The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-02-15

buck" prepared to squander the
whole of it. But his Honor, who is a
man of bowels, agreed to take the half
of it. with a margin of FIVE cents, for
additional embellishments. The mer-
chant was gratifed and left, feeling
that he had made just 81 90 in the
operation.
y A saddle colored female, In whose
veins flows an admixture of congoese
and Southern chivalric blood. was
charged with having committed an
assault and battery upon her own
SON 1t appears that the boy is liv-
ing with a gentleman in the city. who
boards and clothes him for the work
he does. His mother desired to get
him away, and has frequently visited
the house of the gentleman with
whom he is stopping, and annoyed
him and his family greatly, and on
one occasion attempted to force the
boy, who is satisfied with his situa-
ton, to go with her, and used consid
cradle violence upon him. The wo-
man manifested good deal of the
spirit of her paternnl ancestry, and
talked loud and fast. Not being
ready for trial, she was let go on
promise of being on hand at 9 clock
to-day. s. ~ sfi:gsesg ebengf e.M
siu BASE INdRAT1TUDE. ~ Sometime
ago poor family destitute of money,
but with considerable, baggage de-
sired to go up the railroad, and the
officers, with their characteristic be-
.nevolence, carried them to Vincennes.
AT that place large trunk with val
liable contents was put off the train
and by some. means fell into the pos
session of the family above named,
whotook train on the O. & NJ. r. r.
to Mitchell, and thence proceeded to
New Albany, pawning the valuable
trunk for their fares. In a day or two
the rightfnl owner of the trunk tele-
graphed to the baggage master at the
junction at Vincennes to have his
trunk sent to him. The proper off
GERS commenced tracing up the trunk,
which was ultimately found in the
baggage room at New Albany, the
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family having in the meanwhile cross
ed the river into Kentucky. This
was an act of base ingratitude towards
the railroad that had manifested so
much Kindness towards them, as the
company would have had to pay for
the trunk had it not been found. n9dp
The Cry WHARF AND FIRST
STREET. The terrible condition Of
First Street and the City Wharf. at
the present time, is attracting general
attention and elicitinig' universal exc
Grafton. The oldest einhabitant has,
probably never seen them in such a
horrible state as at present, Some
| go 50 far as to abuse the city authoriz
ties for not remedyiing the evil, This
is wrong. There is no remedy that
can be applied just now, except a
1'clear sky and a bright sun. Butta
remedy, can, and we hope and believe
will, be applied early next Summer.
There is no reason why people should
abuse the City Council or other city
authorities on this subject The
proper Improvement of the, wharf res
quires vast outlay of money This
could not all be raised in ,ones year
without seriously burdening the peo-
pie. Since our present worthy Mayor
came into Office, a large wharf debt
has been paid. i be asbers n
Last summer the work of perma-
nently improving the wharf was COM
menced, the purpose being to pave a
section of IS feet from low water
mark. The unprecedented stage of
river during the whole season pre-
/! vented the workmen ever reaching
low water, and the frequent rises of
considerable magnitude greatly re-
tarded the work. 1t is now. proposed
| to complete the paving Of two or three
blocks of the wharfto the outer edge
of Water street, and to bowlder this
fstreet. We hope this much will be
| done during helcomiug summer, and
then we shall have good wharf
all the year roundsboaosss has s7sbu
sadOne thing we think the City Goun-
ell could do and should do, thatis to-
modify, the ordinances regulating
wharfage, + There is no city from
Pittsburg to New Orleans, except per
haps Cairo, where wharfage is as 10y