The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-02-25
TELEGRAPm SUMMARY.

Gold closed in New York, yesterday.
Is2Tz.
The Illinois state Fair is to be held tn
next two years in Decatur.
Grant stated, Tuesday, to COngressmal
Dickey, that a Pennsylvanian would b
one of the members of his Cabinet.
A woman named Wadst fatally shot j
Deyine in Alton, Ills, on Monday night
while attempting to outrage her.
The tobacco factory of John w. Wray I
Co., in Alton. Illinois, was burned, OF
Tuesday night, and the adjoining bIocl
seriously darAsged. Loss not known.
The tobacco factory of J. W. Wray & Co.
and the whole4.lIe liquor store of Howard
In Alton, Illinois, were destroyed by fir
on the night of the 23d. Loss So 900. In
sured for sl7,z50.
On Saturday night two brothers, named
Luten, and one Dibble, started to walH
across the prairie, from Carroll Station
Iowa Yesterday morning the elder Luten
aud DibbeI were found frozen dead, a d
young Luten so badly frozen that his feet
and hands will have to be amputated.
A bill for the protection of medical
sciences. by Iegalizlng the study of anato-
my by allowing physicians to legitimately
obtain subjects for dissection, passed the
Senate of Maine by II TO 10.
A desperate fight occurred at HighIa nd
Falls, Saturday night, between some
soldiers from West Point and citizens of
the first mentioned place. One man was
badly beaten. Four OF the soldiers are
under arrest.
DIR. Chandler, of the New York Board OF
Health, has analyzed the adulterated milk
seized a day or two ago, and by the aid Of
the microscope discovered sights in the
water used that the Board does not feel
justined in allowing the public to know at
present.
In the United States Circuit Court for
New York. suit has been commenced
against Charles A. Dana, Ex-Assistant
Secretary of War, on the complaint of q.
b. Lamar, for false arrest and imprIsOn-
ment-
Secretary Seward, in a letter to an Alba
ny military corps, declines receiving them
on the fourth of March, and says, " IL is my
purpose to seek and enjoy hereafter so
much of rest and freedom from political
studies and labors as is compatible with
the responsibilities in which share in
in common with my feIlow-ciiizens."
A fire occurred, yesterday, at Chicago, in
brick building. It originated from spOn-
taneous combustion, in the varnish room
of Mr.. Parsons, His loss is about 1900.
Hollister & Phelps, carpet man ufacturers,
lost to the value Of $4,000. The stores of
SImp, Fernian & Co, and Stanton q Co.,
were greatly damaged by water. The total
loss is estimated at $4,000.
The Tennessee River Convention, COM
prfsisg the delegates from Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Alabama, Georgia, Ohio, Vir-
g.nia, and Pennsylvania, met yesterday
at Chattanooga Governor Patton, OF
Alabama, was temporary, and Governor
Bullock, of Georgia, permanent. Chair
man. One hundred and seventy-six dele
gates are reported present.
A dispatch from St. Johns, New Bruins
wick, says numerous complaints are being
made OF the encroachment of American
fishing vessels IN the Bay of Fundy, where
many as fifty or sixty are engaged in
the herring fisheries. Accounts from
Deer Island state that the nArbor Is crowd
cd so full of American vessels and nets
that the Canadian fishermen can hardly
get their nets down on their own grounds.
1t is stated that the Rev. Mr.. Sherman,
who was hissed, in Washington, for de-
nouncing the President for pardoning
poSys S5ub u UOLS 10 DGtll PSOy y SSISI-
day, inviting him to bring his threatened
COW hide to his (Sher nan's) room, and try
IL on him. guaranteeing that there should
nes or be any legal difficulties. Dempsey,
ascertaining that Sherman was formerly
an English army officer and no ~ a fight
ing parson, declined the invitation.
An Havana dispatch of the oath says:
There Is great excitement relative to the
announcement of two iron -clads at Key
West. Dulce's address says the military
courts are established, and their decisions
will be carried out. Three thousand Span
ish troops leave Havana to-day for the In
teuior OF Cuba. Tnirty-six sugar-eane
fields IL one district, and severat whole
piantati ms IN others, have been burned
b. the insurgents. An expedition of 2.59j
men has sailed from Neuvitas to operate
against the rebels at Guanja and puerto
Principles A new export duty is hereafter
to be levied upon the products of the
Island, in order to increase the revenue
10 meet the extraordinary expenses of the
war.