Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-19
IoNDAY.....-.........FEBRUARY 10
News Items.

1873
The trial of A. G. Dexter, late Treasu.
ry agent, has been resumed before a
military commission in Mobile.
The Virginia Legislature has pass ed
a bill fixing the salary of the Governor
of that State at $5, 600 per annum.
A Mrs. Ferguson dropped dead in a
drug store in Cincinnati, on Wednesday
night. She had the heart disease.
The Kentucky Legislature has passed
billto tax negroes 81 each for the
support Of colored paupers in the State,
MI. r.John Valentine, of Bowling Green,
Kentucky, was arrested for treason on
Thursday night and lodged in jail ~
GeneralLee is in Washington, having
been summoned, it is stated, 10 appear
as witness before the Reconstruction
Committee. m eep M
The Internal Revenue receipts for the
year ending June 80, 1865, were SILL
129,529 II. The expense of collecting
the same vas s4,769, ,666 81.
a young man named E. G. Smith,
was arrested at Louisville, on Thursday,
for robbing the mail He bad formerly
been clerk in the pestofice there.
An employee of the Louisville rail-
road, named George Waters, was acci-
dentally killed Friday, in Edge6eld, by
falling from train while in motion.
John Ross, former chief of the Cherc-
kee Nation, is in Washington, for the
purpose, it is believed, of securing hi
recognition by the Government as Chief
of the Cherokees.
The safe Of the Treasurer of Berks
county, Pennsylvania, vas blown open
with powder on Thursday night, bat the
burglars becoming alarmed, fed, leaving
their tools behind
A convention of Commercial Travel
ers was held at Cleveland, Ohio, Friday.
A national Association was organized,
and Mr. M Adams, of New York,
elected President.
Ceueal Sweeney and President Rob
erts addressed an immense audience a.
Nashville, on Saturday night. They left
for Pittsburg to attend the Fenian Con
vention.
The House of Repre- rtsentatives Friday
took up the contested Pennsylvania
election case between Messrs Cofrott
and Kooniz, but after. some debate, il
was postponed until to day.
During snow storm on the 14th inst
MT LA Crosse, Wisconsin, stage coach
full of passengers, came in collision with
a gate, the balance pole of which rar
through the coach, seriously iDjuring al,
persons.
The silk taanufactory of Messrs Hine
man & Silverman, New York, was rob
bed of $4,000 worth of goods On Wed
nesday night, by burglars, who, before
commencing operations, beat the watch
man, and left him lying insensible on
the sidewalk. +sa - q ~
A Washington dispatch states that in
huential politicians are endeavoring Il
effect compromise with the Presiden
on the Freedmen's Bureau bill, the basi
of which is, if he signs the bill, the Ten
uessee delegation win be at once ad
mitted to Congress. d q
In response to an application, Secre
tary McCulloch has decided that no ger
eral permit can be granted to importer
of hides, and that before cargo ca
be removed from vessel, indubitabl
evidence must be produ-ed that the hide
have not been taken from animals tha
have died from the effects of the cattl
scourge. ai -
Alta meeting of officers of New Yor
banks, Friday, committee was al
pointed to 90 to Washington to remor
strate with Mr.. Spinner relative to h
proposed method of computing the
internal revenue tax 90 gross deposit
instead of net deposits, So heretofore.
The name of the man who com mite
suicide while crossing the river fro
Louisville 10 Jeffersonville, last Tuesda
has been ascertained; it is Geo Pistt
who was a shoemaker residing in Jeffe
sonville. He had made two previo'
attempts at suicide.
In the Circuit Court of EfiDghal
county, Ills, last week, FIVE men, name
Eugene Russell, Robert Russell. (brol
ers y VIM. Stalcup, jacob Bongher al
Clark Howell, were sentenced to be bur
on the 16lb of March, for he murder
David NJ. Shepherd, en- November
1864
The House of Representatives,
Wednesday, by strict party vote, I
iected the claims of Baldwin, Democrl
10 seat for the Fifth Michigan Distri,
and declared that Trowhridge, the stti
member, was entitled to the seat. T
,House voted Baldwin salary and mi
age to date, amounting to $500.
R@ We ask pardon Of our readers
occupying so much Of our paper Il
morning with matter appertaining to
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