The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-07-24

| spected citizen OF flncennes34u leu on
Monday the 10Th instant in the 10Th
wear of his age 4 He was born in Vir-
GINA and removed to- Knox County
in, 1913. He served in the war of
1912, and; was at .Hulls surrender,
when. he was taken prisoner, andonly
escaped by running the gauntlet three
times He was Christian. In 1847
he spent 81 400 for the erection Of a
church edifce, when his whole pro-
perry att that time would not have
amounted to more than $1,000 or
$4,000. He was the father of twelve
children, five of whom are still living.
johnson stock in this localityis not
worth five cents on the dollar, and it
lis a grave question, if the stock holders
7 are not Individually liable, -. Lafayette
| Courier. nj ..-siflo- h7id4slI
The Courier man recently held
largely OF. that stock, but closed out
his shares. He was the man connect
ed with a Union newspaper, in In
diana, who has held any of that kind
/ of 6 wild cat for some months. The
MiIliganweepers hold it all now, and
it is utterly worthless.
The harvest in St Joseph County
is over The wheat yield will not be
half crop, yet It will be better than
expected The heads are we'll filed,
the grain plump, and altogether there
will be more grain, when threshed
out, than the mos sanguine supposed
two months ago there would be.
I There is also considerable old wheat
yet on banda and the rye tcrop.is said
togbe very fair one.
The Washington Davies County
Gazette says a prominent Democrat of
that place has declared that unless
4 three hundred votes could be brought
into that county, his party would be
defeated; and that he also proceeded
to make the calculation as to what it
i would cost, allowing the votes to be
) imported from Kentucky 900
1 The Madison Courier says that
/ efforts are being made to take from
that Office the appointment it holds
4 for publishing the laws passed by the
4 first session of the. Thirty-ninth Con-
| gress. Should the effort succeed, we
think the Courier will still be able to
live. 5d1. b. :..o1. l,'.,' ,-., t.rss
+ VINCENNEs RAILROAD - The Di-
rectors of the Indianapolis and Vim
4 cennes Railroad have been in session
/ IN indianapolis for the past day or.
two. It is their intention, the Jour
nal says, to go to work and complete
the road as soon as possible. siJ =
The rYincennes Times says John w.
Canon talks of erecting, in that city,
a large, frst-class, modern7style hotel,
provided the indianapolis and Vim
/ cennes Railroad be built
| The New Albany Commercial, in
printing the proceedings of the John
son State convention, gives the names
? of the delegates from the First Con-
gressional District to the Philadelphia
| Convention DIR. DeBuler and w G..
Preston-as from the county of Hor-
denburg! Pray where is Harden
, baTg? t-msa5 4ass a-
i THE FISH IN EEL RIVER. - We
have. heard reports from several diff
ferent sources that strange and ter
:, rible epidemic is raging among the
Y fish of Eel River, in the northern
4 part of Allen County and part of the
4, county west, For distance of ten
miles, from Heller'sa Corners, down
: the river, its effects are plainly visible.
r Hundreds, of fish weighing from one
E to ten pound can be seen floating
. dead on the water. Before they die
they come up to the surface, gasp for
breath few moments and then 'ex-
. pre- Some Of, the dead fish have
! been dissected, but no satisfactory
!. reason for the strange fatality has
Q been ascertained., No such epidemic
G was ever before known or heard of in
! that part of the country, FL. Wayne
! Gazette. ~ ~ sl.s.,.s. e5.I.