The Evansville journal., 1866-07-21
STATE ITEMS. ff
Mrs. Helm, a sister of Mrs. Presi-
dent Lincoln, lives In Madison.

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Mrs. Helm, a sister of Mrs. Presi-
dent Lincoln, lives In Madison.
The oat crop throughout the State
lis unusually fine.
The new Masonic HaiE, at Knox,
Starke County, is rapidly approaching
completion.
I A permanent Wool Growers Assoc
iation is to be organized in Laporte
County.
/ The total (revendes of Jay County
for the past year amounted to vi, 49,
as. 4@7
One brewer in Indianapolis sold.
4, 1873 barrels of beer during the month
of june.
The number of white male citizens,
over the age of twenty-one, in Jeffer-
son0ylllle' oF0 y - ts Y, ff9.fA .IE .GsE ss
A new hotel, on large scale, is |
about being erected at the Railroad
junction, kokomos j aR4E Eau
There are three thousand three
hundred men in Howard County over
the age of twenty one years.
Work on the Fort Wayne and |
Southern Indiana Railroad willmbeI
commenced In a short time
/ One of the Presbyterian churches
at Lafayette is to be enlarged. Busi- |
ness is looking up.
In the northerntoWns of the State
wool is worth from fortytfHe to sixty
! ceRts per pound dcgaIqaAo n14-oWr
| "A court house tax hof gtwentyefvesI
centsOn the hundred dollars has BEEN
levied by the Commissioners of Starke
County. .. : - 80 80 a
The new jail Of Clark County has
been completed and Is now ready for
use. saea IT'D 4kfH i
MR. Eli Zimmerman, Of Adams
County, had fifty sheep & killed -the7
other night by dogsgAlf h-III1Am i
The Union Con5ehtion of the nth
District is to be helfEat aWabashy on5
the lst OF August, ,s0Ua AIassgaa i
Spencer, Owen Gountg,Tincorporas j
ted. itself last Saturday lbyr axxote Of
iour Po ohe' .8rrAR aaadUa i
The. earnings of the indianapolis
street railways for the months Of
Aprilsand may were 81 ,829. ,r-,r 4
The. Laporte .U5aio,s of, this week
s;tys that coal has been found on a
farm about six miles from that city 4
on the Plymouth road. !fd -lsH'" 4
The total amount Of taxable prop 4 !
ertyin the city of Kok ONO, as showngt
by The Assessors books, is $657,T46. I
The number of polls is 275. a1T3Ia !
A. little son of s. MITCHELL att
Maftinsville, was crushed to death by
the ilroadoturnrtable, atlthat place,
last week. .4sIoa afAFs A-I'I-8Ix nh
A man named Obediah} Goodwin,
living in Otter Greek. Township, Nigo |
County, is now married to his third |
wife, Ca young and healthy Womanl,
lis sixty years Old, ana Is The Ddtef "a |
midas of twenty mine children, with |
a. very good prospect for several more,
as coming events east their shadows /
betore.)5Ta T00A a1s>s5 5ilIa hnn Fa x.I9I
81 Mr.. james Gambey, formerly citi-
zen Of. Goshen, recently committed
suicide BY taking poison al, the house !.
OF his uncle, in OHIO. ss..rs f..s f99 II
Ason of Ga O.eBhem, of Lafayette,
has been appointed to a cadetship in
the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
4 The Valparaiso aRepub5ic, says the
grass crop in all parts of the. country
is better than usual. Corn has good |
color, .stapdssweH, and is well tended,
the weather being favorable.
Solomon Froman was the first child /
born in Jefferson County. The inter-
estlng event took place in the year
1903. Mr., i pew lives in Switzer-
land County saa-A..14 49, : : - = Il
"a Mass Meeting of citizens, was /
held at Lafayette, on Wednesday
night, to discuss the merits of the
SoldiersD Home. and 10 aid in its
maintenance.
Mr.. Richard Hall, who lived about
tw0E miles east of Terre Haute. was II
killed ON Monday. BY being run over l
by aaWagon which he was idrivinyil
loaded with lumber. He was stlbieet.l
to itsyi andBiit issthought that he fell
from, his wagon, while afflicted with
one.aA . ,hJfs has d1aI si1J ,gabs9fiI .d34 !
In Howard Countythe pay of school |
teachers is regulated by the certif
Gates granted them, by the county ex-
aminer; six months certificates, thirty
dollars; one year, thirty-fve dollars;
eighteen months, forty dollars, and two |
years forty five dollars.
A new hridge on the Mart;nsv;lIa |