Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-09-16
EVENING STAR.
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In the case of Beverly Clark, charged with
being engaged with ten others In a conspiracv
10 defraud the Government IN the Post on %
Department Commissioned Osborn decided in
New York yesterday that the overt act shoug
committed by another one OF the conspirators
in Detroit, bound all Of them to the crtrn. nnsk
ing all Of them liable 70 trial He accordingly
ordered Clark to be committed for trial in Ihe
Eastern District Of Michigan, in default OF
$500 bail. VI
The suit Of II. Dawson for $4,000 damages
Tor hoellous article printed in a newspaper
by John Jay was before the court in New YORK
Yesterday on a motion TO compel the ,ury to
produce eerIain letters of the late Chief JustiSe
Jay.
A Fort Dodge letter says General Sally. with
the TN cavalry, crossed the Arkansas river on
the IN inst They took no baggage, and will
push on night and day until they arrive at the
village of the hostile Indians.
Three floors of a new -four mill in Hartford
Connecticut owned by Deming, Moore AZ Rob-
eTts, fell through to the basement with 1850
bushels Of coin, machinery, &C. injuring TWO
persons
Tor in the Louisiana Legislature occasioued by
The election Of John 5. Harris to the United
States Senate.
The parade of the knights Templar IN st.
Louis yesterday was a brilliant affair. The
procession represented some twenty States
A bill which passed the Georgia Legislature
excluding negroes from sitting on juries was
Ieconsldered yesterday. The House, after a
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claiming only one-eighth negro blood. ineligI-
Die by unanimous vote. Sixty-nine Republi-
cans refused to vote.
A little girl named Mary Breen, whose
parents live in Patterson, N. J., was discovered
on Friday evening hanging by piece of clothes
line IN the yard She was insensible when
found, and died soon after. 1t is thought she
had been playing in q pile of wool near by
and fell into the ready made moose.
Owing 10 the recent heavy rains the Ohio
Tlver mas risen considerably and overhowei Its
banks. On Friday one hundred feet of the
trestle-work, built out from the Kentucky side
10 serve as platform in the construction of
the great bridge at Louisville, was wash. d
away.
singular disease has been discovered among
the cattle In Warren county, Iowa. When at
lacked the cattle swell under the throat, have
the symptoms Of being poisoned by a rattle-
snake. are perfectly wild, have convulsions,
and die in a few hours.
The Michigan Southern and Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific Railroad Com panies have
advanced Sl2,OUO per mile for the cons truction
OF an ar-hne railroad from Des Moines, Iowa,
and Leavenworth, Kansas.
The Broadway Theater outrage case .om.
menced In New York yesterday. Wilson, who
was shot In the head and leg, was examined
No new facts We're ELECTED. The case was ad :
JCnrned 10 Saturd ay.
A general convention of the Universalists of
the L Unlted States met IN Providence, X. L., yes
Ierday Delegates We're present from all parts
of the country.
MCGEE, has been sentenced TO be hung on the
10th Of December next Intense excitement
prevails in Ottawa
A company has been organized in Kansas for
the purpose OF building a railroad from st
Louis 10 New Orleans, on the west side of the
Mississippi river.
The New York revenue case against Com
missioner Rollins and others was up yesterday,
but continued over till to-day.
In PhiladelphIa- yesterday. the Athletics
played game Of base ball win the Eckfords,
of New j ork, defeating theul-26 TO ~.
The corn crops in Kentucky this year will be
unusually large, reports from all over the State
indicating an increase over former years.
The police troubles in New Orleans are not
yet settled. Some have received no pay for
eight months. All are several months in ar
rears.
Gen. Rousseau has arrived at New Orleans
aud assumed command.