The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-12-22
CON9ENsRD TRLEG8AMs.

WEDNES DAY, December
The Central Railroad OF Iowa was COM
pleted to MafshalltoWn, Monday night.
DR.. Thompson. a confidence man, and
dealer in bogus bonds, was arrested in
Louisville yesterday.
-Four inches of snow fell at st. Louis dur
ing Monday night, ana five inches fell at
Louisville.
Forbes. OF Canada, boat Adsett. Of Phil;
adeiphia, in the International boat race at
Washington Park yesterday.
Carlotta Patti is sick at Cincinnati, and
unable to fill her engagement. She viii
probably be able to appear on Friday
night.
The clothing and stocking mandatory
of John Buckley, at America, ew York.
was destroyed by fire, yesterday noon.
Loss $4,000; insurance $1,000.
No decision has yet been reached in the
stock gambling case Of Gen. Hofnkin ana
Bliss, IN New York, but it is believed the
David ID. Eckerson was, on Monday, SEN
fenced to twenty years imprisonment in
the new State Prison, by the Court of Oyer
aud Terminer, 10 Bergen County, N. J.
Jean Jourde. an employee in the West
ern Union Telegraph office, fell from an
a distance OF eighty feet, and was instantly
killed.
A freight engine on the BaItiaaore and
Ohio Railroad exploded near Rowls0urg,
West Virainia, on Monday night, killing
the engineer instantly, and seriously IN
jurtng the fireman.
The case OF kidnapping Dy DIR. Lewis
came up on a writ OF hdbeGs corpus in lew
York, on Monday, and was postponed
Chicago.
Rosa CeItrina, the noted contralto
who sang to a brilliant house in the cad
emy OF Music. New York, last Friday
night, died on Sunday. with heart disease /,
aged twenty-nine years.
TIE action OF the New YORK Custom
House authorities IN OBTAINING bonded
sugars for resaTn npling, in order to prevent
fraud, is fully endorsed by the principal
importers.
Two New York policemen werA con-
Kentuckian named Wells. Tt II said there
are two or three Democratic policemen in
New Ork.
Governor Hoffman, of New York, has is
sued proclamation, offering a reward OF
$500 for the arrest OF the murderer or muir
derers of DR.. Andrew Mead, OF Allegheny
County.
Returns on the Constitutional Conven-
tion IN Tennessee come In slowly, ana ne
vote throughout the State will be light
The only organized opposiiioa was In East
Tennessee.
Heavy rains prevailed at Nashville on
Monday night, aEd there are favorable
prospects of a coal-bOat rise in the Cum
berisnd River, which is greatly desired, as
the supply of coal ia Nashville is nearly
exhausted.
In the Democratic Convention, in Mem
phis. yesterday, Amos Woodrnh was nom
lector; Robert Good, w harfmaster. There
are several Independent candidates Tor
Mayor in the heid.
A steam fire engine eollided. yesterday
iu NaShV ilte, with switch locomotive on
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
throwing the flremen Off the engine and
seriously tnjuriDg one o. them,
John Hickman, living near Chandler
VILE, Illinois, murdered his wife, on sun
day .aSt, by cutting her throat. This is
the second wife he has killed. He was ac-
quilted on the first murder on the plea OF
intanity.
The Brooklyn Equal Rights Association
held a large meeting at the Brooklyn
| Academy OF Music. on Monday evening.
| Addresses were made by Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher, Susan b. Anthony and others.
Daniel Mcfarland was arraigned yester-
/ day in the Court of General Sessions, New
/ York for the murder OF Albert d. Rich
| ardsOn. The prisoner pleaded not guilty.
| No day has been fixed Tor the trial.
An immense meeting of fact1ry opera
| tives and their friends, was held at Lowell
on Monday night. Addresses were made
and resolutions expressing sy ympathy with
i the ten hour law, were passed.
/ Rev. Morgan Dix, in response to a prop
| osition from the New York brokers to pur-
chase st. Paul's Church and graveyard fol
the site Of the proposed new Stock Ex.
| change, says that the venerable temple and
| the bones of the dead are not yet for sale
and probably never W Ii be.
In the New York Board of Assistant AL
| dermen, a resolution was adopted present l.
ing A clerks of committees with $500 each
| for extra serV4 ces. Lawrence Lane Eig2l
| was presented with 81, 500 for similar ser
| vices, and $4,000 was donated to three Oh
four churches and charitable institutions
/
| the State of Georgia, published a card yes
terday morning, IN the New York papers
claiming that in his correspondence will
Wogan 4 Co, on the subject of supplying
Georgia with counterfeit money, he was
only actuated by s laudable desire to en-
trap the rOgueS into some act by which
they could be brought to Justice.