The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-11-15
INDIANA ITEMS.


Melton.
THERE are 265 students at the In
diana Asbury University.
JOHN D. DEGREES, ex-U. s. Prin-
ter. and an old citizen of Indiana, has
been elected Secretary Of the South
ern Pacific Railroad.
A PARTY of hunters will leave New
Albany soon, for a bear hunt in Ar
kansas. Bear are said to be very
plenty in that State.
A NEW engine from Pittsburg is ex-
peeted in Princeton, to assist in the
work of traeklaying on the L., N. A.
& st. L. Railroad.
WILD turkeys are reported more
numerous in Vermillion County this
year than they were ever before
known to be.
Hon. w. E. NBLAcK, member of
Congress elect from this district, spent
a week or two in speech making in
The late Illinois canvass.
CAPT. G. w. CAREY, Treasurer of
Spencer County, has Withdrawn his
contest against Jacobs, to whom
the commission was issued.
TELL CRY is engaged in surveying
the proposed Turnpike to connect
that thriving little city with the best
portions of Spencer County.
THE Common Pleas Court of Pike
County adjourned on Friday last. No
very important cases disposed of.
Seven divorces granted.
WABASH COLLEGE, at Crawfords-
vile, will celebrate its thirty eighth
anniversary on the 22d, by the dedica-
ton ofa new chapel and library.
THE Terre Haute Gazette says not
less than three hundred emigrani
wagons have passed westward through
that city during the present Fall.
OUR old and esteemed friend e. O.
Rogers, formerly of New Harmony
has just opened a Grocery Store in
Rockport. We wish him abundant
success.
TIE heirs Of f. NJ. Meredith, Of
Terre Haute. lose a life insurance
policy Of So, 600 because he neglected
to pay the annual premium due few
weeks before his death.
Our venerable townsman, Judge
John Law, is the only one surviving Of
the many members of the bar who
practiced in the Supreme Court wher
the State Capital was in Oorydon.
TIE tax duplicate Of Posey County
shows the total taxables to be $8, 104,
100, and the assessed taxes for The
year, $146, 3S9. Ia Knox County the
total taxables amount to S8,211, 760
and the taxes assessed, $3.50, 493.
CAPT. Ell. I'll. TALBOT last week
killed % birds at two shots. BotI
shots were made frol the same stand
Beside boasting of couple of huge
messes of bird pies, he challenges any
man In the State to make two better
Shots Charlottesville Journal.
THERE is a farm near Roseville
Parker County, upon which is situat
ed eight mineral springs within cir.
oumference of less than one hundred
feet, each Of which, upon being
cleared of pebbles, occasionally spoutl
water for several days TO the heigh
of ten feet.
TIE projected ROckport & Cincin
natl Railroad appears to be failure
The Rockport Democrat says: How
ever much we may regret to be com
PEELED to come out publicly and So.
so, it is nevertheless true, that oul
much tailed Of railroad is failure
for the present at least"
THEY have fattering news in Pike
County, from the North and Soutl
Railway, and the people are prett.
confident the road will be built. Thr
Commissioners have assessed the tar
in favor of it, and it is now upon tht
tax duplicate. There are two town.
ships in which it is to be collected
and the mount will be some SIS,
600. There is also. beside this,
pretty large private subscription.
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