Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-01-15
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short visit to his family in Illinois.
w '..,.. Brevet Brigsdier Burbank, Colonel Of
I'd United States Infantry, has arrived
in Louisville. The headquarters Of his
regiment win Immediately follow. X Z Z
-.-a Garroiing and street rotheries are
atiil unpleasantly frequent at Boston and
vicinity. --.--sss ss-fss 20 = oss.
w Major General Custar is the officer re.
ferred to in recent dispatchi as having
expressed disloyal senti:nents at pub
lie meeting in Texas. Heis among the
mustered out.
- Mr.. Truman writes from Nashville to
the New York Times that the bill for ad-
mitting the testimony of negroes in the
courts will pass the Tennessee Legisla-
ture IN few weeks
- {; Forty thousand head of cattle, worth
over two millions of dollars, have been.
victims to the cattle disease in England,
so far, and there isl cessation. r
"a Judge Balloon, of New York. decides
that q revenue stamp left off any doou-
mens requiring it, may be put on at any
time after the date, and thus make the
/. paper saiid. .4 .r
..ssr A. policeman named Joe Swinney was
shot in Louisville on Friday afternoon,
by . man named McCorkie. The latter
made bis escape. -
An important order from General
Grant appears this morning, addressed
TO all commanders of military divisions
= aud departments.
The st. Charles Theatre, New Orleans,
was sold at auction on gPharsday.'i 1t
was purchased by Ben DsBar, the present
a manager, for $l20000.t So.lm.r = .....si
5 An order for the muster out of the
34th Indiana, now In Brownsville, Texas,
has been issued. r. .s1H
8 The loss BY the recent FIRE in Racine,
Wisconsin, is estimated at $l44 300 &,
.sf An order was issued at Galveston,
3 Texas, on the 9Th inst, mastering out
twenty-five regiments, white and black
Ra The State Reform House, at Wauke-
sha, Wisconsin, was burned last Wednes-
day night. All the inmates escaped,
Losa, $4,000. 81. s...s
? The Indiana State Convention, to
nominate officers of State, to be defeat
5 ed at the ensuing October elsction, will
be held in Indianapolis on Thursday,
the 18th of next March. ASST
Abe McGse, q negro, went to the
house sf his former master, in Panola
county, Mississippi, and took therefrom
his own child He was followed by VIM
McGee, SON of his late master, and
shot dead. --s
e.. 3 3 Elijah r. Purdy, @ Democratic politi-.
= cian- of note, died in New York City on
the 8th instant. He was Grand Saehem
: Of the Tammany tribe, and has held
local Offices of various importance, al,
most nninterrupsedly, since 1885,
Among his personal friends were Jack
son, Van Buren, Tyler, Polk, and Silas
Wight. fzea9 sG sse
Mrs. Grinder, the Pittsburg poisoner,
VINO will expiate her crime on the 18th,
remains in bed the greater part Of the
tins, and seems to care for nothing but
morphine and opium, using all that she
can procure. In the same jail are Mar.
schall and Frecke, who will be hung on
the 18th instant, for the murder of a
German emigrant, just arrived in the
country last August. IS @ F.. -
The Ohio River is again navigable to
Pomeroy aad Parkersburg. Navigation
- win probably be resumed to Pittsburg
-...- to-day. ...-~--.... j
s A dispatch from New York says that
- o rnnor has been prevalent at Fortress
Monroe during the past few days of a
plot for the liberation of JEFF. Davis
According to the reports the plan en-.
hraced the arrival there Of the intended
n rescuers singly, on board of trading ves-
- sells, 90 as to ward OFF suspicion. The
authorities hare Instituted searches oi
II all the crafts in the harbor, but no per-
~ sons of suspicious appearanoe ha'
been discovered. 81 .-.s !.