The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-07-25
NEWS ITEMs-

Gold closed in New York yesterday at
1888. -
President Johnson will not remove Gen.
eral Sheridan.
The yellow fever still prevails at Ha-
yana.
Walrussia has been added to the Depart
ment of Washington Territory, and Gen.
eral Rousseau Is assigned to the command.
The Presidents message vetoing the sup
Elementary Reconstruction sill was not
presented nor read to Mr.. stanton. All
the other members of the Cabinet approve
The message, it is said.
The large coffin mandatory of Crane :,
Breed & Co., at Cincinnati, was destroyed
by fire on the night OF the 28d. Loss from
$500 to sl00. 900.
The Levee Convention at New Orleans,
on the Sd, appointed a committee to wait
on General Sheridan to see what could be
done to repair the levee and then adj
journed.
Mexican news up TO the 18th, by way of
New Orleans, has been received. Escobedo
has been placed in command OF the army
and Juarez IS as a candidate
for the Presidency.
Advices per the Persia state that - Or
ange Day." July ~, passed Off quietly in
ireland. There wa a demonstration at
Belfast, at which 80 900 Orangemen march
ed in procession through the city. The
military and constabulary patrolled the
town, but there was no disturbance.
A prisoner named Franz EcAes, ander
sentence of death in the Rockland County
New Aorkl Jail, for murder. on Monday
last shot Sheriff Thomas De NoyeIles, who
WAS on his commissioned mn ND 4l,a.,
committed suicide by shooting himself
De Noyelles was still alive.
In the Constitutional State Convention,
in New York, a proposition 10 give suf-
ffage to all male cl1.zens OF eighteen years
OF age, was,voted down; also a PROPOSITION
TO compel voters 10 be able to read and
write after 1869, and another looking 10
female suffrage and restricted negro suf-
frage.
Mr. Gowing, a farmer residing at Ascut-
NEVILLE, Vermont, and his wife. were
murdered on Monday night by a French
man. a former employee of Mr.. Gowing,
who beat their brains out with an axe.
The murder was for money,
but how much he obtained is not known.
At a meeting of the Union Republican
General Committee, on the 23d inst, held
in New York City, General Grant was NOM
mated for the Pr esidency, subject to the
decision of the Republican National Con-
vention. araf bna
Mrs. Burley was horribly burned in Vim
cennes, on the oath inst, by the explosion
of a coal oil can. She was attempting TO
light a fire with coal oil, resulting in her
being most horribly burned. 1t is not sup
posed that she will survive.
The "silver palace "excursion party left
Pittsburg for Chicago at 3:45 A. NJ, on
the BIRD instant, and arrived at
Crestline at u:25n4A. NJ. The train
consisted of eight palace cars, one smoking
car, one baggage car. and one refreshment
car. The excursion is said TO be one of the
most superb affairs ever gotten up, and
consists of about two hundred and fifty
guests, the great majority of whom are
connected with the press.
The President has not yet named the
military officers who are to form a part of
the Commissioners on the location of the
Indians. Generals Sherman. Hancock
and Anger are ,suggestedsb by some, be-
cause these officers are on duty in the
West, and familiar with the subject
and facts upon which the commission
is to act; but it is probable that the Pre,j. |
dent will select three Brigadier Generals
VINO have had no part in the conduct in
of the military movements against the
Indians.
INDIANA ITEMS.