The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-02-06

A SAD CAsE.-As We were about
ending our labors of the day at one
o'clock yesterday morning, the door
of the sanctum opened, and young
voice asked gently, "Pease, Mister,
may [ warm myself ?" Of course we
replied : yes and a lad rather, shah
billy dressed, took a seat BY the stove.
In reply to interrogatories, he gave
the following account of himself: He
said he is fourteen years old; 2 was
born in Mississippi, forty miles above
Vicksburg; his father died when he
was a month or f1ol old At the
breaking out OF the war, he was
brought by his mother to this city.
After a time his mother married, and
his step father turned him out OF
doors, and for five years he has been.
a homeless wanderer about the city.
and the country, often Sleeping
wherever he could find shelter, and
eating wherever he could find one
kind enough to furnish him food.
He obtained a pass on the rail
road to Carlisle and Sullivan County,
and thence walked ten miles to Sulli-
van, where he fell in with a man liv
ing in the country. who took him
home and was kind 10 him. Ahenee
he made his way to Terre Haute and
lived nearly a year with a farmer
near Sanford's Station. A few weeks
ago he returned to this city IL. see his
mother, but his Step father would not
suffer him even to come into the yard,
and barely suffered him to talk to his
mother for a few moments at the
fence, nor was he permitted.tb have
the few clothes he had left in his
mothers care. Since then he has
wandered about the city, unable to
obtain employment, though express
ing a willingness to work; sleeping
sometimes near the furnace in some
manufacturing establishment, and
sometimes on cotton bales on the
levee, obtaining food wherever he
could, often going whole day with
out food, except a crust that he might
pick up,bY accident, q His fm9thers he
says, would Be Kind to him and pro-
tect him, were she suffered to do so
by her husband, who e improvident.
dissipated, abusive to his wife, and
I generally idle. ~ =
He was provided with food, and
taken to the Third Street Engine
House, as aplaee of shelter for
the night. What became of him
afterward, we have not ascertained
If the lad'sKst9g is trqe-and he
seemed to tell straight forward tale
his case is a sad one, and should
elicit the sympathy of the humane 81
our city..and receive the-atte ntion Of
tie To8hship7 Trustees and the city
authorities.
-.ASGooD, Joke SomPtiues ago
a7rumor gained currency that a large
dealer IA 4iquey not "a hundred mile.
from White River, had failed and wa:
expected to take the benefit Of tht
Bankrupt Act.: A creditor to whom
he owed $50, and who Was, by tn,
way, leaderin the temperance move
ment in his own neighborhood, hear
ine these rumors, thought he woult
secure his debt, and therefore hasten
ed to the man and purchased barre
of whisky, paying the difference an(
4 handing ia the note for the balance
Not desiring to engage IN the retail
business, he left the barrel of whisk.
on the premises where he ! ad pur
chased it. Shortly .afterBards, h
learned that the rumor of failure wa
false, and thereupon wrote to his for
j, uaerg debtor, expressing. the high. es
TEEN in which he had ever held him
and requested him to sell for him tn
barrel of whisky, The dealer replie'
that he had a large stock OF his owl
on hand, which he desired to sell frs
and that the barrel of whisky wa
Rthere, suhjecs to his ordery The,shar
collector feels very much ike the ma
who won the elephant alta rattle.
, THERE were 17,477 bags. corn. an
? Y 1926 bales cotton shipped via Jeffel
sonville Railroad from New Alban
last month"; Cincinnati C9mmercja