The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-09-24

Up again at Indianapolis. r:TF
- Henry G. Kirk has been appoint
ed Postmaster at Monticello. He is
a Democrat.
The Wabash Plainde0Ier has been
established on a radical basis.
The. Flat Rock Star, Johnson pal
per, has just been started at st. Paul,
Decatur County.
Judge John M. Wallace died at his
residence at Marion, Grant County, on
the 18th of last month.
The new streets of Terrer Haute are
being named after the old and promi-
nept citizens of the place.
| goltA Wabasher sent a water melon
| from Terre Haute to New York, last
week, that weighed sixty pounds. u :,
+ The dogs are making sad havoc
among the sheep in certain portions
of Franklin County.
A Sabbath School Convention will
be held at Laporte on the 23d and
oath Of October. .ln8Iy80
k4 There are four hundred members of
the army of the Republic, in Terre
Haute.
RIOTS fights and STREET rows have
become so frequent in Wabash that
the tPIGtndealer calls upon the May
or to wake up and do Something for
the restoration of order.
On Saturday night last, at Aurora,
John L. Bailey stabbed and killed
his brother law, Marshall Cooper,
while engaged in a drunken brawl.
A whisky murder l8sX slivsmo1 .
The Baptists of Huntington are en-
gagged in erecting a new House of
| Worship.
Mayor Hattinger, a. Hungarian isis.-
lie, IS le6tuEing ON military affairs at
Rushville. .-, .s,,.U !, tgoo.oro.
r. Am, sencampment of the Grand
ARMY of the Republic has been start
ed at KendalFille' ~, 5a2l i'i'' 81 I
A young gent and lady taking a
stroll on the Railroad track, at New
Castle, last week, weremet by an irish,
man who gave. the romantic pair a.
complete thrashing. Pat9said he was
entitled to the track 81 tnai idoq "a ID
IAN alteration came up between
two men eating supper at New Castle,
last week, when aone threw a.. sugar
bowl at the other 1. head, which broke,
and one of,.the fragments, put out the
assaulted party's eye iii. at 7aa aa 45i1sm
.. The Flat Rock Star Has been re- },
moved to rGreensburgI and is pub
Iished now as the Mdti0ndl !, p Union.
W. N. Barnes still manages the paper,
PELIcAN, o. DIR. Allison Hawkins
bthis morning brought into, this office
a large white pelican, which he caught
near Wild Cat Bridge. The bird Is a
very large one measuring FIVE feet
and four inches in length, and eleven
feet three and half inches across,the
wings. The strange bird excited CON
siderable observation-disclosures Gourr
Major Bundy, oflaNewcastle, has
been selected by the Conservatives and
Democrats in the Fifth District as the
opponent of Julian s;aeali~5tzs 10 =
4 DIR. q Raymond, of Monticello, has
been nominated as the Democratic
candidate for State Senator from the
District composed of the counties of
White, Warren and Benton. t ,at' y,
3 q; u!uI sdg4u y -
The population of .Connersyille is
atwoathousand two hundred and eleven.
Number of school children in the
place, eight hundred and twenty eight.
az About $4,000 has been subscribed
in this County, towards building the
Fort Wayne & Jeffersohville Railroad.
B-Ne,U Castle Courier.
General Joseph J: Reynolds has
received his commission, as Colonel
of gthev 26th0U. S. Infantry and will
accept the appointment. = Tie Gener-
al made the thing sure by endorsing
my. policy and the Cleveland Com
vention. .aI5di sIdat "a ~
A German by the man name of 81 acob
Boyle. seommitted suicide IN Porter
County, the other day, by cutting his
throat with pen knife. CaHse-too
much whisky.
W ifatonae ri94ora bno 'Isfggp1
''The Kendallville Standard says:
The Huntertown oil excitement is
running high; At a depth Of ninety
feet bed of stone coal was struck
six feet in thickness feet of
solid coal. Large numbers daily visit
the #eA, and it smells and looks very
oily about there. The coal mine of
itself is big strike, even if oil in
paying quantities is not found.-De
Kdlb Democrat.
Quite fight occurred at Fl. Wayne,
Friday, which resulted in several per-
SONS getting badly beaten, between
the police and gang of thieves, upon
the attempt of the police to arrest
member of the gang for pickpocketry.
The citizens were for lynching the
thieves, but better counsel prevailed