The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-07-26
INDIANA ITEMS.

fornia.
Work has commenced on a new
cotton mill in New Albany.
THE Indianapolis Council is having
a big contest over a sewerage contract,
A MASS meeting, to express sympa-
thy with Prussia, will be held at La
fayette. this evening.
A FoRGER, named Freeman, hung
himself until dead in Scott County
jail the other night.
THE population of New Albany
is fixed at $1,000 by the knowing
ones.
A METHODIST Camp meeting will
be held near Lagrange on the 18th OF
next month.
THE Sentinel says another change
In the editorial corps of the Indian
apolis Journal is rumored.
A NEW Masonic Hall is to be built
in Indianapolis. T~hirty-fve thousand
dollars have already been subscribed.
TIE census report shows the pop
ulation of Ligonier to be 1,615-sev-
eral hundred less than many Of the
citizens estimated.
A HARMLESS crazy woman, in Jen-
nings County, has a singular fancy for
ganders, of which she keeps some
seventy or eighty.
The second annual reunion of the
Twenty-ninth Regiment Indiana Vol
a. OOAL &c
August, al South Bend.
The Coal Company has contracted
for the erection of fifty frame houses
&C Carson City, a station on the new
Terre Haute Railroad.
LEROY FARNsWoRTH, an old citizen
Of Huntington County, died on Wed
nesday of lockjaw, occasioned by
running a nail into his foot.
LITTLE Emma Macy, Newton
County, was fatally burned last Tues
day. Her clothes took fire while she
was playing by the cook sto7e.
THE Marion County Commissioners
have been eDjoined from issuing $4OO,-
600 bonds for the erection of q new
Court House.
INDIANAPOLIS has a negro which
has nearly turned white. Only a
little black remains upon the face.
The body is as fair as aDybody's
body.
COLONEL NELSON TRJsLER, candi-
date for Attorney General, has APP
pointments for speeches in Parke aud
| UowmSIlfon 0oupffnG
FIFTEEN railroads in Indiana
have been begun and mostly COM
pleted since 1885, and over twenty
new civil townships have been
formed.
THE telegraph line along the line
of the new railroad from Indianapo-
lis to Terre Haute is completed, and
will go into operation Immediately.
A LITTLE CHILD of Dennis Malone,
Pulaski County, strayed into the
woods e its fathers house. last
Monday, where it was attacked, killed
and nearly devoured by hogs.
Two boys, who were fishing near
Martinsville, during a storm on
Thursday last, took shelter under a
sycamore tree and were struck by
lightning. One was killed and the
other fatally injured.
In South Bend, according to the
Bible agents report. there are one
hundred and thirty-seven families
without the Scriptures, and of this
number sixty-one refused 30 receive a
copy.
THE Sentinel states that Professor
| r. II. Brown has been engaged, at a
salary of $500 per annum, to edit
| the Rural Home Visitor, a new paper
which is to make its appearance in
Indianapolis on the first of Septem-
Der. under the proprietorship Of DR..
Bland.
A YOUNG man named Milton o.
Williams. formerly a member of Com
pany G, 18th Indiana Regiment, at
tempted to commit suicide at Leav-
enworth, on the 21st inst, by shoot
ing himself with a pistol. Connubial
infelicity is given as the cause of the
act.
A GERMAN, in Wabash, having
| lost several parcels of potatoes by
theft, watched for the gentlemanly
grabber by night and sent a dose of
lead into his leg. The next day a
surgeon was called on to extract ball
from the leg of a gentleman who had
accidentally shot himself.
THORNTON Cyrus, a simple stroll
ing minstrel, with a magic lantern
and accordion, was set upon IN Craw-
louisville the other day by a company
of rude boys, who so worried and
fretted him that he fell in a fit, from
which it is doubtful if he can ecoyer.
Some of the boys have been arrested.
One evening recently, a lady and
gentleman alighted from a buggy at
the residence of MIR. John Thorn
burg, prominent merchant at Bloom
ingsport, Randolph County, and
claimed hospitality, which was cheer
fully given, until their horse was able
to proceed with them on their Jour
ney. Some time during the night the
travellers fitted away, leaving a
healthy-loop ling, newborn baby In
payment for the entertainment afford
ed them.
TFrom the New York Post
What Germany May Take from
France.
II is believed in London that one
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