The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-04-22
MOTHS AND COMMENTS.


A FARM of $50 acres. near Haub-
stadt, Gibson County, was sold last
week for S23 per acre.
A MOVEMENT is on foot in Prince
ton to organize joint stock manufae-
turing company. with capital of
100000.
THE Princeton Clarion learns that
the proposition to aid the L.. N. A.
& St. L.. Railroad was defeated in
Columbia Township. Gibson County,
on Friday last, by thirty majority.
THE Sullivan Democrat has been
enlarged, and is now printed on
cylinder press. The improvement in
the paper is ereditable to its propri-
etor.
THE Sullivan Union says there is
ust as good yellow ochre in that
county as can be found anywhere.
All that is lacking is enterprising
men to work it and push it into the
market.
THE Democracy of Bowling Green
realize the difference in the political
situation, since the ratification Of the
Fifteenth Amendment. They say
the success of the Democratic party
now is only conditional upon its
united action.
THE New Albany Ledger is in
formed by a number Of fruit growers,
that the fruit buds so far are unin-
jured. The peach bloom is very
heavy, the trees being literary filed
with them. Apples. cherries, plums,
and all the small fruits give promise
of heavy yield. 7r
WE notice that several of our coun-
try exchanges are in the habit of
folding hand-bills in their regular
circulation. This is a palpable viola
tion of the post Office regulations, and
renders the publishers liable to a
fine of five dollars for each paper sent
out, enclosing one of these bills.
A CoRREspoNDENT of the Courier
journal. writing from Mayfield, Ky,
in the interest of r. K. Williams, says
most positively that there will be no
Radical candidate for Judge of tho
Court of Appeals. We guess that
those who are best posted as to the in
tentions of the Radicals, do not cor
respond with the Courier Journal
Mrs. HESTER. wife of Rev. w.
Mex. Hester, of New Albany, has
the right for chemical process of
preserving natural flowers, by which
they retain all their beauty for years.
For funeral wreaths, bridal wreaths,
and the preservation of choice flowers,
there is no other process known that
equals this.
AT recent meeting Of the Prince
ton Town Trustees it was voted that
a reward of $500 would be paid to any
person or persons, who would, within
one year from that date. cause the
apprehension and conviction of the |
parties, or any of them. who have
within the past six months been com
hitting the outrageous indecencies.
dissertations and depredations in and
about that town.
THE Map man who furnished our
Justices Courts With so much bust
ness, is now creating a similar stir in
Gibson County. A correspondent of
the Clarion says the agent secured
the names of nearly every bOdy--not
for the purpose Of compelling them to
take the map, but only for the infu-
ence the names would have in per-
suading others to subscribe. They |
now find that they are compelled to
take the map.
The Atlanta Intclliocncer says
movements are being made in all parts
of the South to repeat the ceremony
of decorating the graves of the Con-
federate dead during the month of
May. The Zatelligencer endorses the
movement. 1t insists that while they
are the victims of the "lost cause
they should not forget the devotion
of those who lost their lives in the
Cause. just how the editor of the
Iatelzigcacer is a victim of the lost
cause, we are at loss to discover.
THE Atlanta Intelkgencer complains
of the great number of idle and vaga-
bond children, male and female, who
infest the streets annoying passers by
with their. continual pleading for
aims. They are a continual source
Of annoyance to the merchants ana
business men. Some Of these. we
have no doubt, are deserving objects
of charity, while others lead vicious
aud dissolute life. Are they not the
real victims of the ''lost cause9'
AN inqu est was held on the body
of man found dead about five miles
south of Bowling Green. Kentucky, I
on Tuesday last, and verdict re-
turned of death from lock jaw, the
effect of frost bitten feet. The man
was apparently thirty-fve or forty
years old, about six feet high, with
auburn hair and sandy whiskers. and +
wore beneath ragged outer dress, a |
suit Of good clothing. There was
found upon his person, with other
things, a copy of the New Testament
upon the blank leaves of
which some verses we're written, one
If which is the following: