The Evansville journal., 1868-04-28

LOUISVILLE duu SUBURBS consumes
nearly 100 barrels Of whisky per
week. A bad case Of consumption.
Mr. B. w. Hallaek has retired from
the Bourbon Democrat, to become
connected with the Louisville Jour
nal
There is to be a public barbecue at
OweBsboro on the Both inst Hon.
John Brown Young, Gen. Preston,
and others are announced as speakers.
The Odd Fellows Of Frankfort Gel
ebrated the 49th anniversary of. the
organization Of the order on Saturday
with q procession and appropriate
exercises at one of the churches.
The MoCracken County Court has
ordered the Commissioners to adver-
tise for bids to build new jail for the
county. The payments, it is stated,
will be nearly equal to cash.
A convention of the Fenian Broth
erhood of Kentucky will assemble In
louisville on the 18th day of May
next, at which Gen O'Neill and other
distinguished leaders will be present.
The Leiderkranz Society Of Louis
vile gave a grand dramatic entertain
ment at Concordia Hall, In that city,
on Monday night
The Journal says that it is noticea-
bic that since Louisville was blessed
with two sets Of police there have
been fewer arrests than ever before.
The DanvilIe AdUocafe reports
horse mule two years old that meas
ures fifteen hands two and a half
inches high. Also a mare colt, aged
twelve days, three feet six and half
inches high.
A Mr.. Adam Murphy, near Bry-
antsviIle, Garrard County, was caught
by a saw IN saw mill and so horribly
mutilated that he died in about two
hours.
Lebanon, in Marion County, has
improved very fast during the past
ten years, and since the construction
Of the Lebanon Branch Railroad,
property has been steadily on the in-
crease. Six years ago two acres In
the suburb was purchased for $1,000,
which the owner now refuses to sell
at $4,000
Our. exchanges continue to bring in
favorable reports about the probable
yield of peaches, apples, pears, &c.
1t Is even thought in some localities
that the frost did more good than
harm. In some localities, however,
not more than the fourth Of full
crop IS anticipated.
The Frankfort Commonwealth saws
that, during the past week, thirty
boats loaded with coal have descend
ed the Kentucky River, some landing
at Frankfort and others passing on to
points below.
In the words of the Louisville Jour
nal, the beautiful and holy act of
decorating the Confederate graves at
Cave Hill Cemetery with Springs
sweet flowers, was performed on
afternoon. Another item in
the same paper complains that some
front yards on one of the principal
streets had been robbed of flowers
and shrubbery.
The Lexington Observer and Re
porter says the failure of the Demo /
cratic party to defeat the laws of Con- |
gress was because 1T did not threaten /
armed resistance. That party did |
threaten armed resistance-itd did act
1ally resist-but nobody was scared. !
and the resistance was crushed. We |
are confident the party don't desire to |
try the experiment again.
Four counterfeiters, John r. Cor
ey, L. Gorley, j g. Kusterer, and |
christopher Englebert, were arrested +
n Louisville on Tuesday, charged /
with making and passing counterfeit
money. The detectives traced the
nanufactory to the grocery store of
John r. Gorley, on Market Street,
between Brook and Floyd, where
9orley was arrested by the United
States Deputy Commissioners. His
son, boy of sixteen, and the other
parties were arrested soon after and
odged in jail The T. S. Marshal
searched GOrley's house yesterday,
md found all the apparatus for max
Dg the scrip up stairs. Kusterer, who
S lithographer, confessed yesterday
morning that he engraved the stones
md printed the money.