The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-05-13
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FRIDAY, May 13.
Gold closed IN New York, yesterday, a.
eI l47s.
The steamer Denmark, from Liverpool,
has arrived at New York.
The steamship Iowa, from New York.
touched at Londonderry yesterday.
The steamer HeIvetiat from Liverpool,
has arrived at New York.
George Gusher has been appointed Con-
sui for Greece at San Francisco.
Rev. Geo. 9. Beckworth, Of Boston, died
yesterday, OF heart disease.
Henry Peters Ward has been chosen
President of the National Academy Of De-
sign.
In the billiard tournanie ent, in San Fran
cisco, on Monday, Keetiug beat Mott, and
Wright beat McCioy-
Messrs. Taylor. Phelps, OteDdorfer and
Jerome have decifu ed the panannaf1y NOM
nations for Aldermen &C large. aud oth-
ers viii be selected In their places.
Rev. 5. w. Fisher, formerly President of
Hamilton College, at Utica, New York, !,
was struck with apop2exy, yesterday.
Hopes are entertained OF his recovery.
The Mas achusetts Lodge of Masons, of
which Gen. Joseph Warren was the first
Wcrshfpful Master, celebrated its one
hrndredth anniversary yesterday.
Capt. J. II. Johnson, extensively known
as 1uba Dam" q correspondent of the
inston, Kentucky, yesterday, ofconsump-
tlon.
The Fenian Council OF war. he'd yes
ferday, reported that It was agreed the
the North. and that blow Is likely 20 be
struck next week.
Memorial services, In commen1oration
OF Rev. DR.. John McCiintock, Bishop Ed
ward Thompson and Bishop calvin Kings
ley We're held IN Music Han, Boston, on
"Wednesday night.
Damon b. Eaton, of New YORK, who is
Just recovering nom the blow OF an assas-
SIN, inflicted some mOnths ag0. sailed by
the Java, on Wednesday, by the advice or
his physlc1tns.
Gov, Safford's party have arrived at San
FRANCISCO, from the new mines OF. Arizo-
ma. The richness OF the mines Is fuily
connrmed, and other equally rich ledges
have been discovered farther south.
Gems. Garfield and Banies. Horace Nav
naTd and otbers, were to address meet
ing. st coopers Institute last night, in re-
gard 70 the proposed Tres " with san Do
mingo, for the acquisition ofthe BAY OF Sa-
mana, and adjacent territory.
Miss Beecher, In a speech In the Wo-
mems Suffrage Convention in New York
yesterday, against female suffrage, said
the reason her brother Henry Ward was
there, was because ne could not say no to
anything q woman may ask him to do.
senator Reveis, OF Mississippi. lectured
at the Cooper insttI ute, New York, on
| Wedne sday evening, on the tendencies Of
the age. he CLAIMED that the eourse OF
/ vents In the country were toward liberty
/ OF thought and Of faction, in which cas- @,
/ color OF skin and artstocratic blood would
have no part. ~
| A decision was given by Judge Brady, OF
4 the New York supreme Court, yesterday,
/ in favor OF Pitt Cooke against the State
/ bank contested its liability on certifca-
/ tiOn of a check, the drawer of which had
/ no funds to meet It. The amount involved
arso l n ftasfF afn Irrr
ever. fer the review Of the case at the gem
Il eral term.
81 United States Commissioner Osborne. OF
/ New York, has discharged Johnston, who
\ was charged with the murder aboard tha
brig Morning Light, whose extraditton ia
| claimed by the British Consul, on the
/ ground that the extradition tready does
Il not cover the crime of manslaughter.
/ which was all the evidence showed the
crime to be.
The Mcfarland trial and acquittal was
the absorbing topic in New York, yester-
| day. Mcfarland travelled the city freely,
/ having recovered from his recent insanity.
He was in ntervtewed. OF course. by newspa-
per reporters, and made some interesting
| statements with which the country will
be regaled. He denies the truth of Mrs.
richardson's card, and proposes to inaug-
urate proceedings for the possession OF
his children.
Detective Dunno. on Wednesday, took
before Justice Dowlingr at the Tombs, in
New York, Gilbert W. Thomas, an ex-
change broker, arrested on the charge oi
stealing s62 600 worth OF Kansas & Pacific
X. X. bonds, belonging TO Dabney, Morgan
& Co.. No. 50. Exchange Place, On Aprs
18th. No afhdavtts We're made, and ths
prisoner was committed to await an ex
animation.
The Cuban League adopted resolution,
yesterday denounclng the murderer o.
Gen. Gu1couria as crime against hu
manity, which will receive the emphatic
condemnation, IL not or the Governm ent
at least Of the people Of the United states
the body of Guicouria for interment IL
the land of bis adoption.