The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-12-29
LATEST NEWS.

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cold closed in New York, yesterday, at
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General Sistead succeeds Napier in the
Western District of Canada
The Congressional excursion party were
Hospitality received at New Orleans.
The Common Council of Boston has de-
feated the proposed appro priati on Of s6O, 900
for the soldiers monument.
One New York importing house has been
made to pay $50, OOO in gold for attempting
to evade the revenue law.
A number. of German and Swedish emf
grants passed through Toronto on the 9th,
destined for Chicago and st. Louis.
A Dublin letter to the New York World
Isys sssP e. e pei lsvsa'te DeStH saRts
The box stolen from Bayard, a Philadel-
phia banker, has been found in the street.
The Government securities were missing
stocks left in the box.
A violent SHOW storm has blocked up all
the eastern railroads, and blown many
vessels ashore. The steamer Australasian
went ashore, but fortunately got off with
out serious damage. The steamer Commo-
dore, of the stonington Line, was wrecked
on Long Island. No passengers lost.
President" Roberts sent lot of over
coats to the Feniaps in Jumbo at Toronto,-
Lynch refused them, saying it was
catch-penny dodge to draw money into the
Fenian treasury.
Sixteen British war vessels are off
Queenstown Harbor. 1t Is thought the
rising will occur simultaneously in the
counties of Cork, Waterford, Limerick,
and Kilkenny.
A suit has been instituted against Chas.
G. Carroll, ex-Street COMMISSIONER, and
Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council of
New York, charging them with defrauding
the city of over 100000.
Governor Mccormick has induced the
military authorities to assign portion of
the l4th infantry to the protection of the
people of Arizona. Crittenden will COM
mand them. W u LSt AG& 434AAJ
At Sweetsburg, on the 2Sth, Michael
Crawley was sentenced to be hung on the
18th February; Crawford to three months
imprisonment. Term ended, court closed.
The Navy Department does not expect
the Swatara, with Surratt on board, to
reach Washington before January 80, as
she is a screw vessel, and slow.
A number of the prominent citizens of
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and South
Carolina are urging their respective legis-
latures to adopt the Constitutional Amend
ment.
The Eagle Iron Works at Milwaukee,
and the shops adjoining, the repair shop
of the Milwaukee and Prairie du Chen
Dofl
part of johnson & Co.'s lumber yard, were
burned on the 2Sth. Loss, $4,000; insured
for about $4,000.
Latest advices represent the storm of the
9th and 18th as one of the most fearful
ever known. Our Northern and Eastern
dispatches give details of immense dam
age to vessels, buildings, railroads, DC. We
shall, undoubtedly, hear of great number
of shipwrecks on the eastern coasts.
A fire. al Warrensburg,e Missouri, on
Christmas Eve, destroyed twenty-five
business houses and three dwellings. Loss
estimated at 500 600; insurance not known,
but is small.
The Republicans in the First and Second
onglessional Districts of New Haven
have nominated Hon. Jacob III. Ella. of
Rochester, for the First District. and Gen.
Alfred Stevens, Of Nassau, in the Second
District, for Congress.
The family OF Frank Culver, on Green s,rI
Lake Prairie, near R!pon, Wisconsin, con-
aisting of himself and wife, @ gentleman
from Michigan, and o hired man, were
poisoned, on Christmas evening, by drink
ing tea with stryehnine In iLJrThey were
all still alive-atl eie hsf o'clock on the even
ing of tho 2sth O An Itslian man, who has
been cooking for them, is suspected as he
was discharged some days ago. Parties
have gone TO arrest him. il4Ip .s s4,,rsl
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