The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-17
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The Wabash Erpress entered upon
its sixteenth year last Saturday.
4 Butter is selling in Terre Haute at
thirty cents. Happy Terre Hauteans.
A new engine house is being built
in Lafayette.
Lafayette is infested with thieves
just at present. We should like to
know of time when She was mt.
Two thieves were caught in New
Albany, on Sunday morning, for steal
ing from a negro. They belonged to
Haight & Chambers Circus.
Mr.. james Balm, last week met with
a serious accident, in his planning mill,
at Anderson, by having his hand
brought in contact with a circular
saw. His hand was very badly man
gled,.. 49, -....-a SCR
| Thomas Beam, of Bethel, Wayne
County, few days ago received Sc
we're wound in his thigh, by the acct
dental discharge of his gun, while out
hunting. .aa
James FL. Price, long resident of
Richmond, and who always enjoyed a
good reputation, was arrested few
day.. ago at Hagerstown, Wayne Co.,
for purloining clothes from wooden
factory in which he had been for some
time employed gTMgg ILL
One Of the Holler Brothers, who
has been confined in Jail at Corners
vile, for more than year, on charge
of murder, made his escape from that
institution short time since.
Wayne County being too poor to
maintain Jail of her own, has to de-
pend on Fayette County to keep her
I prisoners.
A DISHONEST CLERK. A young
man named Seymour, a bar tender in
Lafayette, robbed his employer the
other day, and was arrested and lodged
in Jail. The stolen goods were recov-
cred
Lafayette was visited on Saturday
last by terrible thunder storm, and
many persons were affected by an ex-
plosion of electricity that struck in
the middle of of the street.
The Corporate election of Goshen,
Elkhart County, on Monday of last
week, resulted in the election of a
majority of the Union ticket. Major
j. Walds Schmidt, late of the 152d
Ind volunteers, was elected Mayor.
A woman named Sales, living near
Delphi, tried to- commit suicide BY
cutting her throat with razor, few
days since. Finding that it hurt, she
ceased cutting at her throat, and
hacked her arm, from the wrist to the
muscles above the elbow.
The Wabash Express says an old
man, sixty years of age, named Will
son, a resident of Brazil, Clay County,
was committed to Jail on Saturday
evening, in default of 5000 bail, for
stealing coat from Sam. McKeen,
Esq. =, at1ka, ~ a7aeqa
Terre Haute is bidding strongly for
the holding of the State Horticultural
Fair in that city, and guarantees 800
in membership fees. The officers of
the Society prefer Richmond, and are
baFtering that city for a bid 1856
Efforts are being made to induce
the City Council of Lafayette to pre-
vent coal oil from being stored in
large qualities in that city. Coal oil
is fast losing its character, but most
people find it useful about a house
quite handy to have about.
a A man named Wise. Sprondle, was
fined So IN Fort Wayne the other day
for committing an assault and battery
on a woman named Margaret Foley.
The luxury of whipping woman is
cheap in Fort Wayne It is very
conservative, and, of course, chivalrlc
city
The Union County Convention of
Vigo County met in Terre Haute last
Saturday, to select delegates to the
Congressional Convention. Col. VIM
E. Mclean, formerly editor of the
Terre Haute Joura,dl, presided. "A
resolution was unanimously adopted,
-indorsing the conduct of Gen. H, D.
Washburne, both in the field and in
Congress- A" series of resolutions