The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-04-26
TELEGRAPH sUMmARY.
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road is rapidly increasing.
The ste amer Bellario, from London, ar
rived ut New York on Saturday.
Promising reports Of crop prospects arr
received from Southern Illinois.
The food between Buffalo and Detroit il
subsiding, and the Grand Trunk Railroad
TRACK is clear and uninjured
Two boys Of thirteen years were founc
hanging by their necks dead at Vermont,
Illinois, on Monday last.
The steamers VIM. Penn and samarIa
from New Yorz, arrived at Liverpool on
Saturday.
Supervisor Young, or Cincinnati. has or
dered the seizure of J. seamon's dislilIery
at SedamsvilIe.
Col. 5. s. Fisher, Commissioner of
Patents, left Cincinnati for Washington >
Friday night.
The Tenth Provincial Council of the Ro-
man Catholic Church embraced within
the province OF the Archbishop OF BaIti-
more convenedin that city on sunday.
The Philadelphia Board OF Trade on Sat
urday appointed committee of infiuen-
tial merchants to attend the convention
at Chicago relative to the cheapening of
transportation from the west to the sea-
board.
Philadelphia was rapidly nlling up on
Saturday with delegations to the Semi
Centennial Anniversary OF Odd Fellow
ship.
George Dalton. a well known broker OF
New York, shot himself, in a carriage, on
Broadway, on Saturday. Cause unfortu-
nate specuIatlons in stocks.
Samuel Harrington has been arrested at
Boston, for negotiating sale of silks re-
Gently stolen in New York. Theasiiks were
vaiued at 81, 500, and were recovered.
Philip Haggerty, charged with stealing
money from ie ters from the Lowell post
Office, has been held to trial in five thou
saud doll<rs.
It's reported that snow storm In the
vicinity of Font Laramie, on Weines ay
last, delayed the troops in pursuit of
marauding bands of adams.
John Duff, one OF the Union Pacific
Board of Directors. left ST. Louis on Satur-
day IN company with the chief engineer
Gen. Dodge, 10 inspect tine work on the
West end or the road.
Two carriage shops, two barns and dwell
Ing houses, IN Amesburg, Mass, owned
and occupied by Jacob Remington, were
burned Friday night. Loss, 5000.
Giav charges OF cruelty have been made
againat aptaIn Robinson and the chief
mate ofthe Richard obinson Their cru
city caused Two OF the crew to jump over
board. ana the captains wife, unable To
res@ain him, threw all the spirits over
board.
The body or Miss sophia Howe, who
mysteriousiy disappeared last January,
was found Saturday afternoon, in the
United states water shops pond, near
Springfield, Mass. The body bore no
marks OF violence, and 1t Is believed she
committed sn eide.
The New York Tribune says Minister
Hale having rendered his resignation of
the Spanish Mission at the request OF tue
Administration, and the same having
been received at the state Departmental and
accepted, the rejection of Ar. Sanford as
his successor, by the Senate, leaves this
Mission vacant. General Sickles within
two weeks viii, 1t Is said, be appointed by
the President as Minister to Spain to NIL
the vacancy, and commissioned In nc
cOrdance with the provision OF the amend
ed CIviI Tenure Act.
A number of the friends of Governor
Burnside have sent him an address eX-
pressing their Indignation at the assaults
of Senator Sprague, and inviting him to
public reception in Providence. Ths adj
dress was signed by about 5000 ettizsns-
The Governor has declined the pronered
reception, but points out what he calls the
untruths ia Spragne's aspersions on the
Rhode Island soldiers and himself 1t is
said that both spraghe and Abbott ex-
press a wIllln gness to flght, but each were
at last accounts awaiting the initial letter
from the other. IL was expected that one
or the other would write u letter on Satur-
day, and Il IS said Abbott waited for
Sprague at the door Of the Opera House on
Friday night, but they did not meet.
Toe attendance at the Memphis races on
Saturday was heavy, notwithstanding the
weather was threatening. The meeting,
which closed ON saturday, was one of the
most successful in the history of tue Mem
phIs turf. The first race, for a consolida-
tion parse of 500. mile heats. beaten
1lor es, with a handicap purse OF $50 to
The second horse, was won by Baffi r tn
dwo heats-tlme. 30 and :5J1S. The Wor-
sham House stake of G400. mile heats, best
three a ave, with SlO0 to the second horse,
resulted as follOws- Larkin, I, /, 1; Elgin,
.. .. s, Rochester, 4, 3. .; Lizzie Tomiin-
son, ., /. 4-time, / :5J1S, l:'l15, and :jl54
TIE booksellers purse oil SIO0, mile heats,
Gree for ALB sflier, ], 2,l; Vols, }, 1, 2;
Theta 3. 8. 3; Warwick's brown finy, three
years old, by captain Bland. was di-
taneed time 1;5lIa, ;jS]&, and l:53. -
Immei;ately after Mrs. Brown was dis
charged. on Saturday at Pou &hkeepsie,
New York, he informed a reporter thai
Brown had made a conlession in French,
ana her mother, Mrs Lydia Cox, who is al
West Gsaaby, Pennsylvan a, has ~ IN her
ppsS ssi0u. Mrs. Brown says the comics
Rion rssV Gals the name of the murderer anC
hBw tile ceed was committed, including
fulI i.l,loty OF Brown's lie. She says the
confession states that Brown hired a mar
10 do the decd and they were TO divld'
tile sii 90 between them. she says thu
ptot was laid al Dayton, Ohio The con
rsss. on, when Translated, viii be piaced II
The lands cfIhe B1strict Attorney.
The New York Tribune says that New
ork City 1Sthe headquarters of the Cubal
patriots. Millions OF dollars have bel
expended In purchashing arms, equip
laents, and stores. Twenty thousan'
sianc OF arms and equiIments hav
aneaGy been forwarded to their destina
ton on the Cuban coast. Councils or
night held and many ex-army AM
naval officers of the volunteer service ar
linking Their fortunes with tie CubaDs
Ou Thursday night, n company OF si11t,
mon ard officers ere put on board a tug
boat at.d carried TO sandy Hook an,
1here embarked on vess ei for Cuba. Tw
weeks ago large steamer was dispatche,
from this port in baiia {. She touche
rear ape May, and took on board arm.
e0uiprne ents, and stores, besides men froT
PnfladeIphIa,/ Munitions end men ar
a SO coIIecTng at Boston and severs