The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-08-10
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/ took, into consideration the factof a
daTi e lumbar CT 1dlse ased cattle beng
on the way to this city from the West.
An snspecuon was or1ered on the
droye-yards, and Governors Fenton,
Ward and Geary were requested by
I telegraph to have inspection Efade at
stations along the raiiro1d routes. Z
! The society for the prevention of
cruelty, to ANNA ), has made its Sec
I ond annual report. From thisah ap
pears that dog and cock fights have
been almost entirely Suppressed Ten
| drinking fountains have been erected
for the use Of horses, dogs, &c, a
great relief furnished to car horses
during the hot weather, and TWO hun
! dred and fifty persons prosecuted for
cruelty to their beasts.
A. d. Richardson's Life of Gen
eral Grant is out, and already ten
thousand subscriptions have been re-
! ceived. IT contains . large nun Der OF
1 never before published. Z 1rl .
! Crollie's . Life of Seymour will
be out in day or two.
The sentence Of Ratsky, who mur-
| dered Fellner, diamond peddler, in
was serving q life term In Sing Sing
prison, has been commuted by Cow
! ernor Featonvto ten years, commence
ing with the da teof his imprisonment.
This gives him only two years and a
half yet to serve.
The yachts of the New York Club
commenced assembling yesterday at
| Glen Cove for their annual excursions.
At an informal meeting of a few
master masons yesterday, it was de-
cided to contradict the statement that
| a committee from their body was to
meet committee from the Bricklay-
ers' Society with view to make mu-
| tual concessions. r.
A dispatch from San Francisco,
dated the 9Th, says the Central Paci-
fic Railroad is now built to the Hum
boldt River, two hundred and fifty
miles east of San Francisco The
earnings in July were $260,000 in
gold, the road being operated from
one hundred and fifty-four to one
hundred and ninety miles. qas
1t is stated that the Rev Mark
Hopkins, for many years President Of
Williams College, has recently ex,
pressed his intention of resigning
when his youngest son shall have
completed his course Of study, IN
1871. s.
The post office at Norwich, Conn,
was entefedT Thursday night, and the
money drawer '-ro bbed and a large
number of letters Tiaeda Of tEeir3
coIftent5EgI 81 $50 ,lfl.
Io General Butler mado ayspeeeh in
| Gloucester, Mass. Yesterday, IN which
he expressed himself still in favor of.
impeachment. He said no had be-
come friendly az lin with General
Grant, and would support him for
President. : Is5.',. -. stial
Mrs. Mary woodward, of Harvard,
Mass, has been held in one thou
sand dollars for trial on a charge Of
inhuma0ly treating her stepson six
years of age. L. was testified IN the
Police Court that the child had been
whipped ry the hour at a time, with
heavy stick; that one day ia. July.
the woman drew three buckets OF co q
water from well, ard seiziBg the
child removed his clothes, and
placing him In a tub, dashed water
upon his head, then took him by his
feet and held his head IN the water
as long as she dared; that recently
cat, brought a meadog mole ia the
| house, which the mother cooked and
compelled the hos 10 eat. Mrs.
Woodward, IN court, said il was not
mole but rat.
New YoRK, August 9.-The steam
ship City of Baltimore, from Liver
pool on the 29th, and Queenstown on
the Both, has arrived.
The MoniteuY says the FrenchTrans-
Atlantic Cable will be finished by the
18th of August, 1869
The Liberte says DIR. Pusey has be-
come a convert to Roman Catho-.
! licism.
Rumor Gays that three distinguish
ed jurists, Sir w. Pagew0od, JustIeee
| Selroyn and Sir Fltzrey Kelly, VIII
be raised to the British Peerage.
Osborn Ward, delegate from the
Association of WOrkingmen OF New
| York, has arrived in Paris on tour
of Europe for the study Of the sltua-
| ton of the laboring classes and the
/ development of the cooperative sys-
/ tenn.
The Italian Parliament has passed
a bill according pensions to the
widows and orphans of doctors who
died in attending cho lera patients.
A strike of the journeymen bakers
in Vienna was threatened on the
| 30th.
Violent demonstrations had been
made in Prague in the name Of the
Bohemian nationality. Placards
! threatening Beust and insulting the
| Emperor were posted IN several
| places. The garrison is about 10 be
/ reinforced.
| Nine Christian Churches of the
primitive Byzantine style OF archi-
| lecture tare reported as recently
discovered at Lallibala, the Holy
| City of Abyssinia, which has not been
visited by Europeans for over three
| centuries.
A Berlin letter says the rumors
of a conciliatien between the Prus-
sian and Austrian Clbinets, do not
meet with an encouraging reception,
i besides such negotiations would not be
undertaken In the absence of Bis
narck haaz
j. u e. Corderoy g. Co.. of London,
in the provision trade, have suspend
ed In consequence of the suspension
i of a firm in New York largely indebt-
cd to them.
The entire provinces Of Spain are
suffering severely, and threatened
with famine, the distress being great
er than at any timefor half century.
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