The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-05-02
KENTUCKY ITEMS.

Two Covington chaps are talking OF
fighting a duel We presume, however,
they will think better of it. -e'
Rev. Henry Clay Dean, the distinguish
| ed orator and martyr from Iowa, failed to
keep his appointment in C~ovington. -
On Monday a brute named James Scott
assaulted his wife in Louisville with a
Ratchet, cutting her cheek wide open, and
inficting "a wound which may cause
death. DAHf u <tas
The Brook Street Methodist Church, one
| of the finest religious edifices in Louis
Vile, was dedicated on Sunday. Bishop
Doggett, of Virginia, preached The deaica-
tory sermon raE az bali.
A new room has just been completedsin
the Louisville Court House for the use of
the Common Pleas Court. .2ni
The Western Hotel at ShelbyviHefwas
entirely consumed by fire on Saturday
nAsn1. 1awU IL - OLE ~aJalgazo3 buE
The Louisville Journal expresses surprise
at the little interest manifested blythe
Democracy IN h approaching Kentucky
election. Saeh indifference formerly oc-
casioned II rejoicing. .e1fa
The Louisville Journal says the Radical,
parry u efo AckNS PAb AOAW = Go
good n Strong 4 candfdate for Congress
as could have been found IN its rankssnC
DR.. John NJ. Johnson is now al Louis
Vile, for the purpose4of soliciting ldona-
ions to bury the Confederate dead now
scattered about Atlanta. b1t
A correspondent of the Louisville
Courier fnrnishes that paper With an ac-
OF the killing Of a white boy by a
negro in Jessamine County, and the Sub
sequent shooting and hanging of two nae
groes by a mob D8WD
An attempt was made a. few days since
TO assassinate Mr.. Charles Kenner, near
Pembroke, Christian County, by some un-
k own individual.
A negro deck hand on the Rose Hitef
was SHOT at ,PoYt andr on Monday. by
Isaac Bateuan, a drayman. The wound
is supposed to be dangerous. .siafs
The Kopkinsviile Conservative notices
the mysteriousz pjsappearanee from that
place of Charles Hanback,, of Henderson,
KY, agent of the Southern MutualsLife
Insurance Company of Memphis. Foul
Play Is feared. GA Wkg
There are in Kentucky IS freedmen's
schools, and the number of scholars in at
in the month of March was 1913.
This is an increase of one school and 232
over the preceding month. The
are forcthe greater part supported
by the freedmen themselves.
We learn thai Noah S. Alexander and
s. Hanson-the latter a brother of
Roger Hanson. formerly OF the c. s.
A, fought a duel at 8 o'clock Monday
afternoon, on Townsend bridge, near
Station, Kentucky Central
The Weapons used were Smith
& NELSON'S navy pistols, and the distance |
was ten PAGES. Five shots were fired by
party, when the seconds interfered, |
and put a stop to the affair. Hanson was
wounded in the hip, and several
balls passed through his clothing. Alex
ander escaped without a scratch. One ball
passed through the leg of his boot. .f,
The Contractor the stone-work on the
bridge across the Ohio at Louisville has
been awarded 10 Nash, Elannery q Co..
of Nashville. Their bid was over s40O 900.
In the stone-work necessary to be done
upon the bridge there is an aggregate of
thousand i've hundred feet, consisting
of two .~abutnents, each so feet high, and
thirteen piers, each from one hundred and
twenty to one hundred and forty feet high.
The rock to be used in this work will be
ron the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad. Company's quarry, situated on
Lebanon Branch Road, about four |
miles from the Junction. BY the terms of
the contract, the masonry is to be finished
by the first of September, 1853.
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