The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-07-19

TIE Terre Haute Express reports
a case of starvation. in st. Louis. A
young mar of Terre Haute was the
TERRE HAUTE wants a Water Dog.
Can't our Water Works Committee
sell ours to that city and buy US a
cheaper one?
A HARMLESS crazy woman. in Jen-
nings County, has a singular fancy for
ganders, of which she keeps some
seventy or eighty.
Miss CARRIE SWEET, DeKalb Coun-
ty, sues q crusty old bachelor named
Downey, for s15. 900, for violation of
his promise to marry her.
THE census taker of Pike County
reports the population of Petersburg
to be 909; dwelling houses 168, fami-
lies 1872. voters 203.
A FARMER in Henry County boasts
of a hen that has Matched four con-
secutive broods of chickens since
February, numbering, all told. sixty
one.
GAME LAw.-The law prohibiting
the shooting of prairie chickens ex-
pires on the first Of August, and the
law in regard to quails expires on the
FIRST Of September.
The New Albany Ledger Is in-
formed that Rev. james Hill and
wife have gone to California BY the
Pacific Railway. where they expect to
spend the summer.
A GIRL in Kosciu sko County has
just sold her magnif cent suit of hair
for 5000. She is ab out to be married,
and thinks the mon ey is worth more
than the hair.
TIE census of Knightstown is
about completed. The population
will not exceed 1000. During the
year ending June 1st. only three
deaths have been reported.
1T is stated that W. G. DePauH
offers to any e~nterprising newspaper
man the type. presses, and machinery
of the defunct New Albany CONNER.
cioI for ten per cent. interest on the
mortgage.
1T is said that the defunct New AL
bany Commercial establishment is Il
be purchased BY q company of Demo
cratic gentlemen, who will run it as
live Democratic paper in opposition
to the Ledger ring.
In Warren County the crop pros
poets is better than for years, anC
farmers in good spirits. The earl,
potatoes are a success. Corn is yer,
good-all good. Grass better that
last year, though short.
} The New Albany Ledger says 3
gentleman who has just returned
: from an extended visit through the
counties of Washington, Orange
Harrison, Dubois, Spencer and Perry
reports the crops looking well. TIL,
wheat harvest is over. and the corr
fields are looking remarkably fine.
Col. JONES, of the Democrat, i,
bound to have the Democratic Judi
cial Convention held in Rockport
His paper contains a proclamation to
THAT effect. We guess Mr.. A. I.
Whittlesey, Chairman of all the Dem
ocHatic Committees, will have to SUBJ
scribe, and accept the Colonels ulti-
matum.
MARTINsYILLE utters a loud call
for music teachers. The Gazette
says: Our town has more pianos in ii
than any place In the United States Of
its size, and at the same time fewer
good performers. We need a first
class teacher on that instrument.
One that can teach vocal as we'll as
instrumental music, can get all the
scholars he or she can attend to.
A MADISON convict writes as fol-
lows to bis wife of the accommoda-
tons in the peniteutialy at Jefferson
vile: Everything is arranged like a
palace. We have d great deal better
fare than we had when | was sent
here the first time. We have plenty
to eat, plenty to drink. and plenty to
wear. No mar could complain Of the
living, unless he was a natural born