The Evansville journal., 1870-08-02
INDIANA ITEMS.

THE Posey County Fslr Will 70
held at New Harmony, September
18th.
MEssRs. Hendricks and Voorhees,
speak at Mt. Vernon, on the 10th OF
August.
Mr.. and Mrs. Golden play for the
delectation of New Harmony, on
Saturday evening next.
THE Hon. J. K. Edgerton has again
been elected President of the Grand
Rapids & Indiana Railroad.
MIR. AFRO DYER has been at Rock
port, looking, no doubt, after the
Jones Convention.
PorAToE bugs are destroying the
potatoes in the vicinity of Bowling
Green.
Two steamboats-the James Gray
and the ZanesvilIe-are at Terre
Haute. They will stay until Fall.
THE peach and plum crop in Clarke
County is failure. There will be an
abundance Of apples and pears.
THE editors of the Fort Wayne
papers are engaged in personal con-
troversy, and call each other bad
names.
THE people of Auburn are rejoic-
ing over the completion Of the Fort
Wayne & Saginaw Railroad to that
place.
Mrs. w. MCK. HESTER. of New Al
bany, has been presented with beau
tiful quilt by the members of the
Wesley Chapel Church Choir.
The New Harmony Register makes
fun of Capt. De La Hunt and George
Shanklin. The Register ought not
to ridieule its political relatives.
THE Terre Haute Gazette thinks
the census will give Terre Haute a
population Of at least 10000. We
doubt it. if the census is correctly
taken.
Miss MINNIE bradbury. Marshall
County, is studying theology with the
view Of becoming preacher. She is
said to be a young lady of fine intel
leot and rare culture.
SEVERAL cities are complaining of
neglect on the part of the census
taker. Cause why? They don't ind
as many, people in the cities as have
been claimed hitherto.
THE New Harmony Register is sor-
~ to see a disposition cropping out
among ring of politicians at Mt
Vernon, to defeat Davy Laird for
Circuit Judge.
THE Democrat says the RockporI
Railroad is progressing as rapidly as
could be expected under the circum.
stances. The engineer is now engaged
in locating the road bed permanently
THE Louisville and Henderson
Packet Company propose to discount
delegates to the Jones judicial Con-
vention at Rockport. on Saturday
August 6, at 25 per cent. from regular
fare.
THERE is a girl in Huntington
County, fifteen years old, who. weighs
one hundred and eighty pounds. and
stands six feet two inches in hel
stockings. Her name is Nora Mills
and she is engaged.
A NUMBER of the citizens of Mar
shall, Illinois, propose in short timt
to make an excursion to Evansville
over the E. & G. Railroad. The Presi
dent of the road proposes to reduc,
the fare to 50 for the round trip from
Terre Haute to Evansville and return
tickets good for ten days.
On Thursday afterncon the light
ming felled ten telegraph poles on the
New Albany and Chicago Railroad, a
mile and a half south of Mitchell
The man who attends to the repairs
of the lines states that every time
there is storm in that vicinity the
lightning strikes that identical spot
NINETEEN years ago, man named
Peter Palmer, IN the prime of early
manhood, was sentenced to twenty.
one years confinement in the South.
ern Indiana State Prison, for an ag-
graVated outrage on a girl. He has
behaved so we'll that two years of his
term have been commuted, and Tues
day he was discharged, an old, gray
headed man, who begins life agair
under great disadvantages.
THE Progress says that suspicion:
looking man got off the cars at Bloom
ington day or two ago, and
A cautious look around he stole
A bag OF chink he chunk;
And many a pleasant smile he srnole.
And many a wink he wunkl
And then straightEay proceeded t
the Progress Office and gave Gabe
big water melon and two dollars fo
his paper one year.
THE Bloomfield Tribune says
Mr.. B. B. Watson. in sinking
we'll at his mill near Linton, in Green
County, struck vein of block cos
about twenty-five inches thick. som
forty feet below the surface of th
earth. Immediately under this strat
Of coal he came to an excellent quail
ty of fire clay, through which he
now digging. He hopes to ind
thicker vein of coal under this clay
and if he does he win have a goo
thing Of it.