Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1855-04-20
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TA dog, supposed to be rabid.
wag shot in .Bloomingrove. last week.
LIZA. F. SJohn has moved to
Lagro, Wabash Co.
~What are we to infer when we
see . young bachelor making garden?
We pause for reply. ffTGff
HDr. Ray, the author Of Rays
Arithmetic. Algebra. &c., died last
Monday. at Cincinnati.
HOur townsman, VIM. H. Risk.
left this week for temporary sojourn
at Greensburgh, where he 10 furnish
ing brick for the new Court House.
EYSeveral old liners were elected
on the X. N. ticket, in Jackson town
ship. Rush county. at the late elee-
ton.
~We have received the psrticu-
lars Of an unpleasant suicide. which
We withhold at the request OF the
friends Of the deceased.
eEIt Is urged an an apology for
taking Csba, Immediately, that France
and England have their hands so full
in the east that we can do as We please
with western nations.
EHGreely is shouting happy over
the passage Of the New York Prohibi'
tory law. We don't wonder. He
has battled manfully and may well re-
rejoice
HOUSE, or REyuoE.-In another COL
umn we publish the synopsis Of law
for providing for . House Of Refuge.
Let It be located vt Indianapolis, by
oil means.
HNearly all the available ships Of
our Navy have been ordered to the
Gulf of Mexico We presume the
plan Is to take Cuba before Spain can
have time to ask pardon for the grave
offences committed.
HPreparstions for war with Spain
are going on vigorously. We think 1t
would be best to merely get ready this
summer and do the fighting next win
ter. II will be unpleasant fighting In
the latitude Of Cuba. in dog-days.
MoRr Frsros-From the way the
Jacksonian is patting old wings on the
shoulder. We suppose it is in favor Of
fusion, to put down..the Prohibitory
law. and anti-slave catching and-sla.
very -extensionism. That is right.
brother Robinson.
AsroSIsnrSsl-The liquor dealers
Of New York are opposed to the new
liquor law Of that State. They say il
is unconstitual, oppressive, and all
that. Moreover. they intend 10 follow
the'example Of the "Sanes Crcekcrs'
and hold meeting. and pass real ug.
ly resolutions, they do.
ETThree jails in Vermont are
empty, two have but one inmate each.
two others have four each, one has six
and another seven. Tho average Il
but three to each Jail in the State.
Can such state Of things be found
in any State where they have the liz
or traffic in full blast?
ETLet the tax payers read the ar
ticles signed Taxpayer. They arr
from the pen Of an honest man. whs
though l.opelessly Old Line in his pol
itics. can not be silent while so many
teaches are sucking our treasury. III
has several additional items which b,
will give from time TO time, hit whom
they may.
NMrs. Rodman and Miss Qulgly
have opened Millinery shop over Mr.
Powers store. We do not know AM
thing Of their qualifications. but we 4,
know that they deserve at least . tai
al. and we hope that the public vii
give them an opportunity to show wha
they can do.
cYMR. JANIS WILEY, of Metamo
ra. passed through Brookville las
Tuesday. en- route for Iowa. He vii
bc gone some six weeks. He ha,
promised to furnish us some notes o.
his observations. As he has not pur'
chased large tract Of land which h
wishes to sell at q speculation. o
which no wishes to enhance by calling
around II a number Of settlers, his OBJ
servaiions may be regarded as not on
ly truthful but disinterested.
| WTnE SrArs SENTINEL copies
from the New Albany Ledger. = mos,
terrible account Of desperate assault
made by Know Nothing on the N
E. Church. BAH Mr.. Sentinel. tina
is an old yarn; more than twenty year,
old, that some fellow has re.vamped
just to see how much you old liner
loved the Methodist Church. w,
expect to see il in the Jscksonian In .
short time. and hear tell Of John l..
weeping oceans Of tears. lest the Know
Knothings. having ruined old lineism
turn and rend the church, he so mucl
loves.
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