Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-01-08
.........JANUARY 8
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Latest News.
Al Maior Geueral nov In Texas, whose

MAJOR leneHal n0Wtn ASSAoSs "n~90
name is withheld, but who is delicately
alluded to as one - who distinguished
himself as cavalry officer under SheriT
danS' is accused by thirty cavalry off,
GERS of getting beastly drunk with o.
Texas rsbeI, and endorsing q treasona-
BILE speech made by him. The removal
of this nameless officer is demanded.
The London Shipping Gazette init
mates that Stephens, the Fenian, lis a
British spy, who wasarrested By mistake,
and permitted to escape. % %.
According to late dispatches, matters
are becoming promising about Matamo-
ras. GenaR r. Clay Crawford has arrived
at Brownsville, clothed with authority
to recrnitF an American legion for the
liberal service, and the Imperialists are
sharply on the lookout for an attack.
Gems. Wallace and Logan are said to be-
concsrned in the movement - =
Onlthe night Of December 2, colored
man named Reed, residing in St Clair
township, Columbiana = county, Ohio,
killed.with an Ak q man named Nelson's
aad seriously wounded another named
Davidson, Reed was arrested and
placed i. jail, to answer the charge.
Aa old man named Simon Nelson, a
Prusian BY birth, who kept second
hand clothing store in Detroit, was muir
dered recently by two negroes, named
Joshua Williams and James Knox, who
entered ais store and deliberately pre-
santed q PISTOL and shot him through the |
head. Knox. is in jail, but Williams
escaped. ..ss $50 s,ig eeai baa /
A woman who had stopped to folly
and found too late that meA Abetray, fur
nished the cidzens of Dayton with q
sensation BY ar attempt mt suicide by
means Of q "cap Of cold pizen." she |
was antidoted and saved. - q saiiesss 81
A chess tournament, eighteen players
entered,f is now in progress at New
-, fF afat alF lai9 lH = $50 los 9 aetl
AorA.ag.a.s .isf q isda8 .Goli gi9 ,e
The large engine house ofithe Belle.
fontaine Railroad, at Gallon, Ohio, was |
destroyed by FIRE Thursday night, with
twelve. locomotives. ,sLoss heavy; esti-
mated at from $4O0, 600 to s5OO,OOO.
Darlington, who murdered Buffalo |
policeman last winter, had final settle. |
ment with the authorities on Friday.
General W. M. Hickey, chief clerk of
the Senate, who has been forty-fve years
in the amploy of that body, died on Fri.
day, in the 10th year of his age.
Mrs Elizabeth B. Rhoades, wealthy,
benevolent and patriotic lady Of Provi-
dsnce, Rhode Island, drowned herself in
tho sskuok rfesr,, IN = &c Of Temporary !
insanity.
There is a scheme on foot, and tits |
said BY Cairo paper to be I" fixed |
fact" to build abroad-gaugs railroad
from Vincennes, an extension of the
Ohio Il Mississippi railroad, to the con-
fuence of the Ohio and Mississippi riv.
ers, crossing at Cairo by means Of either
q bridge or tunnel, then extending
southwestward along the route of the
Cairo and Fulton railroad, through the
interidr Of Arkansas, across the head.
waters of the Red river, and continuing
onward through central or northern Tex
as to the Rio Grande, and thence by the
already surveyed route of the Southern
Pacific rosd, through the great Pass Of
the Rocky Mountains 70 the Pacific
coast IS
John H. surratt, Vie assassin, is re-
ported to have escapedput of the coun.
try by the way of Tex
A shooting aaray oecdfd in Rich
mond on. Friday, between Pollard Of the
Examiner, and Tyler and Clemens, of
the Enquirer. The affair occurred in
the chamber Of the House of Delegates.
Six shots we're fred, which did no other
damage than that Of 'cntting of tassel
from tEAsinofsnsisss statue Of Washing
ton, which stands in the hall. -
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