The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-18
LOVE- LErrERs.-The indianapolis

/ Principal OF the baptist Semlnary
/ deal of trouble by persistently making
love, orally and by letter, to the young
ladies under his charge The other
day the principal learned that some of
his pupils had packages of letters
from young gentlemen in the city
| tender epistles. Exasperated beyond
endurance, he caused the young ladies
to stand up before the entire school
and read the letters In full, with the
names of the writers. There was
futter in the school.
HORSE THIEF ARRESTED. Three
weeks ago a young buck named w. A.
| Lockwood, of Lawrence township,
went down to Cincinnati and hired
| FIVE hundred dollar horse and buggy
of Mr.. Knoll He brought the turn
out to this city, where he traded off
| the buggy to Mr.. Dietch for another
horse, and put the two to board at a
stable. Lockwood was arrested here
yesterday. Mr.. Knoll repleyied the
harness and buggy before Esquire Sui
liyan. and Mr. Dietch recovered his
horse. Lockwood Is In for a full term.
The Evansville journal boasts
loudly of the fast horses " kept by
fast people Of that fast little town on
the classic waters of Pigeon Greek.
1t is true Evansville excels all other
towns in the number of its fast horses
particularly during muddy weather,
when they may be seen in indefinite
numbers very fast IL the mud on
the streets of that fast town. Go to,
.Jouynol.-Neao Albany Ledger.
Nary come up, Ledger. We boast
not, we only give a few facts and
figures.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT-A little
boy, about four years old, son of Mr..
George Strown, who lives on First
Street, near Mississippi, fell from
second story window last evening
about seven and a half o'clock, and
was killed instantly - indianapolis
Journal
The never sweats Of Lafayette
have instituted a two hour movement,
in consequence of the intense heat of
the last few days.
The Seymour Commercial says that
most painful tragedy, the result Of
a most reprehensible carelessness, &C.
CURED at Brownstown on Saturday
last. A young man and young lady
were disputing in good hum0r, on
some subject, when the young man
remarked, in playful manner, We
have had enough of this, now" took
down a rife, and seeing that it had
no cap on it. pointed it at her fore
head and pulled the trigger. when the
charge exploded, Of course killing her
instantly.
Mr.. r. A. Morris is acting Secretary
and General Ticket Agent of the
Terre Haute and indianapolis rail
road, since the death of Mr.. Charles
Wood. Dick is admirably qualified
to fill the place.
Green Burrows, who was nomina-
ted for sheriff by the DIilligan- Bowles
Democracy Of Putnam County, was
openly charged with fraud connected
with the draft, by men Of his own
party. He agreed if nominated to
clear up the matter, but now fails to
do it. One or two townships repre-
scented By unsophisticated gentlemen,
protested against his being nominated
on any terms, but the Democracy
could not bring themselves to nomi-
nate an honest man, and forced Green
on the ticket. Such is Democracy.
Mr.. NJ. Mclaughlin, of Louisville.
has been rusticating and fishing at
the Rapids, near Vincennes, has
caught $500 pounds of fish. includ-
ing a cat weighing % pounds. His
line being small, not sufficient to bear
a strain of over 10 pounds, it took
him two hours to land the monster,
TERRIFIC Between II and
L clock to-day, man named Daniel
Sullivan, at work tending the plaster
ers at the new Court House, stepped
on the end Of a plank composing
part of the scafolding, tipping it over,
and precipitating Sullivan to the floor,
distance of twentyreight feet. MIR.
5. fell on his head, and extraordinary
as it may seem, does not appear to !
have been seriously injured At any
rate, he in few minutes was walking
about, The plank, which fell with
him, Knocked hole in the floor. Mr.. |
Sullivan 5 escape from death was truly |
miraculous.-Neao Albany Ledger,
A Georgia refugee named Ezekiel |
S. Williams was, on Wednesday, con-
yicted of grand larceny at Indianapo- /
lis, and sentenced for four years to
the penitentiary, and disqualified for