The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-06-14
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Saturday morning.
The steamer Hecla has arrived from
Liverpool.
Thomas Duke, the fourth OF the Altoona
incendiaries, was arrested on Saturday
There are three others still at large.
The steamer Quaker City has again been
seized and libeled az the instance of the
Haytien Government.
Twenty-four persons have rnysteriousIy
disappeared from New York City within
TWO weeks.
The sleeping car of the train that left
Rutland, Vt, on Saturday morning, ran
of the track two and a half miles south of
Boultney. No one was injured.
w. W. Davidson, of Mitchell, Hoffman
a. Co, furniture dealers, of Memphis, was
murdered by an overseer, at Pocahontas
Mississippi, on Friday night.
The principals In recently projected
duel near Richmond have disappeared,
with their seconds, ard IL is supposed they
have gone to North Carolina to have their
fight out.
Governor Curtin had a farewell public
reception in Philadelphia, on Saturday,
at dependence Hall. followed by a ban
quet in the evening at the Academy OF
Music.
VIM. Jones fell from a fiat boat at the
Nashville wharf So turday morning, whilst
Intoxicated, and was drowned. He arriv, d
on tho boat Friday night from near Ceee
lima, Kentucky.
Twenty thousand stand OF arms are be-
ing shipped from New York for the Turk
ish Government, who are said to have also
purchased several ocean steamers at New
York.
The widow OF George Van SAINT Roord,
formerly a prominent lawyer of Troy, N.
Y, who was killed about eight years ago
at the Albany depot on the Hudson River
Railroad, has Just recovered 5000 from the
company.
A meeting in opposition to Lay repre-
sentation in the General Conference, took
place on Friday night In the Thirtieth
Street Methodist Church. In New York.
Rev. Doctors Porter, Foote and Cobb were
the speakers. q.
Governor Senter published An address TO
the people OF Tennessee In the Pres &c
Tines OF Saturday morning. he states his
position relative to removing the political
disabilities ofthe citizens OF that State.
Messrs. Wells, Phelps & Co., of Spring
field, Mass, on Saturd ~, contracted to
build and equip the Philadelphia s. WASH
ington Railroad from Buffalo, New York,
TO the Pennsylvania coal regions, one
hundred and twenty-five miles, for s3,0OO.-
GOO. Tue work Will be commenced next
month,
Arplieation :was made on Saturday To
Chancellor smith, by the tax payers of
Nashville, for the appointment OF COM
mittee of old citizens, to take charge ofthe
finances of the city in conjunction with >.
+. Allen, Chairman of Finance Committee.
It Is hoped this movement win relieve tas
city OF its present embarrassments.
The Saturday afternoon Express train
from Louisville for Lexington, when near
Eminence, KY, ran OFF the track and was
wrecked. A man named Walton. an
attachee of the Louisville Transfer Conn
pany, had his leg broken, and two em-
ployees OF the road were slightly injured
In the new litigation against the Trinity
Church corporation of New York, now
pending before Judge McCunn. one David
GrOesbeeS charges that the corporation
had suffered the Church to depart from
the old faith, and made no effort to pre-
vent immortality and vice In the city, in
direct opposition to the spirit and mean
Ing OF the original charter
Cairo dispatch says: The opening
tobacco sales OF the Planters Warehouse
closed Friday night. Three hundred hogs
heads We're to a fun board OF buyers
Fh~ saaE. hogshead was so to
tan H OF st. Louis, for 1882 per
A. xMe second premium hogshead,
TO same buyer, at s6I per hundred. Tobacco
Is beginning to arrive freely for the next
sale. The sales have given general satis-
faction.
A fire in Cincinnati, on the corner of
Sixth aud Howe Streets, on Saturday
morning z, destroyed Wyley & BALDWIN s
steam saw mill and five or six other build
tngs, IN Ostly residences, and damaging
others. II was rumored that three child.
ren perisaed in the flames Total loss
$4,000. with less than $4,000 Insurance.
A mail carrier from Salt Marsh reports
that one Swede and boy were killed by 8
small party OF sioux on Wednesday. The
settlers are generally well armed, but more
trouble is apprehended. The Superintend
ent or the New York Colony says the
Colony, with the exception of some TWEEN
ty who have enlisted, have come in as ia
as Washington, most OF them taking
homesteads In that vicinity.
A duel, growing out OF an article in the
Petersburg IndeE denouncing Robert w
Hughes, a contributor to the Richmon
STAT Journal, a Republican organ, was ar
1anEed for saturday, at Chester, near Rich
mOnd, DetW cen capt. W f. OaIneEOns Ell
tor of the Inde1, and Mr.. Hughes Th'
police arrested the seconds and Mr.. Hughe
when near the lighting grounds. Tn
fight, it is thought, will be renewed II
another State.
A II fblnle's Atlanta special says that Tn
argument before the Supreme Court on tn
eligibility OF negroes TO hold office wa
concluded to-day, by a speech from ex
Governor James Johnson in favor OF IN,
negroes. Reports from Warren Coun Z,
show that a judicial inJuaction, restrain
lug sheriff Norris from making further al
rests has been issued. The efforts OF tn
military authority, acting through civ
officers, to break up pinsurrsetionary organ
1zatiOns, seems thus to have been bTou Il
20 stop.
1t is stated that the recognition of Il
Cuban beIigerents mas been again stron ongl
ursed upon Secretary Fish. Mr.. Ruiz
Secretary to Mr.. Isemar, the Cuban sagen
IND a conversation with him recent.
and argued that, considering the action
the volunteers in Havana, the SPANS
dOmination in the Island has ceased, al
line Cuban Government IS certainly mo-
OF a de Jact0 institution than that one
completely revolutionized, as the SPANS
government in Havana has been by Il
forcible deposition of Dulce. secreta1
Fish said he would return an answer In
few days, and Mr.. Ruiz feels quite sal
guine that his Government VIII be- Ieco
nized.