The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-01-21
Indiana Items.


G. Road, are to be rebuilt.
Every dray horse in Muncie is blind.
There is but one.
Fifty-seven trains arrive and depart
from Cambridge City every day.
The Lafayette girls are giving Leap
Year balls.
The value of taxable property in
Aurora is 1921, 315.
The trial of William Fl. Lee for the
murder of Benjamin L. Tea, is still
In progress at Lafayette.
The School Examiner of johnson
County has licensed 81 teachers since
the LIST of last August.
Diptheris, in a mild form, is pre-
vailing among the children in Terre
Haute.
1t takes two days to go by railr DAD
from Muncie to Newcastle, twenty
FIVE miles.
Hon. John u. Petit, of Wabash,
has been elected manager of the Wa
bash and Erie Canal, Of that Division.
Twelve young ladies are now in at
tendance upon the State University at
Bloomington. The total number of
students in that institution is two
hundred.
E. P. Cole has been elected Super
intendent Of the graded schools of
Bloomington. Fat2f fHtst
During the year 1867 one hundred
and seVenty-four marriage licenses
were issued by the Clerk of Monroe
county. n ooer-sse
Commodore Foote publishes an ac-
count of his travels in the British
Provinces, in the Fort Wayne Ga
zette. '''. 100 - q -
Adjutant General Terrell has gone
to Washington. to plsh the tle-
ment of such State claims as are still
pending against the United States,
amounting to some 100000.
= Mr.. Sam. Haynes, the ferryman,
has purchased the American Hotel,
in Vincennes. He took possession of
it on Wednesday.
The Delaware County Agricultural
Society is to be reorganized as joint
stock concern, with capital of fifty
Thousand dollars. aeDkn
A man named Laws fatally stabbed
another named RAIDER, at Henrysville
a few nights since, because the latter
laughed too loud to suit Mr.. Laws.
The clerk of the Dearborn Circuit
Court issued two hundred and eighty
four marriage licenses last year In.
the same time sixteen divorces were
granted, and fifteen dismissed; yet.
pending on the docket, four.
The mailing clerk of the Lafayette
Courier is success, as paste : sling
istnn Nearly every number Of the pa
per we receive is daubed up and stuck
together, SJkJ
There are four counties in the Sixth
Congressional District in which no
Democratic papers are published,
viz. Vermillion, Parke. Monroe and
Lawrence.
John Murphy, a wood sawyer,
dropped dead while at work In Con-
ners7ille, on last Saturday afternoon.
Heart disease.
The Liberty Herald comes ont IN
a new dress, and makes a much bet
ter appearance.
The list of delinquent tax payers in
Madison County comprises over 200
descriptions of lands and lots, while
in Delaware County there are Ebut a
few over. 160 delinquents. Madison
is strong Democratic and Delaware
a strong Republican County.
The base ball players Of Ft. Wayne
have made arrangements for a game
on the ice, the pagerst to be on skates.
We think that will be an amusing
contest. JE1c9r ~ ~
Arrangements are being perfected
Ohio Bridge Company on the ground
that the provisions. of the law au-
thorizing It's construction have not
been complied with aHfIl6
Welborn,a Sullivan & Co., of Mt.
Vernon, have bought over 125, 900
bushels of corn thus far this season.
The Democrat claims that they are
the heaviest operators in corn on the
Ohio.
Prosecuting Attorney Mellett, of
Delaware County, was ducked and
otherwise roughly handled, a few
days since, by some scholars belong
ing to school his wife was teaching
In the country The scholars asked
the teacher to treat, and she refused.
They then commenced making
threats, when Mr.. Mellett went out
aud nlerfered, and the scholars as
sumpd the offensive.