New-York tribune., 1870-02-03
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

... Efforts are making to shut up the theaters
in st. Louis ON Sunday nights.
....The colored men of Kentucky will hold
Convention at Frankfort on the 23d inst
Sylyanus Prescott, q well-knOwn citizen
Of Lowell, was found dead in his bed yesterday.
The San Rafael and Point San Quentin
Railroad in California, has been completed.
.Willam Pangll, a citizen of North PrOvi-
dence r. l., has been missing since Monday evening.
....On Monday night two men, charged with
rape were taken from the Springfield (hy jan by an
armed mob and hanged.
1.-The funeral of the late Brevet MajOr-Gen.
Joseph A. Mower took place in NewLondou ON Tuesday
with appropriate military honors.
The town of New Haven has voted to
postpone indefinitely the loan1g OF Us credit to the Air
Line Railroad. Tie vote stood 197 to lS?.
Gov. Chamberlain has invited the officers
OF the Monarch aud American vessels at Portland TO Visit
Augusta next Friday when banquet Will De given the'
Eight buildings in Clarksville, Tenn,
were burned this morning. The loss is $4,000 and the
insurance 5000.
AT Kankakee, H., yesterday, Smiths
Hotel aud Engart Sous grocery and meat market were
burned. Insured.
1.-The Washington House on Main-st, Nor
folk destroyed by fire yesterday The loss Is about
81, 900, which is partially covered by Insurance.
THE steamship Cuba which left New
Orleans Tuesday for Baltimore, broke her propeller
and returned for repairs.
Judge Williams of Clayton County, Iowa,
has accepted the aPr0ntment o. Judge OF the supreme
Seven frame tenement houses, owned by
Homer Wood q Co., on Becks Run, in Pittsburg, were
burned on Tuesday; Loss, $4,000 Fourteen families
were rendered homeless.
The Gould extraditon case was before
Judge Morrison at Toronto yesterday He decided not
To interfere with the judgment OF the Court OF Common
Pleas, SO the prisoner stands committed ior eAtauon'
4 yOung man named John German,
resident of Allentown Pa and Engineer at the Lehlgh
Rolling Mill. caught in the betting yesterday ana
drawn over the shaft crushing him into shapeless mass
II 4. At t1Inn InG nVa-
pointed James Graham state Auditor rice Mieke sus
pended in consequence OF the articles OF Impeachment
brought against him.
John Phillips, a mechanic, aged "a years,
committed suicide in Baltimore yesterday by shooting
himself because creditor pressing him for claim
of see, which he was unable to pay.
IA proposition was introduced in the Iowa
Senate yesterday giving women the right to vote and
hold ofice Ii was received with favor aud referred to
the Committee on Constitutional Amendments
The New Mexico Legislature has adopted
State Constitution. which VIII De submitted 10 ,he
new Tax and Funding law the Territory warrants have
advanced from 2jc. to Soc ons sl'
The office of the Black Rlyef Railroad
conpany at Utica was entered Ivy burglars on Monday
night Bonds the amount OF $4,000 were taken Dut
they are worthless the signatures were not Oh then
The thieves also took $50 IN currency
AT Newton Stewart, in Orange County
Ind last Thursday desperate fight, resulting from a
family quarrel, took place between two men named
Suith and Demb0 brothers-lnaw BOth parties reeeNeu
serious aud probably fatal wounds.
Thirteen cargOes of wheat were exported
from Francisco during the mol IN OF Januay t@e,sg
OF which were for Liverpool These cargSes
flour we're exported. -
The Alumni of Bowdoin College resident
~, poramd met Yesterday and organized association
With John Rand for President. For the annual dnner III
1871 Edward Paysou was appointed ofntor H. D. JACK
SON. Poet and George H. Thomas' Ioasth
The receipts of the several fire insurance
conpanes OF Hartford during the year 1869 Tor premiums
were S. 626. The receipts in 1865 were ttle over
A. the increase during the Inst year being over
half IA million o.
In the iron pipe case between the City
o, s:m M and ' J. w. starr of Camden N J., tried
IN the United states Circuit Court at Boston the jury,
,asardnv after PC hours deberation, returned clean
verdict for City Of salem The amount ih'oeu WIS
$4,000.
Gov. Merrill of Iowa is preparing spe-
cial message to the Legislature on 9 ~, % ,en
isau aud water communication win tne A,ag ,sas sea
board long memorial TO Cohsress'on 'ne es'o '"'''
"A now before tho Legislature
The Grand Jury of New Orleans have
found true bls against Perry Fuller late Collector ana
his associates W Cray E. A SesnIe peSS hSU FIVE AM
9pylts have been made charging them with conspiracy
defraud the Government
The workmen employed on the Barnard
Chicago and the summit yesterday struck 10, nignct
wages The men have been receiving " 20 l' ,o n, ~
said tnat Ihe contractors Will not accede 10 te WORK
mems demands.
fire occurred yesterday in the upper
~ saois r1m,ra Tie IRE was soon oItngushed The dry
goods stocks of William f. Hart ana bar,on wtro"s
badly damsged The I1v coyered M by M
was also damaged ihe 'os'e' A'o '''
surance. -, N
An old man named Bourne Gleason well
known to the older residents 81 "Sreese .esr a.
house on Piantatont, In that city was iouna aeau III
his Tuesday night Win ne ns sg, y, o @
been dead several hours ,heie "'io ~" '~"o Vi 'o@'
play aud no inquest washeIu.