The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-11-28
LATEST NEWS ITEMS.

Gold closed in New York yesterday at
l35. n M
y S. cox has sailed for Europe.
Montreal is having $4,000 breach OF
promise suit. between Grage and Fening.
Thanksgiving Day was very generally
observed in Baltimore. 80
The steamer Denmark has arrived from
Liverpool. keE @
James Grant, who shot Pollard, has been
admitted to bail in $4,000 CMN
Ell. Hoffman, a distinguished merchant
OF IouisvilIe, died yesterday.
Plttsburg was visited by are the 1eh,
which destroyed $4,000 worth of property.
The proposition to strike Erie from the
stock list has not been agreed 20. The
muddie is growing thicker, and the end Is
not yet. HN
George Shea declines the independent
Democratic nomination for Corporation
Counsel of New York.
]. B. Harrison, for many years President
of the Atlantic Mall Company, died yes
terday. as fras
An American, named Alfred A. Green,
is said to bein prison. in Durango, Mexico,
for refusing TO pay forged acceptance.
The authorities Of Boston are preparing
TO extend the hospitauties of that CT ty to
Gen. Grant. on his proposed visit to the
Hub"
The Legislature OF Alabama are discuss
ing a bill fe suppress Ku Klux. The bill
makes it lawfnI to shoot any one masked
after dark.
James ). Holmes, of pittsburg, commit
ted suicide yesterday, and George Hall was
shot, perhaps fatally.
Payne, the Pedestrian, walked 100 miles
at Buffalo in twenty-Ghree hours twenty
nine minutes and fifty seven seconds.
The husband of Mrs. Z. B. Zero, of Della
ware County, New York, who was muir
dered in aer shop, is charged with the
crime.
An afTray occurred near Lincoln Bar
racks, Washington city. Thursday, In
which seventy-five to one hundred negross
were engaged. One negro was killed and
two officers wounded.
The Directors of the Milwaukee & st.
Paul Railroad have determined to declare
cash dividend OF seven per cent and a
stock dividend of ten per cent.
The Erie war has relapsed into quiet
ness, Jay Gould and Fiske still being In
possession, though It Is not clearly known
who is running the road. Deputy Sheri1s
knows THAT for.
Frederick Bodsn has been arrested In
New ork for setting fire 10 a building in
order 10 defraud the insurance company.
Five unfinished buildings were blown
down in Brooklyn on Thursday. Loss
$1,000.
the safe of the Franklin Institute, PAIL
adeIphia, was blown open on Thursday
morning By burglars.
The prisoners in the provisional peni-
Tertiary al Kingston attempted to escape !,
on Thursday morning. but failed.
VIM. Price. an old member of the BaItI-i
more Bar, aud United states District At
torney during Llncoln's administration,
died on Thursda
Lieutenant Governor Gleason denies the
jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Flor
ida, and claims that the Legislature alone.
has Jurisdiction. rsH -a
The Republican State Convention o.
Mississippi, adjourned Wednesday night,
after preparing an address to Congress-
asking II TO declare the defeated Constltu-.
tion ratified and the state officers elected.
The american and Merchants' Union
Express Companies have consolid atedv
with the following Board of Directors:
AAEIAN " blASf I4.iiltI6 AhtlsSY W. It. ttIkOw
w. c. Beard ley, Edward Judson, w. II
s ward, Jr., James @. Fargo, John n.
Knapps Johnston Liytngston, Clinton X
Bakus, J mes II. Thompson, Theadore NJ.
PoIneyoy and Benz. Cheney. At elee>-
tion of officers held to-day, the follosNdng
Were chosen: President, W. G. Fargo:
Vice President, Theo. NJ Pomeroy; Treas
urer Elmer P. Ross; Secretary, John N.
Knapp; General superintendent aud As--
sfstant Ti easurer, James c. Fargo. The new
arrangement goes into effect Immediately.
The Merchants Unions proportion of the
capital stock is 50 Coz, 900, and Che total con-
solidateI stock IS SlS.OOO,OIO The tile of
the new company is 'sI'he American Mer-
chants Union Express Company" The
Adams Express Company was not repre-
scented in the negotiations, that Company
being oppo> Ell to the basis of amalgama--
tiou. A renewal of the Express war Is
probable.