The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-02-22
indiana Items.


roIton, in Hancock County, has been
changed from Kinder to Carrolton.
Grace Methodist Church was dedi-
Gated at indianapolis on Sunday by
Bishop Clark.
Two hundred dollars is the largest
prize offered for trotting at the next
Fair.
Competition has brought freight
down to the low rate of fOrty-hve
cents per hundred between Indianap-
oils and New York.
Rev. G. N. Sims lectured at Indian
apolis on Friday night. Subject:
Profit and Loss" A subject better
calculated to attract the attention of
the Iudianapolitans could not have
been selected.
The Terre Haute, Yandalia and st.
Louis Railroad Company will COM
plate the bridge over the Wabash In
three or four weeks. Trains will be
running from s.. Louis to Vandalia
by the last of March.
De PAW Female College at New
| Albany, needs $1,000 worth Of furni-
ture, and w. G. De Paw offers to
give 81 900 of it if the Indiana Con-
ference will give the rest.
OF the convicts in the State Prison
South, 134 are married, 237 single, q
widowers, widows and 5 divorced.
Temperate 10, incorporate 90, mod
crate 140, read and write 235. read
only 40, no education 124.
A memorial asking the establish
ment of a Homeopathic deplrtmentin
the projected State Medical College, is
being circulated for signatures. and
will be presented to the Legislature
A gang of Juvenile burglars has
been unearthed at Lafayette, after
having committed numerous depre-
dations. Two of the boys stole boat
and started down the Wabash for
Terre Haute, but were overhauled at
Attica, where they stopped to lay in
supplies.
A Valparaiso man recently adopted
an original way of reducing house
hold expenses. One morning recent
ly, when he knew his wife would see
him, he kissed the servant girl. The
household expenses were instantly
reduced $3.50 per year. Servant minus.
The Sheriff of Monroe County
came very near getting hung, while
ringing the new bell, at the Court
House, the other day. While the
bell was pealing, it turned over. and
the rope wrapping around the Sher-
itf s neck, peeled the skin off. and
taught him an emihently practical
lesson In the art OF neck stretching.
The railroad meeting on Saturday
last did not come up to the anticipa
tons of our people. Little, if any
| thing, was done to advance the cause,
| and the meeting adjourned to Tues
day, the 10Th day of March next. We
| would say to our readers, do not de-
| spond of the enterprise. The people
were never more in earnest upon the
subject, and arc determined to build
the road. The greater the obstacles,
the more energy will be displayed In
overcoming them. The road must and
toiu bel constructed.-BoonUiLIe En-
quirer.
The Vincennes San says force of
about seven hundred men is at work
on the indianapolis & Vincennes
Railroad, between indianapolis and
Wcrthington. 1t is expected the cars
will be running to the latter point by
June. and the Arrangement is per-
fected for work on the lower end Of
the road, to be pushed forward with
the same rapidity, SO that at Worth
ington. (Which is about forty four
miles from Yineennes,) both forces
will close up the work by June. When
this is done. all the force engaged on
the road win be thrown on the Cairo
& Vincennes road, and the work push
ed forward with greater earnestness
than heretofore.