Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-02-06

-.fhe commissioners OF Hendricks copnty. at
. late session. refused to spproprite a bounty for
volunteers to GIL the last call OF the president for
troops.
The Sunday liquor Law is being enforced in
New Albany
The commissioners of Dubois county have
appropriated bounty Of 500 to each volunteer
under the last call. To addition the townships
have raised voluntary contribution amounting
to the handsome sum Of sl7 900. The commits
sioners have modified their order, 20 as to endea
vor to restrict the township bounty to 500 for
each soldier. The county bounty will be paid in
Eve bonds Of the county. of so each. one paw
able each year for I've years. with interest at six
per cent
Fire clay brick are TO be manufactured in
Clay county
-BAr'holomew county has appropriated
$4,000 for bouu,ies, paying $500 to each vol
unteer.
The commissioner. Of Elkhart county offer
a bounty OF $500 to volunteers
Some forty or fifty men and women of Mon
tezuna. Parke county. publish card in their To-
cal paper asserting that they have suppressed
the liquor traffic in that town and intend to keep
il dried up
One township in Posey county and one in
Warrick have filled their quotas by volunteering
The commissioners of Posey county refused to
make any appropriation for bounties from the
county treasury. but the several townships con-
trbuted sutiiciebl sum Of money to pay boun-
ty Of four hundred aud twenty FIVE dollars to
each volunteer.
"A remarkable meeting has recently closed
a. the Methodist church in Grsysville, sullivan
county. 1t commenced during the holidays and
continued up to few days ago. services being
held daily and nightly. 1t was attended With
great excitemen; in the Vicinity. and niuety con
versions reported as the result
Says The Lswrenceburg Register: Vol
unteering progresses quite rapidly in this county
Nearly every train contains very respectable
squad going to the provost marshals headquart-
ers, at Greensburg, FOR the purpose of being
sworn into the service IL is sale 10 predict that
there will be no draft 10 Dearborn county. This
is indeed gratifying testimonial of our devotion
to the union and love of greenbacks. We be-
licve that there will be more men realized under
she present call for 800 900 than in the recent
call for 500. 900 to fill up the depleted ranks OF
the army"
-Tha r,at into
since that Speaker Colfax ID about to marry the
widow OF Senator Douglas is impairment gossip,
and wholly without toundstioh.-Ind lana polls
Journal
We are glad to have this serious reflection up
on the good and taste of an estmable wo
man thus cleared up-Vincennes Sun.
OIL IN WARREN COUNTY As oil is now q Il
the rage, Warren county is lot TO be behind rs
We are informed by reliable persons that there is
company going 10 bore for lie in the spring.
on the farm OF Mr. Butt. on Fall Greek, in Lib
+ erty township. There has been gentlema u
FROM the oil regions OF z enDsy lvania prospecting
on this creek, aud says that the Surface indica
! tions" are good any be saw in Penn
sylyania or Virginia Persons that own land on
said creek had better commence to pour oil on
! the troubled waters, which will enable them to
sell their land at good price Williamsport
Republican
The Delaware (Muncie) County Free Press
tells the following good one:
One of the best jokes of the season was re-
Gently played upon grocery keeper near the
depot, few days ago, by "A soldier who was
passing through this place.
He got OFF the train. went into the grocery,
and purchased beef. crackers. cheese &c to the
amount of one dollar, which the grocery man
refused to allow him TO take from the counter
until he had been paid tor the same, remarkine
that he had been swlndled before by soldiers.
and could not be taken in again The soldier
assured him that he was perfectly honest and
intended TO pay for what be got. and pulled out
i've dollar greenback. and spread il out hack
up. on The counter The grocery man, on seeing
IL, raked t into the drawer. and gave back four
dollars in change, and the soldier departed with
his purchases
I In a short time the grocery keeper had % sion
TO go TO the drawer when he discovered that the
five dollar greenback was hing hut an adyer-
Using card. got up in the ,rm f bank no te
I and worthless, OF course He saw tha' he had
been sold aid resolved TO keepthe at - to
himself. but told il "a friend or two couf len
tally. De would MT have it get out on him
for iaIm
lion Oar 1t is a fact well known to all of
our citizens that there is an abundance of iron
10 the country While 20 many speculative in
dividuals are prospecting for oil throughout the
state. We wonder why some enterprising men of
capital do not come here AMI establish forge
The rich resources of Indian not half de
yeloped, and we believe that ere loag our State
will not only furnish oil for our lamps, but iron
sufficient To build railroad through every coun-
ty.-Stark County Press.
A gentleman 'struck oil" in Sullivan town,
the Of her day and took Oaltans in
two hours. IL is said 10 be excellent The ia
vOrable locality in which he bored was in a drug
store.