The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-11-20
LATEST NEWS ITEMS.

Gold closed in New York yesterday at
ls67s.
The Union Democrats of New York have
nominated John Kelly for Mayor
The river had fallen seven inches at
Cincinnati up TO noon yesterday.
A general Congress of Fenians is called
TO meet in Philadelphia November 2ith.
Erie Railway stock is rapidly depreciat.
ing.
The steamer Hirmonia arrived from
Europe yesterday.
The Democrats of Boston re-nominated
Mayor SchorIIef yesterday.
Auson kellogg, a retired merchant of
Baltimore, died yesterday.
The Liberals havs a majority of lIs In
the Mes House of Commons.
The erupti IN of vesuvius is increasing
in violence.
James Gore shot himself through the
head on Thursday.
Experimental target firing commenced
at Fortress Monroe on Thursday.
The Democratic majority In Georgia is
46,349.
The Constitutional Convention In I'LL
Grants majority is 5l,i5o
The Primsry Convention of Dioceses
have fixed the salary of Bishops at six
thousand dollars.
II the National Christian Convention,
on Thursday, resolutions were offered cor
graduating General Grant on his election.
There was large attendance 81 the
Woman's Rights Convention, in Boston,
yesterday.
The Mayor and Committee OF the City
Council OF Cleveland are on visit TO st.
Louis.
FouJte new locomotives arrived in
st. Louis on Thursday for the Iron
Mountain Railroad.
ct. stephens Bank, in st. Johns, New
brunswick, suspended on Thursday morn
ing Liabilities half a million.
1t is said that deputation OF Cuban in
surgents have arrived at the city OF New
York.
Conklin won victory over Hogan in
twenty-six rounds, in prize fight at Nor
risby, on Thursday.
train on the Housatonic Railroad was
thrown from the track on Thursday, and
every passenger injured, one seriously.
A fire in Brooklyn, on Thursday morn
ing, destroyed sl00.OOJ worth OF property.
O3e fireman was killed and Qua seriously
injured.
Belmont, for the benefit of foreign stock
and bondholders, proposes To throw the
Erie Rail way case into the u. s. Courts,
and probably into bankruptcy.
It is reported that the Leader Office
two dry goods stores and a saloon, in
Springfield, Missouri, were burned on
Tuesday morning.
One hundred barrels of whisky, from
Kansas city, were seized in st. Louis on
Wednesday.
The plan OF holding a worlf's Conven-
ton in New Nork In August next was cor
daily approved at a meeting of prominent
members of the Evangelical Alliance az
sembled in that city on Thursday.
John Hall shot and fatally wounded
James Saunders, in New York, on Wed
nesday night. They quarreled about
woman-a trifie.
Latest aIvices from Cuba state that the
insurgents rebels mold all the country
from Puerto Principe to Santiag1 de Cuba
except Nuvetas, Jibara and Baroca, VIII le
all comm unieatiOns with these points are
cut OF. The insu rrectIon seems to bs
steadily progressing.
James Ashbury, owner OF the yacht
Cambria, which defeated the Sappho IN
England last year. has challenged all
America n n race for the Queens cup won
by the yacht America in lS5l.
Harvey Mason, formerly agent of the
American Vintage Company of New York,
Is supposed TO be travelling through the
country swindiing people. Beware of him
a FIRE broke out on Thursday morning
in the female wing of the Lunatic Asy-
Ium at Columbus, Ohio. and the entire
building except the middle wing was de-
stroyed. six female patients were smoth-
cred, but their bodies We're recovered.
Three roughs We're hanged by vigiIence
committee, near Scar River City, on the
I2th inst, and other desperadoes were in
formel that they must leave within ten
hours.
large number OF storekeepers, gaueers
and supervisors were appointed on Thus
day. The salaries have been fixed at SOC
to 5000 per year.
Eight incendiary fires, supposed to be
the work of boys, occurred in two hours on
Thursday afternoon in New York. Three
boys were arrested.
Jas. Moore andi Michael Kennedy were
heId to ball on Thursday, in New York
fraudulent naturalization papers.
In the trottIng match between George
Wilkes and American Girl over the Union
Course, Long Island, on Thursday, for
5000. Wilkes won in 2:2915, 2:2715, 2:29.
Mr. and Mrs. Glasgow celebrated theil
golden wedding in st. Louis on Thursday.
Four generations were present, end fivs
hundred people paid them eongratula-
tions. rhey were married in st. Louis.
senator Wilson, in the Woman's Rights
Convention, expressed himself warmly In
favor OF female suffrage, but did not desire
the question agitated till the Southern
question was fully settled.
Mrs Pattie B. johnson has commenced
suit against the Indianapolis & st. Louf
Railroad Company for $4,000 damages 70
alleged carIessness on the part of the em
plOy ees of the Company, which resulte'
in the death of her husband, Thomas
Johnson, on the Sth of last August, a