Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1879 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

The old settlers’ meeting at Dayton was attended by at least 2,000 people. Typhoid fever is almost epidemic in Corydon and vicinity, and is of the severest type. Henry Work, aged 75 years, and a resident of Plymouth for twenty-two years, has died. The tobacco crop in Brown county this year will not be one-third what it has been of late years. The 8-year-old daughter of John Hemphill, of Rising Sun, was fatally kicked by a mule. Kosciusko county brags of being out of debt and having $30,000 toward the erection of a new Court House. The corner-stone of a new orphans’ home was laid at Jeffersonville, last week, with considerable ceremony. The citizens of Rush county will vote, Oct. 13, upon the proposed levy to aid the North and South railroad. The soldiers’ reunion* at Lebanon, last week, brought out the largest crowd that ever assembled in Boone county. Of ex-soldiers, 2,000 were present. The infant child of Prof. Alpheus McTaggart, of EarlhAm College, Richmond, which was so badly scalded by the accidental upsetting of a vessel, has died of its injuries. The conference of the Episcopal clergy of Central Indiana was held at Terre Haute last week, with a large attendance. Nearly all the clergymen in the diocese were present. Flora Flight, a young man of Martinsville, was shot and killed at that place the other night by a bar-tender named Con Leander. An old feud was the cause of the difficulty. A man named Demuth, while intoxicated, attempted to mount his horse at Ferdinand, when the animal jumped, throwing him to the ground and causing his death by a fracture of the skull. As Hezekiah Fowler, of Metamora, was fixing a belt in his saw-mill at that place, he was struck on the head with a circular saw, crushing his skull in a horrible manner. He died in a few hours.

Edward Chaney, a farm-laborer in Otter Creek township, was rolling the field, when the span of mules took fright, ran away, and threw Chaney in front of the roller, which passed over him, cansing instant death. The wind-mill pump swindlers have reached Tippecanoe county, and last week swindled Mr. Stingley, of Lara mie township.. Mr. Stingley signed an order for one pump, which the rascals changed to seven and shipped that number to him. Joseph Jordan, alias Durbon, a resident of Clark’s Hill, and recently from near Richland, Ky., has been arrested by a requisition from the Governor of Kentucky and taken to Richland to answer the charge of murder, committed sixteen years ago in that State. About a year ago, Adam Austin and his wife were driving over Blue river bridge—a structure erected by Shelby county, within the corporate limits of Shelbyville when tie horse took fright and backed over the embankment into the river, killing Mr. Austin, while his wife escaped without serious injury. She now sues the county for $5,000 damages. The widow and children of the late John J. Reynolds, of Lafayette, are quarreling over his estate, valued at $250,000. Before his death he had given his children large gifts, and the question is whether these should be considered as advancements, to be deducted from the share of each respectively, or as actual gifts of which no account was to be made. The flouring-mill of Flabangh & Ferre, one mile south of Somerset, on the Missinewa river, in Wabash county, was burned the other night. The mill was worth $4,000. There was stored in it over 5,000 bushels of wheat, a part of which belonged to the farmers in the neighborhood. It was no doubt the work of an incendiary. There was no insurance on the mill or grain.

The Postmaster of Columbus is in receipt of a package of letters from Jeffersonville, ranging in date from 1871 to the present date, addressed to several citizens. They were taken from an old mail-car of the Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis road, which was being torn up for repairs' in the shop. The letters fell in behind some paneling at various different times, as indicated by their dates. A trip through half a dozen of the counties of Southwestern Indiana convinces the Indianapolis Sentinel's correspondent that the wheat crop in this part of’ Indiana, in the acreage sown, will be larger in 1880 than ever before. A great deal of the early-grown wheat is already up and looks well, while on every farm the farmers are busy breaking land for the late September and October sowing. The use of fertilizers is general, and in the counties of Floyd, Harrison, Perry, Spencer, Warrick, Dubois, Orange, Washington and Clark the demadd for bone-dust and phosphates is far in excess of the supply.