The Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-02
INDIANA ITEIEs.

FARMERS Throughout thS DtoeS az
of the low price OF
pork.
WE are glad to learn that revivals
of religion are in progress in Dubois
County.
AN apple tree, opposite Greensboro,
presents an unusual spectacle at this
season of the year, by being IN full
bloom.
ORANGE County defeated the prop
osition to aid the Seymour & Evans-
willie Road by POI against to only zoo
votes in favor of the tax.
The Sullivan Union says the head
coal miner at the shaft of Ham q,
Oyerholser & Co, has been missing
for several days and il is feared he
has been murdered.
SOME vandals in Carlisle have been
destroying property in the school
houses, such as breaking windows
and smashing the stoves.
WE learn that J. 8. Akin & Co, of
Carlisle, have packed 1900 hogs to
date. The prices paid have ranged
from 3 to 6 cents pound gross.
THE people of Oakland City, Glib
son County, have met and resolved
that the whisky business in that
vicinity must be dried up.
SOME light fingered chap robbed
the Christian Church at Sullivan of
some canned ourrants, which had
been placed there for safe keeping.
THE Directors of the Mt. VerLon,
Princeton & Eastern Railway will
hold meeting in about two weeks,
when the matter of building this rail
road win be seriously agitated again.
On Saturday last the first engine on
the Louisville, New Albany and st.
Louis Railway made its first trip over
FIVE miles of the road, situated be-
tween Princeton and Mount Carmel.
Quite a number of the citizens Of
Princeton took part in the excursion,
The engine is named Gibson.
THE Clarion says the new saloon
in Princeton has matters so arranged
that man can boldly step in at the
front door to get a drink Of whisky
butif he wants plate of oysters. be
must sneak around to the rear Of the
building, and climb flight of stairs
SUICIDE OF A LADY.-Last Satur-
day morning the body Of Mrs. Rose, Of
| Turman Township, was found hang
| ing in the wagon shed, suspended By
a piece of clothes-line from beam
/ Her husband testified at the inquest
that she got up in the night and went
out in her night clothes; that he fell
asleep again, not waking till morning,
when he saw her dress lying in the
room, and seeing she was still absent
he became alarmed, and commenced
a search for her, resulting in finding
her dead body as described above
She was always regarded as woman
of good sense, had not been sick, anc
her domestic relations were always
thought to have been happy. No sat
isfactOry reason can be assigned fol
her act. Mrs. Rose was a lady o.
| about forty five years of age, and haC
no ohildren.-SulliUdB Democrat.
THE FOLLOWING items are from the
Petersburg Press of the Both:
The Evansville JOURNAL is of the
opinion that the North & South Rail
road will never be built. The jour
NAL and as differed on this subject
about q year ago-We insisting that i
could be. We begin to think thu
JOURNAL is nearest right.
A barn belonging to DR.. A. j
Rhodes, Plkesville, was burned OF
Saturday night last. A valuable jacl
was in the stable at the time, and wa
burned 10 death. The barn was in
sured for $500, and the jack for 300
in an Evansville company.
The enumeration of school chill
drsn in this county numbers 5,O61.
S. G. Barrett drove a lot of PA fin
fat hogs to Washington, yesterday
They averaged 800 pounds.
| Several lots of corn sold on tn
streets during the week at twenty-five
cents a bushel.
There is but one of the tire,
churches in Petersburg supplied witt
q preacher.
The census returns of PIKE Count,
are not yet completed. Lockhari
and Marion Townships are yet to bt
reported.
The house of Joseph Everhart
near Jasper, took FIRE one day las
week in the absence of himself ant
wife, and two of his children persisted
in the flames.
Some seamps in the neighborhoot
of Pikeville, have been carrying Of
pretty high of late, and have agail
commenced their devilment. Thei
last offence was to shoot a horse be
longing to JAS. Cooper, living nea
that town.
We learn that on the petition of
large number of our citizens, an IN
junction will soon be issued restrain
ing Treasurer Whitman from collect
! ing the railroad tax voted by the sew
eral townships, and ordered to b
collected by the Commissioners TIL
: restraining order is only for the pur
pose of delayiAg the collection of tn
tax until after the Supreme Court ha
decided on the constitutionality of th
recent act of the Legislature author
: izing aid by counties and townships
} building railroads. Should the ST.
E preme Court decide the act constitJ
tional we presume there is not cit
t. | zap n fbo oourFv that mill obinak
the payment of the tax. Surely theI
ought not to be any.
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