The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-12-18
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SATURDAY, December Is. +
The steamer Etna, from Liverpool, has
arrived at Liverpool.
The steamer HaIstatia, from New York,
has a. rived al SOuthaInPto
Daniel Mcfarland was formally indicted
yesterday for the murder of A. ID. Richard
son. t
Jonn II. Boswell, a deaf man, who re-
sides at Lanesville, Indiana, was run over
by an engine and killed, yesterday.
Jacob Dlckerson was convicted of The
.muraer of Peter Stakem, at Hackensack,
N J., on Thursday.
The failure OF J. w. Bond q Co, dry
goods house, Trenton. n. J., is announced,
for $4,000, with assets OF s40Oco.
Mrs. Hasklps was arrested in New York
on charge of having been implicated in
the bounty loan frauds of Gray q Pratt.
t. w. Remsen, formerly Methodist
minister and j. Harrigan, both New YORK
policemen, were on Thursday dismlsse1
for robbery.
The funeral OF Hon. John Russell. Of
Ohio, viii be held at Urbana to-day. He
was the Republican state Senator elect,
and his death will leave the Senate tie.
Fitting honors were paid to Senator Rus
sell, who died at Columbus, Ohio, yes ter
day, ID which the Governor and other
stale officers participated.
The Grand Jury in session at Portage
City, w isconsin, has indicted w. Nj Brad-
ley, Robt. Campbell aad others for Iyaca-
ing VIM. IL. Hen, last Winter
The papers aRnOu, ce the failure of n.
III. katten bury, one of the oldest m merchants
of iiliwater, Mimi. Advances 10 lumber
caused his difficulties
| Chas Dillon, of the penny post at Clncin-
nail, has been convicted ofopeping l@tters,
| and sentenced to one year In the peniten-
| tiary and TO pay 500 costs.
A terrible murder was perpetrated at the
] hospital In Cincinnati, last evening. W.
| D. Clayton stabbed Henry Meyers 10 the
heart, killing hlm almost Instantly.
George +. Dnnning, charged with en-
| be zzltng ABOUT S22,0CO, while engaged Ia an
| official capacity ia the New York SUBJ
| Treasury, has waived an examination and
1 been held to await the action OF the Grand
Jury.
The examination of the two lithograph-
ers charged with counterfelting United
| states stamped checks, In New York, has
| been postponed, pending the arrest OF the
| principal party concerned.
VIM. H. Webster, who figured promi-
inently in the drawback frauds in New
/ York, and VINO had been making Cana
dian tour, has been Induced to return to
New York, aud has been admitted TO bail
! in $4,000
at a meeting of the Directors of the
| Hartford & Erie Railroad yesterday, the
fill vacancies j. NJ. Bernard, \. II. Rice,
Oakes Ames, II. J. Coolidge, and Lyman
| Nichols.
The Spanish gLnboats were detained,
yesterday, in consequences Of g portion of
the engineers and some OF the crews re-
fusing to go to wOIK. No trouble has oc-
Cured, notwithstanding u disturbance
was looked Tor.
Norman Huny, son of the Collector of
Customs at Buffalo, and Jas. Riley, eX-
press messenger on the Central Railroad, ,
were arrested Thursday night, charged
with being engaged extensively in smuS-
Cling.
DIR. E Reynolds was arraigned before the
u. y. Commissioner, at Cincinnati, yester-
day, for making false returns OF his IN
come. He waived examination, and was
bound over to the February term of the
U. >. Court.
Private advices from the surveying party
on the CIneinnati a. d southern RAILROAD
I say that the second section of survey will
he completed Monday next. com meDclng
at Georgetown, Ky. The line goes through
Versailles, Harrodsburg and MortonsvilIe,
to Danvine, ON The Kentucky River, at
the mouth OF Clear Creek.
A Colpmbla, North Carolina, dispatch OF
Thur day says: A bill TO pay IN coin the
interest OF the State debt OF 6siS3, ,349, pass
ed the Legislature. Another bill was
passed, requiring each insurance COM
pany doing business in The state to de-
pos1t with the state Treasurer $500. 600 of lis
ponds.
a meetlngof the working nSen of New
} York city was held Thursday evening, for
The purpose of considering the question OF
I cheap labor. a resolution was adopted,
strongly protesting against the i'm porta-
z tion OF Cinnamon into tht4 country by the
jury of the working classes, aud calling on
: Congress to take measures for lis pl even
/ tion.
, The New York EreHilsg Tost has ru-
mors that the company which has been
at work for some months on the sap
posed PeDumatic Dispatch, To be bull
) under Broadway, is. really building q
, vast tunnel for an undergrounG
railroad, and the object is TO push the work
so that the Legislature will De coza PEELED
to grant charter.
Harrison Barney, of New York, and J
T. Thatch, OF Buffalo, delegates appointed
by the Governor to attend, on behalf o
lie State OF New York, the Convention al
) l Portage, Wis, on the 2yth of October, upon
the subject OF Improving the navigation
of the Wisconsin River, appeared yester-
) day. before Governor Hoffman, ana made
their report of the proceedings of the Con
Yention, with suggestions In writing.
at Aurora, III Thursday evening, two
ladies', named Ad0yman, were walking
= past the residence OF samuel McCarty, &C
. mpanied by q younger brother. A
they reached the gate the Lad took hold o
it, when INSTANTLY a gun was discharged
a portion of the shot struck one sister IL
the mouth, knocking out her teeth, ant
the balance OF the cnarSe lodged in tho
D other Iady's shoulder. The gun had beer
6 set with u spring TO shoot boys who pulled
down the fence.
q A New York Herald dispatch from Ra
leigh, NORTH Carolina, says great indigua.
4 ton prevails throughout the State in re
g gard TO the depression and mlsappropria.