New-York tribune., 1870-05-10
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

90. Gov. Grant of Jamaica has gone to Europe
on visit.
The Germans of Memphis held their mai
fest yesterday.
The Hon. Jas. r. Austin died at his res
idence in Boston on Sunday, aged Sc years
49,. Gen. Sheridan passed through Salt Lake
City on Sunday night, ON his way to Montana.
Gov. Hoffman's decision on. the Arcade
Railroad bill will not be made Tor several days
Nearly one half of the town of Fincastle,
in Virginia was burned Friday night The Court
House was saved
The colored laborers on the New-Orleans
Levee strike for n per day, causing oclaS III
the movement Of river freights.
The fOrtieth semi-annual Conference of
the Mormon Church ended on Sunday. IL 10 es'na'oo
that 10000 Of the Saints attended.
The knife factory of Conner & Brothers
at Richmond, Ind, destroyed by IRE on sunday
night loss, $1,000 insurance light.
The -four mill of J. B. Slough and the
Illinois Central Railway freghth9use at Normal Ill.,
were destroyed by fire on Sunday. Loss, s2o,vU.
DIR. Daniel Tilden, one of the most dis
tinished physicians OF Northern Ohio, died in sandsky
on Sunday aged g. He was III active practice for 81
years.
..The will of the late Bishop Kingsley was
admitted 10 probate in Cincinnati yesterday He left
s5 in real estate and $500 in personal propery U
his wife,
The dwelling of Mr.. Darius Taylor, at
Methuen Mass. was robbed by burglars on Saturday
night s2,2OO Three persons have been arrested on
suspicion.
The residence of n. 0. Sykes in Tippah
County Miss was destroyed by fire on Saturday nght
Two OF Mr. Sykes daughters, aged and lS persneu III
the flames
1.-The marriage of Gustave Lafitte to Kate
Vanderbilt Barker granddaug gbter of Commodore Van
derbilt, is announced in the Paris newspapers Inc
ceremony took place at Pau, France
IA disturbance occurred among the soldiers
named Henry Ihrig was shot and killed by Corporal
Martin in command of a detachment at that place.
Elizabeth Chase, who was indicted, for
In
terday in the Criminal Court and pleaded not guilty
The trial was postponed Mr. Ihos: Manning VINO was
The commission store of Mr.. Skinner in
Milwaukee was burned yesterday. An old Frenehnan
named who pSeIped room md cyed i hair
tablishment adjoining were also burned Inc toI iosS
is 5000.
The Sheriff of Warren County, Ga, who
accepted brbes from persons charged with the murder
OF Senator Atkins, has been taken 10 Atlanta IN IRONS
and confined in the barracks by order OF Cen & m 40
reported that the persons who paid the DrDes VIII Do
arrested also.
....James Platt, President of the Lake On, IN
nrO al ts1 T o s%es6 IN that city oS
sunday aged 50. He was a son OF Judge zePhannlas
pa Of s %ho as NAMED
Mr.. John w. Thompson, President of
Baiston spa Bank and other holders of the preferred
stock of the Erie Railroad have begun s. w on tss
yesterday before Judge Jones Tae defend
they will be tried in the Special Term
Moore, Height, Daniels, and Litchfield,
the persons under arrest for To6bng the Lime ROCK
Bank will committed to the Belfast jail to-day In de-
fault of bail The officers of the bank now satisfied
that the escape Rand Portland was not due to any
want of vigilance the part OF the officers there, but
rather to some errors in the description of the man.
Col. Hough yesterday published card in
San Francisco reng the charge of Ftz Hugh Lee that
DEN Thomas offered his services in writing to Virginia.
and AT the be ginning of the strongly Southern
i'm bis feelings Col Hough uses the Generals own
words in regard to the SANDERS and enphatcaly denies
that any letter passed between him and the Rebel
authorities.
Suit has been commenced in the Superior
Court OF Baltimore by the state OF Maryland against
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, to recover
the value of gold over currency in which the State has
been paid per cent interest dividends guaranteed
by the Company the preferred stock owned by the
State, which now amounts To nearly s2,Oc0O. The
claim Is based on the recent Legal Tender decision OF
the United States Supreme Court.