The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-12-06
CONpENS sB IELaGR4MS.
MoSDAY, December


The number of hogs packed in Chicago,
thus far, is 2ll,sSs, against l73,l04 last sea-
son.
The old Mansion House aud Davis Block
were burned at kennebecks Ne FRIDAY
night. Loss SIC, 900.
A Washington special says the President
will recommend the early resumption OF
specie payment.
The steamships City. OF Paris, from Liv-
erpooi, and Hausas from Bremen, have
arrived a. New YORK.
Alderman 5canneu, of New York. who
was shot in drunken political night on
Friday, died Sunday at noon.
81. Mathews Episcopal Church. Jersey
City, was burned Saturday morning. The
church was the oldest in Jersey City.
Loss, $4,000.
At a session OF the National Board of
Trade on Saturday, the question OF the re-
and discussed.
The tide Of emfgrants from the South to
Arkansas ard Texas, through Memphfs, Is
constantly Increasing. Most Of them are
for Texas.
Brown, on trial at Cleveland, for mur-
dering his wife a. Eerea. Quo, last Spring,
was convicted on saturday, or murder In
the second degree.
The Republican Committee of Boston,
have endorsed the citizens nominstion OF
Mayor ShurtllH for reelection OF which
there is little doubt.
The counting ofcoIn In the Sub b-Treasury
at New York was completed on Saturday,
and the total corresponds exactly with the
Government BOOKS.
At Falrbury. III, on Tuesday night, the
AtOres Of n; F. Stall & Co, Beach & Co,
and several others, were burned. Loss
about 1900; not halt insured.
Florence SchanneIl, shot in a riot In New
York, on Friday, was still alive on Satur-
day evenirxs and refuses TO make an ante
nsoTfeD stf,tement.
A man famed Craig was killed and his
wife Iataly injured Friday night, their
carriage ,eing demolished by q passing
train, near kinderhook, n. Y.
a nre on Commercial street. Boston, on
Saturday. caused damage OF 5000 20 Dyer
damaged TO the amount of 81. 500
A man named RomuIus Newcomb has
. school mousse at Newton Centre, Which
was destroyed week or two since.
A letter Is published from the poet, Long.
fellow. expressing thanks at The honor
Literary Associations taking his name.
The argument ia the spanish gunboat
case has been post poned till next Wednes-
OF District Attorney Pierrepont.
The steamer city of Brussels was de-
tatneds on Sunda.r, waiting, as is Supposed.
for important Government dispatches to
United states representatives. In Europe.
A delegation from Louisville, headed by
Governor BTamiette, have arrived at
Nashville, their obi ject being charter from
the Legislature for a railroad from Louis
vile 10 Chattanooga.
All the legal proceedings in the matter
of the Wells. Fargo & Co. Express have
been vtthdrawD, and the difficulties be-
tween the stOck holders have been amica-
bly, settled.
Eounces, on authority, that ThnFlow
Weed has retired from political and jour
in either.
Five uarsons have been arrested and
held 70 ans the charge of illegal regis
tration me charter election in New
York. OF them seems to have regis
tered n SIX districts.
The FIRE at Topeka proves more dIsas-
trous than at first supposed. All the re-
the journals Of the House, OF Represents. @
tives, were destroyed.
The weather is cold In Northern New
YORK, and there is considerable ice in the
canals. and boats are moving slowly. Al
Utica the canal IS frozen over, with the
mercury at l0' above zero.
A petition from PhfIadeIphia. signed by
20, ,0O0 persons, was forwarded TO Washing
ton, Saturday night TO be presented 70
Congress, to-day, asking the recognitiO i
OF the Cuban rebels as belhgerents.
seven companies of troops are now in
winter quarters At Sherman Barracks
Omaha. No serious trouble with the
Hormong is appreheuded, and no troops
nsxS nsxS:s se' Oe'n 0'o''s0 IN the o'''''i0A o.
An auxiliary 10 the American Coloni.
azstion Societv mas been organfzed in New
York city, WITH Professor Morse as Presi.
dent and q Board of Managers composed
mainly OF the prominent men OF the city
-Four men were setenced to the Penlten
iiehtiary in Philadelphia, on Saturday
years, l.. d. smith seventeen years. Carr,
negro. three and one half years, and VIM
Moore six ana one-haif years.
Itappears that Patrick Fitzgerald, who
robbed the messenger of Stout & Dickin
son, In New YORK. the other day, really
got . sold cheek for $50, 600, and obtained
god therefor at the Treasury. He ha
been committed TO answer.
A telesram was received at Police Head
quarters, In New YORK, that on Frtda,
night the Citizens National Bank at Mid
dIeton, Del, was entered and robbed OF
large amount in Government and Pacli
Railroad bonds. No particulars are given
Twenty English boys, from Earl Shafts
bury's Reform school. London, arrived q
st. Louis yesterday en- route to Wakefield
Kansas, where IN agricultural college hs
who have a large tract OF land &C tina
point.
A dispatch from Franklin, Mass, state
that the last oosequies OF the late Alber
ID. Richardson took place in the COngre
About 500 persons. IncIudfnr the uidov-
mother and brother OF the deceased, wer
present.
The Theatre Band quarters and Ash Bar
racks, occupied by the United state
troops at Nashville, were destroyed by nr
on Saturday night. The remainder of tn
barracks were saved with difficulty by tn
Nashville Fire Department and the so
dlers-
+. G. Pratt, aged y, cashier of the Cit
Horse Railroad Company, OF Chicago, an
son OF +. n. Pratt, has been detected 1
embezzling funds of the Company II
confessed TO having taken At least $1,000
Wine and fast woden nave been the caus
OF mis- downfall.
The apprehension concerning the safet
OF the iron-clad Dictator Will be Qulete
by the announcement that diSpatcht
have been received from Havana, OF tn
Sd inst. announcing that the Dictator Ie
Tybee sound on the I'd, on her way TO Ke
West
The body of a saIoou-keeper, name
Morgan Kean, residing at Mitchell, Ind
was found lying across the track of th
Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, on Sata
day, terribly muIflaLed, the train havin
passed over him. L is believed that
ieII across the TRACK while intoxicated
B.M. Nordyk, who was injured at th
Coon Point, Iowa. disaster, on TIE Chfcag
Rock Island aSd Pacific Railroad on Tue
day. died Thursday evening. Tits max,
three deaths from the disaster Nondy
was a highly respectable and wealth
farmer Ct Dallas County.
A mar. named Holmes committed su
eide IN Chicago early on Saturday morl
ing, by taking laudanum. From letJe
found, 10 is evident that he was laborir
under pecuni4ry embarrassments. II
home was supposed TO have been at Moul
MOrr1S, III
Ihe Thermometers at Albany, ". Y,
storm prevailed there Saturday nigh
Canal navigation will PROBABLY be close
lee Is reported every here. Eighties
boats are reported frozen In at Illlon, al
few are reported at otner points.
Several prominent cclored men Of {
Nrra q oil for q vs1ua 40