The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-03-16

to a portion of our people, for two
weeks 1t paid the manager, per-
haps, but nobody else, so far as we
have been able to ascertain. What
ever NAV be said Of the talent drama
tiqWe of the leading actors, II must be
admitted that the want Of stage
effect" gas-light, scenery, &C., rem
dered the performances far less ac-
ceptable to the lovers of the drama
than if the aboye-named conditions
had been perfect. As it was, how
ever, one young lady Of odr town,
wishing to be the observed Of all
observers, managed to faint and fall
into q gentleman arms at the climax
of the tragedy Under the Gaslight.
An ancient lady OF easy virtue, ia
miliarly called Granny, wrung her
hands, exclaiming: Dear mel dear
me- it's always the way when / go
anywhere, somebody gets hurt. OH
oh I'll never come again" Thus,
for a few moments, there was some
thing of a sensation IN the audience,
and the cry Of " fire" was only needed
to have made the upEaar generally
contagious.
Some of the peopie Of our town un
dertook to make the thing Of some
pratical advantage TO society, and so
prevailed upon the manager to give
=" benefit" for the Collegiate lnsti-
tute. at this place. Bills we're posted
everyw here, and some extra efforts
were made in the way of selling tick
cts. The audience was as large as
usual, but the benefit" all told,
amounted to the enormous sum Of
four dollars and fifty cents. tits only
another illustration of the ancient
maxim, diamond cut diamond" "
Surely there is no reason why an in
stitution of learning should resort to
such means of raising money, and we
are happy to say that Prof. Smith
was not consulted, and had nothing
to do whatever In the affair, but gave
it his unqualified condemnation from
first to last.
The sounds of preparation are
already heard on every hand for the
buildings that are to 60 up in our
town this season. We are not pre-
tending to put on city airs, yet there
is a steady and healthy growth of our
town, which, backed as it is by sew
eral townships of the finest Of farm
ing lands, will always make this de-
sirable place to live. And for educa-
tional advantages the school above
referred to is hardly surpassed in the
West
On Monday last our Circuit Court
convened with His Honor. Judge |
Parrett, on the bench The week
has been very busy one for ali CON
cerned. The number of witnesses /
examined by the Graud jury exceeded |
anything OF former years by almost
one half. From a small village in the
back part Of the county, where there
are but tlUO l0hiSky shops thirty five /
witnesses were summoned. Three |
days afterward one of those shop /
keepers paid SO ia fines, and yet |
several indictments were entered 1
notle proseQW by the Prosecutor. /
Scores Of others are yet to be tried.
Hiram Ray, who was convicted OF /
an assault and battery upon the per- |
son Of his wife, with intent TO kill, |
was sentenced last Saturday to seven |
years hard labor in the State prison. |
The poor fellow had been so long be-
sotted with liquor, that he was. no
doubt, partly insane at the time he i
committed the crime, as he tried also /
to break his own skull with Ratchet.
The number of defaults that were
taken in actions for debt prove that
hard times are upon US, and creditors !
cannot wait any longer. The early
breaking of the winter augurs favor
ably for the coming wheat crop, which
has suffered so severely from the past
winter. A good crop season will do
more toward lifting heavy public bur
dens from the peoples shoulders than
all the laws of Congress. 1t is not an
imitation of the currency that the
West needs; it is rather a vast and |
abundant yield of grain, that will bring
the currency from its dark closets
into the hands of the common people. /
Thrift arises from labor, and our
people ought to be able to see, by this
time, that we are ia no danger Of get
ting a superabundance of the necessa-
ries of life, for the mighty West is the
graDary Of the world. Our fertile val
leys, we'll titled, are the best banking
institutions on earth.
Yours respectfully,
D gawn