The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-08-22
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John CLANCY, a prominent citizen Of
Memphis, died on Friday.
There were sol deaths in New York City,
last week.
The steamer Batavia, from Liverpool
has arrived at Boston.
The Germans of Omaha JubiIated on Sat-
urday night over the war news.
Eiuety.one OF $40 census districts in New
York city, give population Of 4SSsS7.
Three thousand aud hfLy immigrants ar.
rived at New YORK last week.
@. Anton's axe factory at Chatequay, wes
burned. Loss $4,000.
An old wood sawyer was found dead in
his hovel, at Memphis, on Friday.
An incendiary IRE at Springfield, Mass,
Or Friday. destroyed over s20O00 worth OF
property. Insurance $1,000.
An extensive IRE has been racing for
two days ia the wood lands near Albany,
New York.
The Forest CITY club. of Cleveland, beat
the Stars, of Brooklyn, at base ball, on
Saturday. Score to 7.
A military post has been established
at Camp Stambourgh, Wyoming Terri
tory.
The ires In Canada are increasing. A
destructive con Migration is raging at st.
Labert, In the woods.
The body OF another victim OF the Nor
wak he'd ashore.
It's expected that twenty miles OF the
Omaha n Southwestern Railroad will be
completed by saturday next.
The Indian Agents OF the Omaha Super
tntendency are holding meetings for the
general improvement Of the service.
Louis Burdeil, 81 brother OF DR.. Burdell,
died recently at Elizabeth, N. j., where he
has lived as hermit for many years.
A meeting OF the Reform Labor Society
was b sid In Omaha on Saturday. A plat
form was adopted and a state ticket NOM
mated.
Rio Janeiro advices state that the war In
Europe has unsettled the coffee Market
Greenwald's cotton mills. In PhiIadeI-
O0O
The funeral OF Hon. Thomas II. Weas-
ner, at Cincinnati, yesterday, was largely
attended.
Otto Bunagartnef. OF New Haven, Conn.,,
shot his wife and infant child on Satur-
day. The child died. The wife may re-
cover.
Great fires are raging in the forests of
Canads, aud endangertng Ottawa, which
was only save by cutting the canal and
flooding the burning district
The citizens purse of 5000, offered for
cotton at the October Fair, at st. Louis,
will be divided into ffve premiums, open
to all cotton growing States.
Company A OF the Cincinnati Zouave
Battalion leave this morning TO give ex-
Cleveland Detroit, Toledo and Put-tn-Bay.
John Hoffman and Hezekiah Wood
were run over and killed white asleep on
the railroad near Huntsville, Alabama,
on Thursday night.
A thief on Saturday, snatched lady's
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on Broadway. N. Y. He was arrested aud
the property recovered.
A fire. caused by lightning, occurred in
the public stores at Boston on Saturday,
damaging q large quantity of cotton. In
The German subscription to the orphan
fluid at Washington City, amounts TO
1900. The French residents are also rails
Ing an orphan fund.
Two negro deek hands on the Colorado,
quarreled over a game of cards, on Friday.
when one drew razor and the other q
pistol. The razor man was shot and NOR
tally wounded.
The Freeman House and stables, and
the residence of Theodore Schepd, at
Kenosha, Wis, were destroyed by nrei
Saturday morning. Loss OO0O.
six clergymen, from the Chicago Theo-
| logical College, leave Omaha to-day. Ior
/ China, where they 60 under the auspices
! of the Missionary society OF the M. f.
Chufcns
/ During a row among a number OF rail-
/ road IaEorers at Terre Haute. Saturday
i night. two men named ShackrOW and one
/ named Callahan We're tahbed, one OF them
| PROBABLY fatally. The stabbers escaped.
Two cases of wines and liquors, 500 ci-
/ gars and q large quantity of smoking to-
/ bacco, were seized at Fortress Monroe by
/ Treasury agents. The goods are said 70
| have been landed from the frigate Severn.
l The yacth race on Saturday from Bed
I Nrd n Hnlnooc1 HO1a fupnFU.fiUa miles.
/ was won blythe SapphO, beating the Daunt-
/ less, Phantom, Cambria and Magic, in
4 tae order named.
John Ward, formerly of Scott County,
shot aud killed, on Thursday. at Hot
I Springs. Arkansas, by Dr. o. B. Knade
i formerly OF Memphis. The result of an
/ old quarrel.
/ A Cairo dispatch says a row occurred al
/ B.ondville. Ky, Saturday night between
1 some of the employees OF Charley Noyes
promiscueusly, and one of the circus men
| was killed and two citizens wounded. The
circus men were driven from the town.
Hon. John p. Kennedy. of Baltimore
died at Newport, on Thursday. He had
represented Baltimore in Congress for SIX
years, and was Secretary or the Navy un.
der President Fillmore He was, at the
time of h S death, the trustee of the Pea
body Southern Educational fund.
Nineteen persons were sentenced TO the
penitentiary by the Criminal Court OF Pu.
lsskt County. Tennessee, in which Mem
phis is situated, IN tie last twsnty-onE
days. Their agsregate term Is ia years
or an average OF six years There were
eleven blacEs and eight whites.
All the North Carolina prisoners. exeent
i've, were discharged at Raleigh on Satur
day. The five wh8 are held, are charged
with murder by Col Kirk. The Question
of the legality OF their detention will bf
argued to-day. Wrfts are IN the hands O
the United States aIshsl for the arrest o
Kirk and Berger.
The steamer Winslow arrived at Du,
luth, Mtnn., on Saturday afternoon, with
the Philadelphia excursionistR, en- route
to attend the formal opening OF the Mis-
sfsstppi Railroad. which takes place to
day and to-m orrow. The weather Is beau
tsful, bat so cold as to require overcoats.
B. TalIrnan, while clipping with a younl
lady on saturday. stole a ride on top OF
car on the Hudson River Railroad, hi
lady love being inside the car. His head
come in contsct with The arch at Sing
Sing His body was sent back to leon
his home.
NEW YoRK, Augut 20.- Montevi