Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-01-04

The Ladies All socie.y's Fair a, LapOrIe
melted $1,000.
The receipts at the Ladies' Sanitary Fair at
Wabash on Christmas were $3.50.
Col KIBBKY. commandant of the district.
says the quota Of Wayne county must be nearly.
II 10, quite full fI sra Il
The congregation OF the Locust Street u.
+ Church in Evansville. propose to build new
edi6ce at a cost of $4,000.
1 Gen. MEREDITH. Col. TsEsLER and Col.
Gross are ali candidates for the Republican nom
inatioa for Congress in the Fifth District.
The citizens of Lafayette by voluntary sub
scriptions have raised enough to pay 800 add-
tional bounty for each recruit to fill its quota.
The Hendricks Ledger suggests the Hon.
Chas A. Ray, of this city, as ore OF the Re
publican candidates for the Supreme Judgeship.
Harrison county has filed her quota of men
under the late call Of the President. and sixty
over Old Harrison will lead every other county
in the State in recruiting
i The publisher of the Evansville Gazette,
JoHS Il ScorT, has disposed of his type, presses,
etc, to the publisher Of the Daily Times, and the
Gazette is therefore discontinued
The Vincennes Gazette SAYS the Wabash
river is rising at that place. aud several small
steamboats, plying to aud from ports above
and below.
i The Commissioners of Montgomery county
have appropriated $3.50 additional bounty to each
volunteer before The 9Th of January. 1t is ex-
pecled that this liberal offer will have the effect to
fill her quota
The number Of hogs packed in Terre Hau,e
will not exceed 35.010-a great falling of from
the number Of previous years. The per cent. in
r weight Is exceedingly less than heretofore.
! "A company has been organized at Laporte to
e build WOODEN factory The main building, to
!. be built of brick. is he three stories high. 40
feet wide and l32 feet deep, and it is calculated
! it will give employment to 40 hands.
The Terre Haute Journal says that vigo
county. MP to this time. has expended about thr
ty five thousand dollars for the relief of soldiers
. families No other county in the State has made
so munifcent donation.
:. The Plymouth Republican SAYS that CHsELEs
! TALNAS, who has been running the Richmond
u Mills during twelve or eighteen months past alb
e seconded. week or ago, leaving unpaid sums
y behind to the amount of about two thousand
dollars.
Dr. TUE STATE SESTINEL.-We publish the pros
n Dectus OF THIS journal IN issue OF to-day. The
1 Sentinel. aside from politics is a very good pa
rs per II is conducted with ability and Is the lead
e ing democratic paper of the State Whitley
e. County Republican.
re The Richmond Jefersonian saws the me
- chanics in the Cincinnati and Chicago Air Lin,
lie Railroad shop struck for higher wages on Wei
Il. nesday of last week They demand nm advanc,
of % cents per day. So far their demands hav,
II not been acceded to, and in consequence all worl
lie has been suspended for the present.
~ SMALL Pox-The small box, we under
= stand. ia rapidly assuming frshtiul epidemic pro
: portions at Jacksonville, both in the city an
=, penitentiary. There are twelve or fifteen case
~ in the penitensiary. In the town, there are
number of cases. and there hive been two death
., the present week.-lN. A. Ledger
10 The Terre Haute and Richmond Railroa
C Company has declared a semi annual dividend o
Id seven and one half per cent This is an enor
a nous increase of profit, and all on account o
IN the war" We mSy here remark in parenthesis
d that the T. IL. Il X K Corporation is in
r. tensely LOYAL institution and that it is making
to money! rerre Hante Journal
. "A NEw RECRUITING OFFICER DR. Luthe
in Jewett of this city has been authorized by Gov
IN Morton obtain recruits for the colored reg-
r ment now being raised in this State he is EN-
10 gaging in the business with his characteristic
NJ energy. and will spare neither time monev il
order to have LAFAYETTE well represented in tn
= Corps Antique Il Lafayette Journal.
e We learn that Col German has some 600 o
II 100 men now in camp ut Vncennes, and that
e is recruiting very fast. There seems to be lttl
BE doubt that he will I'll his regiment and lead it
iF the field IL will be composed of good men an
assured will fully sustain the reputation
at achieved for our State by her gallant sons i
{ battles fought and victories won.-Evansvl
ne Journal
ii The Jacksonville Railroad has paid of a
its Indebtedness that is in a shape he paid, an
a. it has been put in tue very best condition in a.
respects Its stock is at about par. and il is pay
e Ing regular dividends. This condition is due j
IL great measure to the energy, berality and goo
management. of its officers
he ne coal mtneS At h9ckDOrt, which IL
Ia stated produce the beet coal in tie West hav
been sold to an E,stern company of capitalist
for $4,000. The same mines were SOLD fou
years ago for $500 The company propose t
work the mines 20 their fu'l capacity and build
>, railroad to the river These Improvements can
o. not fail to add II the prosperity of Rockport.
" The Pittsburgh. Fort WAYNE and Chica 2
p Railroad earned. for November of 1865
IN S466 36g.S0; for the same month of 1867
re $780,, 1888 70 Increase. sl02 SO % The tota
. earnings from January 2 to November 30. wer
81 .647 $3.50; an increase of 81 273, 267 Is owe
y. the corresponding period of the previous year
ID The jewery store of Mr. Beck in Evansville
At was entered on Monday night last, and robbie
of seven gold and eighteen silver watches, besid
re twenty belonging to customers and LEFT for re
We pairs diamond rings, ear drops. bracelets. gol
ey pens. Sc, TO the value of between 50, 500 an
:, 81 900 The robbers succeeded 10 getting o
in with their booty without detection.
~ The New Albany Ledger of Tuesday even
m ing last saws there then between seven an