The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-07-10
CoNDENSED FELEGRAMS.

Theinternal revenue receipts on Friday
were s69O,OOO.
G. C. Clements has been appointed Sur
veyor General of Utah.
Smallpox has materially decreased in
New York City.
Vice President Colfax and wife left Chi
eago on Friday, for South Bend.
The Legislature Of New Hampshire adj
Journed at eight. o'clock Friday morning.
During the session. l6I acts and resolutions
have been passed.
CoIOne. Knapp. of the St. Louis Repls6li-
can, has been a soJourner IN Chicago for
the past two days.
The Unien- Pacific Railroad announces
another red uction in freights. First class
freight is now carried from Omaha 10
Promontory, for i've dollars per hundred;
second class sl-45; and third class So 50.
The Charlotte & South Carolina and Col
umbus & Augusta Railroad Companies
were, on Thursday, consolidated under the
title of Charlotte, Columbus & Augusta
Railway Company.
Atthe Amherst College comm enceunent,
on Thursday, the degree of Doctor of
Divinity was conferred upon the Rev. Ed.
win E. Bliss, of Constantlnople, Turkey,
and Rev. E. P. Goodwin, of Cnicago.
The Morocco Manufacturers National
Exchange met at Cape May, N. J., on
Thursday, and organized. About forty
associations were represented. Among
tine questions discussed were those Of
the wages Of workmen; the apprentice
system, and. the transportation of goat
skins. sssy #
Goodwin's tobacco factory, in Brooklyn,
was seized on Friday by the revenue Off
GERS. No warrants have yet been issued
against the brokers or money lenders, but
the Grand Jury is taking up evidence on
the subject, large number of well known
brokers being examined.
In the regatta at Toledo yesterday, the
race between sIx-oared shells for the cham
piOnship, was won by the Undines, of To-
.Iedo; distance three miles ;time twenty-one
minutes and twenty-three seconds. The
concluding race was by pleasure barges;
distauce one and one half miles, and was
won in fine style by the Excelsiors of De-
troit; time eleven minutes and twenty
two seconds.
The monument erected to the memory
of Fttz Green Halle ck, at Guilford, Conn,
was dedicated on Tn Irsday with appro-
pirate ceremonies. About 5000 persons
lures of the exercises were the reading of
oliver Wendell Holmes poem, written for
the occasion, and an Grafton. Masonic
deleg cations were present.
The st. Louis (Mo.) County Court has
directed its President, Thomas ]. Daley,
and Judge Glover, County Counselor, to
proceed to New York and take such action
in the protested county bonds matter as
they may deem ezpeoient or proper. The
County Court declares that they have no
desire to avoid any just and legal claim
against 1t, and If the proper tribunal de
cides 1t liable to pay in gold. creditors will
not be obliged to wait, but the coin will be
paid at once.
The nuptials of Miss Mary Stillman, of.
Galena, with Col. Geo. @. Pride, of New
York, were celebrated Ia the former city
on Thursday afternoon. Miss Chiids, and
Miss Groves, of Bostou; Miss Powers, of
Chicago; Miss Langton, of New York, and
Miss Stevenson, OF Galena, omeiated as
bridesmaids, while Messrs. Silver and
PIatt, OF New York; Col. +. II. Groves, OF
Boston, and Col. Miller, of Illinois, per-
formed like services for Col. Pride. There
was a very large attendance from all parts
of the county. The wedding presents
were very numerous, elegant and costly
CongratuIatory letters were received from
President Grant, Gen. Sherman and Gen.
sheridan. The wedding party were in
Chicago on Friday, and left in the after
noon via Michigan Central Railroad for
New York.