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

whaleer Leader, which lett New Lon
don for the North Atlantic ocean last
December, has been Tossed with all
hands-f teen in number.
An old f. rmer near Lynchburg, Va,
has had a standing bet of $40 with
neighbor for the last thirty years that
it would rain on the first Saturday IN
August of each year. During the
time he has won twenty-seven out of
thirty bets, winning, of course, again
on Saturday Of week before last.
A tourist says to those who go up to
Mount Washington that they get into
pretty much such company as the man
did in going up to Jerico; and that the
landlords there ask how much money
one has. where he comes from, gives
him a return ticket, and takes all his
cash. Everybody does not say so,
however.
A young Springfield man, who acct
dentally exchanged valises with a
clergyman who sat with him on
recent trip to New York, broke open
the strange valise to find some clue to
the owner. The contents comprised
corn salve, two sermons and bottle
OI WHISKY, Uul ~ HdMC.
A farmer in the town of Windham,
Maine, who makes cider and elderber-
ry wine, has been indicted at the in
stance of the State constables for sell
ling the same, Late seizures at Au-
burn COY cred about nine gallons of
elderberry wine, two quarts of which
we're two and half years old. and the
remainder six months old.
A Mexican in the confidence of NJ
Mariscal, the Charge d'Affairs at
Washington, says that no official APP
plication was yet made for the remains
of Macmillan to the Jurarz govern
ment, and that the body is ready to be
delivered to the family of the late En-
peror when they apply for it. No
European government has a right, it
is averred, to claim the remains. which
belong exclusively TO the relatives of
Macmillan.
Between three hundred and fifty
and four hundred men have been dis
charged from the Springfield armory.
Over eight hundred are still employed.
As soon as the remainder of fifty
thousand rifles are altered to breech-
leaders, the force at the armory will
be reduced to a peace footing. This
will take about three months.
A Sydney New South Wales) news
paper says that in certain districts of
Australia, people are dying of thirst.
1t is said that In the back country
bodies and skeletons of persons who
have persisted from want of water are
being continually found. 1t is also
related that one man offered five dol
lars for half a pint of water, and, hav-
hundred dollars for a full pint, so
great was his thirst.
The Planters Oa.) Banner asserts
that ION the Opeolousas railroad.
since the overflow, the engineer on the
train has frequentlyto blow the whis-
tie to clear the track of alligators, as
the track is the only thing above water
for them to rest on for many miles
The train has run over several alliga-
tors since the water went down"
At printers festival recently held
in Lowell, Mass } the following toast
was presented: THE Printer-the
master of all trades-he beats the far
mer with his Hoe, the carpenter with
his rules, and the mason with his set
ting up tall columns; he surpasses the
lawyer and doctor in attending to his
cases, and beats the parson IN the
management of the devil
There is a vase in the Paris expo
sition valued at $2,800,00O. 1t is made
from single turquoise.
The various manufactures of hoop
skirts in this country use up about one
hundred tons of steel weekly.
The pork and lard swindle at Mil
waukee has since presented a new
feature. the operator having dealt ex-
tensively in forged receipts. His
warehouses was visited, and laborer
was round filling more barrels with
sand and salt. 6bHai
The canal soon to be built around
| the lower Des Moines Rapids Of the
Mississippi river is to be about seven
and half miles long, extending from
Nashville to Keokuk The width at
the water surface inside the canal to
be three hundredf feet in embankment,
and two hundred and fifty feet in ex-
cavation, and in low water to be Ave
feet deep i-hsnA 10" *4f-'l