Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-03-16
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The bill incorporating the Missise .ppi VaIisy
Le,ee Company. giving force ana, and ea.st to tue
tai stock of $50 900 900, evyfn taxes ON acreage
and production behind the leyee for twenty-one
wears. IN te interests OF the co npany, has pased
tn Louisiana IL legislature. IL looks 10 cons IL
dated loSee system for the whole lower Mss;s-
sippi valleJ under one management.
Decision vas rendered in Hudson, n. Y,
Y erday, a. the general term of the supreme
Court, in tie Shaker habeas corpus case of
Sarah Ann BsEbour, of Staten Island, agaips.
EeDiamin Gates, trustee of the New Lebauun
Shakers; for the alleged unlawful retaining Of
her child, MariCa Barbour. The order of Jud te
NTFr, awarding the child to the moth n. was
afhIned, with Costs
Last Friday, nesy Stezeville, Ky. II. G. King
was stabbed and Instantly killed by a neighbor
named Christopher Taylor. Both parties were
highly esteemed The difficulty originated about
moving some rails around the garden fence
which divided their lots. Taylor gave himself
up TO the proper authorities.
Within the past thirty days there have been
seized IN Texas thirty seven illicit distieries,
Principally in the fourth district. Gen. Barro-
ten, assessor, and George A. SpauidiDg. deputy
collector for the fourth district it is stated, have
been arrested for COLLISION with the dfstillers.
Investigation of the record shows that the bill
TO punish masked marauders, introduced in the
Tennessee Legislature in response to Governor
senter's recommendation, failed for want of
quorum, and that ten of the twelve Republican
mem bers we're absent.
Since last October So 900 emigrants black and
white, have passed through Memphis, of which
Io;op were foreigners, principally from the
helghboIhoed OF Chicago, seeking homes i'm the
cotton States. The blacks were principally
from Virginia.
The jury in Moore Bonnell case, at New
York, in which Miss Moore sued Mr.. BonneIl
Ior $1,000 damages for saying he was married to
her, having been unable to decide whether the
parties were married or not, have been dis
charged
The suit begun by the Erie railroad against
M 1arh To- a. mn
alleged to have been obtained by fraud and col
fusion, was before Judge Barnard in the New
lsrk Supreme Court yesterday.
Louis L. Sherman and Charles Foster have
been arrested in New York charged with being
connected with the gang Of cOunterfeiters Of in
teInaI revenue stamps lately operating in Phil
Mary Blackley. of New York, has recovered
5000 from the Harlem Railroad Company for
injuries sustained in being thrown from the
platform Of car by the conductor.
y. &. Beecher, a prominent citizen of Clinton,
low =, died of paralysis on Saturday, two hours
after gaining a suit OF S25 900 damages entered
sgf inst him.
On account of the prevalence of ice in the
Atlantic, commanders of European steamers
have been instructed to steer and keep south
ern course.
The Board of School Visitors of Memphis
have adopted the suggestion of Superintendent
Lesth, prohibiting all religious exercises in the
public schools.
The ruling prices of building material i'm
New York, it Is stated, show that the decline is
fully twenty per cent, and real estate and rents
so down.
General j. W. Shaffer, of Freeport, Illinois,
the newly appointed Governor of Utah, is en-
route for Salt Lake, to enter upon his duties.
Michael HOllohan has been sent to the peni-
Tertiary fIom New York for nine years and a
half for attempting to murder his father.
The testimony for the prosecution closed in
the Fullerton case yesterday. Several letters
from Fullerton to Birdsall and others were read.
The editors of the New York Sunday Courier
have been sued by Henry Bergh, the anti-cruel-
~ toanmals man, for alleged libel.
The Prussiou Reichstag have enacted that 20
litcal oifenses are punishable only when crimi-
nal purposes are shown.
Andrew Jackson's birthday was celebrated at
New York yesterday by a general display OF
bunting.
Governor Walker. of Virginia, last night ap-
pointed a new city council for Richmond, under
the enabling act.
Governor Alcorn, of Mississippi, offers a re-
ward OF 900 for the apprehension OF L. ii.
YcrgeT.
A new Democratic club, similar to the Man
haitian, has been organized in Brooklyn.
An illicit distillery was broken up in Brooklyn
yesterday.