The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-10-25
INDIANA ITEMS.

OF LODaCCO h6Eo Sulpp6u lEOm N6H- /
burgh during the past season.
THERE is a squash at Lafayette. |
which is said to be larger in diameter
than -four barrel. and weighs 1O3
pounds and 3 ounces.
THE first number of new weekly
paper called The People. will be is
sued at Indianapolis, next Saturday
evening.
THE corner stone of the new Gath
Ole Church. at Mitchell, was laid
last Sunday afternoon. Bishop O'Con-
nor officiating. -
Mrs. MONTAGUE died at Lawrence
burg, last week, aged ninety-three.
She was the Oldest person in the
county. IS
DUCK hunting on the Kankakee is
the popular sport in that region at
present. One man has killed over six
hundred this Fall.
THE Terre Haute & indianapolis
Railroad is laying steel rails on their
road between Greencastle and Indian
apolis.
NEW ALBANY packers have made
several contracts for hogs to be de-
livered carly in November, at seven
and half cents gross. s.
THE following appointments of
Postmasters in Indiana have been
made: j. Cutter. at Troy, and j.
Emanuel, at SpsnCervilIe.
REV. A. s. REED. pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at Anderson.
has severed his connection with that
church. and will remove-tO Wabash.
PRoF. john KoELINRR, of New
Albany, we'll known as a pOpula
teacher Of piano and guitar music,
died at his residence in that city on
Thursday evening. of Aux.
A VEIN of coal six feet thick, and
four feet under the ground. has been
discovered nine miles east of Sulli-
van. The coal "a said to be of su.
perior quality. -
WILL. WooDBURN and Walter s.
Roberts killed eighty quails near
HendersOn. n Thursday last. This.
we imagine. might be called good
days work. -
IT is reported that VIC. DePauw,
the millionaire. VIII remove his resi-
dence within the city limits of New
Albany, t~r the purpose of being
candidate for Mayor next Spring.
AN enthusiastic railroad meeting in
behalf of a proposed railroad from
Toledo. Ohio, to Vincennes, Indiana.
was held at Edinburg on the 14th
inst. The enterprise viii never be
more than a paper railroad.
THE officers Of the Vincennes and
Petersburgh .sTurnpike9 Company
think they are justified in beginning
work. The enterprise viii prove
valuableone if the roads completed
IN a substantial manner.
Mrs. MoLLIE REED, Of Greenfield
committed suicide early fast Monday
morning, while laboringun tempo
rary insanity, caused. doubtless. by
anxiety and over exertion in caring
for a sick husband aud child.
FREDERICK BoRoUeH. who lives a
short defiance southeast of South
Bend, celebrated his one hundredth
birth day last Saturday. He visited
South Bend on that day. and the Reg
lister says he is aslively as most per-
sons at seventy. -
THE Lafayette Cou,ier learns that
Judge Vinton has resigned his posi-
ton as Judgs of the Tippecanoe
County Criminal Court. and that
Judge Higginbotbam, the newly elect
ed Judge. will enter uponthe duties of
that Office in few days.
W. A. TAYLOR, Chief Engineer of
the Mt. Vernon and GRANVILLE Rail-
road Company rites Hon. Robert
Dale Oven that5he has received as
surance IN New York that work on
the road will soon be resumed and
pushed forward with vigor.
THE Indiana Baptist anniversaries
meet at Huntington. October oath,
and hold one week. Mr.. Daniel G..
Williams. Treasurer of same. has Sc
cured free return passes over the
Peru Railroad for alljwho pay full
fare going on that road.
IN REUBEN JAay1TH, a soldier of 1912,
who was born in Vermont and settled
at Wright's Corners, Dearborn Couu-
ty, in 1917. died at that place On the
9th, aged eighty-eighf. He navigated
Ethe Ohio before steamboats, were
known upon that stream.
The Lafayette Agricultural Works,
which have been closed for a couple
lof months past. viii reopen about the
first of next mouth. Judge Purdue
has added largely to his already ex-
tensive buildings. and the works
have assumed mammOthp proportions.
TIN State Geologist sent three
boxes containing four hundred and
fifty copies of his last report, to the
Smithsonian Institution at Washing
ton, from whence they will be for
warded to London for distribution
throughout the entire continent of
Europe.
/ THE editor of the New Harmony
Register apologies for the very scant