The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-01
STATE ITEMS.

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front of the city in the day time.
The annual enumeration of children
between the ages of six and twenty
one has just been taken in Indiana
polls. The number of males is o,4VSa
females, $3.50: Total, 13,8O9.
REr1REp.-Mr. 5. @. Crane has re-
tired from the position of Correspond
ing Editor of the State Temperance
Journal. j DIR. &C. Holiday has full |
and complete control. aol
RESIGNED. = Rev. F. B. Foster,
State Librarian, has resigned the pas
toral charge of the Universalist Church
EofIndianapolis, position he has filled
acceptably for many years.
A company,has been formed with a
capital of fifty thousand dollars toput
glass factory in operation in New
Albany. Capt. Sam. Montgomery, r.
i. Ford and Henry Hennigan, eonsti-.
/ tute the firm Operations will be
commenced at once. t9'l4 :,
A young German, named John
Meyers, was drowned at New Albany
on Sunday morning, while bathing in
the river. A liberal reward is offered
for the recovery Of his body.
The .Vincennes Gazette says at the
Democratic Voorhees, meeting at Loo
gootee, last week, there were thirty
fights, and three fourths of those who
attended the meeting were drunk, and
all the roads leading from the town
we're stroWn with the wrecks of de-
moralized Democrats!
! A fire in Rochester, on thesmorning
of the I'D inst, destroyed property
beloning to Click Brothers, merchants,
and Holmes and Miller, valued at
$1,000 3fr HleF4 size IS
HARVEST. The wheat crop in this
vicinity has been harvested, and many
were surprised at the yield. One
; third was all that was expected by
many, and yet the majority reap full
half crop.-G Goshen Democrat e Il
The Lafayette Courier says the con-
7 tinued heavy rains have greatly dam
aged the growing crops in that Sec
ton, and that the wheat and oats that
had been cut and in the shock have
sprouted and the hay widowed.
DR.. Ham of St. Joseph County has
been nominated by the Democracy Of
that and Marshall County, to repre-
sent them in the State Senate, if they
can elect him.
An ex-Provost Marshal has beer
getting himself into trouble in Wells
County, by travelling with the wife Of
< another man, and occupying the sam,
j. bed chamber with her. The woman
n is the mother of nine children, ant
'r has been heretofore considered re
spectacle.
Some excitement. is created in Vim
cennes circles by the elopement of
young Miss, who is. yet in her teens
with a "circus hummer" who ha
: been lettering about town for som
81 time.
H2 The Soldiers of Jefferson Count
% held rousing mass meeting in Mad
son, on Saturday last They sti
fight under the old Union flag
+
Ripe peaches made their appearance
in the Madison market last Saturda
- morning.
! q It has been ascertained that tt
recent illness on the part of Il
aii boarders in the Pyle House, Indiap'
III lis, was occasioned by poisoned mill
An analysis of the milk showed TIL
it contained tartar emetic and arseni
AT the recent Sangerfest at Loui
Z 4 vile, the indianapolis Mannerch
wv took the fourth prize in the first elias
,ei a high, though not altogether une.
+" pected honor. So f4 .iia 2 g
t Those thorough going and reliab
{ Union men, Senator Hendricks al
ex-senator Graham n Fitch, a
among the delegates appointed to t
VS. Philadelphia Convention by Il
Democratic State Central Commute
David Whitesell, few miles fro
Upton, in our State, was attack,
last week by wolf and three cuE
He fought them and killed all, cho
ing them to death. We had suppos
that Upton County. was rid of
mean wild animals, except cope
20. heads 1erre Haute Express. Z
IS The citizens of Rush County ha
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