The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-11-24
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"WEDNESDAY, Nov. "a.
The steamship Moravian, from Quebec,
has arrived at Queenstown
Gen. Butler yesterday gave bail in $4,000
In the TWiggs sword and plate case.
ACyM. Smith, q pioneer in the express
business, died In New orig yesterday.
Hiram Oliver. under sentence of death,
died IN jail at Memphis few days 40.
Rsy. John P. Dean. pastor of st. Johns
Catholic Church, Philadelphia. died yes
terday. A'i
A Convention of all the liquor dealers in
the United States viii meet in Chicago to-
day. l59s.ns
There is said to be no truth in the report
that three OF the Spanish gunDoats had
escaped.
There Is a rurnor In New York that three
OF the Spanish gu1boats escaped to sea on
Monday =
Four dwellings at Dutch Kills, Staten
Island, were burned Monday night. Loss
hfteen thousand dollars.
The steamships City or Washington and
Minnesota, from Liverpool, have rived
RtNeW York, and the Lestorian at Boston.
Quartermaster General MeIgs, who has
bee suffering from erysipslas, at the Plant
ers' House. st. Leafs, for some days past. Is
reported as improving
One Iaborer WIS killed aud four others
fatally injured at the depot of the Morris
Railroad at HoboksD on Monday night,
by being crushed between freight cars.
Eleven persons died in New York City
during the past week, of small pOx, and on
Mondava number OF cases were reported
In the lower part OF Broome street.
It is said that Mr. Lewis, OF the Cuban
Jubta OF New York, has made an affidavit
IN relation to the case OF the steamer HOr-
net, with a view 10 secure her release.
A Chicago dispatch says the weather is
Tsi55 5d snov ~ foIiow,ns f each other i
quick succession. snow was the ruling
element yesterday. fAfs
The arguuaen in tue case OF the Mem
at Little Rock yesterday. The old Board
CT Directors have still possession of the
road, and are running trains as usual.
District Attorney Plerrepont has render
ed an opinion in regard to the special tax
concerning bankers, in which he recom-
mends the latter 70 settle accounts with
the Government.
Four persons have be arrested in
Brooklyn for forging Will purporling to
be that OF man named Bourne. WHO died
asst August, dtsinheritlng his only daugh-
ter, ana giving all hts property to another
party.
Another body has been taken from the
Fifth Street building, st. Louis, and three
more bodies are supposed to be beneath
the ruins. The remains of Jonn P. Bra
shore, the first victim exhum ed, has been
sent to Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
John Barnett, a1young man. was public
1y excomunicated from the Walnut Street
Pa esbytarian Church. In st. LOUIS, last
weekly collections of the Church. He con-
fesses to have thus stolen $1,000 since Feb
ruary last
Lockwood & Company. Of New York,
have 50 far a 1justeri their affairs that they
announce a Iesp nptiOn of business in
few days They tfseted an anicable set
tlemeDL on Monday with the Lake Shore
Railroad Comp any, mutually advantage
Gus to both.
Edward Foster. said To have done SER
vice in the State Prison, Is under arrest In
Boston -or blRcKmaittng Abraham Arthur
French to the e8sent of 5000, by expos
ing some fmPToEristies which he alleges
against the latter.
A Lively time may be expected in Cleye-
land to-day, especially as there IL antici-
pRted q tilt at tongues between Lucy stone
and Miss Anthony, on the question o. the
existence of a National Woman's Suffrage
Convention. And then all the editors VIII
be there to-day and tonight.
An old man named Edward Wefch fell
into vat OF boiling water In a PORK house,
at Louisville. yesterday MOI ming, and was
fatally scslded- Dennis Quinln, In al
tempting to rescue WeIch, was drawn into
the vat head foremost, aud died last even
ing. Welch cannot survive.
A private meeting OF the sufferers by the
BoYieston bank robbery was held last
eventng. About half were present, repre-
seasing loss of s256,OOO. Many depostors
absent from the meeting had small
ansounts deposited, and IL Is believed the
sotal loss does not exceed SS50,O0O-
A large and enthusiastic meeting of
merchants and bankers was held in ! eW
York, yesterday, to institute measures 10
raise fund to erect monument to Geo
Peabody in Central Park. W. II. Nelson
WIS chosen President. Mr.. VanderhoR Sec
retary, and John Bloodgood Treasurer
with numerous Vice-Presidents and an
Executive Committee. The title chosen
for the association is the National Peabody
Monument Association.
At meeting of the citizens OF the town
OF Peabody held on Monday evening, res
Qtnls0F9G q0OD4en nOnOrtnQ
ory of George Peabody, and appointing 8
committee to cooperate with the Trustees
of the Peabody Institute in making ar
rangements for the funeral. Rev. William
n. Barbour, from the Bangor Theologica
Seminary, has accepted an Invitation. &c
deliver the funeral sermon.
o. Monday morning Deputy Collector
BIatcS ford, who is charged with the perpe
tration OF gross frauds in the drawbacks
department OF the New York Custom
House, pIesented a verbal resignation
through a friend to Mr.. GriDnell, who &C
cepted. The whereabouts of Blatchfort
have not, as yet, been ascertained by tn.
Deputy Marshals who have been in puT
suit OF him for several days past, but tht
presumption is that he is conceaied some
where in the city.
at Lexington, Kentucky, last Sunday
aftern oon, while the Second Col red Bap
Gist Church was packed with worsnipe.
a part of the fioor gave way. precipitatin
the greater mum Der into the basement II
heap, killing three and woandlng many
A1arge number of the congregation VIII
escaped going down with the floor, jumpe
from windows, whereby many sudeF q
broken limbs. The disaster orphaned hv
children in one family.
The frauds and defa:cations In the Meth
odist Book Concern, at New York, nav
been thoroughly inquired iot1 By com
nIttee and their report is printed, and Il
-rFe binding department OF the eSi ablisn
ment There have been serious losses, bu
In the general management OF the 1nstltu
rticn there is nothing to complain CT HI
AGENTS, It is acknowledged, have bough
.p9Der and other materials fer the prinIin
department Though mlddlemen, but
does not appear that any Sc 1ous loss ha
been oecastoned by that rrangement-
Cleveland Is full of strangers, InclIdIn
abIebodIed Lawyers and politicians, stro 3
minded women, and people nom all I'll
walks of life, and of every shade of c7Ic
Convention, which meets to-day. I'll
Ohio = ate Association met yesterday an
appointed delegates TO attend 10
National Convention, after which
number of woman gave the peop
present q piece OF their mind
a large number of editors are also
Cleveland, to attend the meeting of IL
Associated Press. which, by a strange c.
Incidence, meets at Cleveland, to-day. ais
Among the notables present are Joseu
Mediu Of the Chicago Tribune; RiehaI
smith, Cincinnati GOzette; Judge Wake
0eIroit C. ID. Brigham, Ptttsburg: Villa
penn Nixon, Cincinnati. NJ. Halstea
N the Cincinnati COTlaeTctdt, Will be the
tnts morning.
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Ordinance Vetoed.
ST.. louis, November 23.-May