Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1879 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

A girl in Adams county, 16 years old, weighs 325 pounds. A Greensburg man had twelve hogs killed by lightning the other night. Hancock county has 5,769 children between the ages of 6 and 21 years. The Lawrence Agricultural Society will hold its fair Sept. 9 to 13, inclusive. William Nichols,Trustee of Nineveh township, Johnson county, died recently. James Martin, a native of Belfast, Ireland, died at Rushville, the other day, aged 104 years. The new City Directory of Terre Haute, just out, shows a population of 11,743 males and 11,453 females. A Harrison county man has a chicken with three eyes aud four teeth, the latter being where the bill should be. Lam Ingram, late Clerk of Clark county, • now a resident of Dennison, Tex., has become dangerously insane. Rose Blake, a colored woman, w’as struck by lightning aud instantly killed recently, at Evansville. She was sitting in the doorway. Dr. S. C. McClure, late clerk in the Southern prison, has been appointed assistant surgeon at the Louisville Eye and Ear Infirmary. The Indiana Episcopalians held their annual convention at Fort Wayne last week, Bishop Talbott presiding. Gov. Hendricks delivered an address. Prof. W t . A. Jones, President of the State Normal School, is compelled by ill-health to insist upon the acceptance of his resignation tendered last fall. Supt. Churchman, of the Blind Asylum, has tendered his resignation, to take effect Sept. 1, the board agreeing to continue his salary until Oct 1. Scarlet fever is prevailing extensively at Millville, in Henry county. Sixty cases occurred to date in the town and vicinity. A number of deaths have resulted. A. C. Lindemuth, of Richmond, has presented his fine collection of fossi’s to Earlham College. The cabinet will be placed in the Museum of Natural History. The members of the Senior and Junior classes of Hanover, who spent last week in a scientific tour through West Nirginia, report a pleasant and profitable time. The County Treasurer’s safe, at Delphi, was broken open and robbed the other night. As far as known tho thieves secured S9OO in cash belonging to the Treasurer, John Vance, and about $3,000 belonging to the county. The other day while the wife of White Morris, who lives west of Rushville, was washing clothes, her infant child, aged about 1 year, fell into a tub of boiling water, scalding it in a horrible manner. The child will die. Gov. Williams has issued his procclamation, notifying the people that the laws passed at the last session of the Legislature, without the emergency clause, are in force. The following are the titles of the new laws: An act providing for submission of constitutional amendments; the Legislative apportionment; act regulating setting of corner stones in highways; an act concerning interest and usury; an actconcerning prisoners in jail, requiting that they be kept at labor; authorizing transfer of Indiana’s title to Antietam National Cemetery to the United States; general appropriation from Nov. 1 next for two years; allowing Sheriffs and constables to follow and arrest fugitives from justice into adjoining counties; denning Tenth and Twelfth judicial circuits; authorizing guardians to settle estates of deceased wards; defining burglary and other crimes; an act concerning Wabash and Erie pateitis; an act authorizing surrender of city charters; authorizing cities and towns to issue bonds foe of funding their indebtedness: providing for appeals in proceeding for annexation of teiriioiy to towns and cities; an act relative to sui nlus school revenue in cities and towns; todiv.de N ate into Congressional districts; regulating presentation of claims against counties; enabling County Commissioners to dispose of uncalled-for allowances; touching contempts of court; concerning trial of civil causes; abolishing the fourth Superior Judge of Marion county; relative to issuing letters testamentary; regulating the practice of dentistry; amending section 18o' tire statute of descents; amending section 12 of d : voice act of lb<3; defining time for holding general elections; providing for homestead and exemption; fix’ng fees and salaries; authorizing prosecution by affidavit and information; preventing manufacture and sale of adulterated fertilizers; amending fish law; authorizing Justices to require additional re plevin bail; providing for security and payment of laboring men; defining libel; concerning dissection of human bodies; concerning married women: preventing mortgagor s of goods from disposing of proper ty; providing for tho inspection of petroleum oils; amending ode of practice relative to receivers; amending section 397 of civil code relative to costs; relative to legal publications; for vacating public squares; authorizing County Commissioners to grant relief in certain cases: requiring railroad companies to sound whistles; providing for punishment of persons in possession of property stolen in another State; relative to election of Road Supervisors; authorizing incorporated towns to pay for street lighting; amending section 30 of the charter of Evansville; concerning trusts and powers; relative to farmers’insurance associations; for protection of wild game; amending section 2 of act of 1864 defining competent winesses; for establishing workhouses.