The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-04
STATE NEWS.

| Inefe Is quite u f6NlNdi g0iAS OIL IL
the order of Good Templars in Mar
shall County,
Lew. Overman, a cattle dealer, was
knocked down and robbed. in broad
daylight, near Greensburg, last Satur-
day.
The Greensburg Chronicle thinks
that there is pretty fair prospect for
fruit in Decatur County.
The City Council of Greensburg
has passed an ordinance fixing the IL
cense for the sale of intoxicating Ii
quors at retail, at 300 per anIfum.
Add. Evans is being tried in La
fayette for infanticide, the alleged
killing of an Legitimate child
A Lodge Of Good Templars was or
ganized at Winchester last Friday
evening
There is to be horse show held at
New Winchester, Hendricks County,
May 4th, and Danville. May 9th.
The rMadisonians are talking Of
erecting mammoth shoe manufac
tory; $45, 900 have already been sub
scribed.
Thos. NJ. Harding, of indianapolis,
has sued Capt. Jacobs for cowhiding
him, and lays his damages at $4,000.
Operations on the street rail-
way at Vincennes have been COM
menced, and parties have gone East
to purchase iron for the track.
The peach crop in Franklin
County promises to be first rate If no
mishap overtakes it from this out.
Snow fell in Marshall County
last Tuesday, the Plymouth Democrat
says.
The farmers in Northern Indi-
ana are plewing up their winter
wheat and sowing spring wheat in
! its stead.
The Marshall County Jail con
tains seven prisoners, six for larceny
and one for murder.
There are seventeen actions for di-
vorce pending in the Vigo Court of
Common Pleas.
There are over fifty criminal cases
to be tried before the Circuit Court
of Decatur County, at the present
| term.
The. johnson County .Jefcrsoni;an
says that if the weather should prove
favorable there will be a good crop of
wheat in that county.
/ The Winchester Journal says that
/ the late rains have greatly benefited
/ the wheat and that the crop will prob
ably be better than that of last year
Many of the farmers in franklin
| County are blowing up their wheat
fields and sowing oats and flax in
| them ,i9 s'i7
i Coon SHOOTING in a shooting
match at indianapolis, on Tuesday,
William Graham killed eighteen birds
out of twenty four. Tn five consecu-
tive shots he brought down ten birds.
A johnson Association is talk
ed of in indianapolis. "A preliminary
meeting was held on Tuesday night, of
which Garland d. Rose, late United
4 States Marshall was chairman, and
the renowned Martin Igoe was sec
rotary.
The contract for building the Union
and Logansport Railroad is to be let
at an early day. Three thousand tuns
of iron have been purchased, being
enough to lay the track to Hartford
Hitv IN RlacEfnr Couptv
~ The public schools of Lafayette will
hereafter commence at eight instead
of nine o'clock, and be dismissed at
ten minutes past three clock in the
afternoon Is
We have heard of two or three at
tempts at robbery last night. Keep
] your doors well bolted and your win
dows fastened down of nights.-Neao
Albany Ledger.
no VIM G.. Ewing, young man, eom-
!. mitted suicide at Fort Wayne, on
Sunday last, III tlsci pfsssHesr Or MS
his mother, by shooting himself
through the head. He had been sick
for several months with consump-
ton. i
The Corydon Democrat says that
the peaches in that county have not
been killed, but viii yield a fair crop
unless destroyed by freezing hereaf-
y ter lis zr sf,eaf s+srs
b The Senatorial Convention for
!, Owen and Greene Counties meets at
Freedom, on Saturday, July 21, and
the Democratic primary election in
= that county will be held on Saturday,
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