Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1879 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Richmond has prohibited the steamwhistle nuisance. A lodge of Knights of Pythias has been established at Sullivan. Work on the new Masonic temple at Fort Wayne will soon be completed. J. M. Wallace has been re-elected School Superintendent of Bartholomew county. The City Council of Jeffersonville has abolished the office of City Assessor. A new Orphans’ Home is to be erected at Jeffersonville this summer, at a cost of $5,000. The Governor’s Guards are preparing for the competitive drill at St. Louis in September. Philip Bush, aged 19, was recently thrown from a mule in Johnson township and dragged to death.' The floor of a barn at Logansport was removed the other day, and under it 248 rats were found and killed. John L. Menaugh, for many years a county officer of Washington county, died, the other day, aged 72 years. The Board of Prison Directors have elected Matt Huett clerk of the prison south, vice Dr. S. C. McClure, resigned. The Government brings suit against Charles Dillingham, of Booneville, to recover $lO4 overpaid him while in the army. A colored boy, as yet unknown, was run over by the gravel train, between Sullivan and Vincennes, and both legs cut off at the thighs. The other day at a picnic near New Albany, Frank Frakes assulted Thomas Meagher with a hatchet, inflicting a dangerous wound on the head. Sweeney & McCormick, owners of the Pallas Theater, Columbus, which was burned last winter, have decided to rebuild, with many improvements. The Board of Equalization of Dearborn county has discovered avoidances by taxpayers to the amount of $200,000, in sums ranging from SI,OOO to $20,000. Ernest Morris has given the Indiana State Museum several fragments of ancient ceramic art brought by him from 2,000 miles above the mouth of the Amazon.

The “Sophs” and Freshmen at the State University had a lively time the other night fighting over an effigy of Horace, which the former were proposing to, and did, burn. Laura Baker, aged 16, living near Clarksburg, hung herself with a clothesline in the wood-shed, it is supposed because her parents refused to permit her meeting with a lover. A hen, the property of a farmei named Holland, living near Rushville, hatched an egg a few days since, and the production was a chick with two bodies, four legs and two necks joined to one head. New postal routes are established in this State as follows: From Dana toDuaker HilL From Round (Trove to Remington. From Siielville to Ekin. From Center Valley, via La Clair, to Hall. From Corydon to Leavenworth. The City Council of Lawrenceburg has made the following reduction in salaries: Mayor, from S6OO to $500; Marshal, a reduction of SSO; Clerk, S3O; Treasurer, $75; Attorney, $75; Street Commissioner, $120; Marketmaster, $lO. The City Council of Columbus has required the Columbus Mutual Gas Company, which is about to lay its mains in that city, to deposit $5,000 in Government bonds as a guarantee against loss to the city by damage to the streets. A correspondent says of the “whistling nuisance:” “ In consequence of it everyone, almost, has Jost his piety. The house-dog sets up a howl for rest; the weary invalid turns upon his couch and sighs for a better country, where legislators never meet; the anxious mother stuffs her babe’s ears full of cotton to get it to sleep; the profane swear; the pious lose their patience, and the Universalists except the average Indiana legislator from their plan of universal salvation.” Investigation by experts of the books of County Treasurer James Reynolds, of Knox county, covering his four years in office, is finished. A report was made March 12 disclosing a shortage for 1877 amounting to $1,451, which was paid back by Reynolds. In April another report for 1878 was made, revealing $2,500 more. A final report is now made public covering the years 1875 and 1874. It shows a discrepancy of $6,993, making a gross total of $10,973.80. Deducting the amount covered into the treasury leaves $9,121.98 due the county.