The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-12-31
LATEST NEWS ITEMS.

Gold closed In New York, yesterday at
1349s9I541S. 4-e,
A new York dispatch dated the goth says
that Prince & Bacharick's distiliery on soth
Street was burned last night. Loss sS0'OOO.
George Francis Train was enthusiastic
ally welcomed at Omaha, on the ZStn, oy
Fenians.
On the 18th inst. the New York Board
of CoanclImen adopted an ordinance sub
scribing one million i've hundred thou
sand dollars to the capital stock of the
New York and srookfyn Bridge Company.
A New York dispatch dated the 3Oth
says: An Irishman named Patrick Pu-
aun was assaulted and stabbed by a Ger
man named George Graening, last even
ing. 4 scufae ensued, when the Irishman
broke away. staggering into a neighbor-
Ing store and died in a few minutes.
Tue failure of Hines, Allen & Co., Of
Rlchland Springs, otsego County, New
York, is reported. Their liabilities are
placed at 100000. IL is thought that their
assets are large enough to pay the greater
part of their debts, II time is given them to
wind up their affairs without great sacrI-
hcs.
At New York, on the evening OF the
29th, meeting or the Commissioners OF
Fisheries, appointed by the different
States, was held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
The attendanceswasE very numerous. An
address was delivered by one Delegate
from each State, on the subject OF fish,
showing that the fish in our rivers are
being rapidly depleted by over seining
during the spawning season.
The New York Herald considers that
several failures recently reported may
have been the result of extravaganza and
speculation as much as the effect of busl-
ness mismanagement. The profits OF bust
ness with many are nearly consumed to
keep up this display, that little is left to
the hrn wherewIth to provide argin
Tor bad debts and like contingencies.
A Chicago dispStch, of date S9th, says
The sunleith Il Dabuque Railroad, across
the Mississippi Rive-, was tested yesterday
in the presence of iieveraI engineers and
railroad men. The detection beneath tue
weight of five locomotives with two hun
dfed and forty-five tons was about two
inches. The bridge was opened to traffic
on the 22di inst.
A Chicago dispatch, OF date Both, says:
John Eagerly, drunken Irish laborer,
living IN Cicero, q suburb of Chicago, yes
terday beat hls wife so severely that she
was dead before the neighbors arrived.
The Coroner's Jury returned verdict O
wilful murder against Fagarty, VINO was
Immediately arrested.
A Philadelphia dispatch dated the 3Oth.
says. the Street Railroad Passenger Depot
OF the Richmond Line, on Lehigh Avenue,
was burned this morning, with twenty
two cars. The depot was occupied by
Bridesburgh. The cars were heated by
stoves. One OF these stoves set fire to a car,
and the fire spread so rapidly that the
men in the odice had to break away iron
bars from the window in order to escape.
Loss heavy.
a Strandsburgh, penny dispatch, of the
30th inst, says: The. trial of William
Brooks and Charles Oren. for the murder
OF Theodore Broadhead, near Dell Water
Gap, a few months sincs, commenced on
Monday. The most impor ant witness is
Thomas Broadhead, who was with his
brothe er at the tima the murder was com
mitted. The trial will last four or five
days.