The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-02-11

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/ Four citizens of Greencastle have
taken the benefit of the Bankrupt
Law.
Marion County has fortyifve pris-
oners in the Northern and seventy
FIVE in the Southern Penitentiary.
/ John T.iScott. Judge pro tenn of
the Parke County Circuit Court, has
pronounced the fish law uncenstitu-
tionaI. ...-.a..',.
Il The Marion County Commissioners
have donated $15, 900 to the Indian
apolis aud st. Louis Railroad, to pro-
cure the right Of way through that
eountry. sss.. -. E. y
The Plastic Slate RoofersJ of New
Albany, have inaugurated move
ment to call a State Convention to
meet at Indianapolis. on the 18th inst.
The Winnomac Democrat learrs
that wheat Ia Pulaski County OAs
been injured to some extent i7rsfsai
Is Five hundred and seventy-two
deeds were recordedin Pulaski Coun-
Fly in 1867 and one hundred and
! twenty-six mortgages. - = IS
A Young Mems Christian Ass ocia-
| ton has been organized at Mad ison !.
| A better place for such an organiza-
ton we do not know. Sast. 5's
A Shelbyyille thief purloiued from
store at that place, one razor, a.
paper Of pins. a bunch of needles and
spool of.cotton.
Seven borglaries have occurred re-
Gently. in Delphi. On Wednesday
last one of the burglars was captured
IN the very act. He gives his name
as Barney Comfy
The Indianapolis Herald has the
authority of a gentleman just returned
from Washington for saying the
Democratic National Convention will
be held in that city, If it comes west
of the Alleghenies. ~
Since the closing of the Wabash BY
the ice blockade, very large amount
of freight, principally bulk pork,
sacked corn, and corn meal, is being
wagoned to Mount Vernon for ship
ment South.
The New Harmony Register says
the prospects for the speedy com.
mencement of the Mount Vernon and
GRANVILLE Railroad grow brighter
every day. "a .of
Palmer, one of the Battle Ground /
robbers, has been tried, convicted and
sentenced to the penitentiary for ten
years. There are FIVE other indict-
ments hanging over him. He was
pardoned out of the Illinois Peniten-
fIqrV "a hAnf a vaar anO
The Vincennes Times saws that a
vein of coal in the upper end of
Knox County, Indiana, has been
probed fifteen feet, and yet the parties
have not succeeded IN getting through |
the vein. The coal lies Immediately
on the indianapolis and Vincennes
Railroad.
The work on the indianapolis. |
Charlottesville & Danville Railroad |
is being pushed ahead vigorously. |
The grading will all be completed |
every assurance that trains will pass /
over the entire road BY the middle |
of September.
aa George Burrows, Esq, of Lafayette,
will probably be appointed General |
Superintendent fthe Z oledo. Wabash F
10 Western Railway, in place of Mr.. |
Chaplin, lately deceased. Mr.. Bur-
rows, before the consolidation, occu-
pied the position Of Superintendent
The ladies of Marion, Grant Coun-
ty, visited the rummeries of that /
place, the other day, seeking to in
duce the rumsellers to torsake their
vocation, by persuasion and reason,
and offering prayers to heaven that I
the wicked traffic might be discon-
tihued. Their efforts. met with no
success. sssAtis fs4ss ff+
Knox County farmers say that some
fifteen suspicious looking characters
are at present proving around the
county, rObbing hen roosts and smoke
houses, and occasionally picking up
and carrying away whole litteTs of
pigs. They, talk strongly in some
townships of calling out the regula-
tors to rid themselves of these pests,
and more particularly in johnson,
which they have lately visited, carry
ing destruction before them. ses
Z dGreensburg is in trouble with the
indianapolis, Cincinnati q Lafayette
Railroad. An ordinance of that city
prevents trains running through its
limits faster than six miles an hour,
but citizen who has had some
trouble with the company has been
timing the trains, having the conduc-
tor arrested, and interfering with the
of the road generally. The
company proposes to run
Greensburg without stopping,
unless the obnoxious ordinance is re-
naaled or at least net unite so ViOnr-