Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-01-01
TELEGRANIS, &c.

= The thirty two Fenian prisoners remaining
In jail IN Canada, yet undispose d OF, will be
tried at the next assizes. commencing on the
10Th Of January next. The prisoners have
been notified that no delay will be consented
10 by the Crown unless some special cause be
shown on affidavit 1t is Justice Morrison's
tel m for presiding at the appro aching county
asslzes, but in order to expedite the proceed
iDgs tive judges will conduct the assizes sitting
In separate chambers. BY one the usual as
size business will be conducted, and before tle
other the Fenian prisoners will be tried.
The Grand Trunk train. from Toronto to
Sarnia. on Saturday morning ran Off the track
near Park HIl. A passenger car went down
an embaD kment about twenty feet, making two
revelations in 1 Is descent. The condu ctor and
several passengers were more or less injured.
ACCIDENTS supposed TO have been caused by
the spreading of the rails.
revenue collector named Brown was way
laid at Duvall's Bluff Arkansas, on the night
of the both instant, shot through the law, and
rcs'hed of a gold watch and SIS coo His con-
d'- on is critical. He had drawn the money in
Memphis, and IL Is supposed ne was followed
by the robbers. No arrest have been made
The Quebec Chronicle, in an editorial on the
distribution of the relic: fund, asserts that
ee-fourths of the population of the burned
district were made mp OF professional and oc-
casIonal heggars, and that liberal distribution
OF the fund among those classes would be
nothing more than a waste of money. va
The newsboy, Isaac Dewitte. alias Max, of
New York, who engaged with the two
boys Brown and Jacobs, previously arrested
in that city, in the forgery of a check for IS, 600
upon he Fourth National Bank, was arrested
in Phla 'elphia Sunday night, and taken to
New York by detective Golden, OF that city,
The body of James A. King. formerly of H.
linois- and lately planter near Greenville,
Mississippi. was found in a canebrake last
week He had been shot through with a shot
gun. There is no clue to the assasslns
While discharging the steamer Saxon at Bos-
ton. nom Philadelphia, two boxes containing
four dead bodies were found. They weie
taken to the dead house.
The Warren County Infirmary building at
Lebanon, Ohio, containing 100 inmates, was
destroyed by fire at noon yesterday. Ioss
S2O,O0O insured for $1,000 Nolives were lost
The ferry boats between Cincinnati, Coyipg-
ton, and Newport suspended operations YES
terday, owing to the heavy ice in the river
The Cincinnati suspens sion bridge although
not fully completed, is TO be opened for ye-
hicles to-day.
The ground at Wilmington, N G., is now
covered with the heaviest snow that has oc-
cured there in twenty years.
The Park House. Newport, X. l., was dam.
aged by fire Sunday to the extent of SIX thou
SAND dollars.
Prescott (AriZona) letter of December 10
says that the mines are prosperous, but the In
dians are troublesome.
The South Carolina railroad have deposited
t2O,JOU In London to meet the interest on their
foreign bonds, due january. |.
II is reported that the recent storm damaged
the Central Pacific railroad to a great extent.
Memphis is infested with thieves who are
daily becoming more bold.