The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-11-07
STATE ITEMS.


naries of learning.
A Jewish synagogue has just been fn-
ished at Lafayette.
A Lafayette individual named Dooley,
has been fined s75 for mayhem.
The skeleton of an Indian giant was re-
Gently discovered near Anderson.
Forty five and fifty cents per pound is
the price Of butter at Evansville.
New corn is selling in Marion county
for fifty to fifty-fve cents per bushel.
A young man named Taylor Harrison
was recently killed in Howard county.
Evansville is rejoicing greatly over the
receipt in that village Of sixty bales of new
cotton.
Tom Collins, of the Evansville Courier,
is going to start a Democratic paper at Mt.
Vernon.
The Franklin Jefersonian talks of radi-
cal ''gains" in Indiana. 1t takes but little
to amuse some men,
The residence of George w. Hig gins
of Shelby county, was destr, yed by fire
last Tuesuay. Loss $4,000.
They have fearfully mean thieves at
Evansville. One of them has been guilty
of robbing a preacher wife Of $50.
Another abandoned baby, four months
old and Of the masculine persuasion, has
been found in Terre Haute.
The Greensburg Chronicle complains
that drunken monsters" make night hid
eous in that lovely village of the plain.
Miss Queen Bluch. young lady of Sey-
mour, fell in front of passing train on
Friday, was run over and instantly killed.
McNecs of Randolph county, charged
with robbing and burning, has been SEN
fenced to the Penitentiary for two years
An attempt was recently made to rob
the Mount Vernon Bank. They got $50
carelessly left out of the safe, and mizzled.
Elder James Slider, of New Albany,
fell under Jeffersonville train in endeay-
oring to get aboard, and was terribly in
jured.
Mrs Thompson, of Fort Wayne, re-
Gently fired four sh ,ts at a burglar, who
was trying to enter her house. Plucky
woman.
Robert Baggott, of Evansville, is held
to bail in the sum of $500 tor shooting a
little negro boy with small shot-just for
the fun of it.
The high-toned moral town of Kokomo is
greatly scandalized by the licentiouness Of
the Principal of the High School of that
town with his female pupils.
Isaac +. johnson, on behalf of the De-
mocracy, has filed his affidavit with the
County Clerk Of Marion County ,contesting
the election of George F. McGinuis as
County Auditor.
A Wild cat, measuring three feet in
length and two feet two inches in height,
was killed by James Barnes, on his farm
one half mile from Elizabeth, Harrison
county, on the night of the Sth ult
In Harrodburg, Monroe county, Ches-
ley Mclaughlin threw a stone at wild
bull which was charging through town.
The stone missed the bull, but struck +.
L. Woodward on the head and killed him.
A young lady of Evansville went to her
fathers stable day or two ago to feed
horse Some one seized her by the hair
n r,tI nj, l,nI ha
capped. We would call that the "rape of
the lock-"
"Vinegar Bill" who habitually ''took
his'n strait and took it often," attempted
to commit suicide at Lafayette Saturday,
by discharging pistol loaded with powder
and lead into his mouth. 1t is probable
he is not dufunct Bill.
On Thursday night a man who was
boarding with Mr.. Retcnfranz of Prince
ton, got up in the night, and stole Mr.. Il. s
fine gold watch, and relieved the drawer
of what loose change there was left in it,
and decamped for parts unknown.
Andrew Barrett called MIR. Topitt out
of his residence, near Campbelsburg,
last Wednesday, and shot him. The ball
took effect just above the eye, and glancing
passed upward, making an ugly but it is
hoped not fatal wound. Barrett was ar
rested.
A party Of scientific gentlemen, making
explorations among "the knobs" in the
neighborhood of New Albany, lost their
way and stayad all night in the woods.
An interesting incident, but there was no
occasion for the New Albany Commercial
to stretch its story to the extent of col
umn and quarter.
A young radical of afectionate dispsi-
ton, named Frank Kremcr, hugged and
kissed in the street at New Albany, few
days ago, two colored girls, named re-
spectively Martha Love and Francis Antle
BY order of the Mayor, it cost him $3.50
for the pair, or S3 80 each His wife IN
sisted that he could get hugging and
kissing at home free gratis, for nothing.
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