The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-02-04

The Republicans of Posey County
hold their Convention on Saturday
next, February 9Th, at Mt. Vernon.
The disturbers of church congre-
cations are being made to pay for
their fun in New Albany.
The Fort Wayne Democrat is OPP
posed to holding the Democratic Ma
tional Convention at Indianapolis.
The wholesale trade of Lafayette,
for December, amounted to three
hundred and sixtyrthree thousand
j The Indianapolis and Cincinnati
Railroad Company are now running
trains to Gosport, on the Vincennes
Road, by way of Martinsville.
General Tom Thumb and his wife,
Commodore Mutt and Miss Minnie
Warren, his wife that is to be, have
been exhibiting themselves at Indian
apolis.
Collector Brown, at Indianapolis,
hereafter designs selling all spirits
passing through that city and holding
them until positive proof is furnished
that the Government tax has been
paid.
There are already one hundred and
fifty seven cases on the docket Of the
Wabash County Common Pleas
Court, for the February term, 1868,
The citizens of South Bend, Indi-
ana, claim that they have the biggest
bell on the continent, while the peo-
pie Of Ann Arbor, Michigan, contend
that they have the Ioudest.
A. C. Mellett, of Muncietown, de-
MES that his wife's scholars ducked
him for interfering with their sport.
He says his wife, never had ~ schol
ars.
The Madison Courier reports the
death of a negro woman, in that
city, at the advanced age of one hun
dred and sixteen years. Like all an
cient Africans, she remembered
Washington well, and often talked
about him.
The New Albany Ledger says Sen
ator Morton's speech is creditable to
the Senator's ingenuity. It might,
with equal truth, have added, and
damaging to the Democrat party.
The New Albany Ledger says
German In that town recently quar-
relied with his wife, and then at
tempted to stab himself with bar of
soap without success.
DIR. Anderson, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church, at New Albany
was visited by his members, on
Thursday last, and enjoyed a supper
prepared by the ladies Of the Church.
No other substantial tokens of re-
gard " were presented.
Joseph N. Dair, the proprietor of a
distillery In the Fourth District, is
charged with defrauding the revenue
to the extent of $4,000. We don't
see how he could dare to do it.
A petition asking the city authori-
ties TO appropriate 100000 t6 adm
constructing the Mt. Vernon and
GRANVILLE Railroad has been circula-
ted in the former town, and very gen.
orally signed by the citizens.
Some daring thief stole fine mare
in Mt. Vernon on Tuesday last. She
was hitched in front of a grocery
store where her owner was making
some purchases. No clue to the thief
was obtained.
The Warrick Herald says there is
Democratic school director in Greer
Township in that County, who forbids
the teachers introducing the Bible
into their schools. We presume that
director has no objection to good
whisky.
The Cincinnati Gazette says the
consolidation of the Baltimore &
Ohio, Marietta & Cincinnati, and Indi-
annapolis, Cincinnati & Lafayette r. r.
Companies. by which these lines, so
far as working arrangements are con-
cerned. are to be one, will operate
largely in favor of Cincinnati.
Sarah McNees, living eight miles
west of Winchester, in the eighty
fourth year of her age, is the mother
of twelve children, nine Of whom
reared families. These nine have
eighty two children, and the eighty
two grandchildren have eighty-fve
children, making in all one hundred
and eighty nine of the family. Sixty
eight of them have died Five died
in the late rebellion.
Jared Jocelyn, ESQ.,. of New Alba
ny, is probably the oldest Justice of
the Peace In Indiana. He was first
elected to that Office Ia 1889, and has,
we believe, served continually ever
since-being period of twenty eight
years. :
Kentucky Items.
The Frankfort Commonwealth says