The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-07-02
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

Judge B. c. Lotten. a distinguished
Jurist of Arkansas, died a few days ago.
The steamship samaria, from Liverpool,
and the Alaska, from AspinwalI, have ar
rived. g.a
No mails or trains have arrived at Ellis
worth, Kansas, from the East since Friday
last.
The Indians of Kansas are going to their
reservations. and submitting to the new
policy of the Government.
There has been great destruction by
the freshet to the bridges and track of the
! Kansas Pacific Railroad from the Solomon
River to Manhattan, and reported loss
of thirty lives.
A. E. Glenny, of the firm of Glenny &
Co., glass dealers, of Cincinnati, has been
| indicted for forging a guarantee in the
| name of Goshorn ~ Co, 10 secure Beck,
Phillips & Co. the full paymsnt of all
Indebtedness of the said A. f. Glenny &
| Co. to Beck, Phillips & Co., to the amount
of $4,000 He was held in $4,000 bail, which
was not given.
A duel was fought at Cold Springs,
| Maryland, on Wednesday, between two
young men OF Baltimore, formerly officers
in the confederate army. The difficulty
arose in a disagreement as to the be-
hevior of fcertain confederate troops during
the war Two shots were exchanged, but
nobody was hurt.
! An explosion took place at Dupont's
Powder works. at Wilmington, North
/ Carolina, on Thursday morning. Two
men, named James Mallory and Peter
Mass. were killed. The damage to proper
| ty was not large.
The hotels and bar-rOOms in Boston
/ generally closed bars yesterday, in Obedi-
1 ence to the Chief ConstabIe's notification
that the Prob htbitOry Law would be en-
forced. Considerable excitement exists
among thirsty crowds, and there was act
i've demand for private entrances where
| fluids can be obtained.
Two thousand he ad OF Texas cattle arriy-
ed at Ellsworth, Kansas, on Wednesda y
Drovers report that $1,000 head are now
north of the Arkansas River, en- route to
this point for sale and shipment. 1t is es-
timated that 10000 head will reach Els
| worth this season. The stock yard at that
point is complete d, and IT is the best in the
state.
In the Supreme Court of New York, on
Wednesday, injunctions were obtained
| in the case OF the Receiver of the Union
Pacific Railroad, against various parties,
to reach money supposed to be held by
them for the railroad and the credit mo
bfEier, were dissolved.
| Among the passengers by the steamer
Ocean Queen are the Rev. A. p. Allen
| wife and three children, and the Misses
Richter and Reynolds, missionaries at
HarpOol, Turkey Mr.. Allen and his wife
have been absent fourteen yeals.
Hon. George Brigge, several years a
| member OF Congress from New York City.
died at his summer residence at Saratoga,
| on Wednesday.
| Col. Ryan, with two hundred men of his
Cuban Expedition, were not captured by
the authorities, they being on shore when
the gunboat5 caught the steamships.
The box found in New York on Wednes-
day, contained S26S, 600 of bonds, shares
&C., from the Ocean Bank, which were not
easily negotiable.
The graves of the soldiers and sailors
who died In the late war. and were buried
in Augusta, Me-, were decorated with
flowers Wednesday afternoon, under the
auspices of Post Commander Howard, of
the Grand Army of the Republic. The
fire companies, Sabbath School children,
and long concourse of citizens part1ci-
pated. An grafton was delivered by Hon.
Joseph Baker.
Captain Geelan, of the Third District PO-
lice Station at Albany, New York, on
Wednesday, found on his desk what ap-
peared to be a small ball of clay, but, on
attempting to cut it with his knife it ex-
plOded, Iacerating bis hand and iDflicttn g
a slight wound on his forehead. Another
officer near him was shocked by the eX-
plosiOn. The ball passed out of the { ap-
tain's hand and entered the wall OF the
room.
The Sixteenth Annual COmmen cement
of the Polytechnic College, State of Penn
sylvania, was held in Horticultural Han,
Philadelphia, on Wednesday evening, and
? was largely attended by the leading me
chanical and manufac' uring men. These
gentlemen were graduated in the school
of civil engineering and mechanical en-
sineering. Addresses We're delivered by
2 Isaac Hazlehurst, EsqA Judge Allison and
Prof. r. Smith, of the College Faculty.
The President OF the irish Republican
Association of Pennsylvania, in card,
just issued, states that efforts are being
made to pack the Irish Republican Con-
ventiOn that takes place in Chicago, on
, the 4th of July, with Irish Democrats from
this and other States; that no delegate
, from Pennsylvania will be admitted to the
? Convention without credentials made out
and signed by the proper authorities; that
the Convention will assemble, not in the
interest of q clique or ring of Irish OIL
! American politicians, but to enunciat te
e and give support to the principle of uni
: versal suffrage, protection to the American
Union, and the social and political eleva.
ton of the Irish race on both heplispheres
Several members of the Con gressiOnal
Committees on the Pacific Raj roads and
= a number of the citizens of st. Louis start.
l. ed from st. Louis on an excursion over the
E Iron Mountain Railroad, en- Tuesday, and
returned on Wednesday. They visited the
iron To- nations, granite quarries and other
Il naluraA curlosities In the south part OF the
O mountain and were very much pleased
with their trip. The same persons, with
Q others added te the party al St. Ionts
r Will leave to morrow evening on an ex-
q cursion over the Kansas Pacific Railroad
stopping at Kansas City Saturday to wit.
= ness the ceremonies Of the opening of Ii {
e new railroad bridge, which spans the Mis-
q souri, river at thai point.
Four thousand people greeted the Gin
4 cinnati Base Ball Club, " Red Stockings
at the Little Miami Depot Thursday morn.
lag. A large procession escorted them tC
the Gibson House, where they dined. In
O the afternoon the Club played - Clut
|, picked nine. and beat, SO to IL. On the
= ground an ashwOod bat, 26 feet long, Il
u Inches In diameter, was presented to the
i first nine. On it their names were painted