The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-05-31
INDIANA ITEMS.


attention of the New Harmony thea
tire goers.
TIE Colorado. or ten lined potato
bug, is ravaging the potato vines in
the vicinity of Vincennes.
Directors for the Vincennes and
Petersburg Turnpike Company will
be elected on the 4th of June.
THE Madison Masons talk of erect
ing a new hall and business block in
that city this Fall.
THE amount of internal revenue
assessed in Daviess County in April
was 1892 Sc.
THE wheat crop in Warrick County
Is unusually promising, Corn is be-
hind hand.
THE colored citizens of Indianapo-
lis design building a colored hotel. to
which white persons will rot be ad-
mitted.
THE New Albany Mannerchor is
rehearsiug for the Sangerfest, which
is TO be held at Cincinnati on the 10th
Of June.
TIE WorthiDgton Times reports
the discovery Of vein of iron ore
four feet thick, about four miles north
Of that place.
THE new Council of Vincennes has
Increased the salaries of its members.
The Council is Democratic of course.
THE workiugmen Of Vincennes
have organized a brotherhood and
taken possession Of the Mcclure Lii
brary.
MADISON boasts the cleanest streets
of any city in the West. That. NO
doubt, is because nothing is done in
them.
THE New Albany Ledger says the
wheat, oats and barley crops of Floyd
County will be as good as ever grown
in the county.
DAVIES COUNTY is being thor
oughly prospected for coal, and the
developments are said to be very sat
isfactory.
THE Good Templars of Daviess
County will hold basket picnic and
temperance rally, on Saturday, June
4th.
In the Harbor and River appropri-
alton bill is an item of $25, 900 for the
improvement of the Michigan City
Harbor.
THE Owen County Journal says
considerable stock has been killed in
that county within the past few days
by lightning.
THE Republicans of the Sixth Con-
gressional District will hold their
nominating Convention at Terre
Haute. on the 18th of june
THE Convention to nominate a
Democratic candidate for the Indiana
Senate, for the Counties of Clay and
Sullivan, to fill the vacancy occasioued
by the resignation Of Hon. James NJ
Hanna. will be held at Terre Haute,
on Thursday, the Both day of June,
1870, on the day of the Congressional
Convention.
THE Sentinel learns that since the
first day OF the present year Governor
Baker has exercised Executive elem.
ency to persons serving sentence in
the prisons of the State as follows:
Manslaughter, / rape, i; forgery, 3;
burglary, 3; grand larceny, ID; OBJ
tanning money by false pretense, i;
larceny, i, and assault and battery i.
The aggregate number of years par
doned in these cases amounts to
twenty eight. During the same pc
riod the Governor has RENTED pen
alties, aggregating S2 O60. in eleven
cases, as. fellows: Forfeited recog
nizance, five cases, 81, 400; fornication,
one case, 1928; grand larceny, one
case. 500; assault and battery with
intent to commit rape. one case, 500;
assault and battery, three cases, $345.
DIR. q. b. THOMAS, President of
the Indiana North Il South Railway,
returned to this city on Wednesday
from a trip over the line south of this
TO the Ohio River. He left next day
for the North, and will go over the
entire length of the line to Attiea.
Work has already been commenced
on this road in Parke County, and
the contracts will all be let along the
line at an early day. The people
must bear in mind that this is an en-
terprise that requires time and vast
amount of labor TO arrange The
money must be got together, and ev-
erything systematized before the work
can be commenced in earnest. This
has all been accomplished. through
the untiring energy of Mr.. Thomas.
There is now a certainty that within
few months we will hear the Whis-
tie of the locomotive coming from the
North, bearing in its train the long
pent up and fruitful resources of the
couRties through which it passes
Washington Gazette.