Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1879 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Pneumonia has broken out among the horses in Harrison county. The Johnson county Agricultural Fair will be held Sept. 10. Alonzo Blair, a prominent lawyer of Shelbyville, died recently. There are now about 700 convicts in the Northern prison, mostly working on contracts. The Tipton county Fair will be held on the 23d, 24tli, 25th, and 26th of September. The Commissioners of Johnson county have decided on building a new Court House. Hubbard Gray, aged 90 years, and Mrs. Fiddler, aged 104, died at Vienna on the morning of the 9th inst. J. B. Barnes, general foreman of the Wabash shops at Fort Wayne, has received a patent on a new-style locomotive whistle. Abel Shields, aged 65, an old and respected farmer of Washington county, was found dead in his pasture, resting on his hands and knees, on his farm near Salem. J. D. Swan, for a Jong time a railroad conductor, residing at Indianapolis, has bought a mine at Tucson, in Arizona, and has gone there and is now working it. William Thasher, for sixty-two years past a resident of Terre Haute, died last week at his home near that city. He was one of the pioneer settlers of the State, and one of the first printers in the West. Dr. Fisher, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, of Madison, has been chosen to succeed Dr. Heckman in the Presidency of Hanover College, and Harvey Young was elected Professor of N atural Sciences. At New Albany the cholera-morbus epidemic continues; over 100 severe cases and several deaths have occurred in the past week. Among the seriously sick reported were Dr. E. Newland, formerly Treasurer of State, and Capt. M. M. Hurley, Postmaster. A New Albany paper says: Ten families of skilled mechanics from England arrived here, last night, to work at the DePauw American Plate Glass Works. In all, about 150 English and French families have been brought here from Europe to be employed at these works.

Three colored boys, Charles and Ed Gibbs and George Rouse, all aged about 12 years, were taking a swim in the Wabash, at Terre Haute, last week. Ed, the yonngest of the Gibbses, and Rouse got out of their depth. Neither could swim and they were in peril, when Charles, who could swim, came to their aid and succeeded in getting them into shallow water; but the gallant effort exhausted him so that he could not maintain his foothold, and be was swept away and drowned. His body was recovered, but too late to be resuscitated.

Statistics of Taxation. W. O. Foley, Deputy State has recently been at consuls..ble trouble in compiling a statistical statement as to the value of the taxable property—lots, improvements, personal property and railroad and telegraph property—in the principal cities and towns of this State. The figures are from official returns made by the several County Auditors, in December of 1878; but hitherto, although the taxable value of the several counties was easily ascertained, it has been difficult to arrive at a correct conclusion as to the amount of the various kind of property taxable in the cities and towns. The full statement in regard to the cities whose taxables are valued at more than $3,000,000 is as follows: Fort Wayne—Lots, $4,739,920; improvements, $3,862,035; personal property, $2,524,215; railroads and telegraphs, $608,970; total taxables, $11,795,140. Logansport—Lots, $2,358,615; improvements, $1,580,940; personal property, $1,382,355; railroads and telegraphs, $317,'925; total taxables, $5,617,835. New Albany—Lots, $2,261,505; improvements $2,172,475; personal property, $2,838,010; total taxables, $7,271,790. Vincennes—Lots, $1,017,775; improvements, $1,307,630; personal property, $1,072,345; total taxables, $8,307,750. Indianapolis—Lots, $86,419,435; improvements, $20,043,715: personal property, $lO,916,545; total taxables, $67,379,695. South Bend—Lots, $1,638,710; improvements, $1,462,125; personal property, $1,749,270; total taxables, $4,850,105. Lafayette—Lots, $3,535,045; improvements, $2,879,875; personal property, $3,855,860; railroads and telegraphs, $107,410; total taxables, $9*277,690. Evansville—Lots, $7,004,415; improvements, $1,684,285; personal property, $5,598,210; railroads and telegraphs, $175,065; total taxables, $17,461,975. Terre Haute—Lots, $5,453,005; improvements, $3,810,860; personal property, $3,518,955; railroads and telegraphs, $408,0u5; total taxables, $13,190,215. Richmond—Lots, $r, 535,910; improvements, $2,509,980; personal property, $3,326,955; railroads and telegraphs, $40,502; total taxables, $7,411,357. Madison—Lots, $662,040; improvements. $1,252,145; personal property, $2,114,560; total taxables, $4,028,745. The cities and towns whose taxable property is valued at between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 are as follows: Jeffersonville, $2,523,442; Muncie, $2,002,984; Elkhart, $2,025,639; Laporte, $2,356,000; Crawfordsville, $2,175,005. The towns having a valuation between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000 are: Columbus, Frankfort, Washington, Lawrenceburg, Aurora, Greenaburg, Goshen, Princeton, Marion, Knightstown, Kokomo, Huntington, Seymour, Franklin, Warsaw, Michigan City. AndersoD, Peru, BloomingtoD, Martinsville, Valparaiso, Mount Vernon, Greencastle, Union City, Rushville, Wabash. Out of ninety-fivg cities and towns sixty-Dine have a valuation of personal property considerably in excess of tlie value of ]ots.