Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-06-14

The crop Of blackberries vii be immense
this season.
The coal dealers in Teue Haute have come
down 70 1914 cents a bushel.
TIA OLDEST OSE OF THEx ALL-Mr Hiram
r. Craig. nov Recorder Of Morgan county.
claims to De The oldest white resident 10 the
sixth Congressional District of Indiana Mr.
Craig pitched bis tent on White river. Morgan
county. for per manent settlement, on the 81 Of
March, 1919, and bss lived in the vicinity ever
since IL there 10 an older settler 10 this district
Mr.. Craig you'd like TO know il. The good people
OF Morgan county appreciate Mr.. Craig's in
tegrity as a citizen. and his worth as an officer,
by placing him in the responsible office Of County
Recorder. and they certainly cannot do better
than retain him Ia that position IL be will Accep'
ia
The Terre Haute Journal says: There is
an unusual complaint among the farmers this
season Of the ravsges Of the caterpillsrs in the
orchards. Many orchards look "a though heavy
fros, had fallen upon them
"A motion has been made in the Fahnes.ock
case TO have the defendant released on bail II
4
will be made to have the defendant dismissed on
the ground that be has been tried once and can
not be tried a second time for the same ofenss
t-Lafayette Journal.
The CRoPs.-The farmers were much
pleased with the rain which fell last Thursday
They tell Us that wheat docs not look well, and
that il will be short crop. Corn, so far as j. is
up. is doing we'll Many farmers are not done
planting -Brownstown Union, 18th
A New ParKr AT NEW ALBANY We learn
that paper of the Republican persuasion Is soor
TO be started ia New Albany. Our informant
says this new institution is to be edited by Mr.
Curry, clergyman OF the Universalst Church
and that $25 .OOO have already been subscribed
to purchase presses aud materials Ii New Al
bany stands in need of more newspaper reading
the Ledger should enlarge. We are confident
that Messrs. Norman 4 Cotton could do il with
fair charlottesville Democrat
-HABEAs CoRrus 1T gives us pleasure &c
state that the writ of habeas corpus has not beer
entirely suspended in Indiana Some time sine,
man named Wright, who killed McCarty Al
Orleans, Orange county, last summrr and has
since been in Jail, applied to Judge Bcknell OF
a writ of hobeas corDus. to be let to bail On a
hearing of the case Judge Bcknell decided, IN,
circumstances of the murder being aggravated
defendant applied for writ Of ha5eas corpus tC
the Judges of the Supreme Court This appi
cation was resisted by the Prosecuting Attorney
Thomas NJ. Brown, Esq. on the ground thai
having been once heard before competent
Judge on this point, il would not be proper tc
grant another hearing. The Judges of the Su
preme Court. however, decided that there was ne
limit to a prisoners right to demand writs o
habeas corpus Wright was accordingly brough
halo fhar at.1 lrntff h
$40 600. The prisoner was represented by
lawyer OF Lawrence county. vino made a sort o
political speech To the Court, 10 which he de
canted upon the political status" of Orang,
county. and the dangers to which 'loyal men
we're subjected there Considering that Orlean:
township, in which the offense occurred, ha,
never been drafted. and been ahead on every
call for troops made, this rather out of place
it seems to us.-N A Ledger
-FArAL TRAGEDr-SAD FINALE TO A BALL.
On last Monday night, there was a ball a
Schools Hotel in the south part of the town, a
which the festivities appear TO have been pro
tracted until late hour. ABOUT 2 o'clock A
NJ, on Tuesday. difficulty occurred outside tn,
hotel between John Wilhelm and Michael Rich
ards. during the progress of which Fidel Grath
void interferred for the purpose of preserving th,
peace. and. some threatening demonstration
having been made by Wilhelm, Grathwold at
tempted to wrest pistol from him scuffls
ensued, in which Richards. Wilhelm, and Grath
void we're pretty generally mixed up; pisto
shot was heard; the parties separated; Richards
Wilhelm, and VIM. Schrunck. who was presen
passed rapidly up the street, and Grathwold re
turned to the hotel with a discharged pistol iu
his hand Ii was found that he had been shot il
the abdomen. He fingered in great agony unit
IL O'Clock. NJ, on Wednesday, when death ter
minated bis suferings. A post mortem exami
nation showed that the ball had entered near tn,
umbilicus, passed through the transverse arch o
the colon, and buried itself in the illium or biz
bone The wound was necessarily fatal.
John Wilhelm and William Schrunck wer,
arrested. charged with the murder of Grsthwold
but after an examination before Esq Dayton
they were discharged from custody, the eyi
denee being deemed insufficient to convict
Coroner Jury, after investigating the facts, ren
dered verdict that deceased came to his deati
from pistol shot received whilst in a scufh
With John Wilhelm. but offered no opinion as e
whether it was accidental or otherwise Brock
vile American.