The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-11-09
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Indiana Items.
The BoonYille Enquirer reports
the hickory nut trade lively in that
town and vicinity.
The corner stone of a CATHOLIC
Church, forty by ninety-one, was laid
in franklin County last week.
Lebanon, with population of three
thousand, has only three hundred
Sunday Church goers.
A foar foot vein of pure bitumin-
Gus coal has just been discovered at I
Staunton. Clay County.
The estimated cost of getting the |
Terre Haute and Danville Railroad |
ready for iron is $350,000.
The Township Trustee of Madison
has purchased 200 cords of wood for
gratuitous distribution among the
poor.
The Democracy Of Crawford Coun-
ty recommend Judge Parrett rs the
Democratic candidate for Supreme
Judge.
The Wabash bottoms are full Of
hunters. Deer, turkeys, squirrels
and quails are being slaughtered right
and left.
An extensive shoe mandatory has
been established IN New Albany. 1t
is expected TO turn out fifty pairs OF
shoes per day,
The amount of fines collected from
liquor sellers in Laporte County this
year, amounted to 81 300. Last year
it was 81 $50.
The Terre Haute E:rpress gives. as
an evidence Of the prosperity OF that
city, the fact that several new saloons
are about to be opened.
It is estimated by competent au-
thoFities that the loss to the unplck-
ed apple crop In Laporte County, by
the late freeze, is fully $4,000.
i The second election III Crawford
County on appropriating two per cent,
on the taxables of the county to the
Louisville and st. Louis Railroad,
resulted in favor of the proposition
by majority of ffty:fve.
The Vircennes Times says: From
all directions we have the most dis
| astrous accounts of the damage done
to the apple and potato crops by the
late heavy frosts.
The New Harmony Register say:
McCabe has sold out his contract fol
building the Mt. Vernon e1d Gray
Vile Railroad, to Conant q Co., o.
. New York, who will go on with thu
work at once. Good for MeCabe.
THE HOG MARKET.-We haVr
heard of engagements by our packer
: with farmers at 50 so to So so gross
6 according to weight. Hayes u Co
e have lot Of hogs in pens, and vii
: commence killing as soon as tn
a weather permits VlRce7laes San.
! Including the one hundred thou
h sand dollars voted by Vermllllol
County to the Terre Haute and Dan
Vile Railroad, two hundred and lift
Q thousand dollars of the stock IS own
d ed in that county.
= The Michigan City Elltt prise say
y that, as an instance of the lncreasIn
"a importance of the harbor of that city
Superintendent Il. III. Waldron mad
. the remark that il had this season IN
IS creased the business of the New. A.
It bauy Railroad about two hundred pc
IT cent. Next year it will double agar
n The first Sabbath in December ha
baaA sab apart for the dedication {
the new NJ. Z. Church in this place
The building, when completed, it
TO said by travelling ministers, will b
y the finest frame edifice within th
> bounds of the Indiana Conference
- With such house of worship,
= splendid preacher, and one Of th
W best choirs in Southern Indiana, th
10 Church is bound to prosper.-B0on
/ nile Enquirer.
y The New Albany Commercial apollo
; gizes to its readers for the lack c
! reading matter in its columns. 1t
advertisers are making unprecedente
g demands upon its space. While til
d New Albany business men are in
t | creasing and enlarging their adveI
: tisements, the business men of Evans
2 Vile are reducing their advertise
ments, or. stopping them altogether
S 1t will not take long to demonstTat
Il which policy is the correct one. an
! will add most to the business of th
Z two cities respectively.