Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-12-21
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SO per hundred gross, the rates ut the close of
the season being Sll 30 gross
The Fort Wayne Sentinel says of recen,
guberuatoriai appointment: Lott 5 Bayless Of
ibis city. las been Appeiu;ea bs To sbserpor.
canal trustee, ~ place Of Mr. Joseph Hanna, de-
ceased. The vacancy has existed for some
months, and though Mr.. Bayless is an excellent
man and admirably qualified for The position. his
appointment just on the eve Of the meeting of
the Legislature. looks rather a. If the Governor
was seeking 10 forestall the acton Of that body"
The trial of Edward Fahnes,ock tor the
murder OF Clifford. a; Lafayette, bat fe~ weeks
ago. terminated On Saturday night last The
jury, after consultation Of three quarters Of an
hour, retarned abe following verdict.
We. the jury, fud the defendant guilty Of
murder in the first degree. aud that he suffer
death
The Courier remarks as follows upon the man
ner in which the verdict was received by the
crowd present:
The last word was scarcely spoken, when the
fortitude that had sustained the brothers OF the
prisoner during the trial. forsook them, and
Richard aud Warren dropped their heads and
wept. scene FAR different, and less creditable
than the one referred TO. was also enacted: The
terrible word death had hardly fallen from
the lips Of the judge, when rem TIE assembled
audience arose q wild yell Of approval. How
ever guilty the prisoner. however great the
crime. or however little entitled to sympathy or
condemnation the prisoner may be, in moments
like this, when the stern majesty Of the law
speaks, any outburst Of popular feeling either Of
approval or disapproval, comes with i'll grace
IRON community supposed to possess fine moral
and human feelings. This indlgnity offered TO
society and the law. was promptly quelled. and
sharply rebnked by His Honor Judge Test
The New Albany Ledger gives the follow
ing account Of an accident which occurred last
Friday on the New Albany AMI Chicago railroad
near that city:
Accidents will sometimes happen on the best
regulated railroads. AS the morning express
train on the Louisville, New Albany and Chi
cago railroad wss going west yesterday morning
il ran of the track about two hundred yards be
yond Muddy Fork. The accident was caused by
the displacement or slipping of a rail, loosened,
] 10 doubt, by the thag, the locomotive, tender,
baggage md express cars being precipitated from
a bridge. the locomotive turning bottom side up.
! The engineer fireman and striker were on i
/ fell, and were buried beneath il in the mud The
/ hot steam began TO escape. vet, strange 10 say,
all three soon extricated themselves from their
! perous condition with but slight injuries
! BY the accident the baggage and express car
was badly wrecked, and the stove, in which there
was big fire, upset. firing the car, which. with
one of the passenger coaches, was entirely con
! sumed. All the express matter, including a
/ large sum of money in the safe, was entirely de
stroyed. The safe was heated so that every dol
/ lar in it was reduced TO heap Of blackei ed
| fragments and ashes. A corpse in the baggage
car was also consumed The express messenger
informs Us that the total loss to the Express
/ Company and the railroad Company will not be
/ less than SlOO ,OUO, OF which musb the largest
portion. will fall upon the Express Company
Fourteen sacks OF Jail were also destroyed by
There was carboy or acid in the express car,
and when the FIRE reached il grand sight was
/ presented a blue aud red blaze broke forth.
and towering upward TO a height of forty or 81
~ feet, gave forth a most pandemonic glare. 1t
was the flames, from the burning acid which fired
the passenger coach. Singular as it may appear,
no one was hurt, beyond ies slight bruises, by
this accident
1.-The Princeton Uaion Democrat is response
bic for the following ssle of deception and deser-
ton:
We learn that wealthy widow lady residing
at Wheatland, in Knox county. recently got
" taken i'm most eauufully." f'he circumstan-
1 ces. as related 10 us, Theses A dentist by the
name of Speer, stopped at the village aud soon
became enamored with this widow (or her prop
I erty) and set work to win her for his wife
/ lie made a proposition 10 another lady in the
/ neighborhsod, who needed a set of teeth, that il
/ she would assist him in making a match with
y fho ho that IL, for or frao q
cost The dentist succeeded in his object she
owning to him that both her former marriage
had bseu for riches, but this time she was mar
I rying to get a man. After marriage he east
" persuaded his wild 10 dispose OF her property,
got the money in hisown pocket. pulled the teeth
/ for the lady he had, promised. also those of his
wife, LETT for indianapolis 70 fix up for house
keeping in that city. forgot to return. but wrote
TO his wife from New York city that she had bet
ter get her a man. lie thus left two ladies
minus their teeth land one OF them her money
The Madison Courier of Monday says:
A petition signed by numerous loyal people
OF Madison, has been sent to Governor Morton,
asking for one hundred stand Of arms. to be
placed in the hands o. a company OF discharged
soldiers, which they propose 60 raise. Or, IT
enough Of that class cannot be obtained, 10 ell
the ranks with equally good though less expert
enced men, for the purpose of chastsing and dis
persing band OF guerrillas. who frequent the
banks of the OHIO river. in Trimble county.
Kentucky, and fire into passing STEAMBOATS,, and
commit other depredatiOns Since the packet
was fired into last week tho only similar act We
have heard of was firing hatboat. loaded
with hay for the government. which occurred
yesterday We understand Gen Mansfield ia
coming to this section with authority TO put Il
stop TO these operations
The Terre Haute Express of Tuesday says:
Fourteen more deserters from the draft were
brought to the city yesterday from Sullivan
county. In makiUg the arrest one deserter and
soldier we're wounded The former cannot live
and IL is feared the latter is fatally wounded. At
the request of the authorities we refrain az pres
ent from giving names or details.
The Poor House Of Jefferson county has bat
thirty one occupants at the present time, an I'M
usually small number tor this season of the
year.
The Evansville Journal says the project Of
building a magnificent hotel in that city is being
seriously discussed by its leading capitalists and
most enierprisiue md public spirited citizens. 4
project for new a)tel Of that kind in this city
has been just as seriously discussed BY the same
class OF cities s-a this city, bui an old adage
reads tia. !. takes money TO make the mare 20,