The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-07-03
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

The steamer Ktna, from Liverpool via
HALIFAX, has arrived.
The steamship Berlin arrived at Balti-
more Friday evening from Bremen with
eight hundred passengers ana a fun cargo.
The steamship Deufchlaud, from South
amptou on the 22d of June, arrived al New
York yesterday.
The dry goods establishment of w. l..
Peak Il Co, White street, New York, was
damaged by fire TO the amount of 100000
Friday morning. Insured
The election for President of the Union
College at Albany, New York, is postponed
one month. Prof. David Murray, of Alba
ny, is said to have the best prospect OF
election.
Eighteen German singing societies of
Philadelphia, comp pcising nearly hve hum
dred voices, will take part in the Eleventh
Sangerfest at Baltimore, from the 10th TO
the 18th of July.
Henry A. Pierce, u. s. Minister resident
t. The Sandwich Islands, sailed from San
Francisco Tor Honolulu on Thursday, on
the ship Rival.
An earthquake on Friday forenoon was
I ielt a Holly Springs and Corinth, Missis-
| slppi, and Madison, Arkansas. The vibra-
tions lasted halfa minute.
J. ID. Davis, the original Commissioners
of Registration. at Memphis, since the de-
| cIsion of the Chancellor thet the Governor
has no power to remove Registrars, an
nounces that he Is the legal Registrar, and
/ will open his office on Monday.
| John EIIster's Dramatic Company, from
| Cleveland, with LOtta as the star, have
| a highly success nj season at the Detroit
Opera House. Lolita started for California
on Friday
/ Gen. Robson, Secretary of the Navy
/ was serenaded at Camden, N. ", Thurs
day night. Resolutions eulogizing him
for his honored services 10 his state, We're
passed at a mass meeting held at the Court
| House previous to the serenade.
About Il o'clock Thursday night, John
O'ConnelI was shot and instantly kiued in
Louisville, by James Hendricks, while IN
der the belief that he was pursuing thief
| Both men were members of the Metro
politan police.
At ten o'clock Thursday night, the tug
Ripon. steaming up the river at Cleveland
struck a small ferry boat crossing the river
with ten or twelve passengers, shiverins i
to fragments. Three to i've persons ar'
supposed to have been drowned. The body
of Martin O'Donneu is the only one recoV
cred. The names of the others lost arr
unknown.
General Butler, General Martindale. Ex
Governor Smythe, of New Hampshire
and Hon. 5. B Garekel, of Ohio, member
of the Board OF Managers of the Unite'
states Military Asylum, arrived at Angus
Ia. Maine, on Thursday night, to atten
| a meeting of the Board 10 be held at tn
Asylum on Friday.
A horse belonging to Mr.. Thomas, c
Gardiner, Maine, was killed last night, b
some party unknown. Several days az
LIQUOR was seized in Gardiner. and NJ
Thomas was the truckman employed b
the city authorities, to cart the seize
liquor away A reward OF 500 has been o
fered by the Mayor for the arrest of th
perpetrators.
The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com
. pany met the President OF the Miners A.
sociaGion, at Summit Hill, Pennsy lvani'
and agreed upon a basis of terms, whic
9 are not very satisfactory to the Company
but 1t was tue best that could be done, q
the miners would net make any cOnce'
{ sions. About one-half The companies i
, all the Penn ylvania coal districts will II
? com mmence work about the n inst Th
I
: commence on that day.
, A barbecue, given tOJ. Walker, a aeolore
! man. took place, on Friday, on V'tu1haIl
Island, adjoining Richmond, Va. ADo'
/ 3 O'Clock the chain bridge, leading 10 Il
Island, was so crowded chat it gave wa
! carrying down about sixty persons 90
Jas. r. Branch, "A prominent broker an
4, the ConserS alive candidate for the Senat
( was instantly killed, was also poiic'
man KirkhaIl, VINO was on duty 10 pr'
vent the crowd from rushing upon th
q bridge. Several colored men were fatal
= wounded.
[ A1the commencement of Packard's Bus
: ness College, in New Yo1 K on Friday ate
noon, tire proprietor, >. Packard, who hs
? in many ways manifested his interest i
2 the advancement and improvements
r the condition OF women very hberall.
announced his intel ,Lion of giving to an
nfty young women who desired h. a tho
: ough business education gratuitously, an
to find situations tor them when qualities
Address s were also made by Horace Gre
; ley Mayor Han, Oliver Dyer, and other
q sixteen students have graduated, an
n there are between BOZ aud 400 more in Il
College.