The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-01
STATE ITEMS.

day. Hon. r. =, Gregory was chosen |
Chief Justice. g,e 94 .es s.sas5i .4a
The City Council Of Indianapolis
on Monday night voted the railroad
tax, of $4,000, by vote of ID to 2.
In the Supreme Court, ON Tuesday
the new Criminal Court was decided
to be constitutional and valid u
A very successful Festival was given
at Terre Haute on Tuesday night, in
aid of the Young Mems Library As
ISOLATION.
A cellar wall fell IN at Indianapolis
on Monday, and buried a workman
beneath it.. He was rescued without
receiving much injury. s saa5aa
General Gibbon, late of the Army
of the Potomac, lectures at Indiana
polls tonight for She beneftof the
soldiers orphans.
The meeting in aid of the Soldiers
Home held at Indianapolis on Tues
day was but slimly attended--disgrace
fully 50, according to the report of the
capital city papers.
We see that a company of Gipsies
are encamped two miles west of town,
| For livelihood they tell fortunes,
trade In horses and steal WGshaag-
4 ton, Ind, Gazette.
We understand that the Madison
Marine Railway and Shipyard has
I,changed hands, and goes into opera
/ ton again june LIST. under very favOra-
| BILE auspicies.
i The Democracy of Allen County
have turned the cold shoulder to the
O'Rourke wing, represented by the
Fort Wayne Democrat. ORourke
had better join the Fenians and go to
Canada. sT0G aae agsH
| An Englishman arrived in Indian
apolis on Tuesday and deposited with
one of the banks $4,000 in gold. He
is looking for a safe and good invest
ment in this State He should visit
Evansville before deciding the ques-
ton
"A firm of butchers at indianapolis
have recently been fmuleted in the
neat little sum of SO, $40 for forgetting
tosmake proper returns Of the beeyes
they had slaughtered. They are said
to he now regretting their shortnesS
/ of memory.
Eight BARRIERS in Terre Haute have
u published a card in the Express agree
ing to close their shops on Sunday
and giving notice that they will prose
cute all who keep open on Sunday.
Il "A newly married man at Kokom'
: in fit Of jealousy made various dem
q onstrations looking to suicide, tn
"a other day, and finally ran toward
4 creek, but finding that he was not fol
i lowed byhisfriends, became disguste'
r. and concluded not to die in such
cause.
The ladies of the First Reforme
Presbyterian Church, at Princeton
: will give a Strawberry Festival in th
I'd lecture room of the church, on Erlda
evening, June Sth. The public al
respectfully invited to attend. Th
I'd proceeds are to be devoted to the Der
eft of the Sabbath School Library.
+. A. Wiley, for whom the Copper
Il head editors are expressing sue
strong sympathy, publishes card
{. which he declares his purpose
cheerfully support the Union tick,
4 whether he receives the nominatio
for Representative from Marion Coul
ty or not. He don't seem to apprec
! ate the sympathy. of Perkins & c
"a A fellowcalling himself Commodo
Perry Arnold, convicted of passil
s counterfeit money, at Indianapoll
wv feigningf sickness was placed in Il
third story of the Postofice buildin
At night he made an attempt to Q
cape, a Ia Dodd, but his rope was t
short, and he was detected, lodged
Jail, and the next day sent, in col
pany with three others, to Jefferso
vile.
A party of German emigrants we
compelled to remain in the streets
night at Lafayette, while waiting !
.3- a train on the New Albany Railroi
not having the means to stop at
hotel. Lafayette must be a hospital
city, and the Railroad Compani
IS highly accommodating.