The Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Ind.) 18??-1920, 1870-07-07
STATE ITEMS

The glorious Fourth was general.
" celebrated throughout the State.
Evansville il 10 have water works at
n cost OF S235,0-O.
Greensburgh Is 10 be lighted up with
gasoline street lamps.
The Northern Indiana Presbyterian
Synod held lis session al Logansport
last week.
Miss Lucy IIill, OF Jasper county,
was found dead in her bed on Wedncs-
day morning of last week.
Fresh meats sell al from eight cents
10 fifteen cents In the Attica co-optra-
tive meat market.
Seventeen divorces were granted nj
the recent term Of tho Laporte Com
mon Pleas Court.
One physician In New ALBANY has
had four eases of dellriun tremens
within one week
New Albany has three large tobacco
manufactures, and six cigar manu-
factories.
The indications nre that the census
will show n population of about eo,oo0
In rcrrc llaute.
Tho ambitious mothers motto for
her marriagcablc daughters: "On 10
Rich-men"
The degree OF M. D." most appro-
pirate for ladies, Is that Of Mother
Dear"
Seveniy.ivc cents day and rats II
the price of Chinese labor on the Pa |
cnc.
"What II whisky bringing now ."
Thousands Of women 10 want and |
wrctchedncss.
Many men resemble lager beer
take or the gas and foam, and how
Hat they at once become.
\ mine Of pctrincd mud turtles has
been found In Montana. They make
excellent paper weights.
The potato Is said 10 resemble n
ncur sighted person, IL 50 frequently
has spccks over lls eyes.
a young lady went into drug store
the other day aud asked for bottle Of
"lIair Manure" IL was "Itcncwci"
she wanted.
The entire assets OF n Boston bank
rupt were nine children. The cred.
Itors did the handsome thing. and let
him keep every one of them.
VIM. Da'rymplc, says the Bloom
field Tribune, shcarcd II! lbs Of wool
from his Spanish Merino buck. Bah.
a petition Is being circulated In 1T.
Wayne, asking the Council To appro-
pirate money 10 supply that city with
water from artesian wells.
The Posey County Agricultural So-
ciety have subscribed -, 900 Ia aid I'm
the MI. Vernon Gray
Vile ltailroad.
The Bloomfield Tribune says "there
are elements about Hon. Moses i.
Dunn which will inspire enthusiasm
into the people"
Judge Wilson, Of Connersville, aud
DIR. Pugh, Of Rushville, have been
elected members of the Board OF Di-
rectors of the Oxford Female College.
The Terre Haute Express delivers n
plain lecture TO the people OF that city
in favor OF cheap board for pupils at
the State Normal School.
a news dealer Of New Albany was {
fined for selling copy of the Louis I
Vile Courier-Journal ON the 18th OF [
June. q
The Madison Courier says that HaL-
over township has two pair Of twins
in one family, six persons over ninety il.
years of age, and one colored woman
aged one hundred and two years.
Cholera morbus is prevalent in New :
a lbany. Ii is the result Of over-in- a
lulgence in unripe fruits and unma-
.ured vegetables.
Ths real property In Washington, I
Daviess county, Is appraised at S6ii,- I
,35; personal property at Sili,2il.
Total, Il ,059,l76. The total corpora [
ion tax for 1870 il s5,57i 33. /
A Terre Haute printer who was Sc
,erely wounded at the battle OF Ken
saw Mountain, has just been allowed
. pension Of ten dollars per month,
iating back five years.
The census-taker of Evansville has |
discovered a centenarian i'm the person |,
" negro, who claims to- be los years |
I'D. His wife, who il only twenty
line, weighs over 20o pounds, and
hey have child over two years old. [
The gossips OF New Albany are en- :.
Dying the particulars Of most dis !,
graceful case II scan. mag, in which
III the parties are married, and on ac-
.ount of which one or two married
men, il is said, have suddenly ''gone
where the woodbine twinth."
4 drunken wretch at Peru, who l. b
N the habit OF whipping his family, ,
rot on a spree few nights ago. His u
little daughter ran away from the
rouse, knowing If she went near IL