The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-16
STATE ITEMS.

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There was D small riot IN 1ndianap-
oils on Sunday evening, between the
Irish and the negroes. Nobody hurt.
Sage, the child murderer, is to be
hanged at Vernon on the 18th of the
present month.
The Versailles Dispatch says that
the wheat crop is total failure in
Ripley County this season.
The General Association of Con-
gregational Churches and ministers
of Indiana will meet in Terre Haute
this season.
Harrison NJ. Dodd, it is said, has
again placed himself under the pro-
lection of the British Lion. He did
not consider Indianapolis a healthy
location for him. ~ f-
The Howard Tribune says the COM
missioners of Upton County have let
the contract for new Jail, with iron
cells. stone building, and a brick
house attached for the jailor.
Meetings were to be held at Attica
on Saturday last, and at Delphi, yes
terday to decide what shall be done to
put the Wabash aud Erie Canal in
order from Logansport, south.
Mr.. William Layborn informs the
editor of the Decatur County Press
that genuine coal oil is found In SEEM
ing abundance on Paynter Greek, Ma
rion Township, about ten miles south
Of Greensburg. He also states. that
coal has been found in the same re-
gion. T a4u earrsr
WABASH CoLLEGE.-At meeting
of the Trustees of this institution, held
on the 9Th, inst, Rev. ID. A. Bassett
was elected Principal of the Prepare
tory Department, in place of the late
lamented Prof. Hadley.
The Sheriff of Tippecanoe County,
on Thursday night last, shipped three
convicts to the Penitentiary at Mich
igan City, each convicted of larceny,
and sentenced for two years Their
names are Brock Myers, james. Nc
Donald, and John Berlin.
FISHING. General Lew Wallace is
conducting fishing campaign on, the
Kankakee. . He. has pitched his tent
on the banks of the li1npid stream.
He has turEed his sword into fish
ing rod, and the way he hauls out the
fms is caution. Courier.
PIcKPocKETs. IA mob of profess
sional pick pockets, from Detroit and
Windsor, arrived in this city yester-
day, but they were Immediately spot
ted by the police and left without get
ting a nible. - Lafayette Courier. r.
In TRouBLE.-A well-known citi-
zen of Lafayette has got himself into
/ trouble by being too much married,
| He had a wife In Wisconsin, and took
another in this vicinity few months
since. Wife No. l isn't going to
stand it. Col. Wilson and Col. De
Hart are retained, and there is the
very deuce to pay.-LaJdyette Courier.
The box containing the records
which were deposited in the corner
stone of the list Presbyterian Church,
at Indianapolis, now being torn down
for the erection of new office for the
Journal, was opened in the Journal
Office on Saturday The stone was
laid in 1841.
There is a great railroad fever in
indianapolis, and the City Council
will be asked to order an election to
determine whether or not the city
shall subscribe $3.50, 900, to be raised
by taxation-the sum to be divided
between the three proposed new roads
the Danville, the Vincennes, and the
Central Indiana and Illinois. AL
hope of raising the amount by indi-
yidual subscriptions has been abanl
doned.
Dennis Brannon, who was convicted
year ago in the Marion County Cir,
cult Court, of robbing a sleeping cal
at the Union Depot, and sentenced tt
the penitentiary for two years, ap
pealed his case to the Supreme Court
which body decided the crime was
larceny, not robbery. and remandec
the cause back to the Circuit Cour
for a new trial. He was tried the
other dag on the charge of larceny
and sent to the penitentiary for five
years, having lost one year in thu
county Jail. AastA ssss ~ "ssa
The Decatur County Press announ
ces an attempted robbery in Greens
burg of the grocery. house of Ewinj
and Foley by burglars who forced tn
window open. No great success, how
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