Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1879 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

The negro exodus is shaping toward Indiana. The cost of the reservoir repairs at Lafayette aggregates $8,443.69. The Spencer County Agricultural Society has recently been reorganized. The ooal famine has eansed the suspension of work at the Aurora rolling mills. Work will now cease until spring on the foundation of the new State House at Indianapolis. Kingan & Co.’s meat house, at Indianapolis, was damaged about $15,000 worth by fire the other night. A huge bald eagle was shot in Union county, a day or two ago, while in the act of flying away with a goose. New Albany chums to lead any other point in that region as a horse and mule market, aud reports prioes on a boom. Real-estate transactions in two days at Richmond involved more papital than all the transfers during the past twelve months. Official inquiry is made in regard to toll, free gravel, and common roads throughout the State for each year from 1875 to the present time. Princeton has $34,000 in church property, and has a church for every 333 persons of its inhabitants. Eleven stated preachers are engaged. Rev. G. D. Watson was elected President of the State Camp-Meetiug Association for next year, at the aunual con ference, held at Warsaw last week. R. H. Picket’s saw-mill and the drygoods store of G. W. Corwin wore consumed at Carpentersville one night last week. The loss reached about SIB,OOO. The “ pigeon-roost ” in Scott county, a famous rendezvous for pigeons, is now so full that men are flocking thither with teams to gather and haul away the game. The 9 year-old daughter of Stephen Araey, residing six miles east of Vincennes, was fatally burned by her dress taking fire from the grate while she was alone in tho room. Gov. Williams has appointed Wm. H. English as Indiana’s representative upon the committee to arrange for the centennial anniversary of the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. Dr. James It. Lewis’ stable was fired a second time, and totally consumed, one day last week. This makes the twenty-fifth conflagration, mostly incendiary, that has occurred in Madison since April. A farmer of Lynn, Randolph county, swallowed some false teeth the other morning, and has been very sick ever since, although the best physicians in the country have been summoned. It is thought he will die. AT a charitable fair in Fort Wayne, last week, the most profitable feature was a contest for the popular verdict on beer. By the sale of Cincinnati, Milwaukee and Fort. Wayne varieties, over S6OO was netted for the cause. The Supreme Court has decided that Vincennes University has the right to raise money by a lottery. The college was chartered by the Territorial Legislature, and a clause to that effect was incorporated into the original charter. The Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan railway was sold at Wabash recently for $1,100,000, to G. H. Wade and associates, of Cleveland. They held the greater portion of tho first mortgage bonds. There will be no change in the management. An interesting quarrel has arisen at Indianapolis between the Coroner and an undertaker as to the disposition of the body of a suicide, claimed by a medical college for dissection. The undertaker reports that the clamor for dead bodies is great, and at times nearly overwhelming, but he thinks he is justified in using every possible endeavor to find out the relatives. The Supreme Court has rendered a decision upon an appeal favorablo to the notorious Whistling law of the last Legislature. The old English axiom that “the King can do no wrong ” is in this decision applied to tho Indiana Legislature, the court holding substantially that, although the continuous whistling of locomotives might, under ordinary circumstances, be a nuisance, when it is done by virtue of the act of the General Assembly no nuisance is committed in the eye of the law, and that the Jaw cannot, therefore, be set aside upon that ground.