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The Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-15

And miscellaneous Machine y, consist.
ing OF
Brass, Copper and iron.
The attention Of Steamboatmen in par
ttcular is specially called 70 this sale. a.
the greater part OF the properly is in good
condition, particularly the Wrought Iron
tive.
TERMS OF SALE.-One-half cash; balance
In thirty days, with approved security.
For further AnformattOns apply TO or adj
dress w. BAKER,
E. q. VAN RIPPER,
Committee of City Council
EVANSVILLE. Dec. 2, IS70.-dec3-td
The Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-15
LIVERY 4 SALE STABLE,
Fifth Street. bet. Locust 3 Walnut.
Thos. BuIIen. Prep,r.

a SUPPLY OF CORn EOOD con.
80 stantiy on hand. Cislsrns fllled with
fresh water on short notice.
Orders left at the Livery Stable beme
rom pity attended to- arr
The Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-15

NY pRoF. RICHARD OWEN.
The Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-15

NEW HARaroSY, IND, Aug. 25th. 1870.
Measra. Editors:
Perhaps there is no portion Of the
Holy Land more replets with interest
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-02
Origin CT the Phrase 81 Acknowledge
tha CornS

Hon. Andrew Stewart has been nominal
ed ior Congress il tho Westmoreland Dis
trict {XXT) of Pennsylvania. Mr.. Stewart
was in Congress when Henry Clay and
Daniel Webster were there, and advocated
protection. Mr.. Stewart recently made q
speech, IN which he referred to the fact
At the same time be related an incident
which gave the origin of the weli-known
phrase, Il acknowledge the corn"
In 1852 years ago-this subject was
before congress, ana We were discussing it.
IN ,s irving to show to the farmers of the
coantry that they We're purchasing foreign
agricultural productions in the form OF
goods, while they leave their own produce
at home without market. | said Ohio.
Indiana, and Kentucky sent their hay
stacks, corn-fields and fodder to New York
and PHILADELPHIA for sale.
Mr.. Wickliffe, of Kentucky, jumped up
and said:
"Why, that is absurd. DIR. Speaker,
call the gentleman to order. de Is stating
an absurdity. We never send haystacks OF
cornfields to New York or Philadelphia.
''Well," said, ''whst do you send?"
"Why, horses, mules, cattle and hogs. :
"Well, what makes your horses, mules,
cattle and hogs? You feed hundred dol
lars worth of hay to horse; you just AMI
mate and get upon the top of your hay
stack and ride it to market. Laughter.
How is it with your cattle You make one
of them carry fifty dollars worth of ha.
and grass to the Eastera market.
| Then | came to the hog question. SSil
I: ''Mr. Wickliffe, you send a hog wortl
| ten dollars to an Eastern market; hov
much corn does 1t take at 33 cents PEE
| bushel to fatten it ?"
"Why, thirty bushels
"Then you put that thirty bushels 0
corn into the shape of hog and make /
walk Off to the Eastern market
Mr.. Wicklitfe jumped up and said: "hr
Speaker, acknowledge the corn.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-02
A FIENDISH ACT.
A Sfster-in-Law Attempts to Destro
Mother and Aer Babe.


family on George street was recently
visited with calamity of the most horrl-
BILE nature. The household, the name OF
which we withhold for the present, con-
sisted of young married couple, who had
been welded only about year or two, q
babe two weeks old, and sister OF the
husband The sister had but very lately
been released from Longview. LunatIc
Asylum. and had made her home with her
brother about two weeks previous to the
confinement of the wife. On the second
morning after the birth of the child, the
s1ster-in-law approached the bed in which
the mother and babe were confined, carry
ing in her hand pot of boiling coffee which
she had just removed from the stove. Be-
fore the unfortunate woman was aware of
the crazy persons intention the hot,
steaming coffee was dashed upon both her
and the babe, scalding them in terrible
manner. The breasts and face OF the wife
were burned in most shocking manner,
while the infant was burned from head to
foot. On the breasts OF the woman the
sediment or grounds of the coffee ate out
large pieces of flesh, acting almost Ike
acid or red hot Goals.
The strange action of the father and nus
band is affording the neighbors an abund-
ance of gossip. Instead OF securing. his
sister, and having her disposed OF in a
proper manner, the husband endeavored,
with all the means in his power, to hush
the matter up, and allowed her, or, per-
haps, aided her to make her escape from
the city the next morning, since which
time she has not been heard from.
The husband, who is foreman in some
bakery, has not been near his house since
the day of the unfortunate affair.
Whether the fiendish deed resulted from
raging insanity or deliberate determin-
alton to put the woman and her child out
of existence no one is able to say. What
ever may be the mans conception of the
affair is not Known, except that, it Is said,
he expressed desire that the child might
survive, ''but wished to God Betty (his SIS
ter) might have killed the mother.
Both mother and child are in fair way
to recover Cincinnati Chronicdl.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-02
An Infant Prodigy.

At the house of Hrs. Wood, 1S East
Twenty eighth street, New York, recently,
@ number of critics witnessed o private ex.
hibition by little boy of about six years
of age, who was introduced as Oliver B.
Goldsmith, Jr., but who is more familiarly
known as Little Ollie He is a bright,
healthy little fellow, with an intelligent
and prepossessing face. He played with
the other children, and seemed as much a
child as any of them. But when called
upon by his father to reoite from "Julius
Caesar" he struck an attitude worthy of
Booth, and beginning with Mark Antony 's
entrance in the third act of that play, re-
cited the whole act, taking first Mark An
tony's, then Brutus', and then citizen
parts. Then, at his fathers bidding, be
recited both of Hamlet's soliloquies, the
balcony scene from 'Romeo and Juliet, II
the death scene in ''Macbeth," and two
scenes from the Lady OF Lyons" He
also recited parts of Richard Ill" All
this memorizing has been accomplished
without effort. The child does not know
how 20 read, and is not yet familiar with
his alphabet His father reads to him, and
he commits to memory IN few readings
I Nor is he mere mimic. He is constantly
quoting his stores of knowledge. sad most
aptly for a six-year old.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-02

aim several large sums of money for the
use of Lucy and the child. And he couldn't
help mistrusting that their correspondence
had been intercepted, for neither husband
or wife had ever received o single one of
all the letters they had written to each
other But be might have been mistaken.
for we all know what mail facilities are in
the mountains.
never saw johnson again, but heard
afterward that he married Miss White, the
clairvoyant.
The Morrisons went back to -- and
their lives sank into an ordinary and CON-
mon place routine. verify believe they've
half forgotten by this time the tragic epis-
ode OF these two years.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-02
Another Projected Revolution in Naval
Warfare.

Mr.. William Coppin. late Surveyor of
Steam Vessels under the British Board of
Trade, enters into the controversy now
raging in Great Britain on the subject of
the steam ram as means of warfare, and
proposes one on the following plan:
She would have solid PROV Of forty
feet in Length and of 6 form which would
insure the vessels immediate release, even
after striking an enemy amidships, to the
extent of driving In an area of fifty to sixty
square feet of twelve-inch armor plating.
Sne would instantly disable an enemy by
single blow struck at her screw, rudder
or PROV. Ny ram would be so plated On
On her bows, stern, sides and upper sur
faces as to repel all counter attack
by shot or shell, and render board
ing her an impossibility. On going
into action she would require neither masts
nor fuunell above deck, while she would De
scarcely discernable to an enemy by day,
and not at all by night Her speed would
be fife en- knots per hour, and she would be
capable Of carrying fuel to last her on an
ocean voyage equal to crossing the Atlantic
Even III rough weathe her, the peculiar form o.
this ram would insure her against rolling IN
a seaway. She would only require s. crew
OF forty men, all of whom would be placed
in safety below the water-line on goine
into action. The only person on dech
would be her officer directing the attack
and he would be protected by shot anG
shell proof cowl. A single breech
loading gun, carrying a 200 pound
steel headed conical shot, would be the
rams sole armament. This gun, TO b,
fred by galvanic battery at the momen
Of impact, would be so placed as to perfo
rate the opposite side Of the attacked yes
sci, below her armor plating, thereby aug
menting the rapidity Of her sinking. B,
exerting the leverage power of the ran
through her steerage after striking an enc
my, a considerable portion of such vessel
side would bs wrenched outwards. Indeed
this is most important feature of attack
but one which our present ram ships ar
incapable of executing, as the sharpness o
their prows would almost Invariably caus
such an amount of bending when drivel
into an enemy as would greatly crippl
their steering power.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-02

THE POTATO BUG IN CANADA - Our
brethren in the Dominion are in just alarm
over the advent of the Colorado potato
bug into their western borders. 1t advo-
Gates offering reward to the persons who
will catch these pests, and also recommends
the marking off of a tract of country about
ten miles in width, all along the border
line between the foot of Lake Huron, and
the head of Lake Erie, with the exception.
possibly, of portion of the eastern shore
of Lave St. Clair, and stopping tie culture
of the potato throughout that whole tract
during the prevalence of the pese in the
neighboripg State of Michigan,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-02
THE FAIR SEX.

Some one stole my heart away,
Riding on load of hay;
looked up, and he looked down,
Handsome, sunburnt Johnny Brown.
''Have a lift ?'' said he 10 me.
While his eyes danced nerrily;
"Yes, I thank you, sir /" said l,
Nowise bashful in reply.
Side by side we rode away,
Sitting in the fragrant hay.
Johnny said, ''It's pleasant weather."
Then we blushed and laughed together.
Johnny whispered then; said he,
i'Will you ride again with me ?''
What said shah not tel,
But Johnny liked my answer well.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-02
Uoetru.
UP HILL.
BY UNCLE CHARLIE

Long years ago, upon a summers day,
NheA the sun burned in most shocking way,
a party of MS just from school released,
bet forth to scale-or undertake at least East
One of those mountains which they have down
Well armed with bludgeons for the Iuckless snake,
And with luncheon for the stomach's sake,
Behold u, as with deal of boyish pride,
(Which Knocked at weariness and fear defiad.l
We Chamber mp the grand old mountains side.
Over the rocks, unnumhered ages old,
Through gorges where the angry floods had rolled,
Down the steep slides. TOO snooh mem 'ry saith,
Along the precipice which threatened death,
Into the caverns where we held our breath.
Thus on we went. until in sorry plight
We reached at last, the grand old mountain height;
Our garments well besmeared with dirt, and torn,
Our bodies iaded and our hearts foriorn,
Twas rough journey, sure as you are born.
Full many year of change has passed away,
Since the hard tramp upon that August day,
And have found that noun; aims steep and high,
Are on this earthly journey, always nigh,
Whichever way its course may chance to lie.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-02

In EIGHT States of the Union, according
to the census of 1860, the female popula-
ton was in excess of the male. These
States were New York, New Jersey, Mary.
land, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
North Carolina, Connecticut, and Rhode
Island. OF these States Rhode Island
showed the greatest proportional excess in
female populetion, it containing 8S 355 fe-
males to SO, 294 males. This result is prob
ably due to the great number of foreign
born female operatives who have found
steady employment in the Rhode Island
factories. In the new census, probably
nearly all the Southern States aud nearly
all the New England States will show an
excess Of female over male population, on
account of the great number of men who
were killed, or who died in camp, during
the war. This loss has already been part,
ly made up, however, by immigration, as
the new census returns indicate. What is
worth noting, perhaps, is that in the At.
lantic States, where the population is
about equally divided, or where the females
are in slight preponderance, woman suf
frage gets the cold shoulder, but in the in
land states, like Kansas, Wyoming ano
Nevada, where the males are in great nh
merical maiorities, not only is woman'i
suffrage either conceded or on the point O
being conceded, but women already fill {
good share of the public offices of honol
and profit.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-02

WITHIN the last twelve months death has
played havoc with tie journalistic brother
hood of Louisville. Not less than ten per-
sons, connected in one way and another
and at one time and another with the press
of that city, have gone to their final &C
count Prentice, Faxon, Johnson, Kirk
Hallack, Whitley. Marshall, Hughes, have
died one after another. With the excep-
ton of Mr.. Prentice. all of them were COM
paratively young, and most of them con-
spicuously SNOWY men.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-02

GREELEY ON THE WOMAN QUESTION.
The Hon. Horace Greeley delivered leo
ture in Wheeling. w. Va, a few days-ago,
on the s'Woman Question" The Register
says: ''Horaces position is, in our view,
sensible and SOUND. H9holds that woman
has o perfect right to vote, ifshe will agree
to assume all the responsibilities that fol-
low the assumption of the franchise, but
that all the instincts of woman's nature
are against such an assumption. The wo-
man question, as he understands it, is
more extended sphere OF labor for woman,
and consequent increase Of compensation
for her work. He is most orthodox on the
sanctity of the marriage relation, and holds
that the marriage tie can only be severed
by death. There was not q person in the
hall, We judge, but was delighted and en-
lightened by the lecture"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-02

AN Irishman made sudden bolt into a
druggists shop. - from his pocket
soda-water bottle hhed with some pure
liquor, and holding it across the counter,
exclaimed: There, doctor, snuff that, will
YOU ?" The doctor did as he was directed,
and pronounced the liquor to be genu-
inc whisky. THANK you, doctor,
said the Irishman. ''Hand it to me again,
if YOU please" The doctor again did as di-
rected, and asked what he meant. ''Och,
thin" said Pat, ''if you will have it, the
priest told me not to dEink any of this un-
less I got it from the doctor. So here's
your health and the priest's health"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-02

GEORGIA is raising bananas extensively.
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1870-07-08
A WONDERFUL MICROSCOPE .

Rev. Daniel Wise, d. D., editor of the
New York Sunday School Adroca'c, thus
speaks ofthe celebrated Craig Microscope :
ats simplicity, cheapness and great mag
nifying power struck me with surprise.
Then / was examining fys eye by its
aid, and was struck with wonder at the
skill and power of the Creator which l.
displayed in its structure. When | saw II
statement in an advertisement that the
Craig Microscope magnifed one hundred
diMneters, and could be bought for So so,
| thought it was one of the humbugs of the
hour, for had paid $40 for II microscope
not long before. But now I find 1t to be
1 really valuable instrument which /
should like see introduced into the families
Of our readers in place of the manifold
useless toys which please for an hour and
are then destroyed. This microscope
would both ainusc and inst ruct them and
advise every boy aud girl who wishes to
know the wonders which lie in little things
to save his money until he has ~ TO-
which will pay for the microscope and the
postage when sent by mall
As holiday gift this microscope is un-
surpassed, being ornamental, instructive,
amusing and cheap, and never loses It's in.
tercst. Agents and dealers supplied on
liberal terms. A sample will BIO mailed,
post paid, TO any address for 80 10, by j..
II. ROSS, 3l3 Locust street, st. Louis, Mo.
Read the advertisement In another coll
umn. may3h3m
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1870-07-08
LUXURY AND ECONOMY.

Every family in the city can make it
own Ice cream at but triaing cost and lit
tr labor by getting Gooch's lXL Freezer
1t will freeze cream in five minutes. Two
gallons milk will make three gallons Of the
finest and best ice cream. Sizes from one to
eight quarts for family use, and from three
TO eight gallons for hotels and confec,ion.
ers.
Full directions for using the freezer and
receipts for making all kinds Of ice cream
water ices, fancy cake, etc, accompany
each freezer, and will also be given AVA!
gratuitously TO those desiring them.
We would respectfully refer you to Mr.
Jewett Wilcox, who has ono of the Freezer,
now in use. For sale only by
BEERWART, ORTH& co.
1876 Commercial Avenue.
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1870-07-08
"AT CARO-
1y,,, tnc Papers have 30 say abo"' the
t,,c race, the crowd, etc.


sine, the lato race of the Leo and
v,tcbes forms one of the wonders In
inland navigation, we will be excused for
reproducing what our exchanges have to
4,y about the matter in connection with
Cairo.
The st. Louis Times say, that "the trains
and steamboats, arriving AT Cairo Saturday
night and Sunday brought thousands If
people to see the race, and the farmers for
miles around poured into the city with
their families. The talk was all about the
Lee and Natchcz, and the interest in the
election for the new constitution, which
took place on saturday was completely
absorbed by the great race. The question
would he asked How does the vote
stand for the constitution? to which the
re. ponsc would be in nine eases out Of ten.
the Lee is fty-fourminutes ahead
At an early hour in the afternoon the
people commenced streaming along Front
street towards Birds Point, where no less
than eight or ten thousand had assembled
before o'clock
ROUNDING THE POINT.
The same paper continuing says AT
precisely 6 o'clock and minutes, Cairo
time. the gallant Lee rounded the
min, and hove in sight Of
Cairo. firing her cannon as
she made the turn. The salute was re-
turned with heavy artillery and the Wild
I, In Oh A
the Illinois shore. Ii was thrilling
spectacle The water rolled from the
sharp bow of the great steamer like
Young Niagara falls, and the waves dashed
Ia, shores as if storm was raging. Her
time TO Cairo was exactly days and |
hour-the quickest on record
A newspaper reporter on board the Lee
describes the scene ut Cairo rs follows;
The Cairo lcyec swarms with people who
came from far and near to witness the his
torical race. Not only has the whole pop
ulation of Cairo, men, women, chil-
drcn, the inilrm and the aged
without regard to race, color, sex or pre-
vious condition Of servtudc, turned out,
but strangers from st. Louis from Cincin-
natl, Louisville and the Ohio river towns,
and from the railroad towns in Illinois,
| are here too, standing ut the same time on
the banks of the Mississippi and the Ohio,
| watching with intense vision the noiscless
but rapid approach Of the champion
steamboat.
It is precisely Gl0 pm, and the steamer
Lee has just passed point opposite Cairo
and turned her bow into the Mississippi
bound for st. Louis. She has no time to
pay her respects to Cairo in return for the
prolonged shouts upon shore that the
multitude threw acro., the water toward
her a, she passed.
Tho ayengcr j. on her track; and
though she is ahead of the Whites time,
and ahead of the Matches time, and
ahead of everything in the world except
/ herself, she has no leisure for courtcsies
and compliments,
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1870-07-08
NOuND ADVICE.

Make il your business, it, you need cloth
ing, to 60 to n reliable store, where you
can find all you need, and made in the style
you fancy, at such prices as to suit your
purse and the times. Antrim's is just such
house. There you will always find II
complete and select assortment Of cloth
ing, either for men, youths, boys or child
rem, at prices as low AS the lowest. Com
pare his goods and prices, as II will be to
your interest. u.
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1870-07-08
Dickens "Chri.,,.ui,x.-

The extract from the will of Charlie.
Dickens, read by Dean Stanley m hi,
funeral Grafton Mt Westminster Abbey.
ought forever To- set At rest the carping
curiosity which would have pricd into his
religious convictions, and the meddlS.
some incredulity that would have us doubt
mat he based them upon the Scriptures.
ne paragraph IN Mr. Dickens will reads
t1us' Il commit my soul To the mercy of
God, through our Lord and Saviour Jssus
ohrist, anu eXhort my dear children 10
try ana guide themselves by tho teaching
of the New Testament in il, broad .niri,
and 10 put no faith in any man. narrow
construction Of its letter" "In thai
simple bat sufficient faith, ,ays that the
Dean, Charles dickens lived and died
In that faith he would have YOU all 1.-Two
and die also and if any of YOU have learnt
from his works the eternal value of
generosity, purity, kindness, aud unsel6sh-
ness, and 10 carry them out in action, those
are the best monuments, memorials, and
testimonials, which you, his fellow coun-
trymen, can raise to his memory 1t is
10 be hoped now that we shall hear no
more tiresome sermons from fourth-class
men, Who IN theirproiound self-sufcicncy
ariogatc To themselves TO Judge between
Dickehs ana his God about his Chris
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1870-07-08

&c The Rad.ca papers OF lllinni. nrc
involved in very bitter family quarrel
The editor Of the Bloomington Pqnta-
graph calls tie Springfield Joaraai the
purchased mou'h-pieco Of barnaclc Con.
gresham The editor Of the Carbondnle
Ae'o Era calls the editor If the Metropo.
Us Fr."'''7s'or the biggest fool in Egypt.
The Metropolis editor rc,or,. by calling
the Noo Era man cheap article of No..
htical merchandise, etc. Meanwhile b,l,
the little Radical sheet. Of tho State ham.
mer away at the Chicago TrB.ge with a
vim that is only surpassed BY the assault,
upon the Missouri Democrat by the lesser
Radical sheets Of that commonwealth
Oh, lis beautiful!
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1870-07-08
IEKY LITTLE

The following loyal eiiuson is from the
Rising sun (Ind.,) Record We would
liked 10 have seen the fellow that wrote
IT. made fuel Of to help along either Of
The gallant boats tina, were contcnding for
We Championship Of the Mississippi;
he people, hereabouts who are inter-
es'ea 10 TIE race are friendly TO the Match
eZ Tor many reasons. A steamer named
IoF any accursed rebel General should
scarcely he allowed 10 Goat. much less have
the honor OF making tho best time es-
pecially one that is notorious as a rendez.
,Vous for thieves, nearly every one of onr
boalnsl who have returned on her ON dir.
ierent occasions having been robbed Al
though i wont do as much good as a niece
OF pine knot the size Of walnut In her
furnace, we say success TO the Natchcz.