The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-28

STATE NEWS.

A Board OF Health has been or
ganized in Connersville. The little
village is afraid of the cholera.
The Southeastern Indiana Confer
ence will meet. at Aurora on the 18th
of September, and will remain in ses-
sion six or seven days. 1t numbers
about one hundred members.
The walls of the buildings for the
New Albany glass factory are being
laid up as rapidly as the masons can
put the brick and mortar together.
Colonel John Il. Deweese,9 late of
the 4th Indiana Cavalry, has been ap-
pointed First lieutenant in the 9Th
Regiment U. s. Infantry. = va
We understand that Captain Thos.
Madden, of the firm of J. w. Blake &
Co., will succeed Mr.. William Winter
as Deputy Collector of Internal Reve-
nue.. 1903 seos445ds .all.4lle fff. ro
e A new Universalist Church is to be
erected in Lafayette. The building is
to be fifty -four feet front by seventy
five deep, with two large towers
As,the editor of the SIN. has been
arrested and convicted of divers Of
fences, would ii. not be well enough
that the Hon. Board of Commission
ers make him an allowance out of the
funds of the county, Vincennes Ga
zette.. ,i-s ble -zs-i lsll.ff.fs ...,e-.
Hon. Henry Wilson, of Massachu-
sets, and General John A. Logan are
posted for speeches in the Northern
part OF the State.
The people of Terre Haute have
had real ghost sensation for few
days, and several persons were terri
bly, frightened. His ghostship turned
out to be a brakeman on the St. Louis
Railroad, who slept in a freight car,
and who was in the habit of walking
in his sleep. baa 5asI .adIso. -
The Fort Wayne Democrat tells of
a woman in Allen County who plows,
fishes, sings, and nurses all at once.
She has a bell attached to the fishing
pole that gives notice when there is a
bite; she suspends her twin babies
in tree, and drives the pillow around
the field to the tune of sold Hun
dred" That's the kind Of a wife to
have. ..'
The soldiers and sailors of Knox
County are making extensive arrange
ments for large demonstration on
the 18th of September, the anniver-
saly of the Battle of Cheat Mountain.
The bills announce that Gov. Richard
Oglesby and Gen. John A. Logan
have promised, positively, to be pre-
sent on that occasion. =
A tailor named Vim. Murphy, for
merly member of the 9th Indiana,
called at a house in Greencastle, on
Wednesday morning, the 22d inst,
and asked for something to eat
While breakfast was being prepared,
he got up from the porch where he
had been sitting, walked off few
steps, and drawing pistol, blew his
brains out. The Coroner's jury de-
cided that he was deranged by deliri-
una tremens.
| Wheat is selling in Sullivan County
for 81 per bushel; 50 % for fax seed
81 80 for sweet potatoes; $1,000 cents
for Irish potatoes; 3O@40 cents for
\ corn; hay Sc per tun; apples 25@4O
cents per bushel, and butter % cents
| per pound.
Elias Walls, George Walters and
John Walters were arrested in Sui
Ivan last week, charged with conspir-
ing to murder Francis NJ Bolts. The
conspirators were anxious to get Bolts
out of the way, as he was an import
ant witness in a case in which they
we're eriminally implicated.
The Democratic Central Committee
of the Eighth Congressional District
have issued an address to the Democ,
racy they claim torepresent, announc,
ing that they regard it as inexpedient
to call convention to nominate {
candidate for Congress. The name O
Democrat has become so odious there
that a change of name is absolutel!
essential to success.