The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-12-04
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1 The steam ship Russia, from New York.
has arrived at Queenstown.
A speciai from Madison, Wis. saws Com
gresham Hopkins continues to improve.
The Peabody Fund has upwards OF nine
hundred subscribers and is still increasing
John G. Fremorit, it is said ob.a.red a
/ loan in Europe for his proposed Southern
Pacific Road. -
Scarlet fever is prevailing so badly Ia
/ Moroa County, Ill, that the ppoiic schools
have been closed. -
/ All the New York daiIies or yesterday
eo,ottsiaed 6, exten9ed eulogies upon A D.
A coiored roustabout fen from the
4 steamer Grand Era at Memphis, On Thurs
day night, and was drowned. =
a tornado of great violence, and doing
much damage. passed over Yen and John
son Counties, Arkansas, on Thursday
Four entire blocks and tbree.fourths of
1 two Others were destroyed by FIRE, IN Gal
weston, Texas, yesterday morning. -
The stores of T. W. Vardey and r. 8.
/ Am brose were bnrned yesterday, at Lew
| aston, Maine, and NJ. ID. Chapman was
| burned TO ceath. f1 tfr
/ The First National Bank building q dry
/ goods store and the Franklin Telegraph
| Office were burned, at Meridian, Conn.,
| yesterday. Loss S20,00O. -
Mayor Chadwick, RepublIca1 nominee
for Mayor OF Boston. has decliLed. and q
I
to select candidate. -
Burglars robbed the house of E. H. Ball,
/ at H0lyoke, Mass. OF $500 In Govern
ment bonds. Three men were arrested on
suspicion. n sss 10 AaH
A new weekly religious and political pa
20 be started in Sc. Louis early in Jan-
uary. ta1 ae #1
s. G. Dowdy, and aged broker and
member OF the Stock Excnange, was found
| dead IN his bed at a New York hotel yes
| terday morning. HERr csl
Several companies of United States
| troops assisted the elrevenue officers yester-
| day morning, IN Lhe seizure OF q number
of Illicit stills In Brooklyn.
1t is stated that the Fehians are prepar-
| ing for a new movement on Canada. They
are said to have plenty of rifles, but need
money to purchase ammunition. =
: A sheaAy snow storm prevailed In the
| East during Thursday night and yestef-
| day. The ground in New York was cover
| cred for the first time this Winter.
Martinlsullivan, a yoHns man from Gym
thtana, KY, was run over and Btlled by
| coal tFalu yesterdays near Brooklyns Ills,
q short distance above East st. Louis. ~
Yesterday afternoon Thos. Hastin, resId-
| ing on Sims street, Philadelphia, struck
his wife in the head with a hatche5sand
/ then cut hts throat, whifea laborfng under
Temporary &c Of lnsanltya = hga
The brig Derhiss, at the New York quar-
took fire yeste rday morning, and is a total
| loss. The flames forced the crew over
| board Tor safety. aE83 1tl6H
Philip FlanIaanu was yesterday found
| guilty of murder Ia the second degree, in
Philadelphia, fer killing Col SeyDerltD' In
| September last. The jury had been out
since Wednesday, P1 T1Ef#3
George Francis Tlaln sent the following
| tdtottc message lrOm Detroit TO the editor
"God bless 1IppeTary Rassa. Zen millions
IriSh-Americans say fight" -
| Two boys. Henry Marsh and Ed. Perdue,
while hunting on the bank OF the river
/ above NJ MeInph1s, walked too near the edge
of the benk, which caved in preci pitating
drowned.
During severe squau yesterday morn
/ ing sth he steamer Sarah bound for PhiIa-
| deiphia, coIlided with the monitor Mian-
| tonomah, anchored or the battery, at New
| York, aud soon afterwards sunk. The
crew was saved.
A. suit has been brought against W. F.
atsonntof lou custom I.fies UPON Cigars I'll ir
ported by them. ON which the 9oveTne
ment, It is alleged, was defrauded by false
! WelghLSosf ft eA
The residence rs. shooke, in New York,
| was entered Thursday, while the family
i We're at dinner, and tue dresstng-room of
Mrs. Shooke ROBBED of s. 900 worth OF jew
els The raseal<, IN their haste, overiook
| bonds. ea
l. There was a shooting affair at. Jaezson,
! Arkansas, last week, between II. Z: Lewis,
formerly Deputy United States Marshal,
aud Deputy SheriR Ward, resulting in the
death OF the former and the wOunding of
the latter. whisky was the incitfng cause.
The friendso of Dorolhea vandsrhoI, who
died suddenly on Tuesday night, al Chi
eago. are not satisfied VITA the verdict of
the Coroners Jury, rendered on Thursday,
and will have a post nl0rteTD exaintnatlons
They suspect foul play of some kind There
are rumors of an abortion.
i Captsfn Eyster, who was committed by
the Coroner of Chicago, on Tuesday, for
/ killing desperado, was brought before
the Recorder ! Yesterday, on q awriG OF hubeas
corpus, and after an investigation was dis
charged, the Recorder regarding the case
I as clearly one of justiiable homocide. 3
Captain Henry Faith, 5of. the Bark Ocean
Wave. which was lost during the late ter
rIbie storm in Hammond Bay, returned to
Chicago on Thursday evening. He had
i been given up for lost. He suffered Sc
verely during the storm, " hich ship
wrecked SO many vessels.
The Kansas City Journal says a consid-
erabIe number OF Mormons from Salt Laze Q
have come TO Jackson County, and settled
in Independence where they formerly re-
sided. They have recovered some of their
old property, including the Temple ground
on which site they propose to erect an
other place of worship. These Mormons
repudtate polygamy-
A serious riot, melted by mixture OF
|
store in New York, yesterday afternoon,
in which Florence Scannell, q noted poll
tictan and candidate for Alderman, was
mortaily wounded. George Johnson also,
was fatally shot, and James Martin and
Thomas Donahoe badly Injured, but will
{ recover. ScannelI's brother John is sup
posed to have shot Johnson, and Donahoe
6 is believed to have shot Scaunell. All
that were present and unwounded are un-
der arrest.
The National Board of Trade, at Rich.
2 mond, Va, yesterday, considered the prop
osition of a ship canal around Niagara
Falls. A petition TO memorialize Congress
on the subject was adopted by A to 22
They next considered the proposition reg
ulating railroad freights, and a resolution
= A resolution favoring the establishment ol
: 4 meteoroIogical observation, TO give warn.
s for the benefit of commerce, was referred
to the Executive Council.
DR.. RiehI, homeopathic physician. died
9 at GaIena on Wednesday. He was to bC
; buried yesterday. The odd Fellows IL
G large Numbers, with the hearse and carrt
q ages, went TO the residence of the deceased
= at the appointed hour, for the funeral
6 When all were present and ready for the
ceremonies Mrs. Reih1 suddenly decided
that me InneIaI ti1 Sn0uI6 oe poStp9Pied, i, CIV
8 band was still alive. The Odd Fellows
+ then retired, and the congregation, which
= had assembled in church to. attend th'
J. funeral. were dismissed.
!, A resolution was offered in the Tennes
e seq House of Representatives, asking tht
Constitutional Convention to confer tn,
I, right of suffrage on women, which, afte
Il an unsuccessful motion to lay on the table
was referred TO special committee. The
= Z bill to rattfy the lease of the Nashville
u Northwestern Railroad by the Nashville 4
@ Chattanooga Railroad, was amended, hu
no final action was taken. The runninG
OF the road VIII stop on the 5th, If the leas
is not ratified in a shape satisfactory to thu
lessees. The Senate adopted unanimously
a the House resolution, requesting Congress
~ toIenloYe all disabilities imposed by tn
s Fourteenth Amendment, and passed on
y third reading the bill to reduce the Stat