The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-02-05
00NnENsgD TELgGRAMs.

SATURDAY, February ..
Tho Metropolitan Police bill for Phila-
ueIphia, passed the Pennsylvania heSlsia-
ture yesterday.
Bostwick, of the firm of Bostwick & Co,
of Brooklyn, committed suicide yesterday,
by taking strychn1ne.
The high water in the Arkansas River
has stopped the running Of trains on the
Little Rock Railroad, east of Madison,
Arkansas.
penter, were executed at Newcastle, Del,
Yesterday, for rape. Jones declared on the
scaffOId that Carpenter was innocent.
The last of the contested election cases
in the Ohio House of Represe natives was
decided yesterday morning., by giving
BIakesIee, Republican, his seat. The
House now stands 81 to 55.
The Green Line Excursion, embracing
delegates from Cincinnati, Louisville and
other points. reached Louisville from Sa-
vannah yesterday afternoon, all greatly
pleased with their excursion souths
Great excitement prevails in Clarke
County, Ills, by reason OF the discovery
of gold on Big Greek, twenty miles west of
Terre Haute. The people are leaving all
other business to search for the precious
metal.
A young physician of Maberly, Missouri,
named G. w. buchanan, died in st. Louis
YESTERDAY 11es1 morning, from the effects of an
overdose of morphine, taken by mistake
for quinIne, to aIIay neuralgia.
FF. Gunkel, of Nashville, imprisoned
in Cincinnati on charge Of perjury, and
awaiting a requisitiOn from the Governor
of Tennessee, was yesterday released on a
writ of hdbedS corpus.
The City Council of Cincinnati yesterday
ordeerd the demolition of the Fifth Street
Market House, to make way for the Da-
moned by telegraph, and long before the
Council adjourned the building was a
ruins. Four men were injured by the fall
. fwrrRe h &c Yaf %
vents the butchers, who have resisted the
removal of the Market House, from delay
ing it further by injunction.
A riot occurred at Brookville, Mississip-
pi January 18th, between the negroes and
whites, caused by young man named
Farmer, shooting negro who had as
saulted him. the affair at one time
threatened to involve the whole commu-
nifty in difficulty and bioOdshed, as the
negroes who were armed, foTctbly took
Farmer from the Constable, and threat
eued to kill him and burn the crowd
Troops were sent from Columbus, who ar
rested seventy-five negroes, when the
others fed. At last accounts quiet had
been restored.
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
eENArE. In the Senate, yesterday,
Sherman called up the bill authorizing
the Secretary OF the treasury 70 Wlthno4o
the moneys due to any StaJe which may
be in default of the payment OF the inter-
est of any OF its bonds held IN trust Dy
the United states. An explanatory letter
from the Secretary of the Interior was
read, when the bill pass ! without Objec-
tion ...,,,......O On mOtiOn OF Ramsey, Uhe
House Bill for the abolition of the frank
ing privilege was taken up.........Sherman
moved to amend the nrst section by add
ing promise that nothing therein con-
tained shall be construed to repeal or
affect the transmission by mails of
newspapers within twenty miles of
the place of publication. ~.:..............
Drake wanted to continue the favor ex-
tended to the publishers of newspapers
and periodicals. The discussion continued
Of
..........Thayer offered a resolution directing
the Secretary of War to furnish the Senate
with q list of the steamers engaged in
Transporting pro perty ofthe United States
which have been destroyed Anorth of Oma-
ma during the sGst five years, with the
unimportant bills were introduced and
considered, but no decisive action was had
on any.