afafmer near Hartford lately plowed
up an old apple orchard, and sold four
or five tons of the roots to New York
manufacturer, at good price, to make
brier-Wood pipes of.
The Gold Hill (Neyada) Nssos tells
that boy fell down pair Of stairs on
c Street, the other day, and rolled out
on the floor of third story on D Street.
! The altitude of the domiciles in noun
tain towns is very uncertain.
The ladies of Flushing, L. l., have de-
termined to erect a magnificent monu-
ment in the village to those of their
| relatives and friends who have died
upon the battle field during the present
war. A large sum of money has already
| been raised, and several fairs will be
held to augment the amount
The Ioed State Register remarks that
out Of population Of little more than
half million at the commencement of
the war, Iowa sent in all 72,36S men
into the army, as the official record
Ehows.
The Misses McFimsey who have
pretty ankles viii be grati6ed to learn
that the fashion makers are trying to
/ introduce the peasant skirt, which does
not reach the ground by several inches.
| In the Buffalo Police Court it was
held last week. that ladies are legally
entitled to no more privileges in public
conveyapces THAI gentlemen, and that
/ when the latter pay for seats they have
! g. right to occupy them so long as they
/ conduct themselves in a proper manner.
| A conductor was accordingly fined $500
! for ejecting a man from q car because
he refused to give his seat TO q woman
4 The other day several gentIemen we're
discussing the alarming prevalence of
! the crimes of wife -desertioD, women
clipping with other men, when Teuton,
who had been listening with great at
tention, stepped up and in an excited
manner said, g If my wife runs away
init auoder mans wife, / will shake him
ont of her preeehes, if she may be mine
own fader, bine Gotr' -
/ One Of the confidence games prac-
ticed at Saratoga is this: A lady entices
! some gentleman into her room at the
hotel. While there her husband (?)
comes in, and there is scene But 20
settle the matter, the victim is required
to give the dishonored husband and dis
tracted wife $50, and the matter is
hushed up. e's.l vzs9 "
4 One Of the largest and finest rolling
mills in the United States lie already in
operation in Chattanooga, Tenn, which
4 is daily turning out the best quality of
railroad iron of the pattern. A blast
furnace is in contemplation, and cop.
per rolling mill, worth 81 900, 600 cspi-
tai IS soon to be put up in the neighbor.
hood A large blast furnace viii be
commenced in the Fall, on the Tennes-
see, above Chattanooga. Several coal
oil companies are only waiting for ma
ehinery to commence operations ia diff
ferent localities around that place. The
old coal mines are being revoked and
new ones opened.
A fatal cattle epidemic has broken
out in Woodstock, Canada. A nnmber
Of cattle and horses have died within q
week. In hogs Il FIRST shows itself By a
swelling Of the throat, and terminates
fatally in about twelve hours In cows
and horses, they are sick only ten or
twelve hours, and in every case where
they have been attacked the result has
] been fatsL
The official statement of the public
debt on the 3Ist uItimo, shows the total
amount to be $2,757, 253, 275 So, on
which the interest fboth in coin and
psper) is $I39, 264, 46S IS. The amount
Iof legal tenders IN circulation is $685.
236, 369; of fractional currency, SOS, $780,
! 000.- ~ The reasury contains So, 1873 600
in coin, and $sl 400, 600 in currency. sea
A War Department. order, dated the
18th ullimo, and just been made public,
declares the following army corps dis.
continued as organizations I'd cops,
from June 2Sib, 1868; l4ih, from Au-
gust lst; 5th, from June 28th; 9th, FROM
Jane 18th; 9Th, from August LIST; sth
from August LIST; 9th, from July 9th;
10Th, from August LIST; I4th, from Au-
gust LIST; 18th, from August LIST; 18th,
from August lst; 18th, from Jnne Ist;
23d, from August LIST; a4lh, from Au-
gust lsL .s.-.
Eastman, who absorbed from Brook
+ Ign, after having, as was alleged, perpe.
trated swiEdles TO the amount of nearly
81 900, 900, has been found in lunstic
asylum in England, -ga7 r. /.
r Crowds are gathering at Hearts Con
tent, Newfoundland, to witness the land
: ing of the Atlantic cable The IGreal
Eastern was to have left Valentia on the
0 oath uitimo.
The number Of national banks thus
far chartered is | .499-their aggregate
! capital being s470,B00 600, and theii
circulation $16I9Ti, $780, @ q
The Florida Union states that tbs
father Of Payne, the would-be murderer
It of Secretary Seward, has been makinf
d a visit to Jacksonville, in that State The
y. Union says: "He resides on planta
- ton three miles from Live Oak Station