The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-07-03

A gentleman IN New Albany mas
received a very pathetic letter from
Amelia G. Howard, of Virginia, now
stopping in Canada, setting forth her
misfortunes, and offering to sell liter
airy curiosities of her late husband,
and asks the remittance of $50 or $25.
The gentleman kindly sent her 500
Confederate bond, as gratuity. Of
course it is a confidence game that
some scoundrel attempts to play, I'M
der the assumed but mellifuous name
of Amelia.
MOVERS. = Some twenty families
have passed through the city since
yesterday from Kentucky, seeking
homes in the interior of Indiana. All
of them seemed well-to-do in the
world, with plenty of stock, &c, and
all of them were farmers.-Neeo Al
bang Ledger.
The Vincennes Gazette thus gives
its opinion of musical concert given
in that city:
The concert on Monday night was
one of the most complete failures in
the concert line that we ever wit
messed. The singing was devoid of
melody and harmony. 1t eyinced a
total lack of cultivation, which tends
to make up the grand science of ma
sic. The voices were harsh, discord-
ant and uncultivated. The arrange
ment of the seats was excellent, being
put up in the style of amphitheater.
A lavish expenditure of dress was
made by the parents of the scholars,
and there was a profuse display OF
white robes, ribbons, artificial flowers,
laces, perfumery, &c.
The Lafayette Courier of Wednes-
day says:
One or two of our citizens who
participated in the Mexican war as
soldiers in the old Third Indiana,
will visit Madison on the Fourth, to
celebrate the day and hold reunion
with their companions in arms.
Four of the prisoners confined in
our Jail made a desperate attempt to
escape on Wednesday. While they
were in the hall, one of them struck
the sheriff, Mr.. Lahue, with bar of
iron, knocking him down. They then
made their escape from the jail, but
were pursued, and three of them cap
tured. One, named Benedict, sue
ceeded in eluding the officer and
escaped.
A SAD ACCIDENT. On Thursday
evening at 3 o'clock, our townsman,
SamuelD. Smith, Esq, while. engaged
in putting up rafters to asbarn, fell
some twenty two feet, lighting upon
his head and shoulders on some tim
.bers inside the building, completely
paralyzing his limbs and bruising his
body into jelly. Up to the hour of
going to press, yesterday, his friends
had but little Of any hope of his re-
covery.- Rochport Democrat.
A contract has been entered into
between the trustees of the Wabash
and Erie canal and responsible parties,
for the repair and opening to naviga-
ton of the canal from the State line
to Terre Haute.
The night Waterman of the Ohio
Fall Car Works, in this city, one day
last week, went into the engine room
of that establishment, having with
him little dog. The engineer un-
dertook to drive the dog cut, and after
running him around for time, sup
posed he had gotten into the machin-
cry, as all traces of him were lost, and |
that he had been ground to atoms. |
This was about one o clock P. NJ. At |
six, when the hands quit work and
the engine was stopped, the dog came
limping from the fy-wheel, In run |
ming across the room, his canine
majesty had been caught in an arm
of the wheel, and had been held there
by the fast revolution of the same.
The wheel is about twenty feet in di-
ameter, and makes 81 revolutions per
minute. The spoke of the wheel on
which the dog was lodged is six feet.
That dog travelled, in rotary motion,
during the afternoon, one hundred |
miles and 308 yards.-JefcrsoaciUe |
Democrat. 55ie4 |