The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-12-14
CONDENSED TELxGRAMs.


TUESDAY, December Ii.
The Excelsior Iron Works, of New York,
were burned Sunday night. Loss $4,000.
! 1t is rumored that Rev. Dr.. Foley, Vicar
General OF the Diocese OF Baltimore, has
! been appointed successor TO Bishop Dug
| gan.
Jenny Glover. a colored woman was run
/ over BY train at Germantown, Tennes-
| see, on Sunday and killed.
| A negro named Hurd was shot and
killed by another negro, named Collins, IN
a row ct the Shelby depot, near MemphIs,
| yesterday.
! The election of United States Senator
( taxes D ace in the Kentucky Legis- -ature
| TODAY and IL IS believed McCreery, the
| present Incumbent, viii be reelected.
A negro drayman, while watering his
mules IN the river, at Frankfort. KY. yes
| terday, was drawn in beyond his depth
and drowned.
p. @. Alrens' dry goods store and cloak
establishment, in Buffalo, was damaged
by fire aud water to the amount of $4,000,
on Sunday night, and the premises adjoin-
Ing were badly damaged by wa er.
It is said that Joseph Jefferson has com
meuced suit against q. ID. Hess tk Co., of
Crosby's Opera House, Chicago. for having
represent ted verson of his drama of Rip
Van Wrinkle on that stage. He claims to
have the exclusive copyright.
In the Kentucky Senate the Judiciary
Committee reported an elaborate bill for
the creation of an Insurance Bureau, one
for the incorporation and regulation OF
life insurance panies, ana q third for
the Incorporation and regulation of all
other insurance companies.
The proposition to build railroad from
San Francisco to Los Angeles and San
Diego is receiving much encouragement.
The people of the southern counties are
petitioning the Legislature for perm fssion
to subscribe towards the construction OF
the road.
The Commissioner OF Railroads in Ohio,
yesterday, received complete reports of
the doings of the Atlantic u Great Western
Railroad Company, Tor the year ending
June 204h, 1862 The earnings amount to
IS 0g7 .357; operating expenses, s,459, ,29S |;
balance, sl,G3S,O6S.
A yo1ng man nam ID Meg ovsrner, wa
dragged into the street in Wheeling, Vir S
gipi8, on Saturday night, by two ruffIans
who entered his room he was about to
retire, and who beat and stabbed him in
several squares, lett him on q cellar door
almost hicless.
]. F. Purck, journal clerk In the State
Savings Bank, Chicago, com united suicide
yesterday morning, by shooting himself
through the heart In house of ilI-fame.
He had been in the bank for five years,
and mad been promoted for good conduct
and fidelity, from me ssenger boy, step by
step to the position of Journal clerg. He
had recently fallen into bad habits, which
led TO his untimely and shameful death.
A bogus firm, calling themselves w. IL.
y
/ icut, have swindled various parties in the
| West and in Pen osylVania out of more
than 100000 by soliciting and receiving
| consignments of flour butter, &C., for which
/ they never settled. The sWtnders used the
names of well known New York mer-
chants as references and also referred TO
| an Empire National Bank. which is also q
! myth.
! A special fIom Atlanta, Ca, to the New
| YORK Tribune, says the Democratic papers
| throughout Georgia are unanimous in de-
] M rs 8 anti n 4 q
as being entirely unauthorized by the
! Democratic party. They are unit In OPP
| posing the re seating of negroes, the ex-
| pnlsiOn of members disqualified by the
| Fourteenth Amendment, and StrenuOuSly
urge the de eat OF the Fifteenth Amend
ment The Republicans heartily endorse
| the Presidents recommendation, and the
people generally look for, and will acqni-
see IN, prompt action by Congress.
The friends of the various candidates for
| the U. :. Senate, In Kentucky, are quite
active. Stevensons friends profess to be
! confident, but are not considered at ease.
| The question IF locality is against them
and besides a credited report saws the COY
| ernor could not take the oath If elected
| because of having declared after the first
| battle of Manassas. and on his own re-
| turn from HichInond, that he had Colo
nel's commission, and urged Others 20
arms in aid OF the REBEL lon. Senator Nc.
| Creery arrived at Fran k fort yesterday
! G0lladay has not resigned in favor of Win.
tersmith, but leaves the remaining sspir-
/ ants to fight out the contest on tnetr re-
| spective merits.
| The Illinois Constitutional Convention
met at Springfield, at two O'Clock yester-
day, but, up to the last Intelligence from
there. no org tniZatioa had been Ell cted
! and all was chaos and confusion. Mr.. Me
d:ll is the Republican nominee for Presi-
dent. He was nominated by caucus on
Saturday. He decitned, but was re-nOm
mated to-day, and has consented to stand
The independents have nOmina ted Chas
| Hitchcock. The Democrats made no nom
| nation. When the Convention Assem- BleC
an att mpt was made by the Secretary c
State o call the roll, when a general II IL
clustering com menced and continued until
the close. 1t is supposed that, IL vote caI
be reached, MedIlI Will be elected Prest
| dent.