The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-07-24
CONDESsED TELEGRAMS.

morning.
The steamships Java, The queen, and
SiIesia, from New York, have arrived at
Liverpool.
Three warehouses were destroyed by flle.
In Pekin, Illinois, on Thursday. Loss
s2O.G COO.
The French cable expedition arrived OFF
Duxbury, Massachusetts,, at noon yesters
day. The shore end will be laid to-day.
Nearly two million dollars worth of
wool Was,sold in Selma, Ala, during the
past week. 80 -
Caterpillars have made their appear
ance in the cotton fields of Alabama, and
are doing great damage, especially in the
black lands of the cane break regions.
Canterbury Hall, onsLouisiana eAvenue,
near the City Hall, in Washington City,
was entirely destroyed by IRE on Friday
morning. Loss $4,000.
Many thousand dollars worth OF prop
crty has been destroyed in Adams County,
Ills, by the high water-carrying of crops,
fences, stock, &c.
Ellis c. Scott, an OhIoan, seventy-years
OF age, died at Erie, Pennsylvania, Friday
forenoon, from a fall down a flight of
stairs.
The two eh olera cases reported In New
YorEs on Thursday, tnrn out to be simple.
dIarrhOea.
Harry Gsford, the Sunday School pto-
neer OF Ohio, died at his residence, at
zanesvne, Ohio, yesterday afternoon,
aged eighty-two.
About IL O'Clock Friday morning an un-
known man was run over and Instantly
killed on the track of the M. S. II. r., near
the Union Stock Yards, Chicago.
The report on Thursday of strike for
wages az the Dayton Ledger Office is said to
be erroneous. Tue tlifieulty was of a1dif-
ferent character, anu has been settled.
f. G. Caperole,. of Toronto, addressed the
Board of Trade at Oswego, New York, yes
terday, on the subject of tue Huron and
Ohtario ship canal.
The jewelry store of Mr.. Hammond. in
Springfield, Illinois, was roBbea, on We'd
nesday morning, of two thousand dollars
worth OF watches.
All the prison er5 confined at Fort La
fayette, charged with being teoncerneds in
the Cuban expedition, have been released.
No particulars are given, but It is supposed
they We're released on their own recog-
nizances--
John Howard, sellteneed 10 i've years
imprisonment for being concerned In a
robbery at the Den OF Reddy the BLACK
smith, in New York, some time since, has
been pardoned by GOV. HOLMAN.
l. Nm. Edwards, a colored man, " as hung
in ST. Louis, yesterday, for killing Lewis
! Wilson, another eolorei man, at the negro
ball, last Winter. By q Dad adjustment of
the rope, the guilty mans toes reached The
a a xrfnT
thirteen minutes before he died.
| Work on the Government bridge across
| the Mississippi, at Rock Island, has been
suspended by an order from Washington.
General G. X. Warren is expected there in
a few days, when it is hoped the work VIII
/ be revived t5-tra-.. f.ella.. e..f ~
At Dubuque man named McGee, while
in small boat In the Mississippi, was run
down by the -s,eamer Tom Jasper and
drowned. on Thursday, at the same
place. Robert Richards fell from scanold
where he was at work, and was killed.
Bon. Wa. f. Dodge of New York; Felix
| r.. Brunei, Of srlttsburg: Hon. Nathan
Bishop, of New York, and Chas. Pend
lay, of Baltimore, United states Commits
sioners appointed by President Grant to
I examine the Southern Pacific Railroad
are stopping INST. Joseph Mo.
Circulars have been issued from the iii.
nois State Executive Department with a
view of obtaining an estimate OF the cor
porate debt of the State. From the in
formation already derived, it is thought
that the total corporate debt is almost one
hundred millions of dollars, or an average
o. one millionto the county.
AT q meeting of the City Council of Bos
ton, on Thursday night. on recommends
tion of the Mayor, an order was passed
providing for the proper celebration, OIL
the part OF that city, OF the successful lay
ing of The French. cable, and conamitte'
was appointed to arrange the details s.
Two British steamers with. the French
cable were signaled from Highland Light
Cape Cod, at sunrise on Friday morning
They We're bound Into the bay, for Dux
bury, where the shore end the cable viii
: be landed. They would reach their desti
nation during the day. -41
1t is said that a number of recruits TO
, the Cuban army are about to bring suit
/ against. the Junta to recover the thirty
! dollars per month. IN gold offered by then
at the time OF enlistment. The Junta ap
pear to refuse to pay any except those whC
/ enlisted at their own headquarters. Thi
recruits will also sue FOR the $500 bounty IL
j, gold offered them, and for. their clothes
l sc, lost on the attempted expedition.
!. The reported washing away of the Tol
: edo, Wabash & Western Railroad bridg
! across the Illinois River, ar Meridoso, L
: incorrect. The track on the west of tn
river isliBJured, but itWtli be repaired II
: a day. c4J B1a ti.a
Mr.. Webstor, OF Chicago, WesterR Agen
= OF the National Steamship Company
= feerx-as n low York to-day. for England. 70
the purpose OF cultivating the through
s shipment from Chicago and the Western
S states to Europe. His theory is that mas
much as the West is the producer, ant
Z through rates of freight to Europe can b
Y made in the West daily, the same as from
e New Y ork, that Chicago and the West /
II the point where orders from Europ
!, should be sent. He will visit the larg
e cities, and explain his Views to the seve1a
i Chambers Of Commerce.
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