The Evansville daily journal., 1870-12-17

SATURDAY. Dec. n.
The Hudson Is full Of Ice at Albany.
o,Bndwin. the pugnist, is pardonsd.
Cold closed IN EsF York, yesterday, at
CHIEF Juztlcs Chasa's a hsaith Is Sill I'M
proving,
snow fell ID augusta. Georgia, yesier-
day.
Three inches OF snow at Memphis ana
four ~ LdJtis r cki yesterday.
Governor Hoffman commutes Hands
sentence 20 iEnprlaonmentIor life.
Franz y. Kempie. Plttsnarg real estate
agent, rs arrested or y ssIng bogus chocEs-
TIE gale IN New York has occasioned
Sc ioes apprehensions for the safety OF
the shipping
valnazsda bowed Cnptain General De
Rodas oul OF Cuba yesterday
twenty-five stores and eleven dwellings
IN WCstossets Name, were destroyed by
IRE yesterday morning.
George Davis, Jewish mIiiionaire. Of
Eichmonds lTsinias died esierday morn
ing
Right hundred and sixty-thres thousand
pounds OF Tea ps sset over the Pacific Fsaii-
mad IN November
The Charfero Valley Raliroad. from
Fiitshurs 10 Cu1mtnsbuTE. viii be opened
On MOnaay-
JIM Ebbert. Piusburg druggist. sooh
an overdose OF narcotic. 10 alIay suffering
OF some Kind and died yesterday
The P-esby terrain parsonage al Shady
Side, near PlttshurIg.Was burned yesterday.
Damage $500; insurance $500.
Cranes old paper mill at Dalton. Mass.,
was burned last night by leaky kerosene
lamp Loss $500 TO $4,000.
Fhs Catholics OF Dayton Covinasosl and
Nswporr have a denonstrstion ==alnst
Victor Emanuel to-rncTroW. II
Washburno and Habbard had long ar.
rument before the special Committee on
Postal Telegraph, in Washington yester-
day.
me Press Club, OF Chicago, he'd their
first annual banquet at the Briggs House,
last nignt. Deacon Bross. or The Tribune,
"MRcE," OF the Republic IN, and others
spoke.
New jersey CenfEsi RsiiI5ad ran on the
track az Bay s-RW-oridge, breaking the
trusses and lowering the span. The en-
5nd 80 nrenah. Henry Parker. was
drowned.
The WEXFORD, Rhode Island. Bank was
entered by burglars about O'Clock An
IN doiHg 50, SEE flrs % me house. which
was burned, and the town cords forle0
years were destroyed The funds were IN
dollars reward ls cmereu Tor sAo arrest OF
the robbers
Tires GFo story stores on Wezt Front
Street. Cinclnuati. were destroyed by IRE
] at nieht Loss 5000 on buildings alone.
Bar0ef & Stone, tobacco commissioners,
lose Ea5 0C0; Moriiner q Co. and r h Cor
wlnE. prnduce dealerss each lose 5000;
MnrIinsr q 90. are fully insured T. III.
15rIarf loses IA leaf tobacco Sc 500, fully I'M
Eured others lost smaller sunns.
Judge Emnors, ofths United states Cir
criL Court al EN- pnls. granted a new trial
In the cass OF the Unlted States vs Ed
mund PettigrsW q CO. Ior nine tnonsand
pounds OF t0Oaccos -eiEed for want OF the
u. oyer stamps. On the ground tlat the evil /
denc- did NOS tThrrant tne yerdict- yona-
the political creed OF the traverse jury In I
fhls Court, Judge Enmons dism issed them |
and ordered panel o! me oldest clil1ens |
70 be summoned 10 Ill the vacancy.
II vas ruuaored that the steamer Hornet /
which clear q from New York some lime
Hfnce, had received and srmamenta and 1
cargo or munitions OF war and an expe-
aiftiDnary force under -Generals" Ryan |
80 Jordan. Il now turns out that N ese /
wortnies are yet In New York, that the |
Hssrnst sailed I = AspinWalI, and that In
TririS Ayrgs5 PIlIs. This IS again denied, /
and the probability Is that tbs sender OF
the diHpatch knows. es-lltt4e as most Of
people care about the Wno'e matter.
Mach amusement has been created in
Washington over very positive state
ment OF the At. Petersburg correspondent
o. the Independence Beige TO the efecf that
the President has written an autograph
letter TO Emperor AlezaI der, ten deTing
him the aid OF a tiset Of war vessels In case
on war. the statement j. pronouneed
pure nctiou. Neither the President nor
his secretary have written any Euch letter,
or nything which could be constr ued or
twisted into q coloring fer sucu state
ment. Some weeks Eiuce the c2D. g hrQu Rht
fnisreport, and Il Was then deened Wor-
pharic, and deserves a equally emp hattie