The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-04-25
THE NEWS.

Gold closed in New York, yesterday, at
1897.
The small pox and typhoid fever are
quite prevalent in Jamaica.
The Louisville Police squabbIe remains
IL statU quo.
st. Thomas dates report the sailing OF an
American ship for Peru with arms. A
Spanish steam gunboat had started in
pursuit. Health on the Island was good.
The telegraph informs rs that the
reported burning of a large watch factory
near Hudson, n. J., was Occasioned by the
burning Of some dead grass.
The floor of hall in which a Fenian
meeting was being held in Chicago, on
Thursday night, gave way. Several of the
occupants were seriously wounded. One
has since died.
Thirty thousand dollars were lost by the
burning of furniture factory in Des
Moines, Iowa, on Thursday. A new hotel
in Brook1eld, Mass, was also burned up
the same night.
A special telegram from Indianapolis,
9th, says r. s. Sproule is doing the politi-
cal writing for the Sentinel now. 1 make
this assertion, which is true now, at the
risk of having to deny 1t tomorrow.
st. Georges Day was celebrated in Mon
treal on Thursday, in the usual manner.
a heavy snow storm prevailed ia Canada
on Thursday morning. In some places
snow drifted to the depth OF two feet.
The Tycoon of Japan has retired from
the cares of Government. The Mikado
offers indemnity for the murder Of French
sailors at Osaka.
Anna Campbell, charged with maltreat-
ing one of the orphans IN New York
asylum, has had to give bali in one thou
sand dollars. She implica es a DR.. Hyde
and a Miss Jane Davis, warrants Tor whose
arrest have been issued.
The New York Herald furnishes us with
a batch of South American news. Some
foreigners had been imprisoned at SissaI,
in the West midas, for completely with
some disturbances. The entire Island
of Hayti seems to be in ar unsettled
condition. Several revolutions against
Baez, the President, had broken out.
Washington dates report that the money
resulting from the sale OF the Elgee cotton /
which has been involved in a suit in I
which the Supreme Court decided it had /
no juris fiction, has been deposited in the +
United States Treasury. Parties claiming f
it have applied to the Court of Claims
\ dispatch from Dublin, Ireland, dated +
the oath, says; The Prince of Wales en- I
barked for England to-day. Before sailing I
he gave a dinner. On the Royal yacht
there were about forty guests present the .
utmost good feeling and enthusiasm pre-
vailed.
A New York dispatch dated the oath,
says: The trial of Edwin Kelly for the
murder of Thomas Sharpley, both wei
known negro Ministries, commenced to-
lay.
A Burlington, VT, dispatch dated the
.4th says: There was collision between
he mail train and freight train, this
afternoon, near Bethel, on the Vermont
Central Railroad, killing Mr.. Hoggard,
oagga ge-master, and 1Djuring Mr.. Webster,
the engineer.
A dispatch from Nashville, Tenn, dated
Path, says: GOV. Brownlow. at the request
OF the candidates for Congress, has con-
sent ed to postpone the election until No :
vemosr, and viii issue prOclamatiOl TO
that effect.
A telegram of date the 2lth. frora Chi
casO says no change will be made in the
place Of holding the National Republican
Convention. The Committee, from the
SD ortness of time, is forced to decline the
of the citizens to erect a wig
VAN on the lake shore. The Opera House
will be fitted up to hold twenty eight hun
bred, exclusive OF the Convention.