Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-08-21
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II - reported that two men, brother. in law
had q difficulty near ValonIa, jackson county,
Ind, on Saturday, resulting IN the death Of
one Of them The survivor was at once ppr-
sued by a mob, seized and hanged upon the
spot The names OF the men are not given,
The Adams Express robbers were up for ex-
animation in Canada yesterday. Putnam W.
Brown, express messenger on the Hudson
road, identified Charles f.. Tbompson and
norton as two Of the persons who had gagged
him and robbed the safe.
VIM. p. Holde1, arrested on the 9th instant
IN New York, on a fictitious charge OF stealing
carpet-oag from train on the Erie road, is
me roober OF the American Express Once AT
Cedar Springs, Michigan, on the 23d Of March,
OF gold watch and Si,5H.
Speaker Colfax and party have Just arrived
AT Central, City Colorado, from Hot Springs,
middle PARK, going over Boy Hound Pass,
1890 feet, and returning over Boulder Pass,
'5,Ooo sect aooye the sea, in a driving snow
storm.
The cattle disease has appeared in Armenia.
New ork. Seven or eight have died. Two
men who skinned them were innoculated with
une virus Eight or ten cattle have died at
sing Sing from the disease.
Eleven selected from the most celebrated
cricket players in England will sail from
Liverpool on the ID proximo for New York.
Ihey are en- gagged to play matches in Canada,
new \ ork, Boston, and Philadelphia.
Information has been received thai Monsieur
Sr"zette, French Consul at San Francisco, ha
Joon appointed Consul General OF France for
Toe Pacihc coast which title he will assume on
ms return from Europe.
Three parties In North Carolina, convicted
OF murder, sentenced TO death, and whose
sentence was commuted 10 i'm mprisonment for a
term OF years by General Candy, have been
released from confinement by order of the
President.
Slight frosts on the Connecticut low lands
were reported in several parts of that State last
week ON the 10th of August, in 1sl6, the frost
was so severe that most of the corn in New
England was killed.
Proprietors of bonded warehouses for to-
baeeo, in New York and Philadelphia. princi-
pally heavy dealers in the article, de3Ire the
Government 10 lease their establishments.
In portions of St. Mary's county, Nd, the
tobacco crop has been completely ruined an6
corn greatly damaged by the recent hail storm.
Several colOred men" says a despatch re-
celyed last night from Montgomery, Alabama,
addressed a Seymour and Blair ratification
meeting there.
Dr. Charles p. Powers has been committed
for trial in Boston on the charge OF causing
the Geath of Mrs. Mary Abbie Brown by NAL
practice.
Ralph II. Threve. clerk of the United States
District Court of New Jersey, died suddenly
yesterday afternoon at Trenton. He was a.
one time leading Whig politician.
Gen. Harvey left ~. LOUIS Wednesday for
Omaha and the Indian country, on business
connected with the Indian Peace Commission
The Chinese Embassy gave a reception in
Boston last evening to the city Off Gals and
a large number Of citizens, AT the Parker
House.
"A colored man named Joshua Jones shot his
wife IN Milton, Penna., yesterday afternoon,
while walking with her on the street. Jones
escaped.
Twelve architects in Chicago report that
during the present year 80 buildings have been
erected IN that city, costing nearly seven mil
lion dollars.
The trotting race at Dexter Park, Chicago
yesterday, best three IN five, was won by Ba-
shaw. Jr. Time, 227L.
The southwestern section o. Iowa IS scourged
with the grasshopper plague.
Senator Wade is now taking Il trip over the
Kansas Pacific Railway.
The Baltimore Scheutzen Fest festival COM
mences on Monday next.