The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-11-19
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1854
Ben. Bangs committed suicide in Brook
lyn on Tuesday.
A $4,000 nre occurred in Lawrence, Mas
sachusetts, Tuesday night.
An inch of snow fel at st. Louis Wed
nesday afternoon.
The Masonic Grand Lodge OF PennsyI
vania met In Prttsburg on Wednesday.
The McCulloch- Rollins muddIe is not ye
entirely settled.
The receipts of Internal Revenue OF
Wednesday were only sIG5 ,4Ss. $40
A new iron Ice boat, costing $3.50, 600, wa,
launched at PhiladeIphia on Wednesday
A nre In st. Louis, Wednesday, destroy
ell $4,000 worth of property on Locus
Street, between Second and Third Streets
The Lutheran Convention, In session at
Pittsburg, have appointed a com mmittee 70
reply 10 the POpe's address to Protestants.
The aoravian SYNOD met at Bethlehem.
Penn, on Wednesday. The Synodical ser-
mon was preached By Rev. A. A. Reinck.
OF New York city.
Clark, Chief of the Printing Division OF
the Treasury Department, having resign
ed, George B. McCooHa will probably, be
appointed TO the position.
During the past week, two hundred and
ten applications for patents were received
at the p itent ONCE, and thiTty-nve caveats
and two hunored and twenty-four patents
were issued.
The steamers vile de Paris. Minnesota
and AIeppo arrived from Europe Wednes-
day.
A storm of slet and rain was prevailing
a a..
snow storm at Concord, N. III.
Sam. J. scovilIe, agent OF The st. Ste
phens Bank, st. Johns. has suspended 4
The Bank has been secured, and other
creditors will get ffty cents ON the dollar.
Professor Goldwln Smith has been en-
gagged to lecture for one year, on English
History, before the Cornell University.
New York and commenced the course on
Tuesday night.
A Woman's Rights Convention is being
held in Boston, Rev. Jas. freeman Clark
presiding, with sixteen Vice Presld snts,
Inc uding six women. The primary object
of the Convention Is &c advocate female
suffrage.
J.T. Beach, a stock broker Of New York,
was arrested on Tuesday, on charge OF
having in his possession bonds and other
securities alleged to have been stolen last
April.
The extensive paper mills of Smith q
T1mpkins, at Chatham Four corners, WIS
destroyed by fire Tuesday night. Lose
$50 0OO; insurance $1,000. qr-a
A locomotive boiler burst, at Port jar
Wis, on Wednesday, killing instantly the
engineer, who was blown over the tops Of
the trees aud to a distance of one huKdred
att,. IL.
landed in q iSttcnen two hundred feet dis
tant, after passing through bedroom.
Official returns from all the counties but
two show that the total vote of New YORK
foots up s4s.0OO, of which 4l9,556 are for
Grant, and 42s,772 for eymour. seymour's
majority, 9,l66 HofTmans majority is
Y 80. The official vote or New York City
is returned as follows: Seymour, los 3ls;
Grant, 1892.
The printers in the Leavenworth Even-
ing BltHe in having struck because they
weie not permitted to run the conicern, the
paper was got out by the editor and one
apprentice, aud the editor declares his
purpose to fight it out on that line IL IL
takes him all Winter and next s;ummer
The ship Isaac Webb. whIch wen ashore
near New York Tue sday night, was got OF
and taken TO tue dock. Seven deaths oc-
Cured during her voyage, ineiudinE
Captain Stowsli. The passengers, 3jl ia
number, worked on the pumps fer thres
days, and are completely exhausted.
At the end OF the nfty-seoond innlng IA
the first of The billiard matches between
Randolph and Corme at Chicago, yester-
day, the game stood: Randolph 800, Corme
l91.
A dispatch from Councils BlnfFs says the
Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Raj way
Company have commenced to lay track
eastward from that city, and work Will be
continued uutir the parties laying the
track meet at pOInt forty miles east of
the Bluhs.
The Board of Trustees of Antietam Gem
e;ery convened in ShiIAdeIphits on We'd
nesday. TX members were present. The
whole subject of burial of Confederase
dead vas suspended until the annual
meeting in December.
General Michlcr, Superintende nt OF Pub
lie bulldogs, recommends IN 'ais report
that a large appropriation be made for the
annual epairs OF the Executive MansiOn,
and tor the re-furnishing of il at the COM
IneDcement OF the next Presidential term.
A new elevator having capacity for
1000 narreIs hour and $4,000 b0shels wheat
w Is tnaogurated on the eastern bank OF
the Mississippi, opposite eSt.s Louis, on
Wednesday. Three hundred or four hun
deed 81. Louis merchants were present
a Il grand jolnhcation was had.
The tobacconists and Wholesale grocers
heid a meeting In Chicago ON Wed uesday,
ard pronounced the law of July. 1863, un-
der which they are taxed. as unjust OPP
pressrve, and wholly unprecedented. An
ofDr INIT nj tad IN
tabe sueh action as it may deem advis-
able, and TO correspond with the trade
throughout the country and request thsii
co. operation. Congressman 1udsl address
ed the meeting, and thought that Congress
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