The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-02-14

A passenger train on the Dayton and
Mad River Railroad ran of the lrsch neS1E
Troy, Ohio, on Saturday night, seriously
tbJurins the engineer, nrein@A anu IN
other man.
John Gouldiog. a well known detective,
was On Friday night 0lScOFeLSa IL rag
TGnts deJictS with the WlLe OF JoSSph SIN
fled from the Just wrath OF the outraged
hu iband, and the errins wife exercising
unprecedented good sense, at once cut her
throat with her husbands s razor.
-Four hundred residents OF one hundred
and ninth Street, New York have signed g
petitiOn asking the Board Of Health to
stop the work OF laying the Fiske Concrete
Pavement. as many residents Of that
street were now seriously i'll from the ex-
halatiouS OF the cOGp0sIt matter. The
Board took prompt action on the subj Ject-
The principal feature In the new natur-
aliZalicn bill, now pending In the New
York General Assembly, is that II takes
the question from the State Courts and
puts IL into the hands Of United States
ofnces5, requiring that continuous Iesl-
denee of four years must be proven cetcre
application for naturalization is made.
The programme Of the Northern Pacific
Railroad has been materially changet Dy
the recent ruling of the Secretary of the
Inferior that All land grants for railroads
must be located on railroad lines, unless
natural barriers intervene, ano ordeTs
have been issued TO stop the surveys until
further orders.
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cited by jealousy and revenge for breach
gf promise. shot q young man named
Thomss Wise, IN the 81. 41ary's catholic
Church, ct Piqua, ohio, during services,
Z esteTday morning. The two mad been
previously engaged, but Wise had broken
OF the match, ana his eDgagem ent TO an
other LADY had Just been announced in
the Church. de is said 10 be in q critical
condition. The woman was arrested.
some months ago the sub-Treasurer in
New York began to redeem the five ceAt
49, ufaNf u nraf
the rate 9f several hundred dollars a day.
The coins were received in fifty dollar
bags, and were counted by various clerks
in the Sub-Treas suTy. SOm6 weeks ago one
Of the clerks employ ed by Assistant Treas
urer FOiger, while counting q bag OF his
coin, noticed several suspicious pieces OF
peculiar color, and slightly differing in
general appearance froIa the others, It was
supposed hey were counterfeit; and sew
eral specimens were sent to the mint in
Philadelphia, where they were pronounced
spurious. Twenty one out OF every hun
dred of the nickel five cent pieces received
at the Sub-Treasury are counterfeit
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
HoUsE.-Iu the House, on Saturday, a
resolution introduced by Maynard fnquir-
ing into the method of inv estlng the funds
arising from the land scrip for school pur-
| poses in Tennessee, and whether they
| were applied In accordance Win law, was
| adopted ..StarkWezther introduced a
| bill to regulate the rank of star officers IL
/ the navy; was referred udd intro
n
/ the act OF March 3lst, 1868. exempt
/ ing certain manufactures from tnterna
| taxes, so as not to treat as manufacturers
| home PACKER, lard renderers OF perso ns
/ engaged in Saving hams, or curing
] meats, or in the provision trade, &c, and
i to refund such taxes already collected. Re-
| ferred to the Committee on Ways anG
| Means. Garfield introduced q bill
| granting lands for a railroad from Colum
bia River taPuget's an k
pr sented the resolutions OF the Louisville
/ Commercial Convention, in favor OF grant
/ ing alu 10 the Mediterranean and oriental
/ Steam Navigation Company y...............Sun u a.
/ dry other resolutions were intro
| duced, after which the House went intC
| Com mmtttee of the Whole on the Legisla-
| tive Appropriation bill......D .Davis's amends
| ment 10 strike out the appropriation fol
| reports of Congressional Globe was re
| jected......-..An amendment TO reduce the
| appropriation for printing from S500,0OO 20
/ s53,0oy vas discussed at length, during
/ which Dawes and Butler had tilt. The
/ amendment was rel jected...-..... Wood, o
1 New York, thought ii q great outrage tina
an anOny nous pamphlet rejecting upon
his honor ana Integrity, IS kept in The
/ COn2reSs lOnaI Library .........-..A0 amend
| ment that tue Library be kept open IRON
to ID P. IL, was passed.-......... hen tb'
| Comm ttee rose, One-nfth of the bill hat
been disposed of.