The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-01-26
. NEWS ITEMS.

1895
Major General George H. Thomas is now
in washington.
There has been an average attendance oil
100000 pupils at the public schools in New
York City the past year.
At st. Paul, Minnesota, four old people
whose united age was about three hundred
years, danced aquadrille.
A mother and child were lost in snow
storm, the other day, at Milwaukee. They
were found before life had departed, and
are now doing well.
The Mayor of Georgetown has issued a
proclamation inviting the registry of col
ored men as voters, for the municipal
election next month, to be held under the
new District suffrage law.
The number of Crosby lottery tickets
held in Philadelphia was q 500; in Boston
and vicinity, ,25. 900. Sixteen Philadelphi-
ans drew prizes. f
Lieutenant James Drysdale, V. R. c. and
Superintent of the Freedmen's Bureau at
Paducah, has been honorably mustered
out of service and ordered to proceed to
Washington, d. c., for final discharge and
payment.
An extraordinary elopement took place
from the nefghborhood of Danville, Vir-
ginia, recently. A gay and festive youth
of the tender ageaof sixty summers, ran off
with dulcinea of twenty.
The gold and silver products of the Pa
cific States and Territories for the year
1856, is estimated at 500, 100000. g#{
The bill for preventing negroes or mu-
lattoes from sitting on juries I'M Colorado,
vetoed by Gov. Cummings, was passed
over hisveto, by the Legislature.
1t is said that Alfred Lee, colored citi-
zen of Georgetown, win be a candidate for
Mayor Of that city at the approaching
municipal election.
David Shean and NJ. Y. Johnson, of Ga
lena, have commenced suit against Rus
sell Jones, the United States Marshal for
the Northern District of Illinois, for the
recovery of damages in being arrested by
him in 1862 without other warrant of law
than the order of President Lincoln.
A large number of policemen, who were
concerned in the July riots in New Or
leans, have been arrested under the Civil
Rights Law, upon affidavits made by
freedmen.
The trial of thirty ladies at Greenfield,
Ohio for mobbing liquor dealers, was de-,
cided. The jury returned verdict of six
hundred and twenty-five dollars damages
for the plaintiffs. E./l w.
One John r. Hamilton, formerly con-
fidential clerk for r. & w. Simpson,
brokers, 1876 Bowery, was arrested in New
York, on the oath, on charge of embezzling
at different times since June, money to the
amount of twelve thousand to fifteen
thouand dollars from his employers.
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY = SENATE =
Jan. 25.-Wilson presented petition from
the Adjutant General of Arkansas, saying
that State furnished 10000 troops to the
United States army, and asking that a
record of their services be printed.
Williams, from the Finance Committee,
reported back the House joint resolution
giving increase of compensation to certain
civil employees of the Government,
amended by giving an increase of twenty
per cent. to all civil employees at Wash
ing, whose Salaries are less than $500
......... Wilson gave notice that he wouldin-'
troduce a. bill to; regulate, increase and
equalize the pay of army oficers........
Trumbull called up the bill empowering
Judges of United States Courts to issue
writs of hdbeds corpus, but on motion of
Johnson, it was postponed till tomorrow
.-.... Patterson introduced a bill to amend
the act for the collection of taxes in insur-
rectionary States, which authorizes trans
fers to the Internal Revenue Department
of all powers and duties connected with
the redemption and leasing of lands.
HoUsE.-Patterson of the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, reported bill to aid by
bonds the construction of Euro
pean and North American Railway .......
Longyear introduced bill to extend the
time for the reversion to the United States
of lands granted by Congress to Michigan
10 aid in the construction of railroad
from Amboy to Traverse Bay. Referred.
.........Private bills were considered, and
the Senate joint resolution authorizing
the acceptance of the steam screw sloop-
of-war Idaho from the contractor at
$4,000, the price already paid, was adopt
ed.........A resolution mildly censuring Mr..
Cooper, of Tennessee, for the remarks of
yesterday, was introduced by Mr.. Brown
well, and, after discussion, withdrawn.........
Taylor asked leave to offer a resolution in
stitut1ng Commission for the adjustment
OF the claims of loyal Tennesseeans
against the United States. .....Hogan,
from the Ways and Means Committee. re-
ported a joint resolution relieving from
tax alcohol burning fiuid......... Bills passed
giving a pension of 5000 each to John
Gray, of Ohio, q03 years oId,) and Daniel
F. Brakeman, of Sandusky, New York, (IO7
years old,) Revolutionary soldiers.
Niblack asked Stevens whether he pro
posed 10 have a vote on the Reconstruc-
ton Bill taken tomorrow. Stevens re-
piled that he intended TO have it disposed
of tomorrow in some manner.........Don-
nelly introduced bill to amend the sec
ton of July 25th, 1866 granting pensions to
widows and orphans, SO as to include the
widows of officers, as we'll as of soldiers
and sailors, .1i.r r-aogl4F ..se-.f- .,....r o..