The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-07-12
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Major Generat Thomas and staT left
Portland, Oregon, July 8 for Alaska
The Steamship Henry Chauney from
Aspinwau arrived at New York ON Friday
afternoon. y &4
During a heavy shower two conviets at
Sing Sing, New YORK, escaped and at night
they had not been recaptured.
The gunboat Naragansett has arrived at
Portsmouth with six cases or yellow fever.
Lieutenant Drier died.
A dispatch from Houston. Texas. receive
Ell at New Orleans, reports an unprece-
dented Hood in the Colorado Valley. a'
The steamships City OF Paris. Periere.
Cambria aud the Queen, sailed for Europe
en- Saturday. y tfA sta'a
The steamship City of w RshingtOn. from
New York. arrived az Queenstown on
Saturday.
Another row of buildings In Jersey City
fell on Friday afternoon, being poorly
built.
An old nag was sent to prison in New
York on Saturday for endeavorl7og to in
duce young girl to lead a life OF prOstitu-
zion.
A New York policeman was sun-struek
Dn the Battery on Saturday, and viii prob
ably die.
It is reported that one OF the robbers of
ihe Ocean National Bank has been ar
TESTED. .....
There were 64S deaths in New York City
last week, OF which three were 6rOm chOl-
era.
VIM. II. Seward was confined TO his ho-
ael in san Francisco on Saturda y, by an
attack OF rheumatism, and decliH ,ed to re-
eeive visitors.
Arrivals from Alaska report the total
h,ss oftha schooner Luella, or Cap Eliza
Eeth, and the sloop Jabez Loves, on Fox
IAand.
John 8. Bliss has been held in $500 bail,
Il New York, for trial, on charges Of win
ding soldiers out or their bounty.
The Erie cabs made their appearance, ? in
the streets 1of New YORK ON Stature lay.
tuch to the CONSERVATION OF the thiev ing
1 ackmen OF that city.
Ben. Butler filed his fnal accounts of b Is
Frother's estate at the Surrogate's oflce In
JJew York on saturday.
A number OF German singing societieA
left New York on Saturday to attend The
@ngerfest at Baltimore. They marched
60 the Jersey City depot la three divisions.
each preceded by bands OF music, pro-
ducing considerable excitement.
-Four persons were severely injured by
the explosion Of the boiler in Porter's log
wood distillation works in Boston, on sat
prday, and the building was damaged TO
tne amount of $4,000.
The u. =. frigate Sabine sailed from Ros-
ton Saturday afternoon for Portsmouth
she has graduating midshipmen or the
class OF 1869 on board.
]. a. Brodhead, OF Boston, has been ap-
Tointed liquor commissioner under the
lrohioitory law; he Is TO purchase and sell
quOrs to local agents.
The -Gonneet.eu cut Legisl ature adjourned
stne die ON Saturday. The session was p
,Iays shorter than last We ar, and cost the
state SIC less; both II ouses held night
LESSONS during the pas week, crowdihg
busIne $50 As tOcreach a n adjournment.
Joseph Croxton, charged with the mur.
der II Benjamin Miller. was tried at
louisville last week and acquitted. Au-
other murder legal zed.
Captain VIM. Dyer was killed on Friday.
at the Reed Street wharf, PhiIadelphia,
B,y a capstan bar, while engaged in hoist
aug n o0iler FROM the wreck OF the frigate
1Sew Ironsides.
= saItiage maker named Bushy, from
WHesana, West Va. cut his throat with a
Taz ", at Cam bridge. Ohio, on Fridsy night,
stnd has since died. Cause lntemperanee
and dom eStle troubles
The VIII Of the late John Clark. of North
amuton, Mass, gives $4,000 To various
charitable Institutions, $4,000 to his rela-
lives. s40OOO To the Northampton Public
Library aud St2e.oOO TO Clark Institute Tor
deaf mates In that town.
Susan I.amareaux, aged seventy years,
was murdered In west Thirteenth street,
New Work, Friday evening, by her daugh-
Ter In -law, Mrs. ftOsana Deane, in at Of
1nslriiiio, Tse weapon used by Mrs. Deane
was asiiatEhet.
~ itBd'StateE MaEsgaRl Packard, Of New
Orleans, on Friday, seized the books OF
Augusta, { t'Ontevaurie q Co.. which he ex-
;atntned for evidence Of fraud relative TO
sugar lmportations. The Court appointed
three appraisers to appraise the sugar
seized X
The telegraph lines west OF LRGrange
have been down nve days, and nothing
can be learned from Beyond. The water Is
all over the country, In some places over
twenty feet in depth and stil rising; La
CIR nge being evacuated.
VIM. CIahin. chairman OF the National
Republican Executive Committee, has
dAANcAeu the recOEuklAOn OF bu6 Executive
COmmitee of Texas, CHOSEN by the House
IN tire Convention which nominated GEN.
eral Davis.
Frank p. Blair, in a card relative TO his
speech at the.banquet on Thursday night
says: Il did not intend to wound the
feelings of those who had hOnored me By
an invitation TO be present at their fes,
tivities; on the contrary, It was my in.
tention 10 complime Mt our own army BY
speaking or our late adverzaries as meE
worthy our steel"
Columbus Is also deserted, the womeI
and children mostly gone. Houses wer
seen Il ,ating past LaGranse. The water
M To the ops OF trees in the bottom lands
The tresuing OF the railroad bridge az
proachipg columbus still stands. but tn
heavy rise has not yet reached there. Mos
OF the crops In the valley nave been de
stroyed.
Thomas Sweeny was arrested in NeN
York and committed to jail on Saturday
for the murder of his brother John, whtl
boating in the harbor on the Sunday pre-
vIous. ON returning TO the shore ON tn
day mentioned. Thomas reported tina
.Jonn had falleR overheard and drowned
The body was recovered last evening. ]
bore evidence OF the skull having bee
broken by an oar. The teeth were knOcke
fn and there we're other marks Of viz
lence upon the body.
B9- As much interest will be take
In the election, on the 9th Of Angus
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