The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-12-09
LATEST NEWS ITEMS.


LATEST NEWS ITEMS.
Gold closed in New York yesterday at
1855.
Springfield, Mass, has elected Demo
cratic Mayor and Clerk.
Tae steamship Rising Star, from AS
pinwalI, arrived at Sew York City yester-
day morning.
A Special Agent or the Crow Indians
left 81. Louis on The Sth instant for Wash
ington-
Allen, alias Edwards, on charge of rob-
biDg an express messenger, was held t1
hail, at ST. Louis on the sub. in the sum OF
$500. He was sent to Jail.
4 Toledo, Ohio, dispatch of the 9Th says
a wood train on the Cleveland and Toledo
railroad was thrown from the track yes
terday afternoon near Millburg Station,
and John INLAND and Michael Casseis and
four or five others were slightly injured
AT Zanesville, Ohio, on the night Of the
7th inst, the dry goods store OF William
NJ. Black Il Co. was entered and three
thousand doliars' worth OF silks stolen.
This Is the second time within a sho {
time that this store has been robbed of
silks.
A New York dispatch of the Sth says
there was high gale last right and to-
day from the northwest, and a large ship
is reported ashore on Long Island, and re-
ports from Bo ton sta Q that several ves-
sells are ashore ia that vicinity. No lives
lost.
A Savannah (Georgia) Dispatch of the
Sth says f. Bradbalker. who was shot and
killed by negroes, on Saturday asst. was
buried tnatday. The fire companies AID
German Association turned out Ia force.
Two of the wounded patrollmen are in
critical condition, but the excitement has
somewhat subsidized. More arrests have
been made
Another Erie suit was started in the Su-
preme Court in New York, on the 9Th inst,
in whfch the Erie Railroad Company
bring suit against Daniel Drew ant the
Erie Railroad steamboat Company, claim
ing damages to the amount II one million
OF dollars. The case, as yet. has only got
as far as the submitting of afidavlts.
a fire occurred In a tenement in Delaney
Street, New York city, yesterday morning,
several rooms being burned out and two
women, named Crowley and McEwen, car
pet rag sewers. were burned to death. Sew
eral others had narrow escape from the
same fate.
The War Department has received and
distributed a cir eular from the headquar-
ters Of the Executive Committees OF the
armies of the Cum berland, Ohio ard
Georgia, in relation to meeting of the
Societies OF the Cumberland and Tennes-
see at Chicago on the 18th and 18th. Ar
rangements have been perfected by which
all railroads centering there with their
connC-<-as lines will convey those attend
ing at r. rates.
The late snow storm extended over au
extensive belt of country in the West.
About four inches fell at st. Louis, six at
Kansas city, the same at st. Joe fourteen
inches at Macon City, Mo-, six inches at
Quincy, Ills, and nine inches at Spring
field. The storm also prevailed through
out Kansas and Nebraska.
A Buffalo dispatch Of the Sth says: The
severest gale and snow storm OF the season
prevailed here during the last twenty-four
hours. The trains and mails from tha
East by The Central aHa@t
.detainedF FfszS5estern Road came through on
The GreaSNM-ssTfCK clear. Wind northwest,
and snow drifting.
Perry Randolph, the Michigan farmer,
who was arrested in Kansas City last
week tor selling counterfeit greenbacks,
says that he was furnished with the bogus
money BY q book pedier named Parker,
who lives ia Northern Indiana. Parker is
an excellent engravef, and made the plates
himself. He was to furnish Randolph with
$4,000 in fractional currency by the lst of
January.
The New York Times editorialIy warns
people against canards from Washington,
London and Paris, in the interest of the
London spectators; 1t thinks President
Johnson should be reimbursed for the ex-
pense OF defending himself against inn
peachment; 1t also says that the idea4 IA
vorcd by the Comptroller of Currency,
viz a national bank without circulation,
10 be controlled and managed by the
banks OK the country, and be a common
retjeeEning agency for ali, will be a neces-
sity whenever specie payments shall be
resumed.
Rio GIande dates to the 1st inst. state
that Escobedo was marching against the
rebels in Matamoras. Numerous reports
We're given OF various disturbances in va
riouS parts of the country. Shocks of
earthquake had taken place near San
Luis Patosi. The Inhabitants OF San
Luis fear new volcanic eruptions near that
city, the air being fun of ashes and smoke
and the earth shaking with subterraneous
noises. An earthquake shock was felt in
Mexico on the 6ah of November IL was
als felt at Puebla. Shocks were felt for
three days at Iturbide, and another new
volcanic eruption was feared there.