The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-09-10
CURRENT NOTES.

CURRENT NOTES.
The Nation says twenty-five dollars
WILL purchase any testimony wanted in
Wv ~ : ' o''AN e $500 ,sisa ~a.e1T
Maggie Mitchell, when a little girl,
was engaged to sweep certain portions
of Barnum's Museum.
The entire population of Ireland is
estimated by the Register General at
5,581 ,625 in the middle of the year
1866.
King Victor has founded prize of
5000 to be run for by the horses at
Florence in 1871. Next year he gives
A Maine Judge has decided that hop
beer is not intoxicating. But beer
drinkers are nearly intoxicated with
delight at the decision. ~ &.
/ A model husband in Wales, trun-
died his sick wife two hundred miles
in a wheelbarrow to a holy well"
where she could be cured of her
maiaoy' adgIh aar.-... ,-ssiB 9f8
pa The Michigan Constitutional Con-
'vention has just inserted in the Con-
stitution of that State, now undergoing
amendment, "so-called," clause pro-
hibiting traffic in ardent spirits. -
ID Augustus Iturbide, the adopted heir
Of Macmillan, is now at Georgetown,
and; is robust boy, four years old,
looking as if he mi ght put in a. claim
for his inheritance some day, if Uncle
Sam does not absorb it in the mean
time. at29iNs r % 4t7*t !
~ The Wine growers Association of
Cincinnati held their monthly meet
ing on Saturday. There was large.
meeting, and great interest was mani
tested. The report of the grape crop
was satisfactory, especially Norton's
Virginia and Ives Seeding, which is
pronounced by all a perfect success.
and free from mildew and rot.
The present Duke of Wellington is
printing the whole of his fathers pa
pers for safety, not for publication.
The Duke puts everything into tyre,
and then strikes out such passages as
affect living persons too closely. or
such as it might be indiscreet to make
public. Three copies only of the orig
inal impression are taken.
Some of the farmers in the vicinity
of Manassas, and other Virginia bat
tlefields are said to have reaped large
pecuniary harvest recently BY digging
up and selling to the bone dust manure
factories the remains of Union soldiers
buried on their farms. A skull, hip
Of he -o~&aA~o1
femur and tibia, were taken from a
wagon which had been loaded at Bull
Run by them, and which was on its
way to Alexandra, and brought to
Washington. a4 a5a
A young man, named Regain, died in
Albany recently from having mole or
wart on his face cut by razor while
being shaved. The wart was on the
left cheek, and, while the whole right
side was paralyzed, the left leg and
arm became rigid, and the face turned
over the left shoulder.
A parliamentary return just issued
shows that the unclaimed army prize
money, from 18th of January, 1909. to
3lsts Deeem Der, 1866, amounted to e.
665, G63. Of this amount, e923, 3O1
has been refunded to claimants, 1885,
1854 paid to the Royal Hospital in
diminution of votes for pension, f40,-i
900 for purchasing the, site and i'm
proving the Royal Military Asylum.
A chemical process has been dis
covered and perfected ia New York,
by which white lead can be made in
FIVE hours. instead of nearly four
months. The white lead can be made
either from ore, pig led or litharge,
with equal rapidity, and very supe-
rior color and covering is produced.
In Canada, American silver is so
abundant as to be regarded as de- f.
cided nuisance, which the people are
discussing measures to abate. At a
special meeting of the London. c. W.,
Board of Trade, held a few days since,
a resolution was passed urging mer-
chants and others to take American /
silver at four per cent discount, until
something definite is done in regard to
the matter.
VIM. E. Robinson. one of the
Brooklyn (Democratic) mem ers of
congress, was twenty years ago the
Washington correspondent of the New
York Tribune, and was expelled from
the reporters gallery for a breach of 4
privilege, in ridiculing one of the |
Western. members who was daily in |
the habit of seating himself behind the !
Speakers desk, and partaking of lunch |