The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-04-21
STATE ITEMS.
The 128th regiment had reception
in Indianapolis on Thursday.


They had refreshing shower at
Terre Haute on Wednesday. We
hope our TURF will come soon.
4 The gold fever is about to be re-
vived in Brown county, in this State.
Somebody wants to sell their lands in
Brown, and we don't blame them.
Our old friend Charley Collier, of
Lafayette, has been appointed Assist
3 ant Assessor of Internal Revenue in
] the Lafayette district. We are glad
to hear it.
The people of Terre Haute held an
( other public meeting on Thursday
night, In reference to securing the To-
I cation of the State Normal School in
that city. They are working with a
will, and ought to succeed.
81 A BIG STEER. The local of the In
dianapols Gazette has had the pleas
are of seeing a steer six years old, the
property of Mr.. Spurrier, which
weighs four thousand pounds, and cost
Spurrier eleuen hundred and .Jffty dol
lars.
The people of Attica are now NOV
ing for the extension of the E. & c.
r. r. from Rockville to Attica. They
are now engaged in securing the right
of way, and are calling on capitalists
to aid in the york, which we hope
will prove successful.
A. woman named Mary Smith had
her own daughter arrested in Indian
apolis, on Wednesday, and bound over
to Court in the sum of $500, ON charge
of stealing some of the old lady's
wardrobe. Funny people live in In
.dianapolis
Simmons, the spectacle man at In
,dianapolis, on Saturday last discovered
sister whom he had lost sight of for
nearly thirty years. She had been
living in Louisville for the last twenty
years, and they had often met, with
out suspecting the close relationship
that existed between them.
It is asserted that the sensation
story published in the indianapolis
Herald, and copied by the press gen.
orally, relative to DIR. Hawn and
Knapp's adventures in the Leaven-
worth Cave, was monstrous hoax.
We should mt wonder.
The claim of Jesse ID. Bright, for
SIS, 900 damages, alleged to have been
inflicted on his farm, was RACED to
$9,476 Al by the auditing committee,
and has been forwarded to Washing
ton for approval
The engine at the artesian we'll in
the rear of the Terre Haute House, is
z now running both day and night, and
every hour the augur approaches
nearer the center of gravitation. 1t
it is now little below four hundred
feet Wabash Express.
The Cincinnati, Indianapolis and
Danville railroad has been surveyed
as far as Charlottesville, Indiana, un-
der the supervision of Gen. T.. A.
Morris, chief engineer of the route.
Assistant engineers, Capt. George Nu-
gent and Mr.. +. Lord, of Cincinnati,
are busy with their respective corps
setting slope stakes for the workmen
! TO go on with the construction.
DISEASE AMONG THE CHICKENS
A singular fatality now exists among
the chickens of this locality. a mo-
ment after they appear to be IN APP
parent health, they will suddenly
drop, and expire with single gasp.
Hundreds have died thus in the city,
within week or two, and we get sim
liar reports from the country YIN
,cesasaeS SIN.
s Z a PROFESSIONAL SC0UNDREL.-A
fellow by the name of John Sprankle
has been residing in Harrison town
ship for several months past We
learn that he represented himself as
able to live, move and have a being,
and by constant appliances Of the
scoundrels arts he gained the conf
dence of several leading citizens of
that township, and at one o'clock on
) the first day Of April, he left, carrying
with him some 800 or $500 in bor-
roWed money; it is said he played the
same trick upon neighborhood in
Ohio which he left when he made his
advent here, He is now somewhere
In Illinois. Look out for him.
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