Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-12-20
EVENING STAR.
LATE TELEGRAMS, &c.

Almost a repetition of the Avondale mine ca
lsmity occurred on Thursday at the Plymouth
mine, only one mile from AvOndale. The en-
CINE room caught on fire. but fortunately only
three men were in the mine, and they escaped
IN almost dying condition One man, john j.
Warren, attempted To enter the mine. and was
Killed by the fire damp.
After John Morri.Sey was appointed receiver
of the Simmons lotteries in Nex York, in place
Of Ben. Wood. an injunction was obtained to
restrain him from proceeding under the order,
but when the injunction was served 10 was dis
covered that MOrrissey had disposed of the prop
erty to brother of Simmons for the nominal
sum OF S25,CG0.
Instruction exists in San Luis, Michoacan.
Puebla and Jalisco, in Mexico, and is hourly ex-
ected in Mazatlan. At Puebla, a mob at
tackled a Protestant congregation during re
hgiOus service, severely injuring MANY and
irving to burn some alive, using hymn books for
fuel
A dispatch from Hazleton SAYS the canse of
the accident there was on account of working
the breast in the cOlliery too the surface un
der the houses, there being only about twenty
feet space left where they caved in.
test case, involving the right of merchants
TO recover book and papers which have been
seized for examination by Custom House Col
lectOr, was brought before Judge Blatchford, in
New York, Saturday.
The election for members of the convention in
Tennessee. took place Saturday, and passed off
quietly. The opponents of the convention were
apathetic and turned out in very small numbers.
The gold excitement concerning the Big Horn
Mountains, Dacotah, continues raging, and large
numbers of miners are prepared to start from
Cheyenne to that place early next spring.
Nearly full returns of the Mississippi election
have been received at General Ames' head
quarters, and they show that General Alcorn's
majority for Governor Is about 63 900.
Mr.. Seward and his friends continue to be
Toasted and otherwise hOnored in the City of
Mexico. The French journals give great signii-
canoe to Mr.. Stewards presence there.
Col. Richard Enright, who was convicted at
New York OF being implicated in the whiskey
frauds, and sentenced to the penitentiary, has
been pardoned BY the President.
Louis Bates, tried at Chicago for whipping his
n"1hew Ga child 50 badly that he died, was con-
victed of manslaughter and sentenced to the
Penitentiary for one year.
James Fisk, Jr., filed his suit for damages
against the New York Times. for libel. SatIIr-
day, in the United States Circuit Court, claim
ing $780, 600 damages.
The California Steam Navigation Company
have decided to construct a flying machine to
test the invention of John Walker Silas, the
latest aerial speculatOr.
John Stewart. coIOred, employed in a saddlerv
shop near Louisville, was assassinated yesterday
by George Hoffman or George Anstead, white
employees in the same shop.
Three hundred Chinese are en- route from San
FRANCISCO To the Southern States, where they
nave contracted to work for three years.
A meeting was held at st. Louis on Saturday
night, and Free Trade League formed, with
nathaniel Cole, Mayor of the city, as President.
arrived yesterday in New York from ST. Domin-
60, via SANTANA and st. Thomas.
DIR. Andrew Mead, an aged and influential
citizen of AIlegany, New York, was murdered
and robbed in his store Saturday night.
The MeScalerO-Apache Indians in New Next
co are still on the war path, and are committing
many Outrages.
The New York bar has petitioned Congress
for an increase OF the salaries of the Federal iu-
dietary.
William Logan killed John Mccarthy in a