Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1879 — Indianapolis and Delphi. [ARTICLE]

Indianapolis and Delphi.

Delph? Times. As noted elsewhere, the Commissioners will meet on Monday, anfl one of their duties will be the ordering of an election in Burlington township for aid for the Indiauapolis aud Delphi railroad, a petition f r which is now on file. This tax will produce a revenue of about SII,OOO, which will materially added to by private donations. These donations will not be confined, to the citizens of this county, but will be aided by the residents of Howard county contiguous to the line. The good neopie of Burlington township we re never before so enthused, and, in conversation with prominent we have received the assur*anee tha t the tax will be almost unanimously voted. *

Mr. Spurgeon told this anecdote as he gave out an anthem. A high ehurclin tan and a Scotch Presbyterian minister hud been at the same church. The former asked the latter if he did not like the “introits.” He replied: “I don’t know what an introit is.” Said the churchman “Butd’d you not enjoy tb e anthem?” He replied: “No I did not enjoy it at all.” “I am sorry,” said’, the churchman, “because il was used in the early church; in fact, it was originally sung by David.” “Ah?” said the Scotchman,“then that explains the Scripture. I can understand now, if David sung it at that time, why Saul threw his javelin at him.” This was followed' by a loud peal of laughter, when Mr. Spurgeon said: “Now, let us sing the anthem.” «•>-- A freak of a tornado at Reno, Nev., is thus described by the Gazette: “MoorcQe.li Cutter started out with a half gallon of whisky to take to his sick mofiher. He was found some hours afterward lying behind a fence on £he hi 11. He said that he stopped around a corner to fix a cork in the jug, and while he was taking the measure of the oritiice of the jug a tremendous wind came down on him. It sucked the liquor clean out of the jug, blei t it down his throat, aud turned th e jug inside out. He could remember nothing more.” The tri rl of the Whittaker will case in Philadelphia led to the construe tionof an apparatus for tiie detection of forger ,es and alterations, in documents. 'Che paper to be examined is placed at a focus between calcium lights, and the illumination is so powerful that the slightest scratch, difference of ink, or other evidence of tampering, is plainly revealed. A magic lantern w as also used effectively, the genuine signature and the doubtful one being magnified on a large screen. • -<•> It was a very honest old Dutch judge in S chohaire county, New York, who listened for several hours to the argument of conus 1, ami then said: “Dis case .las peen ferry ably argued on botli sides, and dare have peen some ferry nice points of law brought up. Ishall.dake dree days tog( ashler these points, but 1 shall eweutually decide for de blaintiff.”

—— A party of Baptist clergymen were blue-fishiii g off Martha’s Vineyard the other day. The question arose as to whether a, certain specimen was really a biue-fl sh. “Wo call’em Baptists,” said a n.iti ve fisherman. The Baptist clergymen rather eagerly asked why. “Case they spile so soon arter they’re taken out o’ the water.” - —<•»- Zac-h. Chandler is. going to rent himself to the Ohio Republicans for the earnpai gn. He will attend all the big demonstrations, and in the day time, when tiie trades are to be represented iu procession, he will typify a whisky distillery in full opperation, and in the evening his nose will make a magnificent torchlight procession. Indianapolis Seutinel: Those people who refjard lightly the fact that John fkberinan can deposite, and is deposit ing, more than $200,000,000 in a few favored National Bunas, have not c’otsely calculated 'the margin on borrowing $200,000,000 without interest and loaning it at six, eight or ten per'cenf. * —. -<•>-- General Ikaue recently said: “two years ago I looked over the old Army Register aiul found only five of the seventeen American generals who entered the Mexican war surviving. Siuce then, Pillow, Cadwullader, Gushing and. Shields have passed over the dark river.” John-Sher man is going to Ohio to open the campaign, in a few days. It is supposed that he will take Mrs. Jenks and Elliza Pinkston along with him* to help remember whether he wrote that famous Eouisiana letter or not. Prof. Black ie, of Edinburg, put up a notice of regret that on a certain day-he should not be able to receive the classes. A student erased the “e” of the last word. Prof. Blackie came along, saw what had been done, and struck out th e “1,” too.

Mr. Taylor, the world Evangelist and Missionary, is'to be at the Remington camp-meeting. Mr. T. has recently- established a self-supporting annual conference in India; also, some thirty similar missions in South America. Opening sarviee of camp-meeting will be Wednesday, August 0, at 2 o’clock P. 'M. On Monday last, Frank Weathers, a lad of about 15 years, fell a distance of twenty feet, from the new residence being erected by Judge Hammond, breaking both arms and sustaining, other injuries. The Commissioners of Carroll county yesterday directed orders to issue, to the 1., D. & C. Railroad Company to the. amount of the tax of Jefferson township, voted for the construction , of the road.