The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-02-11
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NEWS ITEMS.

Gold closed in New York on Saturday
at 1877.
At Stanforgis Kentucky, on the 9Th, a
mob hung VIM. Good, charged with horse
stealing = = t Il $3.50
Thetelegraph reports that a gang OF des-
peradoes at Lawrenceburgh, Kentucky,
are shooting and killing negroes. psblasg
Fred Douglass qectured in St. Louis on
the night of the sth, to large audience.
In the Missouri Legislature concurrent
resolution to amend the state Constitution
by striking out that portion that referred
to the qualification of lawyers, preachers,
&c., was tabled. 81 lH aaa froeAn eW
a company has been organized at Tope-
kasiKansasy with q capital stock OF 500, OOO
TO dam the Kansas River, and get water
power for manufacturing purposes.
The Michigan State Temperance Con-
veption held at Lansing theFth, adopted
resolution declaring it inexpedient to
form new party on the temperance ques-
ton, or to make it adistinctaorganization
The Kansas Legislature has passed a bin
appropriating sl5O.OO0 to the State Normal
School at Empiria.
The original contractors for the intro
duction of the fire alarm telegraph have
quafreled as to the proceeds of the inyen-
ton, and an injunction upon its use is to
be sued out by one of the parties ~
A special says Prominent Radical Sem
ators express the opinion that the veto of
the bill admitting Colorado will be sus-
tanned y - tlasd
A New Orleans dispatch says: A town on
the Balize, at the mouth of the Southwest
Pass, was destroyed by fire this morning.
Loss, 100000. A number of families are
rendered. lsouselesss 81 -saSsssa koasSs
Advices from Colorado report the wea.
then very cold on the Plains. In some
parts OF the Territory the snow Is from
four to seven feet deep, and but little can
be done in mining. "A man cut hunting
antelope was, frozen to death on the 29tn
ults,stlfrty miles above Denver. Several
persons haye been frozen. to death IA Ne
braska. e.-sr, 80, ...-,..5 .-.......
J. F. WoIcott, of Kentucky, who lett
Memphis for home on Wednesday last,
was recently found about eighty miles
from that city, with both legs broken and
his pockets rifled of large sam of money.
Two men were killed in Newton, Iowa,
theetheEday, by the caving in of deep
cutbn the railway. This is said to be the
second accident of the kind at that place
within month. hrssaa3 ha.d7
The Committee on Ways and Means viii
probably to-day report measure amend-
atory to the internal tax bill, based on the
theory Of getting rid of the tax on mann-
featuring at the earliest feasible moment,
but the wants of the Government thisyear
will not permit its being done at once;
hencethe principle is to be gradualin its
operation.
Hon. L. D.Campbell, Minister to Mexico,
left New Orleans on the 10th for short
visit to his family in Ohio, that city being
his temporary residence. He expects to
return in few days, and await lnstruc-
lions. ttlA1AAtl ~
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY-SEryArE-F Feb
s-Mr. Yates presented a petition of wild
ows of men killed in the New Orleans riot,
Ior pensions. Referred. .........Mr. Dixon
asked to eorrectan error in transmitting
ms proposed constitutional amendment to
the press. 80 .c7,1t 1s Att-li ~
hoosE.-The Nebraska bill passed over
1ne Veto-zo toA. The Speaker proclaim.
Gu 4. d AW...-.-..The House resumed the
a.lon OF the reconstruction bill
..,-.--.'.Mr. haymond's SUGGESTION was re-
1erTed 70 especial compaittaa. srrtfs oar, sasls
quite spirited discussion Rat 81 49,
tionsr formally, ann. IN ri.
Nthlack speF against the bIll7 81. ,'
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