The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-10-29
CONDExsED FELEGRAMs.

The steamships Celia and PaImyras from
Liverpool, have arrived at New York;
Snow fell yesterday In Philadelphia, but
melted as it fell.
The FAN meeting of the Nashville B;ocd
Horse Course closed yesterday.
Hon. Geo. H. PendIeton has been ap-
pointed President of the Kentucky y Central
Railroad.
The steamers India, from Glasgow and
Allemonsa, from Southampton, have ar
rived at New York.
Quite number of officers from st.
Louis, who served in the Amy of Fennesr
see. it is said, Will attend the reunion at
louisville on the nth OF November.
The large hub and spoke factory of Q. s.
Tibbets.& Co, at Marion, Indiana, was
burned on Wednesday night. Loss $4,000.
Insurance Sl6s000. xE
The strike of the Franklin Line teIe.
graph operators has Terminated in an adj
vance OF wages and the reinstatement OF
all who went out.
Governor Hoffman, of New York, has
appointed DIR. N. Morris, of the Board of
Health, state Commissioner, with power
to keep diseased cattle from the Metre
poiitan District.
The Committees OF the Merchant, ,TaIIors'
and JouIneymeu Tailors' Union of chi
cago met yesterday afternoon. Mutual
viii, probably, be eff-ctsd. - Is
John f. wens, alias Frank O. BE den,
was arrested in Chicago yesterday after
noon, on The strength Of dispatch re-
ce1ved from Baltimore, stating that he
had robbed his employ er of $500.
James smith and two horses which he
was driving, were killed by, a alocomottve
while he was crossing the Michigan q Day
ton Railroad, near Tfppecanoes Ohio on
Wednesday. Aitt -f4'tj ~ kaJOA
The bark Water Witch, of Montreal, with
scrap iron, from Kingston for Cleveland,
foundered off South Bay, Lake Ontario, on
Sunday morning. The crew came ashore
In small boats. er-sss .r-.raR
passed through st. Louis on "Wednesday.
with Jno. Stevens, who killed John Reeves
In Terre Haute, a year ago, and who after
wards escaped from jail. He was arrested
The eSub-Conarnittee; ION Foreign Affairs
continued their session in New. York yes
terday afternoon. No business OF tnnpoFt-
ance was transacted. Tomorrow will be
the last day ofsession in New York city.
AT the FIRST day OF the Fall meeting OF
| the Renssaeler Park Association, at Troy,
| New York, ON w ednesday, the nrst race
for horses that never beat three. minutes
| and 500 to the third, was won by Sou.
| brette; time, $50, 2:37 and 1884,. The sec
ond race, for horses that never beat 2:S5
was won by Princes best time 2:3S3.
The bill calling a state Convention wa:
mp in the Tennessee Legislature yesterday
and elicted much debafe. A proposition c
/ amend, so as TO confer the privilege Ol
/ voting for members upon all citizens OF
/ the United States, twenty-one years OF age
/ was the bone of contenttons Th9. original
bill, allows those only 10 vote who are
| qualified under the existing franchise
| laws. No decision was had sd
A magnificent meteor passed over Day.
ton, Ohio, on Wednesday morn1ngs leav'
ing larges long, splendid train, making 8
| Fumbltng noise and emitting a sulphurou.
smell It was moving north. At the same
| hour an enormous meteor passed east ovel
Forest Station, on the Dayton & Nj shigar
Railroad, resembling a locomotive head
light, with long train and booming roar
| 1t shook the houses and broke windows
and walked people up. There were thre'
| heavy explosions.
The case of Staples AGAINST the PostlanC
& Kennebec Railroad Company, to recove
$4,000 damages for alleged injuries sus
tafned by an accident, commenced before
the Supreme Court OF Maine, at Belfast
yesterday. A peculiar feature OF the tria
| is that the plaintiff and several of tn,
witnesses are deaf mqtes, who We're return
ing from "a Deaf and Dumb Convention
when the accident occurred and that thel
evidence is received by signs, through al
interpreter. -, t-.-..-..-,~-7.
"A respectable farmer named Miles Her
monson, comm itted suicide Wednesda!
morning, in the town OF Bremen IN Lake
County, Illinois, He ffst took shot gun
and placing the muzzle in his m outh, dis
charged the contents, causing mos
frightful wound, but this failing TO cans
death. after bleeding and struggling for I
. | SuOEb No managed 10 anu l1Ak'
his way from the house in which this haC
taken place to his barn, and there hangeC
himself with rope No cause for the ac
is known. he leaves wife and four D.
five children. 1
NEGOTIATIONS are in progress for the con
solidatfon of the Nashville q Northwest
Road, in Missouri, and the Attorney {, q
the latter road has gone to Nashville 4
consult with the officers OF the form's
road. The connection could be easI,
made by extending the Nashville & North
I | miles from the present terminus at Hick
man, KY, to a point opposite Belmon
. | from the present southern terminus of tn
Iron Mountain Railroad, where cars coul
/ be transferred across the rivers thus allow
: 1 ing passengers and freight To GO throug
from st. Louis TO Nashville without
change of cars.
Woman's Suffrage Convention me
yesterday in Hartford, Con nneciicut, Rev
, | N J. Burton, of Hartford presiding. Key
Henry Ward Beecher offered the openin
prayer, and the Hutchinson family cor
l1 duo ed the mussc. Mrs. c. N. SeVeFene'
of Boston, read q. lengthy essay anu PIT
a Susan Anthony addressed the Con EenlloT
The attendance was large, and include
many advocates 0f-woma an Is Sunrage Iron
n noon Mrs. Mary a. Liyermoges Of Chieag'
5 addressed large audience, aud In tn
f. | evening Rev. Henry Ward Beecher mad
an address, and Mrs. julia ware t5lt,ls How
through to-day. -455
A gentleman writes to one of the editol
G of the Chicago Tribune as follows: "Th
a lschism Of which you. may have hear
fle ne esif; ifo;rl p an9 5en5eas M 0 an
Magazine, have been suspended, and
E they stand Arm land they wilI), they wi
be cut of. It Is only valuable as shoy
ing what may oe expected when II