The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-11-16
LATEST NEWS ITEMS.

New York Friday night.
There we 331 deaths in New York las
week.
There was a white frost at Savannah
Saturday. morDing-
Two men were killed by a landslide neal
Gardner, Mass. on Friday.
Illinois give. Graft 5ls7S6 maJority.
Alabama is conceded to Grant by ESQ
majority.
Grants majority in West Virginia in
cresses. The latest estimate is 1900. -
Grants majority in Maine will be about
27,7OJ, a gain OF 5000 since September.
A daughter of bismarck is shortly to be
married TO count Luxburg, of Bavaria.
An elevator in New YORK Harbor was
nearly destroyed by fire, Friday night.
Twenty-Five hundred meteors were see n
Friday night in New York.
Gen. Grant. family, and General Dent
visited West Point on Saturday.
President Johnson has pardoned another
mail robber.
The Twenty-Ninth Infantry now at
Memphis has been ordered to Austin,
Texas.
William Anderson, sued In Brooklyn, for
honOrabiy acquitted.
1he-gunboat Tallahassee collided with
schooner OF Sandy Hook Friday night
causing the latter TO leak badly.
Il Is said that England has agreed to
Withdraw her title to joint occupancy Of
the Island of San Juan.
1t Is reported that the North Star Gold
Mines OF Grass Valley have been sold to
Engl ish capitalists for si,OOO,O00-
There wore $685. 500 Ia fractional currency
printed last week, and s458,Il7 shipped, in
Guiding $4,000 to Chicago.
The steamer Henry Chauncey arriv ed
from Aspin wall with the California mail,
Saturday morning.
Mr.. Burlingame and the Chinese Embas-
sadors VIII be officially received by Queen
Victoria, on the 2Oth instant.
A bill in favor of the American Railroad
and Telegraph Company has passed Sec
ond reading in the Mexican Congress.
The meteors were still flying at six
O'Clock Saturday morning, over New
York.
A Porto Rice correspondent says there
are 800 to 900 prisoners held In Areclbo.
Those taken in arms will probably be shot.
The dnibustering fever has broken out
hlHbusters has been formed co take cuba.
II is said that the remains of three men
have been discovered beneat the fioor of
barn attache to al old building, near
Bunker Hill, Illinois.
The various political clubs of Madrid
have unanimously agreed TO accept mo-
narchieal form of government, not basel
on divine right, but sovereignty of the
.nanY1ta. 4a,r,,rtsaad by mi -, fFraoa
The Mexican Government deems 1t in
expedient to bring before Congress the
various treaties drawn up between
Secretary VIM IL. Seward and Romero.
The Government proclaims the Island of
st. Domingo tranquil, while other advices
represent the insurrection against the
BALI Government in active progress.
Advices from Eogota report one force
of rebel troops routed by the National
troops, and another forced to surrender.
The revolution Is not yet suppressed.
The steamer Golden Age sailed from San
Francisco on Saturday,, with $4,000 in
treasure, OF which s22O,O0O is for New York
and Sl06,OJO for liverpool.
In the libel suit of Ambrose VS.. the
Portsmouth (N. H.l Daily Chronicle, the
Jury rendered a verdict in favor of the
Chr aicLe.
A biz will be presented this week in the
New Jersey Legislature for the consolida-
ton of Jersey City, Hoboken and Hudson
City as one city.
Two destructive fires occurred in Boston
Saturday morning. Several nembe rs of
the hose company were severely injured
by flniu. walls, and one man was burned
to DEATH
There were Sis, 400 National Currency $
sued lasb week. Amouat In eircuIatIon,
s2J9, ,9IS,925, aod S435,TvO IN National Cur
rency redeemed.
The u ). Circuit Court at Boston has
decided tue Rowland will case adversely
to the complainant, Mrs. Ed H. Greene,
and an appeal has been taken to the Su
preme Court.
The Fall meeting of the Memphis races
which closed on Saturday, has been yer.
successful. The attendance was very large
and each of the races were closely con
tested.
The secoud game OF base ball betweei
the picked mines of New York and Brook
Ivn. played on Friday, was won by tn
Brooklyn Nine, by Is to Is. John Selie
had one of his legs fractured by a ball.
John t. schuus aker, Congressman elec
from the Second District of New York
$1,000. on Saturday by three men. Two
them were arrested. The other, with th
pin, made his escape.
The Herald says a private letter from
prominent insurgent in Cuba states tina
the revolutionary Junta in Havana ha
sworn to destroy the property OF every IL
dlviduaI who snail, over his own signs
tire, give wealth or protection Ia favor {
the t4overnmeut cause. In no other cas-
shall property be attached.
General Gibbons, it is said, has s. 500 me
enrolled for the Cuban expedition, and r
cruiting in New York has ceased. Il
saws wealthy Hobonese, who
famous as military leader under Dc
Carlos and Maxtmilian, is to have COL
mand Of the expedition, and furnishes q
the funds necessary.
The Ineteoric display on Friday night al
Saturday morning was very brilliant
Hartford, Poughkeepsie, Fortress Monrc
Richmond, Va; Louisville, and New
bany, New York, and Charleston, S. c.
Friday next has been fixed for hea'
arguments in the Court of Common PIE
in Philade!phia, on motion by the Dem
cratic lawyers to quash the petition in t
contested election cases, on the ground
defective affidaYtts.
All the foreign Consuls at Panama ha
united in a Temonstranee against the &C
fribution levied on foreigners, by the
voIutionists, to aid them against the GC
ernment, and have advised the filing
protests in the Consular offices when I
contributions are enforced.
At youngstown, Ohio, Friday morni
at 7 O'Clock, Ex-Governor Todd, OF Oh
44arIxy d4ad He was one of the CIR;