The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-02-21
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AfoxDAY, FEB. zIst.


The Utah Legislature adjourned on
Saturday.
J. w. Heath. City Register Of St.
Louis. died On Saturday.
Tt is estimated that there are eighty
nine thousand Chinese on the Pacific
coast.
The Hudson River, at Albany is
falling, ard Is clear of ice from Troy
to Catskill.
A heavy snow storm prevailed at
Chicago, all day on Saturday, and the
weather was very cold.
Robt. Dole, clerk in the Baltimore
Post Office, has been arrested on a
charge of stealing letters.
The jury, in the case of Marcus 2.
Woodruff vs.. the Camden & Amboy
Railroad, were unable to agree.
A heavy land slide occurred, Satur
day, at Plum Point. on the Hartford &
Erie Railroad.
A large land slide occurred on Fri
day. at Coxsackie. on the Hudson
River Railroad, by which all trains
were detained.
The ice in the upper Hudson River
moved on Friday night, but Saturday
morning was the eoldest Of the season
and heavy ice was formed.
The Monarch is anchored six miles
belog Annapolis and Capt. CommeTd
and his officers visited the naval
school.
Leonhardt Schwarin, at Newark,
New Jersey, has been sentenced to 20
| years ip the State prison for the mur-
der of Conrad Stahl.
Trains on many Of the New Eng
| land railroads arc delayed by the
washing away of the track by the
] heavy rains Of Friday.
The two suits regarding the play
and pay of " Twelve Temptations,
in which jim Fisk, jr., was interest
ed have been settled.
Mrs. Shaw, a deck passenger on the
steamer Ozark, was caught in the
machinery, near Pine Bluff. last week
and crushed to death.
The Maryland State Senate want
the President and Supreme Court
Judges to visit the Legislature on oo-
casion of the reception Of the officers
of the Monarch,
Notice has been given to the
masous, bricklayers and plas-
terers, at Albany, N. Y, that wages
will be reduced on the 1st Of March.
The Workmen have resolved to strike.
John w. Diggs, supposed to be
Patton, OF Baltimore, an attache Of
the Post Office, who was detected
breaking open letters, was arrested IN
Cincinnati on Saturday.
The soldier who shot a policeman
in Salt Lake City, was committed on
| Saturday for trial on the charge of
assault and battery with intent to
kill.
In San Francisco there are vague
rumoTs of q conspiracy to annihilate
the Chinese residents on or before
st. Patrick's Day. The authorities
are looking into the matter.
Concurrent resolutions, looking to
Indian Suffrage, and asking Senators
and Representatives in Congress to
move in that direction, were introd1c-
ed in the Lower House Of the Missouri
Legis ature, on Saturday.
The railroad employees Of Louis
vile, at meeting on Saturday even
ing, resolved unanimously to become
| members OF the Railroad Office
Clerks Mutual Benefit Life Insur
anca Association of the United States
In the ooroner's inquest upon the
body Of Margaret Shendon, murdered
by her husband, on Wednesday night
some developments were made which
may effect the prisoners chances ol
an acquittal.
4 man named Mountz, was stabbed
and killed on Friday, in a livery sta
BILE, in Wheeling, West Va, by a mar
named Robert McCraeken. McCrack
en- was arrested and lodged IN Jail
but escaped during the night.
A great freshet of immense dam
age is reported in the upper Connect
icut valley. The large bridge over
the river at Lancaster, and severa
barns have been washed away, and
the people are leaving their house
fer safety.
, The Mississippi delegation desir
the President to delay his approval @
the Mississippi Bill, in order to pre-
vent the assembly of the State Legis
, Iature until Gov. Alcorn, now In Ne
York, can get home and prepare al
message.
4 There is an important case pending
before Judge Daily, Of New I York
against the Canadian and Amboy K
D r. Transportation Co., involving So,
: 600. It was reported some days sine
that legal attorney for the Eaglisll
/. Erie Ring, had arrived in New Yorl
E with e25, 600 sterling, for the pQTpos
!. of getting their case before Judg
Woodruff, of the u. s. Suprem
e Court. This rumor is now contra
d dioted.
The members of the Kentucky Lee
/? islature arrived at Cincinnati on Sat
!, urday afternoon, and were received
Is the river by crowd Of 5000 peopl'
: amid salvos of artillery. and c0nduc
! ed to the residence Of George Il. Per
l' dleton. A banquet was given them
p the Burnet House on Saturday nigh
u Gov. Hayes and eleven State Senator
represented the Ohio Legislator
They we're to dine in Covington yei
terday, aud return to Frankfort in Il
i, afternoon.
of Calvin Clark. of Bell county. Tel