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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1865., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for December 16th or search for December 16th in all documents.
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The reciprocity question. Toronto, December 16.
--Reports from Ottawa state that the American reciprocity question is engaging the earnest attention of the Government, and after the Christmas holidays a deputation will proceed to Washington to continue the negotiations.
Hon. Thomas Ryan has been appointed commissioner to inquire into the means of extending direct trade with British America and countries on the Mediterranean.
The weather at Quebec and Montreal is very cold — the thermometer ranging from eight degrees to twelve degrees below zero.
Tennessee--negro testimony. Nashville, Tennessee, December 16.
--The Legislature of Tennessee having refused to allow negro testimony to be taken in the courts of this State, General Fisk, the superintendent of the Freedmen's Bureau of this district, under special orders from the War Department, has issued an order which demands that all cases in which negro testimony is involved, and which have heretofore been disposed of by municipal authority, shall be brought before the court for adjudication.
The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1865., [Electronic resource], Court of conciliation — Sine die Adjournment. (search)
Destructive fire at Chicago. Chicago, December 16.
--A fire broke out this morning in Lincoln Hall, a building at the corner of Lake and Franklin streets, which communicated to a six-story marble building immediately west, and thence to the corner of Lake street. The building was completely gutted.
The heaviest losers are Messrs. Whipple & Co., dry goods, seventy-five thousand dollars; Richardson, agricultural implements, forty thousand dollars; J. Y. Franklin, fifty thousand dollars. The total loss amounted to about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, about one-half of which is insured.
Departure of European steamers. New York, December 16.
--The steamers City of New York, Queen and Bremen sailed for Europe to-day, taking over one million of dollars in specie.
Three steamers sailed for Savannah, and several others for various Southern ports.