Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1879 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Beceipts of the State fair aggregate $23,000, and leave a profit of SB,OOO. Bepobts ceme in from the Kankakee that some fine salmon are being taken. Ten years ago, Oct 23, snow was ten inches deep on the streets of Lafayette. The Fort Wayne water works will cost $233,033, if completed at contract prices. The State House foundation will reach the top of the ground before winter. The Lower Ohio has not been as low, and navigation as difficult, in the past thirty years as at present. The City Council of Vincennes has resolved to purchase another steam fire engine, one not being deemed sufficient. Gbape vines at Lafayette have not only taken the second growth, but the grapes themselves are out with the second crop. Vebnon Tingley, son of of Dr. Tingley, of Greencastle, has gone as clerk to Col. J. B. Weaver, Consul General to Austria. Samuel Welland, residing at New Paris, lost one of his imported Clydesdale stallions, valued at $2,500, by lung fever, a few days ago. It is probable the Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago railroad, now building, will find an entrance into Indianapolis over the Bee line. The long warm spell has brought late corn out wonderfully, and it is now thought that the crop in Northern Indiana will be the largest known. Evansville Courier: Traffic on the river is sadly impeded by the low stage of the water. The boats spend the greater portion of their time on the sand-bars. Fabmebs report that the fly is injuring their early-sown wheat. Borne of the Shaker Prairie farmers are plowing under their earliest-sown wheat aud resowing. An apple tree in Indianapolis bore fruit an. inch in diameter, the second crop this year. Cherry trees bloomed also, but show no cherries. Several pear and other fruit trees bloomed quite profusely. Gbeat excitement prevails in Catholic circles at Evansville over a revolt which as sprung up against an order issued with the approval of Bishop Chatard to remove 1,000 bodies from the old Catholic Cemetery to the St. Joseph’s Cemetery. Hon. William H. English, of Indianapolis, has purchased an elegant monument in Europe, to be placed over the grave of his father, Col. English, at Crown Hill Cemetery. It is forty feet high, and cost $7,000. The lot and fence cost $6,000. Stanfield B. Fbazieb has resigned as Deputy Clerk of the United States Court at Fort Wayne, the legal fraternity of the “Summit city” having made the position unprofitable (by sending their • cases to Indianapolis) because an outsider was selected to fill it. A Jennings county farmer negotiated with a stranger for the sale of his valuable farm in exchange for certain alleged property near New York city, and title deeds were transferred without further examination. He now finds that, while the New York deeds are worthless, the title of his own homestead of 420 acres has been transferred to third parties, and that the sharper is not to be found. Judge John G. Davis, of the Circuit Court at Jeffersonville, has decided that negroes and whites coming into the State and marrying cannot be convicted under the act of 1852, defining certain felonies and prescribing the penalties therefor, on the grounds that they are not residents of the State. This case has been excitiDg much interest, Howard (colored) having come from Louisville and married a white woman by the name of Leona Evans, three weeks ago Howard was consequently discharged. Indiana has a larger school fund than any other State. It now amounts to considerably more than $9,000,000. This all loaned—nearly half of it to the State, drawing 6 per cent, interest, and the remainder to individual borrowers at 8 per cent., and the latter secufed upon lands valued, without the improvements, at twice the amount loaned. No one loan exceeds SI,OOO. The fund is constantly being increased from $40,000 to $50,000 yearly by fines and forfeitures under the penal laws of the State. In addition to this permanent fund, the school property of the State was valued last year at $11,536,647.39. This year Prof. Smart, Superintendent of Public Instruction, estimates that it will amount to $12,000,000.

The Wrong Roll In the Right Place. A gentleman at Darien who had been on a collecting tour returned home the other night with about $1,200 in his pocket. He locked every door, and was so nervous that he didn’t know whether he was a foot or a horseback. After he and his wife had undressed and got into bed, he got up and put the roll of money into his, wife’s stocking. In the morning when he got up he found his money in his pantaloons pocket, and asked his wife if she wasn’t astonished when she found that roll of money in her stocking. She said she didn’t find any roll in her stocking. He told her that he put it iu her stocking the night before. She insisted that if he did he must have got up in his sleep and taken it out. He insisted on examining her stockings, to see if any of the roll had remained there. She thought she felt something kind of binding around her toes. Finally she took off her shoe and stocking, and found a half-pound roll of tine-cut chewing tobacco nicely jammed in alxmt her toes. He said that beat the deuce, and she said it had taken the skin off her toes. That day the man was very free with his tobacco, giving anybody a chew who wanted it. When the people of Darien, who accepted his hospitalities, read this, and know that they helped chew that tobacco that the lady had worn in her shoe for a couple of hours, they witl say words that they ought to be ashamed of.— Milwaukee Hun,