The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-02-22

/ cases against the mIlkmen or hfOoA-
Ism, for cruelty to animals.
The Common Council of New Y York
have rendered the hospitalitles of the
city to Hon. W. Fl. Seward, on his
return to the United States.
A fire in Mason City, yesterday
morning, destroyed ten or twelve busi-
ness houses. Loss $50 900. with but
light insurance
The two hundreth anniversary Of
| the South Congregational Church, at
Hartford Conn, will be celebrated to
day and and tomorrow.
The Board of Trade, Stock Ex-
change aud banks of Chicago viii be
closed to- day, in commemoration of
Wsshington's birth day.
At st. Paul, yesterday morning, the
mercury stood at 80 degrees below
zero; in Chicago, 8 degrees below, and
in Jacksonville, Ills, at 10 degrees
below zero
VIM. Booth, while drunk, shot his
brother dead, at Fall River on Sun
day night. He then drank a bottle
Of poison, and died six hours after
wards. Both leave families.
The hotels at Indianapolis were
full of delegates, yesterday, to attend
the Republican State Convention to-
day. Senator Morton is at home, and
will address the people IN Masonic
Hall, to night.
The trial of Jack Reynolds, for the
murder Of Townsend, commenced In
New York, yesterday, and the Dis
trict Attorney made strong opening
speech, In view Of the epidemic of
crime prevailing in New York.
There was heavy rain storm and
high tide at New York on Sunday
night. Basemests on both rivers
were flooded, and much damage done
to property. Yesterday, the weather
was clear aud the coldest of the sea-
son.
A. E. Chamberlain, a merchant of
Gennessee, Ills, in a drunken fit in
St Louis, on Sunday, swallowed an
ounce of laudanum, and then shot
himself twice, both balls glancing on
a rib. He still lives, but is danger
ously wounded
It has been developed that the act
to give women the right Of suffrage
in Utah, was the work Of Mormon
women and Gentiles. The legislature
were Mormons, and the governor
signing the bill a Gentle. The par
ties entertain different views relative
to the result of the act.
A meeting will be held in New
York, on Saturday night, to be ad-
dressed by Gov. Hoffman, and others,
on the importance of extending a
practical education to the thousands
of young clerks, tradesmen, and me-
chanics, whose callings have forced
them to leave school before finishing
their education.
DR.. Culyer preached a sensation
sermon, on Sunday night, In New
| York, on the late Voorhees, murder,
attributing it to the influence of rum,
and holding the rum sellers RESPONSE
BILE, as accomplices. He alluded to
the Stowe Byron scandal. punching
the poet severely, and attributed his
shortcomings to gin.
The Newark Methodist Conference,
embrh cling portions of New York and
|
New Jersey and Staten Island, meets
in Jersey City on the 231 Of March.
The New Jersey Conference meets
about the same :ime at Long Branch,
and it is reported the two bodies will
meet in union in Jersey City with a
view to consolidating the two bodies,
which separated in 1857. Five hund-
red elergymcu are expected to be pres
ent to join in the deliberations.
| A drunken man named Wilcox, on
Thursday, beat man nearly to death
in a saloon in Beardstown. H., then
shot one of the proprIetors dead and
: seyerly wounded the other Wilcox
D was arrested and lodged In Jail. On
Friday night mob took the keys oi
the jail from the sheriff, entered the
Jail and got a rope around the neck oil
a prisoner who proved to be the
O wrong man. They then discovered
a the cell of Wilcox, who, armed witt
an iron bar, expressed his determina
ton to sell his life as dearly as posi-
= BILE, whereupon he was shot through
: the head and instantly killed. hi:
: body was taken out and hanged b!
the neck to tree. He was from Al
: ALBANIA.
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
House - The House yesterda.
{ passed the resolutions of LOughridg
r increasing the currency 500 ,0OO,OO'
e by ayes 105, nays 23......... Bills wer
introduced, by Bingham, to enforc
the right of citizens of the Unitet
: States, to vote in the several States
n without regard to race, color or pre-
L yious condition Of servitude. Also
to fix the point of junction of tn
. Union and Central Pacific Railroads
: By Prosser, to provide for the buria
It of deceased ex officers and soldier
$ of the United States army 10 Ma
tional Cemeteries. To pay loyal per
i sons of Tennessee for property take
. during the war for the use of tn
It Ouartermasier. For the settlemen
st OF expenses of Montana troops /
.e 1867. Creating a Government Arch
- itect. For an appropriation for tn
: Harbor of Port Washington, WIS
p consiu, and various others........-Th
l. bill to relieve 400 or 500 person
named for political disabilities, ez
cited long discussion, In which Coz
Butler, Brooks, and others too
part...............The case of Fitz job
Porter was called up, and motto