Evening star., 1869-11-09
EVENING STAR.
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EathcT IlyaCinthe. in letter to thc Eya1g Ill
eel miBaSt' rs of Boston, SAYS that hr is Catho-
lie, and hopes 10 remain one; that he has not
broken with his Church. bat its abuses; and that
he recognizes tTu" Christians in all Protestant
bo,iie~. believing that the true Church. emSrac-
ing all who hold christ a. their head, Is FAR
wider than any earthly organization
a Councilman and a preacher sat down to
gether III a lager beer saloon IN Clcyelfnd yss-
terday and drank beer and chattSd pleasantly.
and when they arose to part the preacher. VINO
l. a~o proprietor Of the saloon, deliberately shot
the Councilman through the Jaw with pistol.
ard then att, mpted 10 kill himself BY dose OF
stTychnine.
A meeting Of officers Of various insurance
companies was held at Memphis Yesterday to
take action against the passage of the Insurance
bill. now before the Tennessee Legislature,
which requires the deposit of 800 900 by every
company doing business in the State.
The Avonialc fund amounts to ssi 23o.5o. of
which amount Sl0.IZSo have been paid tn
widows and orphans of the victims, and the bal
ance has been or will be, invested in United
States and railroad bonds and other securities in
few days
The Norfolk VirgInian reports that the Meth
odist Church north offered. on condition that the
Virginia Conference would reunite themselves
With the Church North, to give to Randolph
Macon College an endowment of 800 go.
The authorities OF Albemarle county. Va.
have caused the arrest of John Henry Salmon
on charge of having murdered his mother an I
his brother on hi> return home, in that county, a
hlELl, dkO. AEolu ~ tDEH nushiHk
A Pittsburg express driver, named Thomas
Campbell, is charged with having brutaly beaten
his wife TO death with a poker. Sunday night.
He surrendered himself, and said that she killed
herself falling down stairs.
The McCoole and Allen mill is of, owing To
the stakeholder imbrOglio. Allen declIues to
fight with the stakes held by st. Louis man.
McCOOle will fight ON no other conditions,
though several have been proposed.
The home and home game of base ball between
the Atlantic and Eckford clubs took place in
New York yesterday. the Atantics winning the
championship by the following score: Atlantics,
IL; EckfOTdS, l..
The Hicksite branch of the Society of Friends
has opened a college Philadelphia. the
buildings of which are said to be the most eX-
Pensiye of any College in the State of Pennsyl-
yania.
Five hundred Gros Ventre Indians in Mon
tana-One-half OF the tribe-haye recently died
Of smallpox, and the disease continues among
them Many of them are committing suicide III
despair.
The funeral Of the late Admiral Stewart will
take place in Philadelphia Tomorrow, at p. IN
During the day up to that hour the body will lie
in state at Independence Hall.
According to the latest advices in the Wheel
Ing papers. the Senate of West Virginia will
stand Il Republicans and Democrats. and the
House 81 Republicans and a Democrats.
A notorious confidence man. who has been op
Grating on a large scale in Maryland and adjoin
ing States, arrested in Philadelphia ON Sat
Urday by the post office authorities.
tTt0 tauDN nd> l>-uEu an OruCT peb>lpOnlng al
railroad stockholders meetings in Virginia Cir
which the State has representa until aftei
the assembling of Congress.
Several towns in Yucatan have been visited by
q disastrous flood, causing los of life and grea
destruction OF property. One town was com
Pletely destroyed
sunday freight train on the Sandusky. Mans
field ard Newark railroad thrown off tn,
track and smashed near Mount Vernon, Ohio
The conductor was killed.
The new steamship Hanover, from Bremen
has brought to New Orleans 200 emlgrants
Fifty 90 10 Texas, and most of the others remain
III Louisiana.
terday. viz: John Smith, aged twentv-seven, h,
hanging. and Catherine sullivan, aged thirty
I've, BY laudanum.
day asked the Council for appropriation o
Ss5.Oo9 for the coming year.
Rev James A Cobb, pastor of the Broaflwa,
Orthodox Church at Chelsea, Mass, died sud
denly Sunday night, aged sixty-ive.
The bark Naomi has been wrecked in LAX
Michigan The captain, his wife, and one sea
man were drowned.
Traek-laying the Mobile and New Orlean
Railroad commenced at the former city yester
day
The Royal Canadian and Dominion Banks O
Toronto have been consolidated
The free traders held a meeting at Mercantil,
Library, ST. Louis. yesterday.
steamer arrived at Havana Yesterday from
Spain with a battalion of troops.
Cholera and yellow fever are prevailing a
Porto Principe.