The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-08-27
CURRENT NOTES.


ertson, which lately arrived at New
Orleans from Havana with twenty
three coolies on board, has been libel
ed, and her captain and men have
been arrested and required to give
bonds of $1,000 each for their appear
ance before the United States Circuit
Court, November term, for violating
the law against importing coolies.
w. F. Coolbaugh, President of the
Union National Bank at Chicago, and
one of the bondsmen of the late Post
master Gilmore, has been sworn in as
acting Postmaster at Chicago.
The New Orleans Republican says
that this years cotton crop in Louis
lana will prove almost an entire fall
ure, and that the planters arc discharg-
ing their hands where their contracts
will allow them to do so. tt4i
A shed on the farm belonging to
Messrs.. A. &. W. Sprague, in John
ston, r. l.. short distance beyond
Spragueville, in which was stored two
hundred tons of fine hay, was burnt
by an incendiary fire, early Sunday
morning The loss will reach nearly
or quite $1,000. Col. Amasa Sprague
will give $1,000 for the detection of the
incendiary. a
1t is stated that a piece of cloth sat
urated with carbonic acid and hung up
in a room will cause musquetoes to
disappear.
A party of Brown University stu
dents who left Providence July B for
pedestrian tour, arrived back on
Friday last. having marched 600 miles
on foot and 282 milesby water. They
had many amusing experiences during
their trip, and were taken for gipsies,
soldiers, Fenians, telegraph builders,
sailsor and many other things which
they were not.
Sidney, Fremont County, Iowa by
a change of channel of the Missouri
river, has been transferred from the
State into Otoe County, Nebraska.
By this singular freek of the river,
some thousands of acres of land and
six to eight hundred inhabitants have
been added to Nebraska.
The engineer of a passenger train on
the New London Northern railroad
saw a large rock fall from an embank
ment in front of his train near Grants
Corner the other day. 1t was impos-
sible to stop the train in season to
avoid collision, and both the engine
and the engineer were considerably
injured. r-s.r.-s.er uer- n.eyt
The white and colored Masons of
Louisiana have consolidated, and the
lodges of the former are opened to the
latter-which is one of the signs of the
times. We advise Mr.. Vallandigham
to send down his new work on politi-
cal physiology. 1t may save the white
Masons from utter destruction.
Fifty Frenchmen have sanctioned
an enterprise for the discovery of the
North Pole. M. Gustave Lambert,
formerly a pupil at the Polytechnic,
now in the photographic department
of the government, proposes to reach
the open Polar Sea and the Pole itself
by route never before tried. The
project has been we'll received, and a
subscription has been opened. As
soon as 100000 frances are obtained
the enterprise will be carried out.
The Emperor Napoleon has given his
full approval to the project.
A correspondent of the St. Paul Press
urges the farmers of Minnesota to
form associations in each county for
the purpose of keepingup the price of
wheat to at least 81 80 per bushel.
Mining is being prosecuted in New
Hampshire with good success. A
mine in Lisbon has yielded 81 900 in
gold since January, and All tons of
dressed copper" have been taken
from a mine in the same vicinity.
The Raleigh IN. CO. Standard an.
nounces the resignation of Mr.. Swain,
President Of the State University, also
of several professors, including Pro-
fessor Hepburn, and says it is because
"disloyalty makes rapid Roadway
among the students"
Peaches sell at fifty cents per bushel
in Baltimore. The crop was never
known to be so large as it is this sea-
son, Notwithstanding all the GROWERS
have said to the contrary.
1t is ascertaineL that of the issue of
Seven thirties, which matured on the
10Th inst, $3.50, 100000 have been con-
verified, leaving but S2O,O0O,OOO still
outstanding. These will probably all
be converted by the time the extern
sion of one month given by the Secre-
tary expires. n7foa.i .b 7-..sa $50
The Belfast (Ireland) Wing says
that the fax crop-a most importa Mt
one in the north-this year will be ex-
cellent. There is much speculation a
to the acreage under the crop, and the
prevalent opinion is that there will be
decrease of ten to twenty per cent.
as compared with last years yield but
many persons think, from the prime
Quality of the fax. that the weight of