The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-02-04
Indiana Items.

The New Albany Courts are bur-
dened with divorce cases.
THIRTY or forty families in New
Albany are fed from the up-houge.
JOHN LoTEN, of Vincennes, has
gone into the manufacture of fine
lead colored paints.
THE hog-cholera is using up the
hogs in Logan Township. Pike
County.
VIM. HAWTHORN and w. II. Con-
nelly design sinking a coal-shaft near
Petersburg. on White River.
THE wife of an Indianapolis Coun-
Gilman recently elopee, with worth
less scamp She had no children.
THE youth of Fort Wayne are hav-
ing a good thing on ice. The skating
parks are most literally patronized.
A YOUNG rough in Liberty Town
ship, Allen County, amuses himself
by dragging his school teacher around
the room by the hair.
The Knox County Democracy
are going to nominate candidates
by primary election, on Saturday,
March 5.
THE boys and girls of the Indianap-
oils High School had spelling match
last week, and out of seven hundred
words only fifteen we're misspelled.
LEVI FERGUSON, Auditor of Pike
County, announces in card that he
will not be candidate this year for
any Office whatever. Good for Levi.
Our country exchanges have not
done justice this year to the ground
hog. Did anybody see him? If so,
what did he have to say for himself
and the weather?
LIVELY times are being expert
eneed in Pike County. What with
shooting, burning, and general rowdy-
ism the Petersburgh Press is we'll
supplied with local incidents.
The Pres says it is common thing
to see men walking the streets of
Petersburgh at night with loaded re-
Volvers in their hands, ready to shoot
on the slightest pretext.
Six or eight Floyd County fami-
lilies design emigrating to Minnesota
in the Spring, Notwithstanding the
early completion of the Louisville
and st. Louis Railroad.
The Clarion learns that cutting
ARRAY occurred near Oakland City,
Gibson County, on Monday, in which
Alexander Dill and Monroe Nash
slashed each other somewhat.
THE majority at the recent election
in Clay County, against the proposed
appropriation of 800, 900 TO the North
and South enterprise. amounted to
947. Only about two thirds of the
vote of the county was polled.
THE Gibson County Commissioners
have ordered an election in Patoka
Township. Gibson County. on the
24th, on proposition to vote $25. 900
in favor of the Louisville and st.
Louis Railroad. The Clarion says
the proposition will be ratified.
A WOMAN named Brun, who lives
in Russiaville, ten miles west of Ko-
komo, was shot through the arms and
side on Monday night. while getting a
load of wood in the yard. Her hus-
band is under suspicion. He has dis
appeared.
THE first regular through train on
the branch of the Ohio and Mississip-
pi Railroad, ran from North Vernon
to Jacksonville, on Monday, with
quite number of passengers. Here
after trains will leave Jeffersonville
and North Vernon on alternate days.
JAMES HUFF, of Martin County,
left home on Thursday last to go to a
neighboring town. On Friday the
horse returned home without his
rider and with saddle wet and soiled.
It is feared Mr.. Huff was drowned in
attempting to cross Indian Creek,
which was swollen by recent rains.
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