The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-05-21
A Serious Fight Between Steamboatmen
at New Albany.
Commencement of the Jockey Club Races
.rs at Louisville.
Death of a Prominent Citizen of Con-
nersvflle.
sasss
NEW ALBANY.

Not Another Dollar Lively Fight
Heavy Loss-No Dancing at Catholic Pic
nics-Indiana NJ. E. Conference-About
School Teachers-The Wheat Crop-Me
lange.
Special to the Sentinel:
: NEW ALBANY, May l9.-The Louisville news
papers are engaged in trying to write up the
old Airline railroad, with view of securing
sl,OOevOO In the way of city, township and
! county subscriptions out of the people of
Southern Indiana to complete the road, aud
thus pour into the lap of Louisville, at no cost
to its people, the valuable minerals and desir-
able trade of this section of the State. If
Louisville really wants the Airline road she
should subscribe s5OO,OO5 to help build it.
Until she does so, not another dollar can be
gotten out of the burdened taxpayers of New
Albany and Floyd, Harrison, Crawford, Du-
bois and Pike counties. The voters of these
counties are not idiots, as they will demon
strate If the proposition for an Air Line rail-
road subscription is submitted to them at an
election.
Captain John 5. Richey and Engineer Ben
Atkisson, ole steamboatmen, have had bad
blood percolating their veins toward each
other for a long time. To-day they met at the
river, and Captain Richey proposed to fight 1t
out, to which Atkisson agreed. They then
went at 1t, the affair being a bloody one, in
which Atkisson was badly used up. The
affair will be itgated and causes much ex-
citement among the friends of the parties.
The loss of Captains Sam Montgomery and
Lex. Wolfe by the sinking of the steamer
Market Boy, is 5000, upon which there is no
insurance. Both are poor men and their loss
3 falls heavily upon them.
| The Catholic Total Abstinence society OF
this city has resolved not to celebrate the
Fourth of July by picnic, foy the reason that
Bishop Chatard has prohibited dancing at all
picnics of the church.. The good bishop also
Il prohibits beer liquors at all picnics held by
members of the Catholic church.
Indiana conference, M. E. church, is not to
be held at New Albany, as enormously pub
lished in the Associated Press dispatch from
Wheeling this morning; but at Evansville. on
September 10, Bishop Peck presiding.
Tie school trustees have passed an order
declaring that but one teacher in the public
. schools shall be taken from the same family
This is tc prevent the monopoly that has
heretofore been complained of, and give all
worthy applicants a chance. "
The wheat is heading finely in this part OF
the State, but farmers say the stalk is shorter
than ever before, being scarcely knee high.
l Miller, the man accused of vamoosing the
city with the funds of the lodge of working.
men to which he belonged, has returned, and
says he only went away a VISIT and took
neither money nor a woman not his own with
him. sssst'-4
A good many Southern people are already
coming North, apprehensive of another vel
low fever visitation to that section the com
ing summer. A number OF these refugees a-s
seeking homes in this city.
The grand street parade of the Roman
Phalanx, in this city, next Saturday, viii b<
made up of 200 Roman knights, in full knight
ly costume, the fire department, several of the
benevolent societies, floats representing oul
manufactures, and a large number of citizen
sin carriages and on horses. The spectacle viii
be the grandest ever witnessed in the city.