Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1880 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

The rabbit harvest is being gathered throughout the State. It is unusually bountiful. The Republicans of Winchester have purchased a brass cannon to bold in reserve for celebrating party victories. The public schools of Shoals, Martin county, have been suspended because of the prevalence of scarlet fever in that village. Rowena Mathenv, a girl 19 years of age, lately attempted suicide in Evansville, by eating fish-berries. Disappointment in love. Henry Glore, a colored youth of Rising Sun, raptured himself while practicing with a horn, and died from the effects of his injuries. Mrs. Sadie L. Carnes, of Terre Haute, fell over the back of a chair, sustaining injuries that resulted in her death a few hours afterward. Colfax, Clinton county, is ambitious to be the shire town of a proposed new county of Colfax, to bo carved out of Clinton, Tippecanoe, Boone and Montgomery. The roof of the main building of Earlham College, at Bichmond, was burned the other day. Loss by fire and water, about $2,000; covered by insurance.

The Council of Administration of the G. A.R., for the Department of Indiana, have decided to hold tho next annual encampment at Greencastle, on Jan. 29. A Madison man has forwarded to the Fish Commissioner at Washington a buffalo fish weighing sixty pounds, the largest fish of tho kind ever caught in the Ohio river. The Indianapolis Cincinnati and Lafayette Railroad Company last week received 1,000 tons moie of steel rails, which they are distributing on tho Western division. The Supremo Court of Indiana lias reversed a case because the indictment against a man, charged with the unlawful sale of liquor, didn’t specify that a gill is less than a quart. A little 11-year-old daughter of Mrs. Miller, living near Urbaua, was accidentally shot by a little eon of John Barnes, the ball entering at the nose, passing through the left cheek into the shoulder. It will probably prove fatal. The annual report of the State Normal School at Terre Haute is submitted. Last year there were 783 students, and since the organization of the school, 2,385. Eighty-two per cent, of the pupils last year were from the working classes.

The luxury of eatiDg raw pork has proved the death of several members in a family at Plymouth, and it is probable the entire family will die with the exception of tho father, who ate none of the meat. Trichina was proved to be in the pork by post-mortem examination. While a little son and daughter 61 Charles Lacy, of Rrookville, were playing with a revolver of thirty-two caliber, it was accidentally discharged while in the hands of the little girl, the ball striking her brother and pussing through his body. Recovery is impossible. For many years each Grand Jury of Decatur county has reported that tho Greensburg jail was unsafe and unfit to keep prisoners, but the Commissioners take no steps toward repairing the old one or building a new one. The other night all the prisoners, nine in number, escaped, and only one of them voluntarily came back. Mr. Samuel Davenport, Postmaster as Bluffton, died last week, after a lingering illness of many months, aged 52 year. Mr. Davenport was a graduate of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., and held the position of Collector in the Twenty-fourth Pennsylvania district during the war, and was editor of the Bluffton Chronicle for many years.

Judge Ward has rendered an important decision at Crawfordsville, in the case of McComas vs. Krug, Sheriff of that county. The defendant was charged with drunkenness, and his re • moval asked for under a recent act of the Legislature. Tho Judge decided that the statute was unconstitutional, and dismissed the case. The plaintiff filed notice that he would appeal the case to the Supreme Court. A split in the Baptist church at Crawfordsville, and a case at law growing out of it as to the title to the church building, has resulted in a decision in favor of the majority party. The court held that a Baptist church is congregational, and a majority of the members have absolute authority under their articles of faith and rules of decorum to do as they like about allowing or disallowing certain doctrines to be preached in the church building.