The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-06-20
NEWS II'EM :. .


1855
Gold closed in New York yesterday at
1855.
Id Campbell. Minister to Mexico, has
rendered his resignation as such officer.
The wheat in Kentucky is reported
badly injured by rust-in many places ut
terly ruined.
sAP. Mason has been appointed Chief
Justice of Nebraska.
The London, G. W., Free Press is out in
an article in favor of freeing the Fenians.
The registration of voters is progressing
in the South, The reports show that the
white people are little slow in going for
ward, but the colored voters are on hand.
Macmillan, it is reported, was TO have
been shot on the Attn, with Miramon and
Mejia.
The dar age to the Union Pacific Rail.
road by the eeent Hoods hasnots yet been
repaired. At Fort Hays the water was
twenty feet on the 18th, inst. six soldiers
and citizen were drowned.
The grasshoppers are reported 10 be do
Z ing great deal on both sides of the Mis-
sour, River. For a distance of one bun
dred miles gardens and corn fields are be-
Ing devastated. 80
1t is reported that Macmillan has ask ed
a private interview with Juarez for the
purpose of disclosing important State Sc
crets.
General Marquee, commanding the City
of Mexico, d is said executed General
O'Harron, commander of the post, for
reasonable correspondence with the Lib
erals.
During n thunder storm at New y DIRK, on
the 10Th inst, a Roman Catholic Church
was struck by lightning, and injured to
such an extent that ii will have TO be
taken down.
Governor Flanders, of Louisiana. has de-
cided that all persons appointed 10 office
by him. must, in addition TO the oath pre-
scribed by the state Laws, take and sub
scribe that promulgated in the Constitu-
fional Amendment.
The Ohio State Convention met at Column |
bus on tie 18th. A temporary organ "a
ton was effected in the morning. Hon R. |
G. acnenck was chosen President n
Maurice Lanergan, the wife murderer, |
has been sentenced 10 be hung, i'll New |
York, on the 9th of August.
W. s. slsidmore, who murdered Bishop
Carr. by shooting him with an air gun, on |
the 18th of May, committed suicide in his
cell at Brooklyn, by cutting his throat
With a 1azor. He confessed his crime in
letter.
The Treasury of Allen County, Fort
Wayne) Indiana, is said to be short some
$4,000 The Treasurer processes Ignorance
of the matter, and an investigation by his
tbondsmen are in progress.
Colonel T. B. Manlove has retired from
the Vicksburg Times. General w. III.
McCardle now has charge of the editorial
department of the paper.
John Jenkins, an employee of the Lochiel
Iron Works, was murder ed and thrown
into the canal at Harrisburg, Pennsylva-
MIA, on Monday night, by an unknown
party.
Judge sRives, of Texas, Ninth judicial
District Of that State. in a charge recently
delivered to the Grand jury, statedthat he
should not receive the testimony of ne
groes, as the law of Congress on chat sub
ject was Unconstitutional. Judge Dough
erty is reported to have said, at General
Reynolds headquarters, that as regards
the testimony of negroes, he would not re-
eognize the law or the authority of Con
gress. =.
At Springfield, Illinois, on Wednesday
night, Miss Carter. whose home AT |,
Columbus, Ohio. but who had been attend
ing the Illinois state Nermal-echeoi.-.va
stabbed in the shoulder by Thomas Ed
wards, an itinerant !pen peddler, who was
Immediately arrested. Thelady stated that
she became acquainted with Edwards at
Bloomington; that she was on her wav
home to Ohio, and he had followed her.
but she gave no informal on as TO the
cause of the murderous assault.