The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-08-29
CONDENsEB FELEGRAMs.

MoSDAY, August %.
Gold closed In New York, Saturday, at
1865.
Work on Stevens battery is progressing
rapidly.
| Only 3,635 Immigrants arrived at New
YORK. last week.
| A French man-of-War was seen off Nan
/ tueket on the goth.
he usual number OF fatal assaults were
reported In New York, yesterday.
The President has returned to Long
Branch from New York.
Hon. Linus Child, OF Bost IN, died Fri
| day night, aged To years
| The steamer City of Cork, from Liver
| p Dol, arrived at Boston on Saturday.
The steamer Columbia, from New York.
has arrived at Glasgow.
President Grant is at West Point, hut
W I'll return to Long Branch tomorrow.
A thief named John Roe, was shot dead
on Saturday, by Brooklyn police onicer.
ills understood that Hon. Job Stephen
son will consent to reelection TO Con-
gress.
It is reporeed that Sage & Co. and III. D.
Cordova q Co grain dealers of New YORK,
have failed.
Samuel s. simons. well known dra-
matte agent died in New York, on Satur-
day.
At Long Branch. on Saturday, st. Emo
won the purse for horses that mad never
beaten 2: 81; Tins 2: 81
Oliver ]. Dickey has been nominated for
| Congress by the Republicans of the Lam
caster, Pennsylvania. District.
The steamers Anglia, from Glasgow, and
/ City of Paris, from Liverpool have ar
| rived at New YORK.
There has been great celebration at
Santiago De Cuba over the com mpIetioa of
the telegraph cable to that point.
Heyman's Turpentine Warehouse, In
urday to the amount of $4,000. Fully In
sured.
VIM. Hollinger, foreman al GIenn's saw
mill, Cincinnati, was crushed to death on
riday evening by a saw log.
A little boy left in q room, at Nashville
on Saturday, set fire to a bed and was
| dreadfulIy burned. HIS life Is despatred Of.
/ to rob the safe of the Logan County Bank,
at West Liberty, Ohio, but failed 20 effect
/ an entrance.
/ The extensive furniture manufactory of
/ Chas. P. Stevens, Baltimore, was DESTROYED
| by ure, Saturday morning. Loss, S45OOO,
/ fully Insured.
/ DR.. S. B. Merkell, Of Philadelphia. who
/ was captured by the Indians, was in Den
ver on Saturday, all right, having man
| aged to escape.
senior Asearate, Envoy of Spain to ad-
Just the Cuban question, Is reported at
| New York, and does not bear ofhclal ca
pacity cf any kind.
Major VIII G. Moreau was stricken with
paralysis. at KoHomo, on Friday evening,
rendering hlm speecnless. the doctor
feared he would not live Till morning.
The little steamer city of Ragusa has
been spoken by three vessels, the last time,
August 81, in latitude 42o so, lon gitude 600
~, sixty-six days out from Queenstown.
All well.
A fire on Saturday night, In Worcester,
Mass, destroyed q yeast factory, eight
houses and two, stables. Loss SO, coo; In
surance $4,000. Thirty two families lost
all their effects.
Barbara Lea, a widow, residing in Brad
day night last in bed, her throat having
been cut from ear to ear. Two children in
the same bed we've unharmed.
Work is about to be commenced on the
new Pacific Hotel, Chicago, which Will
front OF 1856 feet and one OF 325 feet, and
viii cost nearly 81 ,C0O,0O0.
The scull race on Charles river, three
miles and half on Saturday, between
John McKiel, of Cold Spring, New York,
aud NJ &. Butler, of Boston, was won by
McKieI. Time y minutes 81 seconds.
The annual festival of the Turnverein OF
the CINCINNATI District opened on Satur-
The speech of welcome was delivered by
Mayor MacauIey, on Saturday night.
Horace Greeley discussed at length, in
Saturdays IT. fbttne, the question of the
| Republican nomination Tor Governor oi
New York, anu says, while he will accept
2 any place either at the head or foot of toe
. ticket, he will nos press his claims, but
Will only insist that me best men OF the
. | party be nominated.
Roughs and desperad0es are hocking 10
> | Denver to such an extent that there Is
! 1 but little safety Tor life or property, A
: | quiet citizen was called out of his house a
! night or two ago, and savagely beaten in
: | his own yard. highway robbery was
committed within a mile or two of the
. | city, and again lhe man was shot at " hile
, going to the well for water.
+! General Hiram WaIbrIdge, publishes tp
| some of the New York papers a thought.
| ful and elaborate letter on the political
{ | situation, in which he takes strOne
grounds IN favor OF renOminating Presi
dent Grant, and urges the selection of Hor
ace Greeley as the Republican candidate
for Governor OF New YORK. Much i'm
! | portance is attached In consequence of the
J | prominent mention OF his name In con
| nection with the position of Secretary o.
!. State and his close relation 10 the admin
! istration.
The funeral Of HamlIn who was ktlles
:" in a duel on Friday, near Memphis tool
place in that city on Saturday ana wa
largely attended. Rev James Carmlcnael
S Rector of Grace Episcopal Church, on Tn
occasion delivered q powerful dlscours'
against public sentiment, which hat
q caused the death of Hamlin, and tmploret
All pres ent to use every effort to put down
= tne crime Of duelhDg. Members or TN
par attended In body. Toe AUdldfch
i THIS mornt ag. in a leader, denounces tn
= eode ana public opinion which had sia1l
> Hamlin.