The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-09-17
STATE ITEMS.

at Brookville and Laurel, Indiana.
Rising Sun, heretofore Democratic,
has just been carried by the Unionists
by 20 majority.
The Columbus Democrat has chang
ed hands-Daddy Haws retiring,
Winters coming in.
Arrangements are being made at
Greensburg, Decatur County, to issue
a Democratic paper&A
Thomas Henry, shoemaker, of
Charlottesville, while under the in
fiuence OF whisky, fell out of third
story window and was killed.
On Wednesday evening last, as the
freight train on the Indianapolis and
Cincinnati Railroad was crossing
Alabama Street, Indianapolis, man
fell from the cars, across the track,
and was instantly killed. ar0
The Morgan County Fair closed at
Martinsville on the 9Th. The Gazette
says it was decidedly the most sue
cessful fair ever held in the county.
An independent military company
has been organized in Fort Wayne
under the lead of Capt. Thomas Ho-
garth, late Of the Both Indiana 7olun-
teers. baa t4l ss5 - aa9 ala 400
The Trustees of the Indiana Agri-
cultural College have decided to sell
the college land scrip in lots of $50
acres, at 70 cents an acre. gas sva m
Ason Of one of the most respect
able citizens Of Wayne County, the
Richmond 1elegrans says, is now in
Jail in CentreVille for horse-stealing
Gen. JEFF. C. Davis is canvassing
the. Second Congressional District in
favor of the Gopperhead ticket.
There are six persons confined in
the Harrison County jail-one for
murder, one for forgery, two for mali
cious trespass,a and two for horse
stealing.
Watern1elons go begging in the
New Albany market at five to ten
cents each. Fear of cholera and ague
The funeral of Andrew Stewart,
who was murdered by a Copperhead
mob in Indianapolis during the night
of the Presidents reception there.
was largely attended on last Wednes
day afternoon The Union League
were out in full force, and with band
of music, headed the procession.
There were nearly sixty carriages in
the line, and as the long column moved
up Washington street thousands of
spectators silently watched its course.
Several of our State exchanges come
to US with inaccuracies in the names
of some Of the candidates on our
State ticket 1t is important that
these errors should be corrected.
Will our friends see that these errors
are corrected? The ticket is cor
rectly printed in the JOURNAL.
! General Dan. Macauley has become
one of the proprietors of the Indian
Eapolis Epening Gazette. Dan. is an
energetic fellow, and will give life to
the paper.
Rev. III. G.. jackson, formerly of
this county, one of the victims of the
New Orleans massacre, arrived in this
city last Saturday evening. He is a
brother-in-law of n. NJ Given, Esq,
formerly of this city. He had been
shot through the lungs and brutally
beaten, and is now doing well, with a
fair prospect of ultimate recovery. He
has the sympathy of the entire COM
munitys We hope he may shortly re-
cover so far as to be able to address
audiences, and give history of, the
condition of affairs in the, South
Ldo0renceburg Press.
We regret that General R. A. Came
ron is SO much afflicted by the disease
of his eyes as to, be forced to 90 East
to find some remedy! For weeks past
he has suffered continually, and we do
hope he will find relief and perma
nent cure where he has gone to seek
it.-Pofter Vadette. %
STRANGE PHENOMENAL strange
occurrence took place at the Friends
Church at Plainfeld, during services,
on the 18th inst. A young lady, in
the bloom of youth, scarce sixteen
summers, turned Instantly green, and
up to the present writing, September
18th, eight o'clock A. NJ, } her color re-
mains the same; but, strange to say,
she has not for one moment lost either
her mental or physical powers.