The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-03-10

D ought TO know, says UQdE 3 emerson
Davis and family will visit that city
7 on the next Trip Jf the Richmond.
ABOUT twenty prisoners made an
attempt to escape from the peniten
tiary at Frankfort, on Friday, but
were unsuccessful
The Louisville Coqcrie7, reports that
BransfoFd's Female Institute, at
OWensboro, was destroyed By fire on
Friday night. saa lH
THE Bowling Green bar is moving
in the matter Of securing a session Of
the United States District and Circuit
Court at. that point for the convent
ence of htigants residing in the south
ern part of the State.
THE Henderson Reporter saws that
two huadTed and twenty of the three
hundred bonds issued By Henderson
county for the II. Il N Railroad have
been sold. The work on this end OF
the road will be commenced as soon
as the weather will permit. stgI
The Kentucky Statesman, in reply
to statements made by Copperhead
papers, that negroes were on the Aoor
Of the State House, at the recent Re-
publican Convention at Frankfort,
says there we're no negroes, but a
group Of four or FIVE Democrats, which
was quite as much to the discredit of
the Convention.
BOHp's dog, the champion fox
hound of Carroll County, having won
the champion silver collar, the whole
State is challenged, throughsthe Car
rollton Times, to contest his right to
wear it. The test is to be on ground
in Carroll County selected by COM
mittee. -.srast tls.sfa
THE Clark County Democrat says
the wheat crop in some sections seems
to be more promising than it was
thought to be a while back. Two Of
the farmers whose lands lie on oppo-
site sides of the same road, bring diff
ferent reports. The wheat Of one
looks very well indeed. The other
expects to plow his up and plant
corn. Ia. - G9fH.t1 T.HH Il
JAMES PRIEST, alias Jim Brown,
who was convicted at Benton. Ken
lucky, for horse stealing, and who
escaped from the penitenhary at
Frankfort Ia j uly, 1866, was arrested
in Paducah on board the. steamer
Lewellin On Wednesday He was
acting in the capacity of a deckhand.
He viii be taken back to Frankfort
Immediately.
IMMENsE droVes of cattle are being
shipped to Kentucky from Texas and
other points South. They are pur-
chased in Texas at from ten to twelve
dollars per head. and shipped at from |
four to six dollars per head. After |
brief pasturage, they sell readily at an
advance of from thirty to forty dollars
per head upon their cost, transporta- |
ton and feeding. Hog i
A cHIvALRIC Democrat of Wood
ford County, went to Cincinnati the |
other day and hired some German
laborers, expressing the desire 10 get |
as ignorant ones as possible, so that |
they could take the place of negroes. |
Many of the Germans, after trying /
the service a little while, returned to |
Cincinnati, alleging that they were
treated like negroes and couldn't |
stand it.
On Tuesday last another of those |
dreadful tragedies which seem to have /
become epidemic since the war, oc-
CURED at Franklin, Kentucky, result
ing in the death of a man named
Jerry Hunt at the hands of one
John Evans, 1t appears that Evans
and Hunt had a quarrel over the
ownership of hound dog, which
finally terminated in an open rupture
Hunt drew pruning knife and made
for Evans, but before he could reach
him Evans drew a pistOlfand. fred,
the ball taking effect under the right
eye and lodging in the back of the /
head, producing death in few hours.
Evans was promptly arrested, and
committed to jail to answer charge
of murder.