The Evansville journal., 1868-05-12

Illinois Items.
The wheat crop 10 Southern Hi
pois promises to be very abundant.
Strawberries have made their ap-
pearance at Cairo, grown in that.
vicinity -A "'i -
Jonesboro now has one High
School, an Academy, and a Select
School, ali well attended.
During the last year there were
three churches erected In Carmi, a
Presbyterian, Methodist and Chris
tan. 80 l..
The finest variegated marble has
been discovered, near JOnesboro, in
Union County, Illinois. The quarry
is said to be Of great value.
AT the recent term of the White
County Circuit Court, four persons
were sentenced to the penitentiary
for term Of years. ..aa
Work has been commenced on the
VincenHes aud Cairo Railroad, and
seven thousand tons Of iron have
been purchased for the same.
A delegation Of citizens from Shaw
neetown, will visit Kentucky this
week, in the interest Of the Madison
vile and ShAWneetOWn branch of the
St. Louis and Chicago Railroads.
The Republicans Of the Thirteenth
Congressional District meet st Col
conda on the 10Th Of June, for the
purpose Of nominating a candidate
for Congress.
Prof. Cox, our Posey County geolo-
g:st, has been in Gallatin County for
a week or more, making examinations
as to its mineral resources.
1t is stated that the Chicago and
Rock Island Railroad Company have
now at work on their road across Iowa,
twelve hundred men. 1t is expected
the road viii be completed to Council
Bluffs during the year.
Edward Pennvill, Esq the Repub-
lican candidate for Secretary OF State.
Is editor Of the Deutsche Zst'unq. the
German paper IN Peoria Both the
Republican candidates Tor that Office
in Illinois and Indiana are Germans.
On the 9th inst, man by the name
of Coleman, who lived about one
mile from GOlc0nda was thrown from
bis horse aud killed. He was found
IN the woods some distance from the
horse, with the back part Of his head
crushed and his back broken.
Mattoon can boast of having the
largest Mayor in the State He is a /
4" working man, and stands six or
seven feet in his socks He was
elected on the dirty shirt ticket. /
1t takes six yards of muslin to make |
him shirt. So says an exchange.
The Mound City Journal learns that
the contract for building that portion |
of the Cairo and Vineennes Railroad |
lying between Vincennes and Carmi /
has already been let; also, that the 1
fifty miles from Cairo upward has /
been let to Fox, Howard 4 Co, who /
had the large contract Of filling streets /
at Cairo.
A Golden correspondent writes:
. About half of the strawberry blooms
that were open are dead; half the
crop, however, Is not destroyed by
this thinning process. What IS LETT
will be much finer. Our pear crop is
more reliable than the apple crop.
We have pears now as sound as when
they were taken off the tree in Octo-
Der.
General Raum has caused the res
toration of the mail service on the
old Goleond da and Shawneetown route.
as far as Elizabethtown. The service
is semi weekly, and embraces in its
course the offices Of Saline Mines and
Sparks Hill.
The slackwater project, between
New Haven and Carmi, is progress
ing with a good degree of certainty
now, and the friends of the enter
prise look forward to its early COM
pletion. This work has given New
Haven fresh vigor, and real estate Is
going up rapidly, and holders are
now realizing the prices they expected
thirty years ago.