The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-04-30
STATE NEWS.

0CISu lAltb SlduE1lNSI QOuStS Dc ItlIlOrN c0
beyond the city limits A good idea.
b We regretto see announced the death of
Willard Fillmore, son of Gen. Nathan KIM
ball, at the age of9 years.
ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED RITE. = The
first Annual Grand Festival given by the
Bodies of this Rite, working in our city,
closed Thursday evening at 10 o'clock. The
festival was very pleasant affair.
A panther has been seen a number of
times recently, in the woods, in Fayette
County. It has raised big hubhub among
the people of the neighborhood in which
it has appeared by its terrible screaming
and bowling. - 'f-
CoNTRACT.-The contract for building
the new Jail of Spencer County with a
house for the Sheriff attached, has been
awarded to Hawn and Eyer, of Troy, Ind,
at $24, 800.
An Feffort is being, made to esta blish a
gymnasium at Rockport. We have seen
seen so many unsuccessful efforts to estab-
lish gymnasiums in different cities and
towns throughout the State, that we have
little faith in the success of any
YOUNG INEBRIATEs.-A few days since
three little boys, neither of them over
twelve years of age, were discovered under
the bluff, at Rockport, in a helpless state
of intoxication. They had by some means
procured quart of whisky and drank it
with the above results. They took their
first lesson jim Democracy early in life.
The New Albany Ledger of Thursday
contains glowing description of the Odd
Fellows Celebration in that city on Thurs
day. We are glad to learn that the breth-
rem got enoughto eat this time. s
The Terre Haute Journal says the pros
poets of fair average crop of wheat in that
section have improved much.
The Morgan County Union Convention,
for the nomination of Candidates for
county offices, is to be held at Martinsville,
on Saturday, the I'd day of June.
The efforts to establish an Agricultural
Society in Jackson County. with Fair
crowned with success. Nearly enough
money to erect the buildings, &C.. has al
ready been subscribed.
James Rightsel. of Clay County, was
brought before the Mayor of Greencastle,
tardy, urged by Eliza Jane Brana. The
case was compromised by Rightsei paying
$50 to the aggrieved party.
Colonel Marsh B. Taylor, of Lafayette,
recruiting officer of the Nineteenth Regi-
ment of Fenian Volunteers, announces
that there are not less than 5, 400 men ready
in Indiana for marching orders, and anx-
ious to join the great Fenian movement.
The County Treasurer Of. Lawrence
County. on a duplicate of $110,4l0 Oh, has
collected $40, 1876 II, leaving a balance of
only IS, 40 80. He reported the fourth
county treasurer at Indianapolis. Good
Ior the people pc put hard on the printer who
Ameeting of the stockholders of the Ma
Olson and Indiana m0IiS RafIrnad hos hoo
held at Madison to consider and determines
on proposition to intersect, join and
unite their railroad with the JeffersOnville
road, and to merge and consolidate the
stock of said com panies.
Last winter an accomplished young lady
of Washington, Indiana, met and loved a
stranger an that place. In due course of
enjoyed a delightful honeymoon, some
circumstance led to suspicion, and upon
investigation il was found that the.gay
low should eEnigfate to Utah; he is a At
disciple Of Brigham Young. gn- a -
The Upton Times says that /" the pros
pect for wheat throughout the country
looks far more favorable than it did few
us that many fields will yield an average
crop. He does not think it will be expedi-
emit yet to plow for corn any fields last year
have proposed. Two weeks, he thinks,
may revive many fields long since given
up as hopelessiy barren.
In The. citizens, of ,Martinsville have been
for some time past cheating the butchers,
BY shooting enough pigeons to do them
through the day, from their back yards,
before breakfast. Whereupon, a Wag has
perpetrated the following:
I" We have pigeons hot and pigeons cold,
We have pigeons new and pigeons old,
We have pigeons tender and pigeons tough,
And to make 1t short, we've had pigeons
enough"
We understand that. several horses were
stolen from the neighborhood Of Silver
Creek Post-Omce, in this county, one night
last week. The thieves were tracked as far
as Sullivan, where all traces of them were
lost, as we are informed. An attempt was
man Of some Of his horses, but before the
thieves had time, to make ia selection. he !
fortunately discovered that something was |
connoiter, and thus frightened away the |
lawiess Bloomfield IRdionfass.
The fruit is doubtless considerably in
jured by the frost of Wednesday night. |
Mr.. A. I'll. Brown examined his trees, and |
reports the cherries certainly dead, and |
certainly the pears. The apple buds are |
not forward enough TO have received any !
injury. We. trust our staple article of |
Pomology viii escaped injury Indianapolis /
Journal.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.-The morning pas /
senger train eastward, on the BelIefonfaine |
Railroad, on Wednesday morning. was |
tHAOh-h lIOu1 tle Track OY a broken dis |
placed rail, four miles east. of Pendleton-
The engine and tender were complefeiv
wrecked, and the forward truck of the hao- /
gage car Droken. No passengers Were in I
iured, and the only accident was the scaIdl
Ing Of the engineer The passengers footed /
It to anderson, where they took care IF i
themselves until the next train bore them
each to their respective destinations
Journal. ''f
The third volume of Adjutant General
Ierrell'sreportis now published, and the
4th volume is in the hands of the printer
Tie Sd volume contains complete roster
of all commissioned officers, with short
historical sketch of the service of each. and
is indexed completely in alphabetical form
the index containing over 1900 names
From it the Indianapolis Journal gathers
the following table, showing the number Of
officers who have lost their lives i'm the
Federal services: ftt