The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-15

| A WATERFALL spruce little
| chicken from the classic Wild Cat
dropped her waterfall in front of Cra-
ven's clothing store, this morning, and
was ashamed to pick it up. Some
wag suggested that it was Caruek
scalp from the Finnegan invasion.
An old drunken woman discovered 1t,
and turning it over with her hoe
nailed shoe, remarked, Wy, 1t looks
like a birds nest. -Lafdyette C0u-
rier.
A peaceable colored man named
Elias Wallace, engineer at Trow s
Mill, started home about i O'Clock
this morning, when he was halled by
two persons on the street corner, who
called him to come over. Thinking
mischief was intended, instead of go
ing over, Wallace ran into an alley to
hide till they departed; but on COM
ing out, the rascals set out after him,
and being in close quarters, Wallace
drew his. revolver and fred one shot
at his pursuers just as they fired at
him. They fired six rounds at him,
one of which entered his shoulder
blade, broke rib, passed through the
upper part of the lung, fractured the
collar bone. ard finally lodged in the
muscles of the chest. The ball was
this morning extracted by DR.. A. j..
Mullen 1t is an ugly wound, but
under the skilful treatment Of DR.. NJ.
it is hoped the patient viii recover. -
Madison Courier.
By the above it will be seen that
there are few conservative chaps left
in Madison.
Mr.. Carpenter, a well-known me-
chanic of Lafayette, went hunting on
Monday morning, and had failed to
return up to Tuesday noon His
family is greatly alarmed at his
unaceountable absence, as his regular
habits preclude the idea of his. being
absent SO long voluntarily. Mayor
Ulrich has employed the police in
hunting the missing man.
EBoPEMENT OF TWO MARRIED MEN
Madame rumor insists that two
married men of this city, well known
in political circles, have recently de-
camped under peculiar circumstances
Both have families, but under sin
gular infatuation, which the lawyers
might term matrimonial insanity, they
went off after strange calico. We are
promised the names and full particu-
lars in day or two.-Lqfdyetfe Cour-
Ter .fa3 is.s
"A barrel of lager beer, being CON
veyed ON dray through the streets
of Logansport few days since, ex-
ploded, throwing young man, seated
astrlde the barrel, several feet up in
the air He came down amid the foam
.o2 the 4ueious iiutd, and to the dis
corner. who dIsIIked to see Fl v9efe7
Hudson FIRE. Pes
A Deaaeesatie.s ID ssi.,.---sf 77.rfFTIl
County hired a negro as a farm handi
with no agreement as to wages. On.I
settlement the farmer offered to pay
the liberal sum of $7 per month.
Ethiop could not see it, and brought
the sEit before Democratic Justice
and employed Democratic attorney.
4
The farmer was compelled to pay
just compensation. & One good fruit of
the Civil Rights Bill, We have ira
yeled pretty fast of late, and recon
struction has been pretty thorough |
when Democratic tribunal has been
coerced by the progress of affairs to
do justice to negro where white
man is involved al 90
Gen. Nathan Kimball, the Union +
for Treasurer of State, ar
rived in the city yesterday. On Sat
urday last he addressed the Union
citizens of Clinton County. at Frank
fort, on the occasion of the county
nominating convention. The citizens
of the comfy were in attendance en-
elasSe. We learn that the attendance
and interest at all the public meetings
addressed by the Union candidates.
thus far have been very fattering-the
sure precursors of triumph of the
right principle on election day .-he-
Journal. ss 80 ores
CARRIAGE MAKER.