Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1879 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Logansport has fifty-nine licensed saloons. Nearly 200 telephones are in use in Evansville. Six divorces were granted by the court at Winchester the other day. Great numbers of hogs are dying in Dearborn county, cut off by the lug cholera. The old canal bed at Worthington is being filled up, and the space will be used for depot and tracks. John Buskin, one of the pioneers of Henry county, has died; also Absalom Poor, another pioneer. William T. S. Manly, County Treasurer of Cass county, and a prominent citizen of Logansport, has died. It is contemplated to havo the cornerstone of the new State House laid next summer, with imposing Masonic ceremonies. Elsie Johnson, the Randolph county farmer who swallowed two of his artificial teeth recently, suffers no inconvenience from the accideut. Three children of Robert Craig, at Union City, have been poisoned by eating cabbage over which Paris green had been sprinkled while growing. . Frank T. Thomas, a merchant of Winslow, was thrown from a buggy near Owensville, Gibson county, whiio driving at a break-neck speed along the road, and, falling on his head, was killed. John Rowe, a wealthy farmer, living three milesuortli of Hagerstown, Wayne county, wa3 poisoned by inhalation of vapor from red-oak timber, with which he was working. After suffering terrible agony for a time, he died. Brower Ludlow, at his homo on the Manchester pike, two miles from Lawrenceburg, a few days ago accidentally swallowed a pair of lady’s scissors. There is slight hope of his recovery, as he has been bleeding internally since the accident. The architect who was given the contract for supervising building a new Court House at Frankfort, Clinton county, seven years ago, lias now got a verdict for $10,325 damages, because the work was enjoined, and he was thereby deprived of expected commissions. The State Superintendent of Publi Instruction decides that, when a school has been established for colored children, none such can be found to attend it unless they reside within convenient distance, and that, in every case, the same rule is to be applied in deciding this matter as would be used in the case of white children. At Logansport, Nancy I. Faucett, has been found guilty as an accessory to the murder of John R. Jackson, in September last, and sentenced to eight years in the penitentiary. Five others, inclu ling two daughters of Nancy, are yet to bo tried. Nancy has been married live times, and is now engaged to be married to one of tho prisoners, Jack Me Mill en.. The Indiana State Grange, at its late session, elected the following officers: Grand Master, Aaron Jones, South Bend; Overseer, Nelson Pegg, Randolph county; Lecturer, Harvey D. Scott, Terre Haute; Steward, Moses Poindexter, Clark county. The reports of the grand officers show a decided growth of the order and a favorable condition of the subordinate granges. There h is been a great exodus of squirrels from Indiana to Kentucky, across ihe Ohio river, near New Amsterdam, in Harrison coun y. Heretofore the movement has been from south to north, and was attributed to the failure of the mast in the mountain region of Kentucky and Tennessee; but this year the squirrels are leaving Indiana when there is no failure of the mast.