The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-11-09
Tndiana Eteuas.

the cities Of the Northwest. sITo3
Indiana Items. 81
Terre Haute will have9a skating
rink this Winter. Baa aAoa
The Buntin House, in Terre Haute,
is to be converted into a grain ware
house. $50 fol q" 80
One hundred and six arrests were
made by the Indianapolis police dur
ing the month Of Oetober!r
Every Ward In Terrea I'll 4dtc gave a
Republican majority on the 3D..
A new jailis being erected at New
port, VermilIion County, at a cost of
about $4,000. .1aaH0 q Z
.H8fayeste, the Journal says, asrthe
poorest apology for a policeI}of any
CITY on earth.o ts s9assnlO IalsaaT1
The next meeting Of the Indiana
State Temperance Alliance3will-be
held at Richmond on the 18th and
18th inst, commencing at P. NJ. of
the 18th.
Discoveries of rich deposits Of coal
and iron ore have been made in Mop-
roe and Greene Counties, Indiana.
The coal is the genuine block coal,
smelts iron without coking. The iron
ore is hematite, which is said to be
the best ore in the world.
A magnificent banquet was given to
| Judge Isaac Naylor. on the 23d ult..
by the members of the bar and bust
ness men of Charlottesville, it being
the occasion of his retirement from
the benchas& s4&
The Marshals appointed by the
EGovernor under the act of Congress.
to gather. theayoteo for Presidential
electors, are compelled to meet and
declare the result in the Office of
the Secretary of State, on the fourth
Monday of November. This year
the day will be IN the 23d inst.
1t is understood that the Michigan
Central Railroad Company will buy
the Louisville, New Albany, and Chi
cago Railroad. make IL a irst-class
road, run it into Louisville by a
branch from, or near, Six-Mile Switch,
and enter into the most vigorous com
petition for the through business 10
the Northwest and East with other
roads centering around the falls of
the Ohio. Negotiations are now pend
ing at Chicago with the bondholdors
of the L., Ma. & G. Road for the
purchase. We publish this for the
benefit of those in New Albany who
pretend to believe that nothing will
be done by or with the road preju6i-
cial to the business interests of this
city.-Neio Albany Commercial
We learn from the Cairo Time,
that gangs, of men are strung along
the line Of the Cairo & Vincennes
Railroad, as far as Chache River, and
very shortly the force will be extend.
ed all tie way to Carmi, the whole
length. of the contract, and the con.
tracing firm expect to finish up their
contract In. twelve months. TRACK
laying viii probably commence al
Mound City and extend towards Car.
mi at first, as the heaviest work is be.
tween Cairo and Mound City Yin
cennes. Times.
IMPORTANT RAILROAD. - Articles
of association were filed in the Offices
of Secretary of State, yesterday morn.
ing, for the Detroit, Eel River anC
Illinois Railroad Company. The con.
templated road will pass through the
counties Of DeKalb, Noble, Allen
Whitley, Koscinsko, Wabash, Miami
Cass, Carroll, White, ~Tippecanoe, anC
Benton. The capital stock is one
million dollars, and the length of the
road in this State is one hundred and
sixty-two miles, This will be a very
important railroad, aud will pass
through some of the finest regions o
the State.-StGte Sentinel. 81 .abr.aa
YESTERDAY an amateur piscator o
~greatrskill succeededling catching OIL
the falls a nine pound Jack salmon
the largest fish of its, class ever taker
in the Ohio. II measures two fee
and four inches, and a more splendid
specimen of the pisces genus wa.
never seen in the West. This beau
tiiul salmon was taken by a small bal
and a tender rline.- Ne0 AlbGn!
Ledger.
New Albany has become the Gretn;
) Green OF the West, to judge from The
M or runaway marriages chron
lcled In the Commercial We thinl
they have averaged three a week for
the year. The singularity of the las
affair was that'the girl ran away with
the young man~her parents beins
willing, but the guardian of the yount
man, who is a minor, saying No. The
names of the parties are John IT
Houston and Miss Thompson
, Colonel Thomas H. Nelson Ia.
spoken in this State one hundred AND
eight times, and in more than eight,
counties during the canvass jus
: closed. His meetings-hav been al
most invariably mass meetings anC
he has probably addressed more PEG
pie than any other speaker who hal
taken part in our State v
Election Incidents.
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