The Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-13
INDIANA NEWS.

talking of establishing another church
in that town.
The wood in the vicinity of Grand
Chain, in Posey County, were on fire
last week.
THE new Jail of Bartholomew
County will be ready for occupancy
in about three weeks.
THE Terre Haute Journal is outfol
! Pat. Shannon, Esq, of that city. fol
Agent of Estate.
Mr.. AND Mrs. JOHN B. LA PLANTE
of Vincennes. celebrated their silver
wedding on the 9TH inst.
THE Democrat says the Mt. Vernon
hog buyers have been paying 81 50@
IS 90 net for hogs.
THE Terre Haute Journal says
newspaper changes are beginning tC
be talked of in that city.
The new machinery to be placed il
the Cannelton Cotton Mill, with other
repairs, will cost 100000.
DIR. J. f. HEAToN is writing a MIS-
tory of the Twenty-ninth Regiment,
Indiana Infantry.
A DRUNKEN husband in Terre
Haute has been cured by his wife fill
ing his eyes with hot glue.
RoBF. GRAHAM. of Rockport. left
last week, with a Aatboat loaded with
two hundred tons of hay, for the
South.
THE Mt. Vernon Good Templars
design giving a concert and tableaux
entertainment between Christmas and
New Years.
THE public school building in Ris-
ing Sun is so rickety that the teach
ers and children have to abandon it
during a high wind.
SIXTEEN divorce cases were heard
at the last session of the Clay Com
mon Pleas Court, of which about
fourteen were granted.
THERE is on exhibition at the Bra
I'll Bank, a specimen of block coal,
mined at Knightsville, which weighs
fourteen hundred pounds.
THE ladies of the Presbyterian
Church IN Mt. Vernon intend to give
an Apron Fair on Thursday and
Friday of the present week.
THE New Albany Ledger says it
cost citizen of that place SO 65 for
refusing to work on an engine at the
great fire there Sunday night.
A SHORT time ago Mr.. o. o. Bence,
of Bowling Green, lost two horses by
their getting into the garden and eat
ing quantity of castor beans.
AN EAGLE, measuring seven feet
four inches from tip to tip of the
wings, was killed about fifteen miles
west of Indianapolis. few days ago.
TIE pork trade showed more ac-
tivity last week. in consequence of
the favorable weather for slaughter
ing. The number received was 804.
A YOUNG man named Jacob Yost.
was killed near Petit, Tippecanoe
county. on Thursday. by the careless
handling of his gun while cut shoot
ing. n.
Mr.. CHARLES HOVET, SON of tho
General, has arrived at his home in
Mt. Vernon from Europe. where he
has been at school for the past two
years.
Dr.. A. W. KNIGHT, of Brazil, has
presented the Masonic Fraternity of
Knightsville a building lot worth
5000 on which they intend to erect a
hall at an early day.
THos. B. PRICE. a. wealthy young
farmer near Stuartsville, has been
bound over in $1,000 to answer
charge of rape at the next term of the
Posey County Common Pleas Court.
THE public schools of Lebanon.
having taken a two weeks vacation In
order to allow the children a chance
to get through the measles, will be
opened again Monday morning.
PosEY County merchants and farm
ers report money scarce. The farmers
don't like to sell their wheat. tobacco.
corn and pork at the ruling prices.
and but little money. in consequence,
is in circulation. r-ssea
THE sales of lands forfeited to the
State by delinquents to the Sinking
Fund will be made at the various
county court houses throughout the
State this afternoon, commencing at
two o'clock.
THE Indiana Mineral Railway Com
pany. on Tuesday last. paid the Re-
corder of Spencer County. for record
ing sixty nine mineral leases, and
filed with him four hundred and
eighty. three more to be recorded.
The Vincennes San suggests that
Vincennes DO selected as the place to
hold a meeting for an expression of
sympathy 81 in behalf of His Holiness
the Pope. and condemnatory of Vic
tor Emanuel and his band of raga-
mullins
THE Mt. IVernon Democrat would
like to see General Hovey appointed
to England. as a matter of
county pride. 1t thinks were he thus
Posey County would never
again hear of hoop-poles or pump
kina-
Col CAL. JONES, of the Roekport
Democrat, seems to be the most prom
inent Democratic can didate for Di-
rector of the Southern States Prison.
We notice that the Democrats of the
Second District are going for him
strong.
j. B. GARDINER, of Mt. Vernon,
has received another letter from Mr..
Conant, which has greatly elated the