The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-05-16
MONDAY, NAY Is. 1870.
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--lIqSDAY, Nay 16.
Gold closed In New York, Saturday at
81 I4sz.
The steamship China. arrived at Qaeens-
town, On Saturday.
The steamer Dsrlen was signaIled at
Londonderry on Saturday.
Several prisoners broke jail at Troy
Ohio, on Friday night.
Hon E. T. Backus, an eminent lawyer of
Cleveland, died Saturday morning.
The steamer Columbia has arrived from
Glasgow.
The iron masters of Columbia, have re-
solved to stop producing pig IRON.
Mrs. richardson is seriously i'll o. fever
at Woodslde.
over 5000 Immigrants arrived at New
York last week.
The At1antics beat the stars at base bali
at New York on Saturday. Score to Is.
The steamer st. Maria has arrived from
Liverpool.
Hon. John Irwin, for many years Judge
of the u s. Court. died in Pittsburg on
Saturday.
1t is reported that a. t. Stewart viii
erect no buildings on Hampstead Plains
till railroad communication is secnred.
r. G. Stantenbury, a wealthy merchants
of Newark, n. j., died OF sPpoplexy on,
Saturday.
sixmen were publicly whipped by law,
for pe;ty larceny, at WtimtngboR- Del, on
The report that the Greeley colony, in
Colorado is breaking up, is authoritatively
denied.
The monitor Terror sailed. from Fort
ress Monroe, on saturday, for the West
Indies. 4@
A book edition of the Mcfarland trial
has been issued. Orders have already
been received for 5000 copies.
The Athletic Base Ball Club of PhiIa-
delphfa, defeated the PRstime CIub of Ball
tiTnore, on Saturday, 50 to 10.
Marcus T. Harding WAS stabbed and
killed by Thomas BOWles, opposite Spring
Garden, Louisville, saturday afternoon.
Redwood Fisher, City Surveyor, and a
highly respected citizen OF Denver, was
killed on Thursday, by runaway team.
An unknown woman was run over and
killed by a train on the Cincinnati 4 In
dianapOlis Junction Railroad, a few miles
from indianapolis, on Saturday.
James Ravens was shot by James
Lawrence at The Ogd=n mine, Sussex Co, !,
New Jersey on Saturday for Intimacy
with his wife.
The silk manufactures of Patterson,
New Jersey. are making contracts for
growing their raw silk in California, where
1t will be reeled and shipped to the mills.
Hon. Andrew J. Rogers, who spoke at a
political MEETING in New York on Satur-
day night, v as suppressed by shower Of
Eiones and eggs.
In New York, on Saturday, IL ,282 white,
I,2I5 coiored votes were cast. The aggre-
gate registry is iSiyAl9, including 2.S79 col
ored.
The prospectus for new ocean cable.
between Wales a. Rhode Island, viii
soon be published. 1t IS TO be laid next
year.
Advices from Elizabethtown, New Mex
leo, say that mining is progressing slowly
ter supply OF water Is soon expected.
Property 70 the amount of $50 900 was
destroyed By fire dnring The present week,
in the woods and swamps near Atlantic
City, w. T.
The death Of Theodore Clay, son Of Hon.
Henry Clay. who, for nearly fiftv years.
has been an inmate of Lexington Lunatic
Asylum, is announced.
a serious fire occurred on Saturday
morning in a large huilding occupied by
Street, New York. Loss go, ,0o0.
Rev. Howell Powell, formeriy OF Cinrin-
natl. was installed pastor OF the Thirteenth
Street Welsh Calvantsttc Meth odiSt
Church, in New York, Saturday night
Vim. shindIa, of Springfield, III COM
mil ed suic de. at Rah@ay, n. j., on
Thursday. Nii e thousand dollars was
four among his baggage
Thirteen Sunday schools. representfd d
versary meeting in Brooklyn, on Satur-
day, under the auspices of the American
Church Missionary Society.
Ida Huth who wanted 10 marry ono
man. and whose parents were about tc
force her to marry another, shot herself
through the heart on Saturday afternoon
at Omaha.
A IRE on Canal Street, Chicago, on Fri
day night, destroyed S75 COO worth OF prop
ertv, of which A l.. Hale q Brothers, fur-
nituTe dealeTs. lost s50, 900. Losses nearly
rEFfh =
The Republicans of jefferson County
Ind, in mass convent tion at Madison OF
Saturday, instructed their delegates to th'
Congressional Convention to vote for H on
John r. Gravens, Of Madison, for Con
gress-
The preliminary survey of the Denver
Central & Georgetown Railroad has bee
completed. At no place Will the grade x
ceed eighty feet. The engineers will i'm
mediately locate the line, and the Com
pany will push the work energeticaliy.
J. NJ. Board, Gen. Hatfield. and 9th e.
bounty agents, have sued the city of II o. Q
ken for the recovery or $3.50 each of a larg
number of volunteers enlisted to fill th
quota in the late var. The defense is. tina
fraud was praeticed, and the volunteer
were not forthcoming
4 very destuc i've FIRE occurred earl.
Yesterday morning, in Wheeling, Wes
Virginia, destroying a grocery and liquo
store, a stable, warehouse. private resi-
dence, q brass foundry aud a plumbe
shop. The stock in the grocery and liquo
store was partially Insured.
Hamilton Woodruff, of Hoboken, re
Gently acquitted OF charge of obtainiol
money under false pretenses. published
statement in yesterdays New York pa
pers, accusing his prosecutor. Rev. Ed
ward p. Card er, pastor of the First Pres
byterian Church, with usurious opeTs
tions- The case will be brought before th
PEesbytery.
A large celebration of the Fifteent
Amendment, was held at Sedal1a, Mi
souri,, on Saturday, by the colored peopl
along the line OF the Pacific Railroa
Resolutions were adopted, opposing Il
suffrage and Office-hOlding amendnen
TO the new Constitution. and declarin
that they viii vote to enfran chise rebel
when the word white is stricken from th
Constitution.
AtIhe meeting OF the Equal Fights A
ISOLATION, in New ork- IN Saturday,
was proposed to dissolve the Associate
because distinctions on account Of ra
have been abolished. The motion WI
made by Mr.. Blackwell. Parker Piilsbul
offered a substitute that the books, r
cords. DC, of the society be transferred
the Union Woman's Suffrage Sosiei
which, after al exciting CeN ate, W
adopted and the meeting adjourned, su
jsct 70 the call ef the Union ~ Oman's 81
fTage Association, OF which Theodore T
ton is President.
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