The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-08-24
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Deaths from Sun-strOke in
st Louis.
Destructive Fire in Sey-
mOuT. IND.
Man Badly Beaten by a
Policeman.
Double Suicide in Jefferson-
vile, Ind.
Death from Sun-strOka in
Death from Sun-stroke in
W New Albany.
Late Washington Items
News by Atlantic Cable.
New YcFk items.


NEW YoRK, Aug. 23.-Captain
Shaw, Of the London Fire Brigade,
has left here for tour Of the large
Southern and Western cities, and will
probably, on his return home, recon-
mend the .adoption of many of the
best features of the American system.
Railroad freights the West are to-
day advanced to the following
figures: toChieagO 37e; Cincinnati
35c; Louisville soc; st. Louis soc
per'cwt.
A lightning express train has been
ordered on the Erie Road, which takes
passengers to Chicago in thirty hours.
Fares are expected to be reduced
1t Is certain that the advance ih
freights will be maintained.
1t is reported that contracts for the
consolidation of the Central aud Hud-
son Railroads arc ready for ratifca-
ton and about to be signed.
Seven labOrers we're precipitated to
the around by the fall of a seaffold on
the new gas tank In East Twenty First
Street, and all were severely injured.
To- day a man named Bedell, an al
legged commission merchant, was ar
rested, charged with swindliDg Be
tholon & Thompson, of St. Louis, out
of twenty 1--WE barrels of whisky, val
ued at $I.2l4, by false pretences.
An Illicit whisky distiAery in
the Fifth Ward OF Brooklyn was
seized to-day.
The proprietors of the Communi-
paw abattoir disregard the Injunction.
The butchers are excited and threaten
vengeance against the citizens, who,
on the conTaFy, threaten to burn
down the abattOir, unless the nui-
sanoa is abated. 9#1~
Peter ii. Walker is under arrest for
attempting to shoot his brothers wife
and children.
A death from Asiatic cholera oc-
Cured to-day. It was German,
named Heshel Cohen.
The reported death from yellow fe-
vcr was simply a case OF cOngestlYe
intermittent fever.
Fred. Law, Of Eliza beth, was club
bed to death by Policeman Farran, at
Bergen, last night. s
NEW YORK,- Aug. 23.-The Her
dds Washington special says: -r.s
The movement alluded to some
time ago, favOriue a modification as
formidable and general caIrA5s,tr
The plan proposed is to increase the
tax on whisky 10 81 per gallon, which,
it is claimed, viii realize $4,000, 600.
If the means now within reach of the
revenue bureau for the prevention of
fraudulent sales be removed from to-
bacco, at least $3,000,000 car be real
lied from stamps, with the moditiea-
ton of the present law, say $10,000,-
600; fron.fermented liquors, SO ,00O.
900; from license, $10,000,000, and
then from the modified income tax but
s., ,OO0,000 would be required to make
total of S155, 600, ,000-sn amount
equal to Secretary BOutwell's esti-
mate of expenditures for the present
fiscal year. The plan is to confine the
income 20 the tax on the interest paid
on the National debt The five per
cent. is to be deducted when the in
terest is paid. This will realize S.
$50, 600, without 4 dollar of expense
incurred in the collection. The bal
ance it is proposed TO raise by taxing
incomes derived from property EN-
braced in the stocks of banks. rail-
ways and other corporations, and from
interest paid on incomes from corpo-
rations.
The steamer Iowa, from Glasgow,
has arrived.
The English yacht Cambria is ex-
peeted here this Fall, to compete for
the Queens cup, won by the yacht
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