The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-02-24
TELEGRAPEE SUMMARY

Gold closed in New York, yesterday at
l&1z. -maH tH
an English party have returned from
the island of Alta Yela, reporting the
guqno there worthless.
-Four more persons have been bitten
by mad dogs In Brooklyn, N. " within
two days.
Porto Rico adviees state that heavy rains
ha We prevented eane grindir g, and plant
en- fear they VIII be unable to make a
goOj crop OF sugar.
General sherman has returned TO ST..
Louis from New Orleans, much improved
in health He will leave for Washington
in FEY days.
V.R. Brown & CO.'S Bank, of Toronto,
Canada. closed their doors on the Esd, in
consequences of heavy losses in New York.
some ofthe Chinese OF san Francisco
are reported to be armed for struggle TO
secure possession. f females who arrived
on a steamer on the 23d. The Chief of
POs Ice has taken measures to pre- ent a
riot.
6 ". FIaight, OF California, has received
an invitation from Chicago to meet the
Go s-ernors OF other States in that city on
the 4th OF July, to celebrate the oponin
or the Pacific Railroad.
The doors. of the Fourth National Bank
OF philadelphia, were not opened yester-
dGs- morning, owing to defalcations of the
Gas hfer. McMuIIen, who is in custody, but
refuses to give any information. The cap
ital of the bank is s225,0O0; deposits S500,0OO,
and circulation sl8O,OoO at its last report.
General King, who was arrested in Gin
cinnati some days ago on charge OF rob-
b ng the office of CambrIeIIng 81 Pine in
Will Street, of bonds to the amount OF
sl50,oOO, was committed to the Tombs on
the I'D.
Assessor Webster, of New York City, has
returned to his post and to the raid upon
bankers and brokers which was Temporal
rily suspended on account of his illness.
The brokers have determined to make
test case of his right to assess and tax
the capital they use in their business.
Another victim of hydrophobia has
died on Long Island. A little child and
sev eraI others who have been bitten are
reported TO be in a critical condition.
Dogs are being killed quite rapidly in the
outskirts of Brooklyn.
Five hundred complaints were made
yesterday . the government office,
against soldiers bounty sharks. The sol
dIcr swindler, Herman, has not been
found, and it is said that all his proper
BY is in the hands of a city official here,
so that the unfortunates who have been
vi;timized by him will never be able to
obtain redress.
The statements by Masterman and Bliss
have been published in the New York
r. i6ltne. They deny the cnarge of COM
plicity in the conspiracy against Lopez.
The details OF their suRerings while inn
prisOned shows their treatment to have
been most barbarous. They say that
Washburne did All in his power In their
behalfsail his own life was endangered.
Havana dispatches state that no further
10 ,IitaFy field operations will be attempted
by the SpanIards, but all the fortified
points VIII be occupied by garrisons. An
A nerican blockade runner has success
July landed cargo of insurgents. Two
Thousand Cubans had reyolted at Palma,
near Cardfnas. A Spanish gunboat was
capturedl by the revOlutionists near Mazan-
lilo. An attack on Puerto Principe was
d. Iayed on account of the women aud
children. :
Rio Janeiro letter of January 28th
says Augu4tura surrendered on the 30th of
December, the garrison marching out with
tie honors of war. Seventy five guns
ere among the captures. Ascunsion was
eupie on the first without resistance by
tie troops sent forward on gunboats. Lo-
pez himself was entrenehed in the noun
tHins with 300 men, and the Paraguayan
eunboats were safe above Aseuns1on. Me-
ahOn still accompanies Lopez, and his
attachment to him caused considerable
f cling on the part of the Brazilians, who
tlk as If their Government might at any
moment Ii eak of its diplomatic relations
whit the United States on account of it.