The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-02-04
CGNBESsED FElKGgAMS.

FRIDAY, February 4.
IRE Chisago p st has been sued for libel.
Damage claimed, $4,000.
Ex.GovernorAnen rrimb,e died at Hills
boro, Ohio, yesterday, aged:S7 years.
There was a great IRE at Towanda, Pa
on Saturday last, invosving loss OF
$250,oAO.
An old man named Berth was chopped
to death with an axe by John Ross, at
Newark, Indiana, in a quarrel, on Wed
nesday.g
The safe of the Amer.cln Merchants
Union Express office at Darlington, Wis
ccnsin, was broken open on Tuesday night
and robbed Of s2,700.
The wife of DR.. Hall. of Rockford, iii
nois, was thrown from a sleigh on Wed
nesday ard xii ed. Another lady was Sc
rtously injured.
Joseph II. Morton yesterday got a yer
dict in Chicago, of $1,000 against f.. n.
HamIip, dry goods merchant, for false
imprisonment.
a young man, name uoknown, travel
1ng for honse in st. Louis, committed
body was brought to Memphis on the LO-
rena.
In the Kansas Senate, on Wednesday,
the memorial asking Congress TO adopt
the Sixteenth Amendment was tabled by
the casting vote Of the Lieutenant Gov
ernor.
The Republican caucus at j fferson City,
Missouri, on Wednesday night, decided by
a majority of nearly two to one, to suomit
| to a vote of the people, The uts;ion OF the
| expedieDcy of enfranchtsing all those now
| disfranchised, without regard TO race or
col0r.
| The labor reform members OF the Massa-
/ chusetts Legislature have united in q reso-
luton to confne themselves in the Legis-
| lature, solely to matters pertaining TO the
labor reform, and not TO become involved
| as party in the question OF Woman Suf-
ffage, or other doubtful measures.
The stone masons of New York are on a
| strike, and are resolved not to submit to
modore Vanderbilt The strikers number
ITO, and are all employed on The new Hud-
son River Railroad DepoG. me proposed
reduction 81 from 81 so 10 S4 per day.
Charles Thomas was taken from his
home near Floyd Court House, Virginia
| Wednesday night, and unmercifully
| whipped by a party of disguised scoun-
| dreis. ThoDGs had been in the employ OF
the Revenue Department, and had brought
several Illicit distilleries to time. Tnis out
rage is the regular OutcroppingS OF latter
day Democracy.
Crosby's Opera House, at Chicago, was
on fire Wednesday night. and made mar
the the studio OF Mrs. Il. S. St. Johns
meu, it was confined. Damage $4,000
The alarm was given in the Opera House
panic-stricken and rushed out, but fortu.
nately no one was injured.
In the Missouri state Senate on Wednes
day, the Committee on constitutional
Amendments, reported amendments re
pealing the double liability clause, abol-
ishfng District Courts. and repeating al
disfranehisIang provisions or the Sonstitu
for next Thursday. On Tuesday the Hous'
adopted amendme nts tothe Constitutions
bill pro v1ding there SnonId De no restrtc
| ffons on students entering college on ac
count OF sex or color, and after long dis
cusS1on IL was recOnstderSd.
"A terrible accident occurred yesterda.
/ on the Boston and Albany Railroad, hal
a mile west Of Chatham Village. A larg
/ freight train. going East broke the coup
3 lings, and eleven cars ran Dack ooWn
heavy grsde, coming in collision with an
other freight train, ptling them all u D IN
mass of ruins. together with the engine
Charles Sprague, brakes1nan, and Henr.
Sibley, fireman. John IoSth, q brakes
man; was as seriously injured. ana ,n15 william
were heavily loaded with valuable pro
duce, which is nearly ruined
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
SENATE.-Yesterday sherman, from til
] Finance Committee, reported a bill {
: authorize The funding and consolidatiol
of tie national debt; to extend banktn
III facilities, and establish specie payment,
IL provides for the issue of three classes @
bonds of s4e0,000000 each-the first of lei
and thirty years, at per cent. the secon
fifteen and w enty years, at Az per cent
the thir.i twenty and sixty years, at pc
cent. It also provides for setting ssid
ySdIlS Sloo,SVOtOVo u SustOn toCSlpbS 10 pa
the interest on the public debt, and for
sinking fund, to reduce the public debt. -.
Morton presented memorial for The in
crease of the salaries of Judges OF the Dis
tTicJ Courts of Chandler in
troduced a bill to reOrganize marine hos
pitai services to provide for sick aud dis
sbled seamen, which were appropriated
referred .....-...... Resolutions We're offered I
suppress the frequent violations of th
o, public peace in the Southern States;
inquire into the expediency of abolishin
certain ports of delivery: to authorize Gel
tain transfers In the marine service. Tn
latter as debated at length by Sherman
MorriIl, and others, and then laid asid e..
- The bill extending the time for the con
pletion of the latera. branch of the Bait
more and Ohio Railroad to Washingto
= CIV was taken up and passed ...... Th
!. Navy transportation Bill was again take
= = mn and discussed Dy Morrill, OF Maine
y Sforr9lI of Vermont; Morton, and 0tI14
- ard a1s amendment Was adop1ed-thi
3 the wages paid employees should lac .
g nfehnr Than those pain Dy private cir