The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-28

| mortal coil a few weeks ago bya piece
of a-eoil Of rope, made a second effort
to shuttle on Thursday, by swallowing
a powder, supposed to be stryohnine,
and, at last accounts, it was doubtful
if he had not been pretty successful,
as he was in very critical condition.
Up to the present time the will of
N. B. Dodge of Lafayette, who died
suddenly in New York, has not been
found. It was generally understood
in his family that he had made will
but none of the Attorneys of Lafay-
cite know anything about it. His es-
tate is estimated at over 100000.
Farmers as well.as many others in
this section feel no little discouraged
at the prospect of the Spring and
Summer crops. The weather is unu-
sually cold, and no rain of any conse-
quence has fallen during the past two
months, so that the earth is in no con-
dition to terminate and bring forth
the. corn and other seeds deposited
therein. The wheat crop on many
farms will be an entire failure. A
chance field presents promising APP
pearance; while others bid fair to yield
about half crop.-Putaana Banner.
Hon. Henry Secrest made speech
alta johnson meeting, in Greencastle,
the other day. The Putnam Banner
says:
Nothing butsentiments of devotion]
to the great cause for which our couns
try has struggled for the past FIVE
years, escaped his lips on this occa-
sion. He had no honeyed words for
the leaders of the modern Democ-
raey ION the contrary, he denounced,
IN the most positive and unequivoca1
terms, the course that party had pur-
sued during the rebellion =
FoR CoNGREss-L. w. Sims. of
Carroll, Col. VIM C. Wilson, of Tip
pecanoe, Judge Doherty, of Boone, |
Judge Milford, of Fountain, Jesse
Harper, of Warren, and DR.. Fry of |
Montgomery, have been named in |
connection with the race for Con-
gress IN the Lafayette District.
FALL OF A ScAFFoLD-FIvE MEN
INJURED. = Last Monday morning.
about ii o'clock, scaffold erected on |
the Northwest side of the Forest Mill,
by men engaged. In Singing the mill
gave way. and precipitated FIVE of our
citizens thirty three feet upon the
stones. The accident was occasioned
by the breaking of the nails which
held the window frame to the ioist.
The scatfOlding was nailed securely to
the window frame. Under the cir
cumstances, it's remarkable that all
the men were not killed. = Loqansport
23d. i
The proprietors of the Salt Well.
at Reelsville, Putnam County, are
about to commence the manufacture
Of salt. They have reached an mex
naustible vein of salt water at the
lepth of ], 130feet, which DIR. Brown,
lhe geologist, pronounces equal to
hat OF the Kanawha regions. @
The Sullivan County Oil and Min
ng Company have secured lease of
he well bored by the Railroad Com
oany for. water near the depot. 1t
vas. sunk some six or eight years ago
% the depth of over six hundred feet.
when the effort was abandoned The
JIl Company have erected derrick.
lave an engine on the ground. and
ylll.he soon at work cleaning out the
loIe, and boring still deeper in pur
uit of oil. When the well was first
Junk, peculiar and heretofore un-
1nown substance was pumped up.
which is now supposed to have been
'etroleum. It was found about $50 :
eet below the surface.-iSulligaa
Democrat {
A Good Templar Of Kokomo. a
carried man, was accused of being on
erms of criminal intimacy with a.
larried. woman. The Lodge to which,
ne gay Lothario belongs. sent a conf
llttee to the woman implicated to c
lquire if the report was true. She1
-onld be likely to tell
PROBABLE MURDER IN WAsHING-I
ON CoUNTY.-We learn from Mr.. t
gorge Godfrey that serious diff
alty occurred yesterday near Twin
reek, Washington County, in which
sobert, Reeves shot. and it is said
lortally. wounded Joseph Hamilton.
wo balls took effect upon Hamilson !
-one in the shoulder, the other in +
le chest, ranging up towards the +
cart: BAD whiskyggwas the cause of
lesafray.-Neao Aldan9 Ledger. =
HIGHWAY ROBBERY .-kThe Bedford
ldepende.et states that man named
ichard BristQw, who has. been living
ear Sprjngville, in thatscounty, start
to Missouri last week, but con Il
uded to visit some friends near =
-ltcheH. Arrived at that town h@ Sc
alked mt ahnnt q mia a, A. - I