The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-08-23

Grand Sire Fsrnsworth, of the Order OF
Ood Fellows. is a passenger by the Java
en- route home.
The first frost Of the season was mo-
I ticed in the 1oWlanGs near Hartford
Conn, yesterday morning.
Judge BrooM opens the u. 8. Court at
Raleigh, n. o., to-day, and viii probably
release thirty y, or more prisoners. KIRK
charge of contempt.
The Pearl FIGURING Mill of r. P. Ken
nedy & Co., Allegheny City, Pa, was to-
I tally destroyed by fire last night. Loss
SlS00OO; insura'lee $4,000, prineipaily in
Hon. aaron +; Perry, who has been cen
spoken Of as the Republican candidate for
Congress from the First Ohio District, wi
publish card to-day, stating he is not
candidate.
Alderman. who refused to give his name.
was found in a street in New York yester-
day, wounded by pistol shots In his head
and legs, which ne averre1 had been done
by hignwaymen. He Will probably die.
Two policemen from Columbia, Tenn,
were bound over by United States Com
missioner Gray. Of Nashville, yesterday,
for the enforcemn Mt of the municipal law OF
Lhat city, In defiance OF the United states
Msrshai.
The Irish National Convention assem-.
natl, and will remain in session several
days About one hundred delegates are
PRESENT.
lions In various lRrts of the Union. They
VIII set with closed doors.
A prize fight for $500 a side took place on
Sunday, near Channahan, VIII County,
ILL.,, between two bruisers named KAN
and J'ennison. KAN was declared victor
in four rounds. penntson was terribly
beaten. Eleven OF the ringleaders were
arrested.
On Saturday night last, Mrs. Konig. of
Davenport, Iowa, drowned her Two chiIds
rem in a bucket OF water, and then threw
herself into a well. Her husband jamped
into the Well with her. but the water was
not deep enough to drown him. Want of
means of support led to the rash act.
The National Executive Committee of
the Union League Of America, at Phtla-
delphla, yesterday, adopted resolution
Ing Napoleon as an unprlnc1pled adven-
turer. disturbing the peace OF Europe for
his own aggrandizement, and requesting
subordinate councils to make donations TO
local German aid societies.
A descent by the police upon Hon. John
Morris. ey's gambling hell, at Saratoga,
was made Thursday night, causing great
the Young Mems Christian Association.
The charge extended to every gambling
house IN the place. No seizures were
inventory was taken OF the tables and
gambling Implements, and those In charge
on Monday. This was the flrst complaint
ever made against the place. Morrissey
had the sympathy OF all the visitors at
the hotels ana most OF the townspeople.
A couple OF Senators, together with sever
al of the Influential men of the village,
including a minister, set to work and soon
had the complaint Withdrawn, and the
house was open as usual in the evening.
The Executive Committee OF the Christian
Association are determi ed to eradicate
and destoy all the Immoral Institutions in |
that village. Twelve have already been
closed.
The joint committee In charge of the ap-
proacning Commercial Convention to
meet at Cincinnati, IN October, have
agreed on a programme, embracing To Q
Southern Atlantic cities and Europe; the |
Southern Pacific Railroad, marrow span |
pier bridges" A water line cOmmunIca- |
ton between he Mississippi River and the |
Atlantic seaboaid. The removal OF OBJ |
structions from tho mouth OF the Missts- |
sippi, and the constitution OF permanent |
levees on the Mississippi. The abolition of
toll chars es on all the navigable rivers In /
the United States. enlargement of the |
more i'm portanI canal lines, to allow nav |
igation by steaam finance and taxation: |
settled policy ia the o1trtDutiOn of govern |
ment lands; charges on passenger tramci |
abolition of the license imposed on COM
mercial travellers; removal of the National
Capitol; opening OF railroad viaducts over
naViQable rivers to all railroads who Will
pay toll; other subjects may be addSd.