The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-09-18

During a fight Thursday evening, il
Hartford, Conn, between five negroes ant
two wkiee men, one OF the latter, names
Arthur Adams, was fatally STABBED. Ihre
of the negroes Were arrested.
A terrific thunder storm passed owe
I Cleveland Thu sday night. Two or thre
houses were struck by lightning, but no
much damage was done.
The cigar mandatory Of Schutze & Gis
skiing, of C2rltnYile, Illinois, has beer
seized for violation of the internal revenue
laws. About 60,0C0 cigars were seized viii
the factory.
Philadelphia was visited by n fifty thou
sand dollar IRE yesterday. Libby & Penny
backer. Touring mills, ana the armOry o
Colonel Thomas's regiment were de
stroyed, and other buildings damaged.
An Eastern excursion party, from thC
| East, arrived at Kansas City on Thursday
and most OF them nave gone on a Geul
| through Southern Kansas via the OF
| Scott railroad.
The case of James Baxter, who was re
Gently arrested at Rochester, New YORK
for committing f-aud, came before lAg
Court a Kansas CITY, on Inursday, @uo
he was discharged for want of prosecution
The game OF Cricket between the St.
| Georges, of New YORK, and the Phtladel-
| phia Club, played in Philadelphia on
| Thursday, resulted in a victory for the lat
ter, scoring Il3 runs in two 1nni ags, TO the
st. Georges SO.
James Armstrong shot his mother-in-
| law dead, in North BridgeWater, Massa-
/ chusetts, Thursday evening. A shot In
| tended for his father-in-law, wounded
James Welsh, neighbor. The murderer
| fed.
! a fire in Syracuse, New York, yesterday
! forenoon. greatly damaged Sperry'S $ skate
| factory ana Herman 81 Sperry,s machine
| shop Loss upwards of a50,OOO Insured
for $4,000.
The shingle and box factory of Page &
/ Kilburn, on SecOcd and Madison streets,
! st. Louis, were burned between u and l
o'c;ock Yesterday morning. Loss about
$4,000; Insured for sl0,500 The lumber
yard OF Mr. Schulenberg, adjoining, was
damaged about $4,000.
A dispatch from Denver says: Further
election returns CON firm THURSDAY s eport
OF the Republican majority w Where the
Democrats made party nomination they
have generally been defeated. The Legls-
lature Will nave clear hepuDIlcan ma
jorlty
A telegram from Puebla SAYS: Wild Bill,
a noted character, who has figured as the
der, got into a difficulty on election day,
and whiie being taken TO the COLORADO
City Jail, was dted upon from the brush
and killed.
The freight depot OF the Pittsburg Rail-
road in CIeveIand was enttre!y DESTROYED
by fire Yesterday morning. The building
was unusually clear of freight, two prOpel-
lers having loaded Irom II on Thursday
freight. Amount not ascertafued. There
was no insurance on the building
The Grand Lodge Of Good Templars,
which have been IN session at Jackson
Vile, Illinois, for two days, after several
hours discussion Of the matter on Thurs
day, indOrsed, by a decided majority, the
action of the National Temperance Con-
venttOn recently held in Chicago, in favor
of q third political organization, the dis
tinctive and controlling principle of
which shall be prohibition.
Governor Geary bas appointed Colonel,
Scott General j. w. Cass, General MOie-
head, Hon. Richard ID. Haldeman, Colonel
Philip II. McMarlz, Hon. C. Coleman, Hon.
Stanley Woodward, Edward +. Gay, ana
Pennsylvania TO the Southern CONNER
cial Convention, to be held ia Louisville,
KY, on the 18th of October.
A officially has arisen between Major
Calhoun, Pension Agent, at Pniladel phia, "
and the Claim Agent, which will delay the
payments t. pensioners in The interior for
some time. Heretofore, the Pension Agent
has paid all claims on proper vouchers in
green back, but now refuses to pay any
thing but u check to the order OF the claim
ant, which the agents and attorneys re-
fuse to accept.
At n meeting OF the National Capital
Executive Committee, a call for Conven-
ton to be held in ST. Louis, October goth,
was decided upon, and viii be published
in the prominent papers OF the country.
The call, after stating that all the Cover
nors of all the States are invited to attend
nors of any of the States refuse TO appoint
delegates to the Convention, that the dele
gates selt cted by the congressman OF any
Congressional District will be received as
duly accredited, and admitted TO seats ia
the Convention.
A Richmond, Va, special to the New
York Herald says: q A plot has been set on
foot, IL is charged, by the Radical Office
holders in Virginia, to have the question
of admitting the State 90 over without
action OF Congress- II til the session COM
menciDg in 1870 IJ Is proposed TO get up
evidences OF the frauds and OutrageS by
The Walker party, and by the aid of nili-
clustering In Congress and references to
the Reconstruction Committee, to have
the whole question adjourned by this
means the present Office holders Will be
permitted to serve at least twelve months
longer. The origiaatOrs of the scheme, 1t
and Boutwell," That Is ali bosh.
Waddy Thompson, who was arrested at
st. Louis. in com pany with Perry Fuller,
a few days since, Tor alleged revenue frauds,
and sent to New Orleans under United
States Marshal for trial, wss taken from
the Malshal at Jackson, Tennessee, on
Monday, on a writ OF hd5edS corpus, and
brought before Judge Lee of the Law
Court, in Memphis. and discharged on the
ground that the u. =. Collector Only had
the power of a mag giStrate, TO bail or COM
carried to another state, and ordered the
discharge of the prisoner. Thompson was
Immediately arrested by Deputy United
States Marshal Ryder on a warrant issued
by Commissioner Morrison, OF Memphis,
on the same charge, and afterwards re-
leased on bail to answer the charge to-day.