The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-18
STATE ITEMS.
The new Methodist Church in
Madison is to be called Centenary

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Some sacreligious individual stole
the silver contribution plates from the
Episcopal Church at indianapolis, last
Saturday.
ILL.-We regret to learn that Cal
vim Fletcher, ST., is lying very i'll at
his residence in Indianapolis. Fears
are entertained that his sickness will
prove fatal.
A man by the name of James Me-
Elrey, an inmate Of the Marshal
County Asylum, committed suicide
last week by cutting his throat with
razor. He was an Irishman, about
30 years of age.
The Cannelton Cotton Mill Com
pany intend enlarging their factory
this summer. At present, they work
about forty hands. and turn out daily
about $50 pounds of spun cotton.
I The Republicans of the Second Con-
gressional District have issued call
for a Convention, to meet at Jefer-
sonville on the 9th day of June, to
select a candidate for Congress.
There is to be special term of the
Franklin Common Pleas Courts, In
June, for the trial of the Batzner
Bond case. Judge Colgroye is to
preside. 80 .hae9 rs sgTe,i.
"A daughter of Frederick Wilhelm
per-. of Butler Township, Franklin
County aged seventeen, was killed
last week by the accidental discharge
of a gun III the hands of her little
brother. nj xE
Ii The Upton Times complains that
cattle, lawyers, hogs, and quacks ply
and root in the courthouse yard in
that village. As&g
The work On the Michigan City.
harbor is progressing finely The
dredging machines have been sent for
to deepen it; and when finished it
will be one of the finest harbors in
the United States.
Mr.. Robert Alexander, a citizen Of
Salem, committed suicide one week
ago last Sunday, by shooting himself
through the head. He was nearly
| seventy years of age, and has often
made threats to commit the deed.
The body of drowned man, sup
| posed to be the remains of one Fox
worthy, of Greencastle, horse thief,
were found in White River, near In
dianapolis, on Saturday
INDIGNANT.-The local of the In
dianapolis Journal becomes indignant,
because some scuryy fellow asks for a
puff, to be paid for in radishes. We
have known. a contemporary to give a
man a halfcoIumn puff for key of
common beer, worth six bits or dol
lar. Don't be so fastidious, George.
Jesse Brown, an old printer, and a
soldier of the War of 1912, died in
Nashville, Brown County, on the 9th
inst. He was born in North Carolina
| in 1897, and was. perhaps, the oldest
working printersinthe State He was
4 publisher of the Nashville Union. and
Il worked it off, the week before he died,
on a Washington press by himself. e
SAD ACCIDENT. Mr.. John Alb
Planalp, one of the watchmen at Bel
ser & Co.'S Madison Brewery, was
! killed in Madison early Tuesday morn
ing, By falling through the. hatchway
and striking with great force at the
bottom Of the cellar. He died almost
instantly. He was good man, highly
priced by his employer. He leaves a
wife and five small children.
1--we are sorryt to learn, says the Mad
ison Courier, as we do. from the In
dianapolis Herald, that Mr.. Charles
/ P. Baymiller, for long time connect
ed with the press of this and other
cities, is falling fast, with little hopes
of recovery: It will be remembered
that Mr.. b. fell and broke his leg
some two months ago. since which
tine he has psrsf besa 9pt Of bed.
APPR0PR AFEgS FDF 9itet5iaAa Cry
HARBDR --f49p. =. E9sfaE writes 10
the St. J9ssgh IR19istr, eGdsf date 81
May 4ths tAat ~ a4ADy9DFlatieH of a75.
90 Bas incorporated Into the bill for
river and haf)9f improvements which
has last passed the House b. be OK
pended On the harbor at MICHIGAN
City when it shall be proved TINT the
Company have expended twice that
amount.
AcQgiTTED.r-0n Wednesday of last
week, Alex Jordan, aofc Franktoni
Madison County. Indiana was atr;eJ