Randolph journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1865-186?, 1867-06-27

General Intelligence.
y number of cows have recently /
lied in II. Johnsbury, Vermont, with
, disease known there ~ ''milk
ever"
The subject Of establishing free pub
liz baths, after the style oi Boston, is
under advisemcnt by the New York
Common Council.
\ Georgia paper suggests that as
there will be a greater yield of wheat
in that State than there has been for
many years, the -Governo- appoint a
day Of thanksgiving and prayer.
Whenever President Of the United
States visits Boston, Harvard College
invariably, we believe, confcrs an hon
orary degree upon the incumbent of
the Office.
\ biography Of RobeSp:errc publish
ed in late Irish paper concludes with
N4iC lOAip"AhrS
This extraordinary man left no
children behind him except a brother,
who was killed ut the same time.n.
y divorce suit was recently tried in
Phelps County, Missouri, in which
the plaintiff was judge, who sat in
his own case, and upon the pleading,
entered decree dissolving the bonds
Of matrimony between himself and
wife, who agreed to the arrangement.
The Nashvill g Press and Times states
that the prospect for the wheat crop in
Middle Tennessee are extremely en-
couraging. Much ground has been
put into wheat, and should the wealth
er be propitious for the next month
the harvest will be ounteous one.
Milton, a negro, filed petition in
the United States Court at Louisville,
OH the 18th, for Il writ of hubcoS corpus,
which has been issued, directing 4
white man named Gildcn to produce
in court the body of his daughter,
Bertha Milton, formerly Il slave of
Gilden, and who, it is alleged, is still
retained in slavery.
The telegraph failed to designate
the winners in the New York yacht
race on last Thursday week. The vic
tors were the schooner Phantom,
owned Ivy Nr. III. c. Stebbins, and the
sloop Evelyn, owned by Mr.. y Stcllcn-
VERY. Tie wind was light and the
race WAS not very exciting one.
The Pope, in his character of tens
poral ruler, has lately issued an edict
of great severity against brigandacc in
his dOminionS. I'm this proclamation
he offers reward Of about five hun
bred dollars for the head of every brig
and delivered to the authorities. The
rascals are DOW killing each other for
the sake OF the reward
a. an illustration of the rapidity
with which the conversion and pur-
chase of seyen-thirty notes have been
pushed forward, il is officially reported
that Sl5l, $40, 600 were taken i'll by the
Treasury Department between Febru-
airy and June /.
The English Parliament enacted N
ITO that whoever shall impose upon,
seduce and betray into matrimony any
of his Majesty's male subjects by
scents, paints, cosmetics washes, arti-
fetal teeth, false hair, Spanish wool,
iron stays, hoops, high hceled shoes or
bolstered hips" should be prosecuted
for witchcraft, and that the marriage
should be null and void.
A diamond weighing between
twenty-one and twenty-five karats, il
is reported, has been found on the
Orange River, in South Africa. The
Government at the Cape of Good
Hope has taken the matter in hand,
and we shall soon know whether that
is TO be, Is predicted, one of the dia-
mond producing countries OF The
world.