Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-08-30
state Items.
A Water Cure is about 10 be estab
lishsd at CroVn Point


ed suicide one day last week by poison.
She was antidoted and saved.
The editor Of the Versailles DispGtck
has been fined for punching g fellow
creatures head. asr
The Harrison County Agricultural
Fair commences on the 5th of Septem-
Der, and holds for three daya
Lieutenant VIM. Wrinkles has opened
q fencing school in Coiumbus Does be
teach "worm fence" or picker
We learn that dysentery, or fax, pre-.
walls to an alarming extent in some C.
tions of Orange and Harrison counffss,
and is proving very fatal mat e
MoxUxExrAL-The Tippecanoe Sol
disrs Monument Association held q
meeting at Lafayette on Saturday, at
which initiatory steps were taken.
A SNAKE STORY On Tuesday last,
while Mr.. William Burg snd his wife
we're engaged in hauling load of stone
from "Pike's Peak about two miles
south of this place, bis wifs discovered
q large snake sucking the teai of COW.
/
who Immediately killed IT with fence
rail- CoVingtOn Friend
HoRsa STEALING. Within the present
month four horses have been stolen In
the vicinity Of Columbus. There is an
organized band of horse Ahievs oper
atiug in this and sdioining couu' and
some efforts should be made break
1 eLme - mwA A - ~
parties to justice CoIuDsbrs l'afos
The telegram from indiana oils to the
Chicago Republican, stating that an at
tempt was made 10 this city to release
the man Lemon on habeas corpus, when
arrested by Lieutenant Massey, is not
true. No such attempt vas made, nor
was there any fuss raised about the ar
rest Ths citizens Of Fort Wayne are
glad to have such Williams arrested, aud
will aid ell they can in SO doing Fort
Wayne Gazette a5
RAILROAD QUEsTIoN.-Ths Jefferson
vile Railroad Company having become
proprIetors Of the Madison and India
napolis Railroad, nave determined TO
take mp the Madison track between
this city and Edinhurg, and build a new
depot for both roads somewhere within
the limits of Columbus, or contiguous
thereto. Considerable excitement has
arisen in relation 70 the matter, and the
opposition Of the citizens 10 likely "a
prevent the location of the new depot
where the company most desire it should
be, and cause them 10 locate it where
accommodations to the business of the
city will not be consulted.- Columbus
Union 5Es
DAAoLIcAL OUTRAGE On Monday
morning last, as Miss Hefner was COM
ing up the river road, three miles below
Spencer, near Rationale Greek, abe
was stopped by two men, who compelled
her to dismount from her horse, and
then dragged her over the fence and nE
the hill away from the road, where, after
blindfolding, gagging and choking her
and threatening to shoot her if she
made any alarm, they outraged her per-
son. They then left and the girl made
her way to the nearest house The whole
neighborhood was soon aroused, NUN
Der of men went from town, and searcl
: for the Williams was mode, up to thi
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ty- Journal. I'D
Mary A. Smith, who has been livinl
for some time at Jacob Hedges, as
, county charge, was found last Sabba,l
! in pond of water adjoining Hedges faru
where abe had drowned herself Tn
: deceased left Hedges's house some thre'
weeks ago, and nothing bad been hear
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watery grave. Hartford City Journd
DISTRESSING AccIDESF.-Mr. Shilling
an excellent young man, who was U
" in the service the whole term Of the 39t
n regiment, who formerly lived at Russia
), vile, now at Indianapolis, came here o
Monday, on the freight train. He wa
sanding on the top Of the cars. Wbe
in front of the Post Office the uncoup in
8 Of the train Jared the car be was or
{ so that he was thrown 20 the gronnC
. shatteriug bis arm horribly At irst
was thought Amputation would be necel
sary, but it has been deferred, and it
3 hoped may not be necessary DR.. WI
{ terman came here An hour or two late
J. aud DR. Gray, OF Nolssville. was ser
for and got here Tuesday Both wer
: Surgeons of that regiment--KekOD
y Tribune 1Voft2 2@
n MIsrAKES IDENTITY, Oh IMrUDEsT R
;, PUDIAroR.-An ex delineator of the e
! centricities Of Ethiopian character-a
!, atomieal fragment Of busted up
!. niger show, which resolved itself ini
= its original element at Columbus, la
N week, has been claimed by q woma
+, whom be denies. He says the wOman
"A mistaken-thatit isn't him. The URfG
4 gives the following account of the NEE
a ing:
:. Quite scene occurred when the fec
and this mar met each other. The lsC
40 sprang forward with q cry of Joy an
OF outstretched arms to embrace her r
lie turned soldier husband, bat what W,
a. her angniah-to see him she-soz mat
loved take to his heels and escape
IN embrace that would have made war
ck the heart Of the coolest husband TT
Ia lady wept her excitement was intens
=. could it be possible that was the husbaI
whose coming she had so long and an
!, lousy WaAeok AnSsa tA'y ? ASaaAAN
ie- sought out the fugacious gentleman, al
ch arranged for al interview between hi
ais aud her who claimed 20 be his'' ov
ID dear duck" The meeting settled not
ing. The gentlemsn told his stoi
ue The lady could not see it in that high
III He was just like her dear husband
-ce eyes, hair ears, nose and al, and
.he Was soldier in the 22d Indiana,
-. hailed from the same State that her hi
'en band came from bsfore "thess tes
were made oae Assh," and nothing "
ION presented that could convince her ii
tha her truant husband was not the maa