Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-02-26
EVENING STAR
LATE KILOGRAMS, &c.

In Richmond, in the the case of James Grant,
or trial for kllIng II. Rives Pollard, several
hundred citizens having been questioned, and
only two found Who had not formed an OPINION,
The sheriff was drrec.ed 10 summon trial Iurors
irom Alexandria and Norfolk
constitutional amendment permitting
female suffrage has been defe ted N he New ada
Assembly by vote of seventeen 10 twenty one.
An amendment striking out the word white
w.s adopted-twenty- -four TO fourteen.
a suit has been instituted by Captain Il mi
Johnson, of st. LOUIS. against Frazer Titus,
John Wick, and others tor the recovery o;
~4l3ttO III GOLD seIzcd by them AZ a vigilance
t5rmIttee. N 1861, aud also for 10. o. damages
AT ball given a few nights since in Foster
burg, neSr Alton Illinois, i've or six persons
drank poisoIed liquor. Two of them were
yOEIg men. who were reported TO have died
yesterday.
In the CIrcui, Court IN Richmond yesterday
char ~ was granted % Joseph Fiunsgan aud
others, cItE ms Of Georgia and FLORIDA, to con
struCt telegraph lines IL and through Virginia
b. bill for the promotion of medical science.
isgaliztBg the study of anatomy, by allowing
IhysI-Iaus 10 l-gltimately Obtain subjects for
cissect on was passed In the Maine Senate
yesterday, by a vote of IL to TO-
Mr.. Senter, Speaker of the Tennessee I.egis-
lttuTe. was maugurated yesterday GOV
sTUOr OF sat-, in the place OF Governor Brown
low. resigned HIS address gave no idea OF hi
iutUr- policy.
Lieut.. John G. Small and Captain J. G
Scott who Were both IN the Union service
during the late war, have committed suicide in
san Francisco within the past two days.
In the case of George ). TwitehelI. IT., who
>. under sentence OF death for the murder OF
Mrs. HILL, IN Philadelphia. the Supreme Court
N Banc have refused a new trial
The steamer Cricket. which left Charleston
IOI havana on the cth, has not arrived the
latter port, and Is suspected 10 have landed a
cargo OF supplies for the ms urgents.
in the Assembly of New York a resolution
urging the repel OF the tenure of-offce bill by
congress was t1bled, and A similar resolution
= urder dE cussIon in the State Senate
David +. Valentine, for more than forty. n "a
years clerk of the New York Board of Alder
men, died last evening of disease of the e.rt
In recent speech before the London Associ.
ai'd Chamber of Commerce MIR. Bright urged
thr necessity OF adopting the system of ocean
penny postage.
Four hundred militia have been sent to
been declared. THIS is the county in which the
ku klux originated.
TIE announcement that c. De Roda Is to
succeed General Dulce has produced great
excitement in Havana.
Jonathan Burr, of Chicago, lately deceased,
beqCcathed s3CO,COO to local charities and
Ss5.CsS to his relatives.
The White Pine gold mines are reported to
be very rich, and n large emigration Is expected
-. the spring.
y Spanish man-of-wsr is watching the
movements of the Peruvian iron clads at Kew
West.
Woman outrage has been defeated in the
Minnesota Houae of Assembly.
The Erie Railroad Company will do its own
cypress business after March LIST.
Counterfeit $50 green backs were in circula-
ton IN New York yesterday.
A new overland telegraph is talked of in
san Francisco.