The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-09
Domestic AHnIrs.

Gold closed yesterday at 13SB.
The Secretary of the Treasury has sold
$2,OOS, 900.
The Conservative Republicans of Missis-
sippi have issued call for a convention.
The brig Corinthian, of Ellsworth, Me-,
is reported wrecked near Kingston, Jamaica.
In the Convention at Richmond, Virginia,
yesterday, eight negroes were nominated for
the Legislature.
The Sub Census Committee is in session
at Washington, making arrangements to take
the census.
Washington now has seven colored Coun-
cilmen, one colored Alderman, and colored
City Register.
The dead body of a man was found hang
ing from a tree, yesterday morning, in Cen
tral Park, New York.
Edward Humphrey, a lunatic formerly a
State Prison convict, escaped from the Asy-
lum at Worcester, Mass.
The delegates to the State Convention
from Chester county have been instructed to
vote for Geary for Governor.
The bill appropriating one million dollars
to the Western Maryland Railroad passed the
Baltimore City Councils yesterday.
The Census Committee yesterday eX-
amined ex-Superintendent Kennedy in refer
ence to how the next census should be taken.
The Treasury Department at Washington
is in possession of record of the notes stolen
from the United States Depository at Santa
Fe.
The building of Wheathead & Brothers,
and the paper-boX factory of Spooner & Co.,
on Pearl street, New York. was destroyed by
fire last night.
The steamship Tybee, lately seized on
suspicion of being intended for the Cubans,
yesterday sailed from New York, flying the
Dominican flag.
Miss Amanda Craig, who brought suit
against Il. p. Sprague, of Chicago for breach
of promise of marriage, has been awarded
500, 600 damages.
An editor of Secessionist newspaper,
and several other persons, at Warrentown,
Ga, were arrested yesterday. The offense is
not yet known.
Out of the twenty-nine members of City
Councils elected in Washington yesterday, all
were Republicans-twenty white men and
eight colored.
Mrs. Elizabeth Whelan was burned to
death in Buffalo, N. Y, on Monday night, her
clothes being ignited by the careless use of coal
oil in lighting a kitchen fire.
President Grant, accompanied by his
family, Secretaries Rawlins and Cox, and seve-
raj friends, started for West Point to-day, to
be present at the military examination.
-Lieutenant-COlonel Joseph G.. Crane,
Commander of the Fourth Military District
OF mississippi, was shot dead by man
named Yerger, at Jackson, Miss, yesterday.
-Reverdy johnson intends to publish a
defense of his ministerial course in England
He says that Sumner approved of his intended
policy before leaving the United States for
England.
The Attorney-General of Indiana is of
the opinion that the passing of measures in
the Indiana Legislature, after the resignation
of forty-two Democratic members, was in ac-
cordance with the State Constitution, and the
measures so passed are laws.
The Internal Revenue Commissioner has
decided that no deductions of taxes for leak
age will be allowed on spirits based on the
original measurement when they are placed in
warehouses, nor upon any other spirits pro-
duced before July 2S, 1868, unless they were
regauged revious to April Il, 1863.