The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-11
STATE NEWS.

Presbyterian Church, in Indianapolis,
will be laid tomorrow afternoon.
The Indianapolis Journal says that
the new game called Keno has many
devotees in that city
4 There are "a drinking saloons in
Lafayette Quite large number for a
small town, but nothing to compare
with this city.
| The Union Convention of Boone
County has nominated a full county
ticketlof Union soldiers Is4I
There has been five murders COM
mitted in this State within the past
three weeks-two of them the most
atrO0i0us and cold -blOoded on record
The Valparaiso Republic says that
farmers in that locality refuse to sell
wheat at So % per pushed in view of
the prospective failure of the growing
crop.
An attempt to break out was made
ON Sunday last, by the prisoners CON
fined in the county Jail at New Al
bany
A burglar, who gpersistently refuses
to give his name, was sent to the peni-
Tertiary, few days ago, from Tippe-
canoe County.
STATE MEDICAL SooIETY. The
State Medical Society will convene at
Indianapolis on the 18th of this
month. aa4a 51.g'F a.1F=
It is asserted that the Judge,
Sheriff and every juryman now trying
DR.. Newland at New Albany, for muir
der, are all Democrats. Aa f4At.3h} S'AAs
We know a two-fold murderer who
escaped the gallows or the penitentiary
by a similar process.
They have sent a poor disabled
soldier to the Poor House in Indiana
polls. That is just like Indianapolis.
We are pleased to learn that Grand
Master I'll. G., Hazlerigg of Boon Coun-
ty, is slowly regaining his health The
Masonic fraternity throughout the
State will be glad to learn this fact.
The members of the Catholic de-
nomination at Lawrenceburg, are
erecting new church edifice of mag
nificent proportions.
indianapolis is putting on airs ex-
cruciatingly. Yesterday we saw
barouche driving through the streets,
with a servant in full livery Herald.
The Union Central Committee of
White County has ordered nomi-
mating election in the. various. town
ships In that county to select 8candi-
dates for the county offices. The
election is to be held prior to June
21st.
A little girl named Pickerel was
bitten BIT a mad dog in Indianapolis
on Sunday evening. The dog was
killed, as well as several others which
he had bitten.
The body of Mrs. Marry, the old
lady who so mysteriously disappeared
from her daughters house in New
Albany, on Sunday night week ago,
was found floating in the river3on Sat-
urday last, some fifteen miles below
New. Albany. She had, no doubt,
committed suicide while laboring under
temporary II insanity
According tolthe Ledger, the name
of the two men, father and son, who
died from the EeHeets of eating wild
parsnip root, in Floyd County was
Linder,5 not Sniaer, as the G6baa,se1-.--
ciol had it. ssAar' aaAs'sh eui-zsts1
The Wabash and Erie Canal is now
in good boating order from ALbgans-
port to Toledo. Below Logansport it
Isl not in good boating condition, and
probably will never be again. szn
u Hon. H. Hazlerigg. Most Wor.
shipful Grand Master of the York
Masons of Indiana, is lying at the
point of death at his home near Leba-
non, in Boone County. His recovery
is very , doubtful qidapp9ls jour.
The Lafayette Journal learns of
ETeutonic individual in. that city-who
threw himself outsidegof eighty9sagen
glasses of beer and two glasses of
whisky III one day. After perform
ing the feat, he drily remarked that
4 he could have taken a great deal
more, but did not feel particularly
thirsty that dayr aG7gH IT aBa04i
P Antoine Segor, the counterfeiter,
was released from 0thel jailLat New
i Albany on Friday evening He de-
posted one thousand dollars with the
Italian Consul at Louisville, wheIwent