The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-01-09
STATE ITEMS.

! 6kAAE AAENASs .-s.
The Wabash PEdindeaIeT nominates Gen.
George H. Thomas for President in 1868.
Three hundred and four marriage Ii
eenses we've issued during the year in Ran
dolph County.
The wabash River is frozen over solid
enough to bear team, a few miles above
| Terre Haute.
Mrs. Hannah Smith, widow of Charles
f. Smith, deceased, formerly of the sixth
Indiana Regiment. has been Apo ,nted
! Postmistress at North Madison.
| The farmers Of vigo County have re-
| duced the price of wood chopping to rs
cents per cord.
Two hundred executions, all against
liquor dealers, have been issued from the
County Clerks ONCE in Floyd County.
Three suns, or aparhelion, were seen at
Madison, a few mornings since, there be-
ing what is called "sun dog" on either
side of the sun, each at a distance Of 90 de-
grees from the main body. @s. ss..,
A protracted meeting is in progress at
John Street Church, New Albany Rev
]. H. CIippinger, Pastor. A good deal of
interest is manifested, and the nightly
meetings are well attended. -te.I
a mad dog made his appearance in
Mount Vernon on the 9TH inst, biting
everything that came in his way. A dozen
or more dogs were bitten before the rabid
animal left the city. The people We're so
much excited that they did not think to
shoot him. He made his esea pc.
The editor of the Upton Times announces
that "little affair." threw his domestic cir
Gle into a state of fearful excitement,
short time since. The affair weighs nine
pounds by the steely ards, cries natural by
the watch-has but little compassion for
its dear father.
The Michigan City Enterprise proposes TO
make ship building prominent feature In
the business of that place, on account of the
abundance, excellence aud cheapness of
the timber which grows whereabouts.
A few days since, about nine miles east !
of Charlottesville, one Richard Graves got |
into an alteration with a man name
Abijah Hudson, in which the latter was
shot, infiicting serious. though it is |
thought not fatal wound.
The n A. Ledger reports lot of mean |
thieves in that city, who hang about the +
public school buildings and purloin the
hats OF the boys. They stole fifteen hats
be onging TO school boys few days since.
During the year 1866, twenty -seven reout-
siticns were made by Governors of other
States upon The Governor of the State of
Indiana, for fugitIves from justice. During
the same year, Fl ity-one acquisitions were
made by the Governor of Indiana upon
the Governors OF different States, for the
arrest and return of fugitives. Nearly all
OF said fugitives have been arrested and
brought to Justice.
The Prophetic Wotch.na,a ana Herald OF
the Kingdom is tue name of a new paper,
published. at Indianapolis, by Elder J. NJ.
Stephenson. The paper was formerly pup.
lished at Harvard, Ills.
The collections of Internal Revenue in
the indianapolis District, for the last
month, are as follows: Manufactures and
Sl2U7I Il; gross receipts, 3d.
S29 ~; sales, Sl05 S.; special taxes licenses),
FIT 2; incomes, 81, 753 10; Iegacies and sue
500 81; watches, silver plate.
pianos, and carriages, S55 SO; bank circuIa-
ton and deposits, S527 80; slaughtered an
Imals, 81 Is; penalties, SIS 32-total, so, 1853
49,
The Eel River Railroad Company re-
Gently placed on record at Columbia City a
on the road, under which 81 ,5OO,-
700 in bonds will be issued, to procure
means for the completion oil the road. An
effort is now being made TO revive public
interest in the enterprise, and it is thought
that the completion of the road Will add
fifty per cent. to the value of the real estate
n Whitley County, besides building up
City. The assets of the Company
amount to about $500, 600 worth of labor per-
'ormed, and 100000 individual notes and
securities, payable when the road is com
Oleted