The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-04-12
TELEGRAPzH SUMMARY.

Gold closed in New York, Saturday. al
1885.
The population of New York is esti-
mated at 1,lS,767.
Lathrop, LuddIngton & Co. of New
York. were on Saturday declared involus-
tary bankrupts.
A dwelling house in Hudson City, New
Jersey, was burned on Friday night, and
Thomas Murphy perished in the flames
DR.. John o. Ward is in Jail in New York
for refusing to pay $500 lawyer fee and
SI00 per month for his wife, against whom
he is pr scouting a suit for divorce.
A brewery was burned in New York on
Friday night, involving a loss of sl20,0o0,
and attended with loss of life by falling
walls.
A company OF one hundred and forty
Swedish en- grants passed through Con-
cord, New Ham hire, on Friday evening,
most of them en- route to Salt Lake.
The. .coroner's jury in the Twitchen case
has returned verdict that Twitcheil came
to his death from poison supplied to the
deceased by some person unknown.
The missing banker, F. J. Jewett, has
turned up in Canada. How he reached
there is not stated. His funds were all
tight.
A woman fell through the hatehway of
the Office Of the Chicago Evening Post, Sat
urday night, a distance OF fifty feet, and
was terribly mangled-
The gin house OF DIR. A. II. Kerr, ON Big
Creek, near Memphis, said TO have been
the nnest in the State, was destoyed by
fire on Saturday. Loss $4,000.
At the execution of man named
Dowry, convicted of murder, at Halifax,
on Friday, the rope broke twice, and the
wretched man was strung up the third
time by the Sheriff and his deputies. The
horrfd scene was witnessed by 1900 spec
tators. .
The Board of Health of New York report
the members of three families in one row
of houses in the Sixteenth Ward stricken
with small pox, Friday night. The Board
had the whole population of the row vac
cinated, on Saturl sy.
Lieutenant 81. d. Walton. Jr.. of The
Third United states Artillery, who was
a passenger on board the steamer Thomas,
has arrived in New York He confirms
the report that q part Of the crew is miss
ing, and states that the survivors were
very lily treated by the inhabitants OF
Chicaconic0, on beach Hatteras banks,
who demanded all the money they had
for the poor accommodations furnished.
Late dispatches say that Gray, the muir
derer of his wife and children, in Mime
SOFA, haS been removed rom his cell, and
is now confined by being strongly chained
and bound to prevent doing himself and
o.hes injury. In hIs partly ucid intervals
he ives ineoherent and contradictory
$ atements Of the norrid tragedy. All tn
facts appertaIning thersto will probably
never be < % wn.
Andy Johnson spoke his piece at Nash
vile, TO about three thousand people, on
Saturday, in which ne manifested his
usual aaodesty and candor. He spoke sim
ply as a private citizen, who desired no
Office. Andy never did want office. His
political ambition had bee grauded. he
was particularly sweet on the negroes, of
whom a large crowd was present He had
freed them, but now found them slaves o
the Loyal Leaguers. He was bigtePfn his
denuciatIon of the loyal men Of Tennessee,
because they would not let the unFepent-
ant rebels vote and rule. He manifested
his malice and envy towards Generals
Grant and Sherman, because they had re-
ceived presents from their friends, thing
he Wou q acorn to do. A clear case of sour
grapes.