The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-03-29
EELEGRAFsa SUMMARY.

lIe heavy rain at new \ Ork FRIDAY
might causes apprehensions Of a freshet.
ahe President had the headache on sat
urday, and declined to receive visitors.
Richardson, the new Assistant Secretary
OF the Treasury, was sworn in on Saturday
There were 4s8 deaths in New York. last
week.
Gen. Grants father arrived at home on
Friday night.
The City Of Paris, for Liverpool, took
sz5.e0q, and the Rapidan, for Havana, took
out 81 5000 in specie, on Saturday.
The steamer Kennebec was towed into
sacO hsIbor on Friday, in a disabled con
dition, ey u fisherman.
All the breaks on the Delaware and
Hudson Railroad and Canal have been
repaired, anddne wholel ne is again open.
Charles Morris, a cork-Ieggsd robber, i'm
splieated tn a robbery last Wednesday, was
arrested Fl day night and SIS in IN ney
and sz50 gold watch recovered.
Active preparations are being made for
the Spring race at New Orleans, whica
Z commence on Che 9Th proxfno.
Thomas S. Woods, eaItor OF the Ohio
Patriot, published at WellsvIIIe, died ut
Salem Friday.
Geo. A. Halsey, recently named as Reg
lister OF the Treasury Department, has not
Yet decided to accept.
General stoneman, on Saturday, issued
an order removing Governor Wells and
assuming the duties OF the Office himself
He has also removed Mayor Burgess OF
Petersburg
The taking of testimony in the contest
ed election case of the Gggleston vs.. the
Golden strader, in Cincinnati, was COM
menced on Saturday.
The City Council OF Cincinnati, on Sat
urday, levied a tax OF s5 on ali the dogs Of
the city, and a reed TO pay prem urn of
one dollar on all unmuzz ed dogs deliver
cd at the pound. This action has thrown
the people OF Cincinnati into exstacies.
JCdge Rosecranz. OF the New York Su-
preme Court, on Saturday issued an order
remanding to the United States Circuit
Court the case Of James Fisk, VS.. the
Union Pacific Railroad.
1 negro, who was charged with murder
and rape, was taken from JAN in Dooley
County, Georgia, on Tuesday hight by a
masked IN and burned to death.
Alvan Wilkins a stock broker OF De-
troit, was swrndled out OF $500 in bonds on
Friday, by two confidence men, who es-
capped t0 Canada.
were convicted OF having committed a
murderous assault, on Friday, on the Supe-
ri0r Court at Greenfield, Mass.
a firm in Hartford, Conneetieut, has re-
ceiyed a contract to build granite and |
marble nansoleum to the memory OF eln |
Richmond, of New York, at a cost of s2s,- /
O9O
The steamer Cuba, from Liverpool, arriv
ed at Boston on Saturday, and the steamer |
Europe, from Brest, arrived al New York
The steamer Caur5ria, from New York
arrived al sout lnmpt0n on y turday.
Mrs. Wm. BIag and Mrs. Chandler
Eastman have been elected memb rs OF
tue School Committee at West Concord,
New Hampshire. The Board consists OF
nve.
the least efde.ent supernumerarles In
the Treasu ry Department will be dismissed
after the first Of april. A considerable re-
duction viii be made IN al the bureaus OF
the Department.
A nechan employed on the Stevens
Battery at Hobo4en, under General /
0icCle Ian, prints a letter in the Sun
stating that the men are treated like dogs.
The Methodist Book Concern have just
paid one milton of dollars for their mag
niicent building recently erected on Broad
New YOrE city.
Miss Eden Walker and Mr.. Hayward
We're dangerously injured in New York
city, on Friday evening, by a collision of
New Haven freight car and a horse car of
the Fourtn Avenue Line.
An inquest is to be held on the body of /
lockwood. one of the convIcts who recent
IS escaped from Sing Sing, bu, who vas I
Syautunly slot, alter giving himself mp, b. +
an IIisn Keeper named SUlliv Al.
Waiter Mcfarland, Of the corps Of en-
finee1s. has been. assigned to the charge OF /
t1e harbor Improvements Of L ke Erie, |
y st OF cleveland, of Lake Ontario anu /
81. Mary 's River, aud the const; nction OF a
fogt at Wayne, Michigan, in addition TO
hi present duties.
Auditor WiczIiRs, OF New Orleans, was
arrested on Friday, by order Of Governor
WAR outh, but afterwards released on /
bail. lie warns persons not TO transact |
Hny business with the Auditors Clice tin |
Hc as-sia gets possession-he having been
1oscloi- elected by this police by order of |
lhe Governor, who, IL l. GAINED, mad no |
author.y for such a procedure.
James %. Martin, te Cashier Of the |
Hide auj Leather Bank, Boston, was dis
cha e on Saturday, il accordance with |
Ex President Johnsou's pardon. Two |
othts I...-i ment~, charging Martin with |
tnFr, ~ eurtt and cous piracy 10 fraud |
ve5e Introduced ly the Government At
turu.v, a. Hhicn ne gave bail IN $4,000 to
answer.
= letter from 8 Georgia Republican was
published, ou Saturday, AZ Atlanta, which
points oat the status, and nature, and pros
Eects, OF the Republican party in Georgia,
and shows lFho are To be looked to as the
5atura frlen as and reliable supporters of
PRESIDENT Grant and h1s Administration
Jt Rows how the Fifteenth Amendment
to tie Constitution was defeated with COM
bsnatIons w.th Governor Bullock, Ben.
II D.. and others
q is -tated that the Erie Railroad has
catered ipto a contract with the Michigan
SoutAeru Railroad 10 build a road from
Aaron To To edo, OHIO, the Erie Railroad
Tsaervihg the risht 10 use the track of the
ferss ar road until th@ 10th of next October,
TIE right Of renewnl expiration. Engiu-
eer~ ana workmen IeSke New York for
AKRON On Monday. his arrangement
give the Erie HailroadN IA broad gauge
A cJmmi tee was appointed by the We
mans Suffl age Association of st Iouis
o5u Saturday, TO wait upon the County
C,u-t and urge the propriety and irnpol-
lance 0f appointing q IN 1tron for the
county Jail, 10 nave special 'charae II the
1emlte prisoners, under the general s1per.
vision of The jaIIor A finance comtnt tee
was a 50 appointed to raise fumes u csrrv
on thesunfage movement throughout The
Sale, b- putting speakers II the neId a ID
Organizing subordinate a sociatIons.
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