Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-08-02
General News liems.

General News items. sQa
James Parton and his wife, Fanny
Fern, are spending the summer ct Brat
tieboro, Vermont Il Y 4 ~
IooHon. .George W. Bailey, Jr., Secretary
Of Vermont, died at Montpelier on Mon.
day. m--- .sLgIvG8z
Hon. r. s. Fay, of Boston, fell dead
in the streets of Liverpool recently, Just
as be was about to sail for home DIG
| Al one Of the great balls in London
this season, three hundred ladies aP-
| peared without crinoline. .. sl.l's.b u
Pardon brokers are new institution
established IN Washington. The fee
usually demanded is $3.50 aud upwards
They cannot, however, facilitate the
procuring Of pardons. ss
|. So many Copperheads are leaving
Dubuque County, Iowa, for Mexico, that
hopes are entertained that the county
will be carried by the Republicans al
the October election.
The United States, during the
great rebellion, was hksned unto sick
man. TIE sick man is still ailing Al
though the internal commissions are
stopped, be now has great felon on his
hands Sol. Miller.
A company has been organized at
HuntsYilIe for the purpose of boring fof
oil in Northern Alabama Operauons.
I have CON menced in Madison County,
and large -cil-tFaets leased in the coun-
ties Of FrsnkIin aud Lawrence. The
Indications are said to be all there. =.
A French chemist asserts that if tea
b. ground like coffee, before hos,wafer
is put upon il, it will yield double the
amount ofexhilerAting qualities. AnoIh-
er says: "If piece Of lump sugar, the
size of awalnut, is put into the tea pot
yon will make the tea infuse in one.haE
the time.
In consequence Of the heat on the 9Th Of
July, the saloon railroad car in which
Queen Victoria rods from Windsor to
London, to visit the Queen Of the Meth.
sriAuds, had to be cooled with ice, which
wzs srewn over the roof Of the carriage
previous to her Mai-sty's return to
" Windsor
The cholera is making sad havoc in
i Turkey aud Arabia No less than 49,
4 600 of the pilgrims at Mecca have been
sMept of, aud the streets are filled with
/ corpsss. Five thousand Of the Persian
pilgrims have did, among them q sheik
reported 70 be a SAINT ~.w~
A respectable girl at Brooklyn went
TO the theatre, the other pIghi, with her
I accepted lover. He was absent from
her = few moments, and in that time two
rivals OF his got the girl away, and she
has not been heard from since.
1oJOhthe morning Of June II, the can
non of St Angelo announced the be-
4 ginning of the twentieth year of the
>. reign of Pope Plus TX. 0nly seven of
the 25S Popes who have occupied the
chair of ST. Peter hare had greater or
an equal duration Of power.
The Hancock (obio) Je6ersonian lie
informed that G. l.. Vsllandsgham has
selected Wapakoneta, AuglaiEe county,
as bis place OF residence during the
summer. The same paper accuses him
Of having hopes for seat in Congress
: from the Au glsiEe District, and accounts
thus for the "changs Of base -. I7ss-19
A convention of the friends of tenn
perancs throughout the country is to be
held at Saratoga Springs on the 6rst Of
August The call propose convocaS
ton to review the past, re- affirm the sius-
. pie scripturat principles upon which the
original temperance reformation was
biased, snd re-inzugurate, By the bless-
ing of Him who holds in His hands The
hearts of men, the efforts and successes
of a-tormer day. vvfta<. =.
4 A lump of purs gold, weighing ak
ponnds, was picked up q few weeks since
} BY q poor boy who was fishing, on q
. creek near New Virgins, small village
in Clark county, Iowa The finder was
; fered 81 500 for the treasure, which be
! refused He also refused 20 point out
the exact locality where it was found. = =
A Paris letter says that great quar-.
tity of human bones has just been DIS
covered by laborers employed in dig
ging, on, the Boulevard Monceaux Il
was ascertained that they were OF both
sexes, and had probably been inferred
|, abeus seventy years. The pace where
the homes were found was formerly part
|, Of the cemetery Of the Madeleius Of the
. Vile d'Eseque, where the remains OF
> Louis XVI, Marie ,Antoinette, and those
! Of the victims OF The Reign of Terror
' were proRisionaIly deposited. In al
= probability the bones now discovered are
those of persons executed in the revolu-
ton of 1898. They filed several carts
& and we're deposited in the Catacombs.
e During the progress recently in the
4 United States District Court in Mes
Orleans, OF proceedings for the coo6ses
ton of the rebel emissary SlidelRs Is
tate in that city, claim on it of two
hundred and ninety thousand france
I; WIS put IN By the Paris banking honsG
o. of Maeuard & Co, and another of ons
Z hundred Thousand francs BY the Cit
gAps Bank of New Orleans for -mepe,
advanced to the traitor on mortgages
Judge Durel1 decided that, ss Slidel
re wss . notorious enemy Of the Urite'
in States, his property in The country o
IN logged, under the Confscstiou Act Q
~ the Government, and these claims couli
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