The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-07-06

Cne DeHOcrabS OF Inat region MlIiI-
gan weepers, " and says they have found
one Democratic soldier in Montgom-
cry County, of whom they propose to
make huge capital They were to
hold . convention last Saturday to fix
the matter up. It is supposed the
Democratic soldier SO. far viii be pop
ular, because he fought to put down
Democratic principles with the sword,
all other remedies having failed.
: Hon. r NJ. Finch, late Judge of
the Circuit Court for johnson, Ma
rion and Hendricks Counties, has re-
moved from Franklin to Indianapo-
lis, where he has assumed the practice
of the Jaw. Judge Finch is highly
esteemed for his legal attainments,
and Indianapolis will find in him
most estimable citizen. ~
A man named English, a laborer on
one of the railroads centering at In
dianapolis, was killed on Monday
night in that city by drunken Ital-
ian scissors-sharpener, while English
was attempting to prevent the Italian
from shooting another man. Bad
whisky was at the bottom of the affair.
Milk SICKNESS. -This mysterious
and terribly fatal disease is prevailing
three miles North of Neville. Six
deaths have already occurred from 1t,
and several other eases are reported
as bad and likely to terminate fatally.
There is something about this terrible
seourge which would be worth the
life time Of some competent man to
unravel. 1t is more frightful than the
pestilence which walketh at noon
day coming without warning and
marking its victims for the tomb with
singular fatality.-Bta.6toa Banner
We learn from the indianapolis
Journal that Rev. w. r. Goodwin,
President of Brookville College, has
been elected to the chair of English
Literature in the Illinois Wesleyan
University, at Bloomington, and ac-
cepts the position. Professor G. l..
Curtiss, of Madison, is being negoti-
ated with, by the Trustees of the in
stitution first named, to take the place
vacated by President Goodwin
Madison Courier go s.
On Saturday DIR. VIM. A. COL
Inns cut piece of pine wood three
inches long, and three quarters of an
inch square, from the body of Esquire
Spivey. 1t stuck in him two years
ago, by his falling on a sharpened
stake, and remained until extracted
by DR.. Collins. Mr.. Spivey had suf-
fered a good deal from this cause, but
will probably soon recover now
Madison Courier.
STABBING ARRAY IN PORTLAND
Sunday serious stabbing ARRAY oc-
CURED at the st. Charles Hotel Gar
den, Portland, in which a rounder
named John Ferguson got badly used
up 1t appears that Ferguson had
been drinking freely, and became very
quarrelsome. Two brothers named |
Coon, of Portland, got into the diff !
Guilty, when Ferguson drew knife to
strike them, One of the party seized |
Ferguson's {. arm, but he gave a sudden |
jerk, the knife turned, and he stab I
bed himself in the abdomen. Two of /
the parties were arrested the same
evening and committed to jail. -
A boy, about seven years of age,
belonging to family near Mark1e,
who had been in declining health for
four or five months, and who, in addi-
ton, had takenthe ague, took heavy
dose of quinine one day last week,
which, caused him to vomit violently
In the process of vomiting he expelled
from his stomach a live snake II, inches
in length and about the size of an or
binary pipe-stem Our informants
could not recall the name of the fam
lily to which the boy belongs, but the
case is authenticated by Dr. Scott, of
Markle, and others. DIR. Scott now
has the snake in alcohol in his Office,
where any one may examine it, & It is
q yeritable snake, beyond question, as
when first elected from the boys sto-
mach it thrust out his tongue, and
looked about in the. usual manner of
reptiles, BIffi07, Banner.