Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-05-14
EVENING STAR.
LATE KILOGRAMS, &c.


An explosion occurred from fire damp yes
.srday morning a. the Mount Pleasant Mine,
ueAr Scranton, Pa Five men and one boy
we're b.dIy buried; one will probably die.
sixteen hundred rarn al Pittston and some en-
riavess OF tine Pennsylvania Goal Company
tsye suspended woTk
Iudes Pearson of the Pennsylvania Court Of
A. znr1or Pleas, hiss decided. in the cases OF the
s. sav ana AID wes,ern Railroad Company
srd ~. IscksWsDa ana Bloomsbury Railroad
rpqrv. that property protected by Pennsyf-
t,rrr. al h0ugb owned ia New York, Is subject
q, ,S'at- taxation.
IT,. Nasssc1uset.s Senate yesterday passed
~ f!Il tor the anne atIOn of Dorchester to
y -r.. 4 proportion was befors the Legisla-
tva CouuIitse On Railro ais for the consolida-
.rr G.: all IRE railroads between Boston and
sssnsburg into one
I,auases ~ the amount of $1,000 were award
81 tcaIlst the United Ststes Telegraph Com
psry Yesterday a. New York, for failing 20
s-uI rIsr-ageS ordering petroleum from Pitts
lr-- 70 New YORK for Warren King
1;-sat interest Is manifested in the Southern
I.r.usrCIJl Convention. which meets IN
Esnvhis on the 18Th Delegates are going
r,r, he CarOlIaas, Georgia, and Alabama
Fus,ress men Of Alabama are getting up
c-rvsu'icu whose purpose will be 20 orgapiz.
At immigration company. The scheme meets
y. sL;Eusiastic eneouragemeEt
ne general baggage sgen's. AZ meeting in
Z agslphia. have org .GIzed an insurance
o. ri.aJ Il railroad conductors.
3Ir johnson was - have had an interview
wIf1 queen Victoria yesterday. and present
lIr. Il. Moran, Secretary of legation, " no Will
assume TOE duties OF charge q aires until the
arrival OF Mr.. L)thrOp Motley
The steamship Mexico Was burned at New
Orleans yesterday morning by incendiarism
Tbc vessel was reported to have been lstely
sold to the Cusans.
despatch from Sacramento, California, an
Iounces the arrival of a train of Springfield
cars, which were the first to cross the conti-
rent.
OpsratIons were commenced at ST Louis
Yesterday for the construction of the gre al
bridge which IS to connect Illinois with Mis-
sOUrI
ON Saturday afternoon a little son of George
Durant. at Boyd's Station, Ky, fell into tub
u not water and was scslded to death.
Al Montreal 10 - stated that the Privy Coun-
ell Of England 10 considering the advisability
% rrIlDquishlng all colonies except India.
Considerable political apathy and agricultu.
raj activity are reported among the people Of
Virginia In the vicinity OF LeAngton.
In New York million dollars in gold, yes
;erdsy on Government account, was awarded
10 Henry Clews Co, AT 1-3s and la.
Crevasses are Occurring on the Mississippi
@Burlingam leaves Paris for Berlin on the
2Ist.
@The sisters worren have settled their
quarrel.
4The Indians call Gen. Custer the "Creep-
ing Panther"
"The Chicago shoe-dealers are combining
against the ST. Crispins.
sTPeleg Clark, of Rochester, has hung
himself Married man.
SThe housekeepers of Hartford proposes
20 hold convention on the servant-girl ques.
tIOE.
ga post-o@ice clerk in England has been
arrested for stealing his rivals love letters
a<Patti, for singing in Belgium on her way
rom ~. Petersburg, received 81 600 per night.
~One of the Philadelphia suburbs is de.
CARED to be ''as green and beautiful as Fenian
BRIDE"
s(DeIenda louisa Cook is the name of a
Maine girl. living in san Francisco, who took
arsenic TO improve her complexion and killed
herself.
silt Is stated that in Nev-York and neigh.
boring cities there exist over a DOZEN German
American private schools, with several thous-
and pupils.
81 Madame Eliza Lynch, the companion of
President Lopez, of Paraguay, was wourd-d
n ;he neck and left arm by muske, balls dur
Iug the recent battles.
@EmigIan,s are fiocking into Kansas in
great numbers. Cattle dealers from Illinois
are taxing mp extensive ranches.
SThe legislature of Indiana has passsS a
bill introducing the German language as a
branch OF instrnc in the public schools of
hat State.
~Byrne's distillery having stopped OPERA
uOEs, there not now a single distiIIery run.
aIEg IN and around Richmond.
SSIx young girls of the period have been
on trIal At Clinton, Ky, s.for disturbing public
worship
~ The girls in the graduating class of the
Hartford High School took the two highest
Lonors from their boy competitors.
"HarrIet Beecher Stowe has arrived in
Hartford froTn her Winter residence IN Florida.
The story hat she had found the title to her
SCUthern estate insecure, is untrue.
"Several OF the German trades associations
OF New York intend 10 publish a daily Ger
nan workID gmen's paper. The German cigar
makers have voted 10 contribute $500 to the
enterprise.
~ThIs Is an express way-bii received at
Cleveland: lone child (alIve) 10 Mrs. Sarah
A. Leonard, Cleveland, u, from Mrs. w. Bush,
HIllIamsport- Pa Charges $50
81 Unul General Stonsman's recent removal
Of one TurDbul from ONCE clerk of Bruins
wick county, Virginia, the Turnbull family
bad been continuously clerk Of the county since
I736-133 years
sSThe pictures of Generals Lee and Stone
wall jackson that formerly hung in the Coun-
eli Chambe at Charleston. > e., have been re-
moved and replaced by pictures Of Generals
Grant and Sherman.
nIThe latest prophecy of the Second Adj
V-ntist- stated by tn RushviIIe (Ind.) Jack.
sOnian. Gabriel will tOot his konk on the
10Th o; July
ga California paper calls White Pine
'-stupenCous perhaps" There IL less mining
han SLING out. As soon ore Is struck in a
claim work l. stopped for fear il may ..peter
out, and the mine Is for sale.
MARRIED.