The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-04-12

'olist Is used for building purposes.
THE venerable Peter Cartwright
ectureT at Washington on the Sd and
Eth Of May.
EBENEzER RoDaERs has been elect
d as Republican candidate for Mayor
If Madison.
TIE Monticello ConstituttORGtist
Wheat is looking very fine IN
the eastern part Of the county. The
prospect is good.
THE Register says o New Harmony
girl has actually broken eighty-seven
matrimonial engagements and crushed
that many hearts.
THE Mt. Vernon Court House has
been condemned, aud a room in Ma
sonic Hall rented at $2h a day for the
Giro lit Court.
A. MEETING of the board of direc-
tors 81 the Cairo and Vincennes Rail-
ROAD Company, has been called to
meet in Cairo on the 18th inst.
The GRANVILLE Independent says
Mr.. Taylor, the engineer. and M Mr..
Conant is passing over the line of
the GRANVILLE and Mt. Vernon Road.
THE Grandview Monitor says that
the peach crop in that vicinity is COM
paratively uninjured by the frost, and
che apples are entirely unhurt.
OVER FIVE hundred persons have
signed an article agreeing to give one
per cent. Of their taxables to Asbury
University, at Greeneastle.
FoRTY-FIvE persons have Joined
the Baptist Church, at Greencastle,
during a recent revival. Of whom
twenty-one have been baptised-
THE Directors of the Southern
Penitentiary have ordered the rebuild
ing Of the old cell house, burned q
week ago.
THEY arc going to have a bridge
built across the Tippecanoe River, at
Springboro, on the line between the
counties of Carroll and White.
EXTENSIVE preparations are being
made by the Mansonic fraternity to
celebrate the approaching anniversary
Of st. John the Baptist, in Muncie.
TIE Democratic Mayor of Terrt
Eaute is rigidly enforcing the Sun
day Law, greatly to the disgust Of thu
aaloon-keepers.
THE Lebanon Patriot, a s%terlinI
Republican paper, is dressed up in
new rig, and presents q neat ant
attractive appearance.
THE Mt Vernon Sunday Schoo
children design giving the new steam
er Idlewild a magnificent bible, OF
Friday next. It will cost $50.
THE Republicans of the Eleventh
District are in a snarl over their Con
gresham. The sore heads, principal
ly editors, are very savage.
THE young people of New Castl
have organised a philharmonic
Club, and are giving musical and dra
matte entertainments in the elegaI
new hall.
THE Newburgh Recorder says Pres
ident Thomas, of the North & Sout
Road, has ordered the Engineer
permanently locate the road betwee.
that town and Boonville.
THE ministers, travelling and loea
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church
in Louisville, New Albany and Jefer
sonville, design organizing a Ministc
rial Association.
PLYMOUTH can boast of two tole.
ably aged Masons, viz; Mr.. VILLAS
Downey, who was made a Mason
Fredericktown, Nd, ifty-six yea
ago; and James Van Valkenburgl
who was made a Mason at Cooper
town, N. Y, eighty seven years ago.
A THREE weeks old waif was lie
on a door step in Mitchell recent,
carefully wrapped up to protect
from cold; the parties were traced u,
when the child was given to a eitizei
together with $500, to take good cal
Of il and tell no names.
THE Lafayette papers are boastin
over the establishment of a saddl
factory in that village. Hitherto, "
presume all the saddles used hay
been imported from Evansville, {
some other commercial and mani
featuring city.
THE Green Castle Banner sa,
the third term of Asbury UniVel
sity opened with a larger attendant
Of students than usual. The numbe
enrolled during the year exceeds thi
of any previous year, and with mo-
room this number would be increase
1t also learns that over ak hundrt
signatures have been obtained amor
the citizens to the agreement givir
n per cent. of their taxables to Il
building fund of the University.
A MEETING of the Indianapol
Mining, Coal and Coke Company.
their Office in Indianapolis-D. Roo
President; w. H. Turner, Superb
tendent; NJ. B. Pentecost, Treasure
j. G.. Whitesides, Secretary-r
solved upon sinking a shaft at the
mines in Clay county. on the line
The Terre Haute & Richmond Raj
road, Of the capacity to take fro
fifteen to twenty cars per day, an