The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-01-29
CONBEysEB TELEGRGMs.

GoVsfhOE JeWeLts or Connecticut IS IN
Chicago.
The friends of Rev. Horace Cook gave it
out that he Is in an Insane Asylum.
The steamship Cambria, from Glasgow,
has arrived at New York.
The steamer Htna ayriYtd at Boston,
from Liverpool, yesterday.
Rev. J. NJ. Matthews. of the Reformed
Presbyterian Church, OF New York died
yesterday, aged 81 years.
Aman named Roberts, at Chrlstianburg,
KY, snOt one of two burglars, VINO Were
engaged in an attempt 10 rob him, on
Thursday night.
Tie Ohio State Senate yesterday indef-
nItely postponed the bin increasing the
salaries Of Supreme Judges, which Is now
$1,000.
The Legislature of Maine proceed in a
body TO Portland this morning, to assist in
the ceremony Of ecelving the remains of
Mr.. Peabody,
The Curing Tournament at Detroit
ended yesterday. atter clOEe contest. Buff
taiO defeated Milwaukee, and takes the
Gordon Medal.
The Book Committee Of the Methodist
Book Concern OF New York, was yesterday
engaged IN the consideration of recent al
legged defalcations.
Reddy, blacksmith CT great notOriety,
YoIK, anu committed, for Insulting pso-
pie In he streets, while drunk.
Ex-Judge Head, OF the Marine Court, and
MI Jesse y. Nanderpool, of the Surrogate's
once, Dotn We'll known IN local political
circles, died 1n New YORK, on Thursday.
An extensive fire occurred in New York.
Thursday night, by which the buildings
Nos. 15S l60, l62 and l64, West Twenty-SeV-
enth street, We're destroyed. aud q loss en-
tailed of $50 600.
Jacob Rehm, Sr.. of Chicago, who took
a dose of poison on Thursday, died from
the effects of It yesterday morning. He
was to have been tried in a few days for
killing N ian In drunken braul.
The marriage certificate OF Richardson
/ and Mrs. MCFarla7d on file at the Board
/ OF Health, having been lost or stolen u
/ duplicate has been obtained from Mr..
Beecher and placed on fl e.
Orders have been received at the Ports
mouth Navy Yard to suspend work in the
construct on and steam engineering de-
partments, the appropriation having run
out. Tn order will cause the discharge
of 6CO workmen.
A letter from Athens says that ten dead
and forty wounded mea have been taken
from the ruins OF the town of Santa Ma
ria, in one of the German Isles, which
was destroyed by an earthquake.
Two eastward bound freight trains on
the Erie Railway came in collision at the
Passaic bridge, Thursday morning, dam
aging one OF the locomotives and delaying
the train an hour and half Nobody was
| injured.
the South Congregational Church, Chlcs-
go, has been arrestt d, charged with being
deiaul6er 10 the church IN tine sum OF
s24,O00 The defaleatloR Is severed By false
entries.
Thomas Gordon, a plasteTer, committed
suicide at Nashville, on Thursday night,
/ by taking laudsnum. He left noie stat
| Ing his Intentions, and asking the Red
/ Men to bury MIN. Intem perance was the
/ cause OF the rash act.
/ new disease, called the relapsing fever,
| quite common ia Europe but strange here
| tOfore in this country, has broken out In
| New York. The fever though violent in
! its symptoms, is not attended with great
| mortality.
Reports describe tue st arm on the prai-
! ries last week, as the most fearful ever
experienced. Seven men were frozen to
/ death between Penn Dina and Fort A bSr-
crombia on the 10Th. The thermometer
| was 30 below zero.
A lot of I2j hOgs ought from Ken
/ tucky, were seizsd in Cincinnati yester-
| day, by the Meat Inspector, under the di-
reetion of the Board OF Health, on an alie-
CATION that they were affected with hog
| cholera or some Otner disease.
The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
yesterday adopted a resolution to appoint
a committee to confer wi h the represen a
| tral Raj road, and to visit Rockport and
OWensboro. in conjunction with the COM
mi',ee OF the Board of Trade.
Mr. Snyder introduced a resolution into
/ a.,
| yesterday, to remove the Convention to
| Chicago He thought that the bad whisky
of Springfield would kin all the Demo
Gratis, and the bad water would slay the
Republicans.
Another attempt to flood New York City
| with spurious 80 cent currency has just
been frustrated, and a clue obtained That
of the dealers. Charles Diamond, a noto-
rious "queer shower" has been arrested
as principal In the movement.
A special to the Chicago Tribune from
st. Cloud says a passenger from Ft. Aber-
| crombie reports that Cunningham, cf the
Toronto Globe, and Robertson, OF the To.
ronto Telegraph, were arrested on their
arrival at Fo-t Garry on the eve of the 18th
and lodged in jail.
Burglars made an all but successful at.
tempt on Thursday night. to rob solomon
Miget, diamond merchant OF New York
of one hundred thousand dollars worth OF
diamonds. A hole was drilled into the
safe and filled with powder the explo ion
of which brought the police to the spot.
Tie thieves scaped
A Women's Suffrage Convention met in
Boston yesterday, at which Rev. James
Truman Clarke presided. Addresses were
Mrs. Ltvernore, Lucy stone, Rev. Row
land COnnor, Rev. VIM. II. ChanniEg
Abbey Kelley, the Fosters, and Others.
The attendance was very large.
man n med Earsman. while going to
mis- home, from Washington, Illinois, 10
Deer Creek, on Tuesday night last, frOze
10 death he was going home in q wagon
Win MS WIFE, somewhat Intoxicated. and
the woman drove while the man took q
r nap In the bottom of the wagon. When
they reached home, he was sIiR and cold
Ia death.
A commOtion was produced in both
Houses of the Ohio Legislature on Thur.
day, by the tranSm tssIon by the Cover
| nor OF i communication signed by nearIy
all the Republican members of Congress
congratulating Ohio upon her ratification
of the Fifteenth Amendment. The Senate
finally ordered the same TO be spread upor
} its Journal.
Long Island is at present beseIyed by
Mormon Pri, sts and Z ders. who hOlc
powerful revivalS almost nightly, and, II
is said, With good effect, as number o
converts are announced. Gen. Barton Il
at present in BaldW insville, holding
nightly revIvals. The people OF Jama1ct
threaten 10 extermlnate them should they
attempt TO bring about q religious crisis 1:
. that village.
The Clark Benninger case came on TO
argument on Thursday morning, befoI'
: Judge McCunn, OF New York. He saiC
that ne was not prepared to decide ques
tions involved In the matter, and he de
sired to avoid any seeming conflict with
, the nited States Courts. The questions
were those OF law, and this Court or th'
United States Court shOnId be able to dis
pose OF them without trouble.
, Willie Atkins, the lad whose punish.
ment at Skfnner's school, in Chicago, las
November, created such excitement, dieC
yesterday forenoon. He had lain in 8
state of stupOr evec since the occurrence
; nearly three mouths ago, never speaking
and scarcely giving a sign OF life. The in
VesttgattOn, at the time OF the occurrence,
failed to show that undue violence wa'
, shown.
r The Cincinnati distillers met, on Thurs
day, and adopted a resolution as follows
htesotUed, That the mem berS present re
tvetent b i1 t6 - tnS ior
press their determination to test the ques