The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-02-15
Indiana Items.

FIFTY men enlisted in the regular
army last week at Indianapolis.
CRAWFORD County is the banner
County for hoop poles.
DoANE, of the Jasper Courier, is a
candidate for State Senator. Oh,
don't.
THE citizens of Orwell, have new
tobacco factory, but want another
school house.
THE Posey County Commissioners
meet at Mt. Vernon on the first Mon
day in March.
The revival in the Methodist
Church in Vincennes resulted in fifty
i've accessions.
THE Mt. Vernon Democrat has a
supplement printed to order in anoth-
er Office.
A. Mr.. HARDMAN, of Cincinnati,
talks of establishing an iron foundry
in Mt. Vernon.
A NEW Catholic church is among
the contemplated improvements in
Mt. Vernon.
The Lafayette boys amuse them
selves by placing distractions on the
street railroad.
In Washington County there are
reported one hundred and fifty candi-
dates for the thirty eight Offices to be
filed at the ensuing election.
THE Orphans Department of the
Indiana Soldiers Home contains a
hundred and sixty children, with not
q case Of sickness among them all.
The First number of the Orwell
Herald has come to hand. Strictly
neutral in politics, and in favor Of
home manufactures, is announced as
its platform.
Mr.. HAMEL, an old gray-haired
man, residing on the river bank in
Trimble County, opposite Madison
has been notified by the Ku-Klux tC
depart. He says he is not ready.
AN election for Directors of the
New Albany & st. Louis Air Line
Railway Company will be held in New
Albany, at the Office of the Company
on the 9th of this month.
THE Odd Fellows of Washington
have in contemplation, the purchase
Of fine piece Of ground some two
miles west of the centre of town, tC
be used as burial place.
THE Democrats Of Tippecanot
County, being in the minority, wan
to nominate reform ticket similar t.
those with which they fooled the Re
publicans of Cincinnati and Chicago
mrs Winnennes Times reioicetf
muchly over the fact that TnG cUTUr0v
men will be permitted to participate
in the next city election. 1t looks fol
an eclipse Of the sun that is not down
In the Almanacs.
FRED. DOUGLASS lectures in Vim
eennes on the 18th, for the benefit of
the new African Church. At the
conclusion Of the lecture, Mr.. j. nj.
Williams, a eolored orator, will ad-
dress the audience upon the general
issues of the day, after which festi-
val will conclude the entertainment.
A MAN named Jerry Rice, while
engaged in walling up well, in Har-
rison Township, Knox County, was
buried, by the caving in Of sand, a
depth of forty feet. After digging
from Saturday to Tuesday. day and
night, his neighbors got the body, but
life was extinct.
A REMoNsTRANoE is being circula-
ted in Daviess County, by Commit
tee Of the Order of Good Templars,
praying the Board of Commissioners
not to grant licenses to those who
may apply at the March session of
the Board for licenses to retail liz
uors.
THE Criminal Court of Floyd Coun-
ty costs the taxpayers Of the county
twelve thousand dollars per year.
Rather expensive luxury, considering
that the Circuit Court could transact
all the business done in the Criminal
Court by holding three, instead of two
terms per year.-Nel0 Albany Ledger