The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-07-12
STATE Items.

of State, has returned from New Y ork.
The plasterers of Indianapolis are
On a strike for four dollars day.
A flooding rain fell at New Albany
on Monday.
f. Buchanan Reed is at IndianapO-
lis, the guest of Gov. Morton.
The majority in favor Incorporating
the town of Bloomington, at the late
election on that question, was 80 only
VIM. Miller, worthy German, died
suddenly in Indianapolis on Monday,
supposed to have been poisoned.
Several highway robberies have re-
Gently been committed in the vicinity
of Indianapolis.
1t is now lawful to shoot woodcocks
in the State of Indiana, and will be
until the list of January next.
Zurich, of Indianapolis, is now
busily engaged in endeavoring to
catch the frogs lost in his last shoot
ing match with Gorham, and with in
different success. Up to Monday
evening he had only caught two.
A little girl in indianapolis was
knocked down by the horses attached
to a street car, and considerably in
jured. She made "a narrow escape
from death.
Seven boys from ten to fourteen
years old, were concerned in a bur
glary at Indianapolis on Sunday night.
Three of them were arrested and now
in Jail. They belong in Indianapolis,
Terre Haute, Shelbyville and Column
bus, respectively.
A man supposed, from papers found
on his person, to be P. P. Glenn, of
Henderson, Illinois, was found dead
in his bed at New Albany, on Mon
day morning.
The plasterers of Indianapolis are
on strike for higher wages. They
demand four dollars per day. The
strike goes into effect this morning if
the bosses don't come down.
Roasting ears have made their APP
pearance in New Albany.-EuGnsmlle
Courier,
That's is so, Courier but they are of
very poor quality. Gov. Morton
will be here next week, and if some
bodys ears don't roast we are mis-
taken. The Morton Pill has the
same effect upon Democracy that
roasting ears have upon the epigas-
triam of a gourmand-it operates very
seriously.-Neso Albany Courier.
Harvesting has commenced in some
neighborhoods, and reports seem to
be more favorable to farmers than
was anticipated. In some neighbor-
hoods about half an average crop is
reported, and in others it is said that
the yield will be about as large as
usual. Union City Eagle.
Harry Scott, the youngest son of
General John Scott, Treasurer of the
Terre Haute and Indianapolis Rail
road, died at Terre Haute, of dipthe-
ria, on the 9Th inst.
A small boy by the name of Sheri-
dan, in attempting to climb an iron
fence at or near the intersection of
Broadway and Presbyterian Avenue,
fell and caught his foot in the sharp
pickets, iniuring his ankle very badly.
Madison Courier.
At the close, of prayer meeting at
the Baptist Church in Lafayette on
Thursday evening last, a subscription
OF Sl4,4OO was taken up for the cree
ton OF new church edifce in that
city.
A man by the name of Jeremiah
Gard slapped one of the city dads of
Madison in the face the other day
for which he was arrested and brought
to grief. He must have been loaded
to the guard with bust-head or he
never would have been guilty of
punching his dirty fist into the face of
his munic ipal pap.
SUIoIDE.-We learn from the Ply
mouth Republican, that a young man
named John Carver committed sui
eide on Tuesday of last week. by
drowning himself in Lake near that
place.
A young girl Tor boy named UNI
bach accidentally sat down in a vessel
containing hot water, in Madison. on
Saturday last, and was seriously scald-
ed. The Courier says it was a girl;
the Press says it was a boy. The pa
rents of the child might be able to
decide which it was.
N. B. Vansicklen, an auctioneer of
Lafayette, has been advised by letter
from the old country that lottery
ticket in which he owns a quarter in