Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-04-18
EVENING STAR.
LATE TELEaRAMS, &c.

The bondsmen of Thomas g. Gerrish the de-
fsulting Treasurer of Lowell, Mass, have maid
INTO the city treasury sl6, C0l as a compromise of
settlement with the city. This and the amount
previously paid makes about two thirds of the
'defalcation The city loses the balance.
Aavices from Halifax state that the address. Of
the Imperial Government contains the foIIovir,
questions Whether the Dominion will be al
lowed, II DESTROYS, to become independent
And again: In Nova Scotia N dcsirons would
II be allowed to become independent alone?
John Meehan and Mike Fiaherty, Jersey
C1ty roughs, had prize tight near that place
yesterday, and fought sixteen rounds in twenty
i've minutes. when Flaherty was Knocked out Of
time. Five hundred spectators were present.
Miss Edith O'Gorman was pursued by a mob
IN Madison, y. j., on Friday night last, after
having delivered a lecture on Roman priest
hood, and the house Of a friend, In which she
took refuge, was pelted with stones
Gen. Robert T.. Lee sailed from Savannah last
week to visit the grave OF ms father, General
Harry Lee, e. Light Horse HAIRY, situated at
Dungeness, Cumberland Island, on the coast Of
Georgia
Brigham Young returned home from the Rio
Colorado, and his entry into Salt Lake City was
school children, and general turnout OF citi-
zens.
There was heavy storm YESTERDAY at New
York, Philadelphia, and other places North
notwithstanding which Easter services in the
churches were attended by vast congregat atoms
The Wyoming Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, in session at Wilkesbarre, on
Saturday voted on the subject of lay delegation,
with the following result: For, 1874; against, 6.
Philip Keeny and Michael Flannery, driver
on the Jersey City horse cars, have been arrest
ed on a charge OF attempting rape on Mrs
Mcbride on Friday, I'm the cars
A verdict of SIS 900 has been recovered against
Adams Express Compsny-the value of alarge
number of peaches, intended for New York left
at Fortress Monroe in 1861.
The first blood In the new Fenian war was
cr.a1N TA- 80 E~rA. A.
volunteer accidentally shooting another through
the head during drill.
The schooner John Limeburger, OF Brook
Ign, loaded with rnolssses from the West Indies,
was burned at sea some days ago. The fate of
the crew is unknown.
j. W. vaer, Of Hagerstown, Nd, was run
over by train on the Atlantic and Great West
ern railroad, at Mansfield, Ohio, Friday, and
fatally injured.
A freight train smash up on the New York
Central railroad on Friday evening resulted in
seriously injuriDg Samuel Clifford, engineer, and
n small boy.
beth, n. ", Is now said to have swinded many
there.
The Democrats of Virginia City, Nevada, are
going to support the colored candidates for
Mayor and other municipal officers of that
town.
American silver is to be received in Canada
on Government account at per cent. dis
count up % the 18th of April, after which it will
81 be 5k. ....
Governor Solomon and party, en- route fo
Washington Territory, arrived in Salt Lake Cit,
on Friday last.
Prominent Fenians now in Buffalo state tina
the kilograms in regard TO the Fenian Congress
are untrue, as no quorum was present.
Mr.. Benjamin Deford, one of the Oldest an,
best known of Baltimore business men, dice
suddenly yesterday afternoon
Gen. Stone, of Massachusetts. left New Yorl
Saturday for Egypt, to take an important com
mand An the Egyptian army.
The agent of the Tennessee planters who wen
TO China for laborers has returned without hav
ing been able to get any.
The school ship Mercury, from New York, /
reported ashore twelve or fifteen miles south o
Cape Henry.
The First Congregational Church in Nashua
N H., and several adjoining buildings, wer
burned Saturday night Total loss 800 900.
." Blossom Rock" near San Francisco,
to be exploded on Wednesday, with . tons o
Lake Champlain Is clear of ice. The steamer
will commence running regularly to-day.
The cotton merchants of New York city speal
of establishing Cotton Exchange.
over 900 immigrants arrived in New Yorl
during the past week.