The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-03-09
Indiana Items.

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Davies County.
Wheat in Fayette County has been
| injured by the cold
/ THE Madison Courier complains
bitterly of the irregularity Of the
mails.
THE Seymour Union wants the
New Albany Ledger to quit stealing
and garbling.
THE Presbyterian congregation of
Anderson have called the Rev. A. S.
Reed, late of Madison, Indiana, as
their pastor.
The Warsaw linton is for sale, on
account Of the ill-health Of the pro-
prietor.
Two families at Fort Wayne have
been poisoned by eating second
growth " parsnips.
THE farmers of Jefferson County
are complaining of the wheat crop.
They say that a great deal of it has
been winter killed.
A MOVEMENT to organize another
Young Mems Christian Association,
is on foot in Lafayette.
THE peach buds in Northern In
diana are reported uninjured. The
growing wheat looks promising in
that section of the State.
EASTERN capitalists are at Michi-
gan City with view to the establish
ment of iron works there.
REV. j. A. KUNKLEMAN, form erly
pastor of the English Lutheran
Church, of Indianapolis, has. received
/ a call from Philadelphia. he has
accepted, and will soon start for the
scene of his future labors.
THE Franklin Cornet Band have
disposed of their brass horns and
purchased a set Of silver instruments,
at a cost of one thousand dollars.
FoRTY-FoUR thousand bushels of
corn were shipped from Logansport
last week.
AN cold bachelor of New Albany
offers to donate five acres of ground
to the city if the authorities would
build House of Refuge on it.
OWING to the rapid increase in the
membership of the Good Templars at
Jacksonville, it is stated the retail
price of whisky in that town has de-
clined % per cent.
THE indianapolis J0arnaI says that
betting upon the result of the i'm
parchment Is progressing quite heavi-
| ly in that city.
The gentlemen interested in the
street railroad scheme in Lafayette
are making strenuous endeavors to
make the enterprise go through.
The Lafayette Journal says; Hun
dreds of young. men are idle in this
city to-day, and do not contemplate
any labor during the coming sum-
mer.p .wer H
AN effort is being made by the
Episcopalians of South Bend to Sc
cure fund for building church.
On Thursday next, the 18th, the
Union Presbyterian Convention meets
in Indianapolis, and on the 18th, the
State Lay Representation Conyen-
ton of the NJ. q. Church.
THE Lafayette Courier says it is ru-
mOred that the travel between
/ Cincinnati and Chicago will soon re-
turn to its old channel through that
city, the G. & G.. Air Line not prov
ing satisfactory,
Col. WILLIAM WILSON is urged by
many friends to become the Republi-
can candidate for Congress, in the
Seventh District.
j. L. Hughes, of Bloomington, pro-
poses shortly to issue The Bloom
ingt0n Local" paper on the local,
aggressive, and independent style, to
be issued weekly, and printed at the
New Albany Commercial Office.
A man named Watson walked down
/ to the wharf the other day, and de-
liberately commenced shooting re-
volver at a steamboat. One ball
hit the Captain.
The peach buds in Northern Indi-
ana are reported uniniured. The
| growing wheat looks promising In
that section of the State
AT Stinesville, on the Louisville,
New Albany & Chicago Railroad, on
Tuesday, a man named Clark
/ McLoughton attempted to jump upon
| the engine. He fell, however, be-
tween the locomotive and platform,
and the tender ran over and cut off
his right arm az the wrist.
PETITIONS are in circulation in Vigo
and Clay Counties for appropriations
for right of way for the Indianapolis
and st. Louis Railroad. In the
meantime there is talk of the Indian
apolis and Terre Haute Road putting
down a second track the full length
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