The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-06
STATE ITEMS.

0nN0 III ASAOhAhOAO' AuSy are Sdlu 10
be a forerunner of cholera.
Wife-whipping at Richmond, Indi-
ana, is rather an expensive luxury.
Henry Gruber had to pay $50 30 for
indulging his fancy in that direction
DR.. Joel Vale, of Richmond, Ind,
has grapevine in his lot that now
has over three thousand punches of
grapes on it. The vine is four years
old.
The citizens of a portion of Harri-
son township, Knox County, are max
ing move towards the construction
of a gravel road from Vincennes, in
the direction of White River, through
the most fertile portion of that town
ship. This is sensible move.
A man named Crull was arrested
last week in Elkhart County, on sus-
picion of having murdered man in
that county, and held to bail in 81 500.
The body of the murdered man has
not been found, and it is not right
certain that he has been murdered
SO says a contemporary.
1t is expected that the indianapolis
and Vincennes Railroad will be put
under contract Immediately. Earnest
efforts are being made to raise the
balance of. the subscriptions neces-
sary. 9T
| "A SINGING MoUsE.-Mr. Robert
Carroll, of Winamac, has natural
curiosity singing mouse. 1t is
small and almost jet black. It sings
like canary bird, and is the wonder
of every beholder
"A respectable squad of Lafayette
Fenians suddenly disappeared on Fri
day night, and the knowing ones in
innate that they have gone to the
front.-Ldtayette Courier. -
i Mr.. w. D. Pollock, mail-rider be-
tween Madison and Rising Sun, says
that the growing wheat crop along his
route is looking well, what there is of
! it, but some of the farmers say they
will not get their seed back from what
| they sowed last fall. Oats are looking
very poorly We hope for better news
from the crops generally, after the
glorious rain now falling Madison
Courier.
The citizens of Lafayette have raised
the sum of $500 to buy ammunition
for the proper celebration of the
coming 4th of July, and have sent to
Indianapolis and secured the loan of
full battery of artillery, and small
arms for two infantry companies
1t is understood that two hundred
Fenians are crouching in this city,
ready to pounce upon the British lion
whenever he dares to show himself
Richmond Telegram.
ARMS FOR THE FENIANs. = The
Fenians of this city have been very
active to-day. Squads have thronged
the Courier Office to obtain the latest
news, and there has been an unusual
stir at the Fenian headquarters, OPP
posite the Bramble House. Several
dray loads of arms were unloaded this
morning, and it is understood an
other detachment will move to the
front to-n ight.-Lafayette Courier of
Saturday.
On Monday night, Colonel Thomas,
of Salem, was awakened from sleep
by robber in his house. On hasten
ing into the room where the villain
was, he had the satisfaction of seeing
the chap escape through a window.
The Colonel had pistol, but the rust
upon it prevented him from using it.
1t is estimated that more than fifty
thousand pigeons have been killed
within the last three weeks, at the
"roost" near Nathan Dix's. FIVE
miles southwest of Richmond, In
diana.
+ Gen. Bennett and the editor of the
Liberty Herald, in company with two
other gentlemen, made raid into the
woods, last week, and killed one hun
-dred and thirty squirrels and bagged
twenty squads. The Herald does not
state whether the squirrels were
bogged or not.
A SERIOUS yesterday
morning, Calfus Conklin, compost
tor in this Office, jumped from the
Jefersonville train, as it was about to
start from the Tenth Street Station,
and fell under the cars, between the
rails, when the length of two coaches
passed over him. He was badly
bruised, and, it is feared, injured in
ternally.-Ne,0 albany Commercial.
A CAT IN CoURT.-A novel suit is
to be tried at the next term of the
Elkhart Circuit Court A very affec-
tlonate lady, who has never been
blessed with any offspring of her own.