Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1879 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

The nut crop in all parts of the State is reported to be immense. The Lafayette water-w rks have been put to a satisfactory test. Mr. Brice, one of the pioneers of Wayne county and earliest settlers of Hagerstown, has died suddenly of heart disease. The increase in hog receipts at Indianapolis for nine months this .year, over the corresponding period last year, is about 22 per cent.; of cattle 8 per cent. Miss Kate, second daughter of Hon. Thomas R. Cobb, member of Congress, was married at Vincennes, last week, to W. W. Cullop, assistant principal of the Vincennes University. There is trouble, in the public schools at Covington. The pupils have been caught playing draw poker for money, and the school board are culled upon to break up the game. The annual convention of the Central Association of Congregational Churches and Ministers of Indiana met at Kokomo last week. About seventyfive delegates were in attendance. Prof. Collet, the State Geologist, has been to Hancock county to see the newly-discovered Indian mountain, near Greenfield. Pottery, stone axes and -hattches, human bones, a stone whistle and other reminiscences have been discovered.

The list of old settlers es Floyd county has been completed, and foots up 142. The oldest man on the list is John Coleman, of Lafayette township, aged 95, and spry as a cricket. The youngest mat is 69, and was born in the county. It is expected that the foundation of the State House will be up to the surface of the ground by the time winter sets in. This is not as far as the Commissioners laid out, but they are satisfied that the work is being pushed as rapidly as circumstances will permit. Prof. Caleb Mills died at his late residence in Crawfordsville, of pneumonia, after an illness of two weeks. At the time of his death Prof. Mills was Rose professor of geology and mineralogy, professor of the Greek language, and curator of the library of Wabash College. A private dispatch from Alden, Col., announces the death oi Gen. Lazarus Noble, of Vincennes, who was there prospecting. Gen. Noble was Adjutant General of the State during the greater part of the war; afterward Clerk of the Supreme Court, and after that resided at Vincennes. He was born in Wayne county, and was 53 years old. The Grand Council of Royal and Select-Masons met at Indianapolis last week. A resolution to merge the Council with the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons was voted down. Officers were elected as follows: Walter R. Godfrey, Illustrious Grand Master; Edward O. Ross, Deputy; Perry W. Gard, Master; Albert Hayward, Grand P. C. of Work; Charles Fisher, Grand Treasurer; John W. Brammel, Grand Recorder.

John Irvin and John Revo, of Vevay, were drowned while attempting to wade the river. They had crossed over to the Kentucky side in a skiff, and some one had returned in the skiff. They attempted to wade across, and were swept down by the current. Irvin was a young man who attempted to cross the river three er four years ago in a leaky skiff with five of his brothers and sister, when the skiff sunk, drowning four of the other children, only two of the six escaping. Revo leaves a wife and thiee children, and Irvin a father and mother, who have lost a family of children by drowning. A horribly brutal story comes from New Albany. A man named Stringham, who has had familiar acquaintance with the police for several years, accepted a wager to fight a savage bulldog. He prepared himself for the brutal encounter by getting down upon his hands and knees and growling and snarling, doglike, until the other_brute became gradually infuriated. The dog was then turned loose, and attacked Stringham savagely, but he caught the ear of the brute in his teeth and chewed it off. This only infuriated the dog, and when loosed from Stringham’s teeth he made another and fiercer attack. This time Stringham caught the dog with his teeth in the under lip, and so lacerated and worried the brute that it howled from pain, and, when finally released, -fled from his torture, and could not again be induced to renew the fight.