The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-07-16
VOL. Xxx.
COYDESsED TELEGRAMs.


4 York. convicted of secreEdelivery. 1t was
a case similar 10 the Hester Vaughn affair
/ The corner stone of a large cotton factory
to be erected at Augusta, Ga, by senator
q sprague& & Brother. was laid on Wednes-
day, with appropriate ceremonies.
The bank atsands' aim New York, was
burglarizsd on Wednesday night. The
vault was blown open, but no funds were
obtained.
At the annual meeting of the Maine
Historical Society," resolutions We're adopt
ed censuring the changing of the names oi
naval vessels. J, r. Shepley, OF St. Louis
was elected corresponding member.
Mr. Henry T. Blow, Minister to Brazil,
will start for New York to-day, whence he
will soon all for Rio Janeiro. He was the
recipient of private banquet. last night,
at the Planters House, St. Louis. tstt z g
Governor CLAYTON, of Arkansas, reports
/ that $4,000 In bonds, voted By the State to
the Little Rock Railroad, win shortly be
turned over 70 the officers of the road.
iron IS being received ia large shipments
/ for the road, and work on it Is progressing
i handsbmeIy.
/ The Palaskl County, CTenu.,) Democratic
4 Convention met 1T Memphis on Thursday
| and nominate John Cuppens for State
| Senator; II. Townsend and Samuel H.
Jones for Representatives and r. 8. Sher-
rod. OF Upton County, for fiOater.
A terrific storm ragged at Huntingdon
Pa, on Wednesday afternoon. Two men,
named Barney Farrell and Cornelius
Dare, while sitting under a chute at the
coal wharf, q mile from the town, were
stunned by lightning, and falling forward
into the canal were drowned
The change OF tire guage of the Missouri
Pacific Railroad viii be commenced on
sunday next, aud b. completed in about
three days.
A man named John Wilkinson applied
on Wednesday evening at the Central Po-
lice station in Rochester, New YosK, for
lodgings. He comm tilted suicide by cut
ting his throat during the night. 1t Is not
known where he came from.
Several sleeping cars of the st. Louis s.
Terre Haute Railroad We're taken across
the river at st. Louis yesterday, and wnl
be sent to Kansas for the purpose of
bringing home the wounded members Of
the excursion party that met with an acct.
dent near Lawrence, Kansas, on Wednes-
day.
The CONNIE encement at Bowdain College,
at Brunswick, Me-, toecurred on Wednes-
| day. The attendance was large. The
graduating class numbered thirty one.
The degree of Doctor of Divinity was con-
/ ferred ON Horatio Stet bins, Of San Fran
cisco, and that of Doctor OF Laws on J. G.
| Kohl, OF Brennan, Germany, and Hon.
Joshua L. Chamberlain, Governor of
/ Maine.
Walker Welch, a ub-contraetor on the
/ Poughkeepsie 4 Eastern Railrosd, has abb
seconded with $1,000, leaving q heavy m
debtedness amounting, it is estimated, to
over $50 goo. The merchants and business
nlen OF all classes are swindled in sums
ranging from SIS to $1,000 The Iaborers
| on the road near Pleasant Valley are high.
Iys excited, and trouble is anticipated.
The Company, however, Will pay them
their wages. rsass
f2The Commencement exercises of the
Wesleyan University, at Miidletown,
1 Conns teolz place on Thursday. The fol.
| lowing honorary degrees were conferred:
/ Master of Arts, ON Rev. James NJ Buckley,
John b. Foote, Isaiah d King, hebron
/ Vincent and Ezra Degar WlnsIow; Doctor
Of Laws. on Judge Ro 5ert Carter Pittman,
OF Massachusetts octor of Divinity, on
Daniel Avery Whedon; Doctor of Music.
on Eben Tourgee, organizer of the Chorus
at the Peace Jubilee in Boston.
/ Mr.. Merritt, Of Elmira, New York, while
i travelling between Cheyenne and Omahs,
last week, fell n with q counter eiter.
| who endeavored to pass a hfty-dollar
| counterfeit bill on him. Merritt subse-
/ qaenuy obtained the confidence of the
4 operator, aud the rest 1t was the capture,
near Madison, Wise .nsin, OF tive eoun.
4 terfefters, aud the seizure of large guam
i TIT of counterfeit notes, plated dies, Sc.
| II ecounterfeiters arrested were taken to
! Washington, and detectives are on the
track of the rest OF the gang. .Tt Q arrests
/ and seizures are said to be the most i'm
portant made for several years. .@ ~ s
ssThe mississippi Valley Emigration Com
rpsny was olganizsd tnthe Labor Couven :
ton at Memphis, on thursday. Forty
Thousand dollars WAS subscribed on the
1 spot The capital stock is TO be one mill
lion OF dollars, with the privilege of
doubling the amount. The shares are sIO0.
each, Committees were appointed -toao open
I subscription books in Louisiana, KIN
Ituckyt Mississippi. Alabama and Arkan~4
sas. General Gideon Pillow, s. ". Ciapp'
W. II. cherry and Archibald Wright were
appointed on the Execute Committee.
The convention ordered 5000 copies of
their proceedings printed. After a vote OF
thanks 10 Hon. j. c. Hanis. the conven-
ton adjourned s:ae dte. s....t
The engine house, machine shop. black
smith sLcp and one rive other buildings,
tOget her witt four ocomotfves, Two of
which were new, Two new pssse ger cars,
| several water tanks and large lot of new
trucks and other mate ria, belonging to
the South Pacific Railroad, at Frankiin'
Missouri, Were burned "Wednesday night
The buildings destroyed were worth about
s25 900, and the ether property WAS elth her
destroyed or suffered damage to such an
extent as to swell the total loss 10 froEn
$50 600 10 $4,000, whica IS partialIy insured
in Eastern offices. sr..,.se.
A dispatch from MlddIeton, New York,
states that the night Express train on the
Erie Railroad faom New York City, on
Wednesday n ight, ran into freight train
whieh had been left partially on the track
instead of a side track, about thirty miles
from Corry's Rock. The engine tender.
baggage car express car. smoking car, one
passenger car and sleeping car ware.
thrown off he track and smashed ont or
ali shape, The spIntered ears and frao-
kments Of tiInbers came into contact with
the scat cred fire from the locomotive, and
a confiagratIOu ensued, Ia which tiIh bers-
baggage and wounded passen gers all Went
| to feed the flames seven cars were de-
roye ed and six passengers were burned to
death. Two of tue passengers were from
New York one is su. pos d 10 be Rev. Benz
jamin Haneck. Another dtspatcn says all
the through mail was burned In the Post
hOhice car.
A short time since the Vestrymen Of
Trinity Church, in Chicago, invited Rev.
+ DR.. Cummins. Associate Bishop of Ken
tucky. their OF 4 Rector, 20 preach during