The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-04-09
TELEGRAPH SUMMARY.

Gold closed In New York, yesterday. al
IS2.
The steamers samaria and Alpha, from
Liverpool, have arrived at New York.
Fisk IS seeking to make the acquaint-
ance of the editor OF the Tribune.
The track Of the Des Afoines Valley Rail-
read was IaId across the bridge at Des
Moines on Wednesday.
The official majority of Nathan Cole,
Radical, a Mayor of saint Louis, is 854.
Quite healshy majority
Bragg, the alleged Boston forge-. arrest
ed at Hamilton, Canada, was discharged
on Wednesday, the American detective
having failed to put in an appearance.
Five burglars were arrested in New York
on Wednesday,, In the ae of robbing a dry
goods warehouse of over one thousand
dollars worth OF goods.
General w. A. Nichols, Adjutant General
of the Military Division of the Mississippi,
died at St Lsuis, on Thursday morning,
after an illness Of two or three weeks.
Another Citizens meeting was held in
Chicago on Wednesday evening 20 con-
slider the project OF a grand opening Of the
Unioa Pacific Railroad.
Two men were arrested on Wednesday,
in New YORK. in whose possession We're
found Two tieTees of hams which had been
stolen from the depot.
St 8Iary's Church, in Jersey City, was
struck by lightning on Wednesday. The
steepie was partially demolished, and all
the windows were broken.
Mary Wall, in Brooklyn, on Wednesday
night, IN a family quarrel, threw kero-
sene lamp at her husband, nearly fractur-
ing his skull. The kerosene exploded, set
Mary's clothes on fire and nearly burned
her NJ.
1t is rumored that a late Prussian mail
from Bremen to New York has been rob-
bed OF over a million dollars. The Post
Office Detective Department, however,
profess to have no knowledge thereof
Paddleford 5 majority in Rhode Island is
1886. The Senate stands 70 Republicans to
7 Democrats. and the House 90 Repubn-
cU5s o12 Democrats
Rain at Nashville, yesterday, squelched
Andy Johnson, and he proposes to speak
his piece TO morrow
The Round House of the hicago & Rock
Island Railroad, at Peoria, Ills, with two
locomotives. were destroyed by fire Thurs
day morning. Loss $4,000, partly insured
in Chicago offices.
on Thursday night, two brothers named
Leach killed young man named Price,
at singing school in Adams County, hi
nois-the result of an odd grudse.
Horatio seynour is in Chicago. He has
recovered from the injuries received in
receat railroad accident.
The Republicans of the Third (IlIinois)
Congressional District hold their conven-
tion, at Frankfort. on the 25th OF May, to
nominate a candidate for Congress in
place OF E. B. washburne.
Captain E c. Patterson was held to bail
in Memphis, on Thursday. in the sum Of
$4,000, for MS appearance ia the Criminal
Court, 10 answer a charge of hiring men
to assassinate one Dickens, and in al
tempting which, two negroes working
with Dickens were killed.
At a meeting of the stockholders of the
New port lie of steamers, held in Fall
River on Wednesday, it was voted to sell
the line TO the Narragausett Steamboat
Company, or other paItles FOR one million
two hundred thousand do lars. The vote
is now to be accepted by the Erie Direct
oTs, who will meet on the 18th, to vote on
the proposition.
TwiteheIl, who was to have been hung
on Thursday in Philadelphia, for the muir
der o his moth er-in-Iaw, was found dead
in his ell az 5 O'Clock Thursday morning
Hei is supposed to have shielded by poison
furnished friends. At O'Clock In the
morning he was left by Rev. Mr. Brlnker-
hoff and two Catholic priests.
The ca nfngs of the North Missouri
Railroad for the year ending Februar y 2S
were 81 OS7 ~ The length of this road is
three hundred and sky miles, including
the main line tn Iowa State line, and the
west branch from Moberly to Kansas City.
1t is also operating two or three short in
terseciing roads.