The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-12-08
Indiana Items.

INDIANA AteMESs
LAST week the price of hogs in
New Harmony ranged from 81 90 to
50 90. ~
Hay is coming into Newburg in
large quantities; price s12914 per
ton.
DR.. BowLEs has applied for a di
vorce from his wife. The salt is now
in progress 10 Paoli, Orange County.
ALL kinds of game is reported to
be abundant in Martin and Dubois
Counties.
The wires for the telegraph on the
line of the indianapolis and Vim
cennes road are being put up.
EIGHT hundred and sixty-one peti-
tions in bankruptcy have been filed
in this State since the law went into
force. And still they come.
SOME Of the indianapolis grocery
keepers have imported French grapes.
They are said to look like wax work,
but are most luscious to the taste.
SOME of the New Harmony people
want their town incorporated. They
are anxious to pay high city taxes to
support lazy officials.
THE Madison Rink is big thing
1t covers n space 40 by 175 feet.
Two galleries on the sides run the en-
tire length of the building. N &
A CALL is issued in the Indianapo-
lis JoHaI7, signed Many Publish
ers," for a Publishers or Editoria
Convention, to be held at Lndianapo-
lis on the 9TH of January.
THE HanIon Troupe are advertised
to play at New Albany on the 18th
and 18th. They ought to visit Evans
vile.
WILLIAM POWER, Of Indianapolis,
attempted to commit suicide in Shell
byville on Thursday night last, by
shooting himself through the bowels.
His recovery is doubtful.
THE State Library rooms have
been re -carpeted, and the book cases
re-arranged. The Librarian evident
ly bases his chances for re SELECTION
on the amount Of money he can spend
on the old State House previous to
the meeting of the Legislature.
HOLDERS of Merchants Union Ex-
press stock in Indianapolis are some
what indignant over an assessment of
FIVE dollars per share. They do not
regard their attempt to crush the Ex-
press monopoly as eminently success. /
full.
Coz. W. NJ. FRENCH, late Steward
OF the Indiana Hospital for the In
sane, is lecturing upon the subject:
" Fiction, fruitful source of insan-
ity, especially to the young" French |
oughr to know.
The Terre Haute ErpreSs is glad to
learn that Dayton firm will move to
Terre Haute in the Spring for the
purpose of establishing mandatory
of all kinds Of farming implements.
SOME of the citizens of Terre
Haute want a Public Library, and
are agitating for the purpose of get
ting one.
On Sunday: night, the 10Th ult.,
some vulgar scamps most shamefully
befouled the letter-box, attached to
the outside door Of the post-ofice in
Washington, which contained several
letters and papers.
THE Warriek Herald is going to
publish the history of Company =,
65th Indiana Volunteers. The story
will be issued in chapters.
BERRIN and Jesse Fuller, it is re.
ported, have had to fork over $3.50 on
account of a defaulting Postmaster at
BoonVille. for whom they were bonds
men.
THE total amount of taxables in
Daviess County in 1868 was s., $780,
7O5. Since then the increase in per
sonal property alone has been sufi ;
Gent to run up the value of taxable !.
to s4,525, $40, making an in
crease in the value of personal prop
erty of S735, 115 in five years, or an
average increase of SIT, O25 per year.
A YOUNG lady tainted the other
night in the Indianapolis Rink, and,
as usual, fell into fellows, arms. :
lady caught her at the same
time, which is not usual. The young
man, anxious to do something, took :
hold of fair, soft, feminine hand,
and began to rubit violently. See '
here" said the.lady who was assisting
him to hold the fair inanimate, g you :
have made mistake; that's my hand !
you are rubbing!" The young man {
quit rubbing. l @.a
DADDY said young hopeful at I
Lafayette, 's1et's go up to the ten bin i
alley and roll" Roll, boyl what do
you know about rolling at ten pins pa l
= Me know about rolling at ten pins? /
Why [ can roll your darned old eyes q
put ia less than ten minutes" t