Evening star., 1870-01-31
EVENING STAR.
LATE TELEGRAMS, &C.

On Saturday, the remains of Dir. Peabody
were removed from the British ship-of-war
Monarch to the City Hall at Portland. Captain
COmmere1. of the Monarch, discharged his
trust by delivering the body to Governor Cham
Derlain- The coffin was placed in the City Hall,
and the remains will during to-day be exposed
to the public Tomorrow they will be trans
terred to their last resting place. at the town Of
Peabody.
Two cars ef the Washington train on the New
Saturday night last were badly SMASHED by q
collision with Adams Express ca, owing to
misplaced switch; Many passengers were
John NELLY, OF Jersey City, leg crushed, and
John CahiIl, of the same place, arm fractured.
The steamer Stars and Stripes, from Hayti
reports that there il much agitation on the Sam
ana question, and that the Provisional Govern
ment will probably assist Cabral i'm the move
ment 10 defeat the plans OF President Baez, of
san Domingo, ceding the Bay or otherwise
parting with any portion of il, or neighboriny
territory, to the United States.
GOnZalo Castimon, the editor of the yoz de
Cuba, who, IN company with four Spaniards,ar-
rived at Key West on Saturday morning last, for
the purpose of fighting duel with the editor of
the Key West Republican, and met the latter at
the hotel. when a violent alteration took place
between the two editors. CastmOn was arrested
prOnunciamentO was issued in San Luis PO-
tOsi, ON the 30th OF December. declaring the in
dependence of the State, on the ground OF the
repeated violations OF the National Constitution
by President .JuareZ. The proclamation wa
numeIously signed by leading military officer
and citizens.
In the habeas corpus case of Robinson, held
for eStraditiOn at Toronto, on the charge of ar
son in Massachusetts. the Judge has ordered the
discharge of the prisoner on the ground that the
warrant for the arrest was defective, and til 9
depositiOns in favor of the United States insult
fcient.
A dispatch received at Atlanta states that
Wm- Brunt, formerly President of the Board of
Registration, was assassinated on Friday night
at a railroad station between Savannah and
Thomasyille.
The wOman's Suffrage Convention in San
Francisco have adopted a resolution declaring
the action of the Board of Regents of the Uni-
yersity Of California barring women from the
University as direct insult which merits con-
demnatiOn.
den IN d. jail by removing a bar from the door
of the corridor where they were permitted for a
time to be. Two had been convicted of burglary,
and were about TO be removed to the State prison
at Trenton.
William Townsend, groceryman at 1872 Hud-
son street, New York, was murdered in his store
Saturday night last, in the presence of his fami-
~, by lOafer named Jack Reynolds, to whom
he refused lodgings The murderer was ar
rested.
The steamer Stars and Stripes which arrived
at New York Friday, from Port aa Prince, was
detained at quarantine in consequence of two
other crew being sick with yellow fever There
had been two deaths during the voyage.
The Democratic soldiers of BROOKLYN, New
York. have organized "A society called the Grand
Army OF the Constitution. General Kescloy is
commander, and seventeen other generals are
among the members.
y collision occurred on the Erie railroad Sat
urday afternoon, just west of the Bergen
tunnel between a passenger and an oil train.
George Wannaker, carpenter, was killed and
two other persons were slightly injured.
Two men and a woman fell into the water
while climbing the ladder To a schooner at a
Brooklyn, New York, dock-yard, Saturday eve
hing and all were drowned.
Sah ard
been lett alone in a bed chamber, in Louisville,
caught fire ON Saturday from a stove, and Was
burned to death.
The remains Of Generals l.. III. Rousseau and
Watkins reached Louisville on SATURDAY. last
f.Om New orleans, and were buried with civic
and military honOTs.
An accident occurred Friday evening on the
Pacific railroad, east of Ogden. Three pas
sengers are reported killed. Five cars were
smashed No further particulars have been
received.
Work in the Mare Island navy-yard was sus-
pended Saturday, in accordance with in>truc-
tions from Washington. About twelve hundred
men were discharged.
J.J. Ramsey awell-known citizen of Memphis,
was murdered near Cherokee, Mississippi, on
the 18th instant, by negro, who cut Mr.. Ram
seys throat.
Alta Fenian military demonstration in Buffalo,
y v. Saturday night. twenty Young ladies,
with a golden harp
Daniel G.. Buriick, convicted of the murder
Of HeTvCy III. Baker. cOlored man. at Little
Valley. y. ". last October, has been sentenced
10 be hanged on the 18th OF March.
Joshua Pur1y, cOlored has been sentenced to
twenty years imprisonment for an outrage upon
the person OF Miss Beck, a school teacher in
Harrison, Westchester county, ". Y.
The California State Assembly, on SATURDAY.,
rejected the fifteenth amendment, by a vote of
81 toS.
French war steamer lately lost forty of her
crew, by yellow fever, at Port-au-Prince.