Evening star., 1870-03-07
EVENING STAR.
LATE TELEGRAMS. &c.

The New York World Of yesterday publishes,
IN It's Paris letter Of February 21st, an absurd
story OF the death of Napoleon Ill. on the sth
OF September LAST, under the knife Of Surgeon
Ricord. The writer goes on TO say that the
Prince Imperial reigns with the Empress E1ge-
ME As Regent, while the Emperor Is personated
by near relative, who Il said to bear q striking
resemblance to the deceased.
The insurgents in the Canadian Red River
country have asserted their power by attacking
and driving of q force of English and half
breeds that had been mustered TO drive them
from Fort Garry. The leaders OF the attacking
party were captured and one of them condemned
to be shot.
The eoroner,s investigation of the circum-
stances relating to the death of John Dean,
whose body was found in the dock at Boston
with a bullet in his head. resulted in a verdict
ju stifying Officer Mcnamara in shooting Dean
OF the ground of self-defence.
Generals Quesada and Aldema were not pres
ent at the Cuban League meeting in New York
Saturday evening. There will be mass-meet-
simultaneously in other cities of the United
States, in a short time.
"A dispatch from the West SAYS: Prominent
hotel men from Washington are in Chicago ne
gofiating for the lease of the projected Pacific
Hotel, which Is 70 cover an acre and a half of
ground, aud cost 81 900 900 OOO The hotel il 70
be completed in 1872.
g. s. -Hubbs, late Paymaster of the Lake Shore
at Cleveland, Ohio, on Saturday night. Unfor-
tunafe speculation in stocks and financial diff
culties are said to be the cause.
j. q. Harding, an Englishman of wealth. and
Fifth Avenue Hotel, in New York, committed
suicide Saturday morning In a house OF nl-fame
In west I'D street.
The contest at San Francisco, Saturday, be-
championship and the diamond cue, resulted i'm
versary's ,3E.
Ex-Auditor wickliffe, of Louisiana, deliv-
nrra<ft tks.Q L.
zling to Acting Auditor Graham Satur day gave
bail, and has been discharged from prison in
New Orleans.
William A. Robinson, an assistant teacher in
the Lincoln public school, San Francisco, has
been sentenced to six months Imprisonment in
the county jail for cruel punishment of a pupil.
The near approach of gold to par occasions
Iisinelination on the part of the members of the
Geid Room In New York to pay dues. Several
expulsions from the room are talked of.
The Committee on State Afairs in both
Houses of the Wisconsin Legislature yesterday
[eported against the proposition to remove the
Capital from Madison to Milwaukee.
Three colored men were wounded at Whining
ton, y. e., Saturday, by the explosion of an old
thirty FOUNDER Parrott shell they were cleaning.
Ore of them will die.
The white laborers employed in the CITY of
Nevada, Colorado, have driven OFF the China
men laboring on the Pacific road, DESTROYING
their tents and buildings.
The charter election in Louisville, Kentucky,
NT.
ter for Mayor over J. III. Bunce, present incum-
bent, by $50 majority.
Alexander Keno, sentenced for twenty wears
10 the State prison in New York for outraging a
child two years old, has received pardon from
Governor Hoffman.
"A man named Boyd was arrested on SATURDAY.
IN Cincinnati on a charge of conducting a bogus
lottery scheme under the name of III. III. Robe
son.
Michael Tobin, a butcher and sheep dealer.
was knocked down last night in Twenty fourth
street, New York, by two men, and robbed of
VIM. Chambers, who shot and killed ID. s.
voorhees,, a prominent citizen of BROOKLYN, q
few evenings since, will be tried to-day.
Emanuel Neloch was acquitted at Trenton of
the charge Of embezzling S5 900 while acting as
paynaster in the Navy.
San Francisco Is said to be furnishing recruits
to the Mexican revolutionary leader Placido
Seia, in Mazatlan.
Snow was falling all day yesterday in Rich
mond, Va, and Is now nine inches deep.
Hwas showing in Philadelphia at intervals all
day yesterday steadily since p. m.
A snow and rain storm prevailed in Norfolk,
Va, yesterday.