Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1879 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Mrs. O. P. Morton and her son Oliver have gone to New Haven to remain during the winter. The son will attend Yale College. James McLaughlin, of Coal Creek, recently killed a rattlesnake near that place five feet and four inches long and having thirteen rattles. Austin M. Puett, who twice represented Parke and Putnam counties in the Legislature, died a few days ago at his home in Fremont county, Col. A new shoe-peg factory will be started at Richmond in a few weeks. It already has orders for 100,000 bushels of pegs, to be delivered inside of a year. Oliver H. Miller, of Rising Sun, whose term of office expires next month, has held the office of County Clerk and Auditor alternately and consecutively for twenty years. John C. Huckleberry, aged 70 years, a native of Clark county, is dead. He served in the Black Hawk warm 1832-3, was several time a member of the Indiana Legislature, Clerk of the House in 1835 6, and from 1838 to 1841 publisher of the Southern Indianian, a Democratic paper at Charlestown. Ho was also Sheriff of Clark county two years. Rev. Father Chasse, Chaplain of St. Mary’s of the Woods, died a few days ago. He was a native of Brittany, France, and was 63 years of age. Ho came to this country and settled at Vincennes many years ago, and was a teacher in St. Gabriel’s College. When this institution was closed he was appointed chaplain of the Orphan Asylum at Vincennes. He afterwards was appointed priest of St. Simon’s church, at Washington, Ind. He was also connected with St. Joseph’s church, Terre Haute. He succeeded the lute Father Earle at St. Mary’s in the Woods in 1872.

Colored Methodists. The fourth annual conference of the A. M. E. Churches of Indiana and Michigan was held last week at the church in Ypsilanti, Mich. Following are tlio appointments made by Bishop Shorter before adjournment: PARISH appointments. Richmond. Ind.—L. D. Crosby. Indianapolis, Ind.—Bethel, to bo supplied. Indianapolis, Ind.—Allen Chapel, li. Titus. Detroit, Mich.—BothelChurch,D. P. Roberts. Detroit, Mich —Ebenezer Church,J. Simpson. Evansville, Ind.—M. Lewis. Terre Haute, Ind.—J. Mitchein. New Albany, Ind.—H. H. Thompson. Vincennes, Ind.—John Ferguson. Ypsilanti, Mich.—Jesse Bass. Crawfordsville, lud.—Jasen Bundy. Jeffersonville, Ind.—H. B. Gordon. CIRCUIT APPOINTMENTS. Mount Vernon, Ind. —M. Coleman. Charleston, Ind.—l. B. Channers. Kuightstowu, Ind.—H: Harper. Mitchell, Ind.—A. J. Ferguson. Now GordoD, lud. John Myers. Cambridge City, Ind.—G. B. Pope. Lafayette, lud.—l. Buren. Logansport, Ind.—J. M. Smith. Kalamazoo, Mich.—R Jeffries. Franklin, Ind.—John Jordan. Madison, Ind.—D. A. Johnson. Rockville, Ind.—W. 8. Langford. Brownsville, Ind.—G. W. Benson. Ann Arbor, Mich.—H. H. Wilson. St. Joseph, Mich.—L. Radcliffe. Battle Creek, Mich.—G. H. Alexander. Princoton, Ind.—A. H. Knight. Greencastle, Ind. Clay. South Bend, Ind. —J. W. Harper. Saginaw, Mich.—G. W. Gilmore. Bloomington, Ind.—A. A Burley. MISSION APPOINTMENTS. Coryden, Ind. Cole. Fort Wayne, Ind. McDaniels. Evansville, lud.—Mission, T. E. Wilson. Indianapolis, Ind —Mission, Hutchinson. MarioD, Ind.—P. O. TutiuL Grand Rapids, Mich.—To Lie supplied.

Pioneers at the State Fair. The State Pioneer Association of Indiana has issued the following circular to the pioneers of Indiana: To enable the pioneers and old settlers of Indiana to avail themselves of the favorable action of the railroad companies, who propose to grant free transportation to and from the convention, to be held in connection with the State fair, Oct. 1, 1871), a meeting is hereby called of the county Pioneer and Old Settlers’ Associations, in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, at the Court House in each and every county in the State, at 10 o’clock on Wednesday, the 10th day of September, 1879, to make preparation by selecting or reappointing a President, Secretary and an Executive Committee of one or more members in each township, to see that their aged friends are notified and have opportunity to apply for the favorable terms proposed. * Where no county society exists the attention or our early settlers is earnestly invited to this matter, as the conditions announced and embodied in blank certificates must be exactly fulfilled, and no possible complaint will compensate for neglect of duty. Blanks of the following form will be sent to each County Clerk before time for the county meeting: STATEMENT AND CERTIFICATE To entitle pioneers and old settlers to free transportation on railroads to annual convention and admission to State fair. (Residence) Ind 187*.). I am now seventy years of age;have lived in Indiana forty years, and desire to attend the Pionoer State Convention at the State Fair of 1879. [Signature of applicant!. The above statement is correct Pres’t. of County Pioneer Old Settlers Association. Attest : Sec'y. Good on K. R , Sept. 29 to Oct. 4, 1879. CERTIFICATE Of County Clerk or other county officer having * 86al ‘ County, Ind., 1879. The foregoing signatures of President and Secre. tary of County Pioneer or Old Settlers* Association are authentic C. C. C. . [Affix seal.] There must be a county society,-with President and Secretary, to attest the signature and postoffice address of applicant; the signatures of said President and Secretary to be authenticated by signature and seal of Clerk of Circuit Court or other county officer having a seal to secure the benefits offered of free transportation and admission to the State Fair. This offers a rare enjoyment to the fathers and mothers of our State who so grandly planned and improved the noble heritage wo now hold. The attention of county papers is invited to the foregoing notice. As it will be of interest to many of their readers, they are respectfully solicited to publish it in full for the benefit of the pioneers of Indiana. By order of Charles H. Test, President. John Collet, Secretary I. P. A,

During the last four years of Democratic control in the lower House of Congress $84,090,000 has been saved. At Monticello, last Friday night, during the absence of Sheriff Hay, some unknown person procured the keys of the jail and made a general delivery of the inmates of that institution. If the evidence taken by the Wallace Committee in Massachusetts co’d be transferred to the Cctton Mills of Augusta, Macon and Columbus, Georgia, it would be considered excellent campuign fodder. The shot gun is rather a terrible argument in politics—more terrible if not quite so tantalizing as the shoemaker's awl which good Repuolioans were lately wont to use to drive naturalized citizens from the polls. How grateful it must be to the refined tusD* of Rhode Island and Massachusetts that means more delicate and refined has been bestowed upon them for the control of elections. ~4*»— —. “The Delphi Times challenges the Onion to name over the ex-soldies of Union army who are now editing republican newspapers in Indiana.”— Union. And the Union replies, in substance, that It prefers “to wait and see whether the Solid South party is to control the governmenV’ etc., etc. The Union could have given the list in much less space than is occupied by its rejoinder. Theiefore ics intended sarcastic response is rather “thin.” Fraud Hayes and Sherman forked over $1750 00 to stay execution oa the personal property of Cassanave, at Now Orleans, for a few months’ when they will be expected and required to meet the balance of the judgment. By that time the Fraud will liuve saved a right smart sum from TildOn’s sal try, and Sherman will make a good haul in the shape oi interest made by a bank from Government funds on which it ynys no interest. ’ What a repulsive spectacle to wituess the chief executive anti a High cabinet official compelled to get down on their knees aud shell'out" on the demand of such scoundrels as the Louisiana returning, board thieves and liars.