Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1857-06-26
MERE MENTEgNs


per Gen. William Walker is at present
lie-onixing the citizens of New York
- Now potatoes are selling in Du-
buque for two dollars per bushel.
p6y- The Baltimore American learns that
the fly is destroying the wheat crop in Ma
ryland
p6s- II is now believed that the comet
will not strike us before about 10 p. NJ,
next Saturday. Look out then, for certain.
p@-The wheat crop in that part Southern
Illinois called Egypt promises to be finer
than ever before
p9r A young man namea David Robin
son, while running a foot race near vincen-
nes, last Sunday, fell down corpse.
pa- The good things which belong to
property are to wished, but the good things
which belong to adyesity are to be admired.
B6r Men and women consume too much
food and too little pure air; they take too
much medicine and too little exercise.
s6- II Is said that a wreath Of walnut
leaves in room will prevent the approach
Of those troublesome insects, aies. Try IT,
s6y- The National Division, Sons of
Temperance are to meet here in Juue next
not January
BlS- Tho excellent letter of Mr.. Gras-
muck which was crowded out last week
appears this week.
pdy- The vincennes Sun is informed that
the smallpox is raging with much violence
in Graysville, ILL.,, eight persons in one fam
lily having deid in one day.
B0- The Evansville. Qnd) Enquire.
says that over two million feet Of lumber for
home consumption, have been received in
that place from April ] TO June 10.
ga They are making an effort in Chica-
go TO raise some means to assist the desti-
tute citizens Of Northern Michigan until tho
coming harvest
E9- Tho Louisville Courier learns that
the army worm has made its appearance in
several places in that vicinity, destroying
fields Of grain.
BD- John q. Sake, the celebrated Comic
Pst and satirist, will deliver his poem
Yankee Land" in Evansville on the 4th of
July.
R@- The Florida Champion states that
the Governor elect OF that State now resides
in double log-cabin, built up with peeled
pine poles.
ma They say that the reason why Broth
er---never gets to church till the text is
taken is because the Black Bag disturbs his
devotions. That is queer name TO call a
mans pocket by.
s~- We learn that the Shelbyville Vol.
unter has died Poor thing How horri-
BILE IL must be TO die Of downright filthinessl
We would say peace to its ashes, but we
don't believe that any thing, dying as IL did,
can have peaceful hereafter.
sey- Hon James d. Foley, member OF
Congress elect from the Fourth District,
is in the city stopping at the Palmer House.
-Sentiniei
Wonder IL his four fathers" know he il
ont7
aes- There is curious fact said 10 exist
a few miles south Of Greencastle, Putnam
county, Indiana where there is family OF
six, all having the same birthday. The
father and mother are each thirty-fv years
old; the children, respectively, fourteen
eleven, eight and FIVE years old. Their
birthdays come on the 18th Of May.
pey- At Augusta, Georgia, on the 3oth oil
May, some samples Of new wheat, raised
near that city, wero exhibited, and II is said
looked exceedingly fine, although not dry
enough for the mill. The wheat crop OF
Georgia will be very heavy. Harvest has
already commenced,
D1- Since James B Clay has become a
candidate for Congress- in the Eighth Dis
trict, Kentucky, he has disposed of the bal
ance of the timbers Of the mansion at Ash.
land, to his political friend Col VIM S.
Rand, who ii is stated, will supply all orders
for Canes, Boxes, &c, or material for the m.
al y.