Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1880 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Kokomo has $4,213.47 in her treasury. The Winchester banks have given notice that they will pay no interest on deposits. The people of Bartholomew county are vigorously discussing the question of free turnpikes. The New Albany and St. Louis Railroad Company will locate its extensive machine shops, and car-repairing works at New Albany. Rev. Db. W. H. Goode, who had been a prominent minister in the Methodist Cburch for fully half a century, died at his residence in Richmond, last week. The State Music Teachers’ Association was in session, last week, at Fort Wayne, with a fair attendance. Papers were read by members on various topics connected with music. Among the recent exodus arrivals in this State is an old colored woman who claims 108 years, and there is one family of ten, young and old, four of whom are deaf and dumb; and another family of fifteen, lour of whom are also deaf and dumb.

At BrookvilJe, while a little son and daughter of Charles Lacy were playing with a revolver, it was accidentally discharged while in the hands of the little girl, the ball striking her little brother and passing through his body, inflicting fatal injuries. The Fort Wayne Gazette reports the abandonment of a healthy infant on a railroad train from that city, the other day, by a young mother, whose dress denoted wealth and refinement, and who, at a way station, stepped off to do some telegraphing. The valnable white oak timber of Southern Indiana is being rapidly exhausted, and the trails of the portable saw-mill and stave “ bucker ” cun be traced all through that portion of the State. When the timber is exhausted in one neighborhood they pull up and move into another. Balthazer Bescheb, proprietor of the Germania Hotel, at Richmond, slipped on some ice while ascending a stairway in the rear of the hotel, and fell headlong over the low banisters into the paved court-yard below. He alighted on his head, and, being very corpulent, the force of the fall broke his neck, causing instant death. The Jeffersonville, Madivon and Indianapolis Railroad Company, through its attorney, Col. S. Stansifer, has forwarded to the Secretary of War three Morgan raid claims against the State, aggregating nearly $24,000, for destruction of bridges and railroad property generally by John Morgan on his raid through Southern Indiana. A fire in the Jeffersonville prison, the other night, destroyed the building occupied as a working machine-shop by Perin & Gaff, prison contractors. The building was filled with various kinds of wood-working machinery, the property of Perin & Gaff, and valued at about $5,000. The loss to Perin & Gaff will amount to between $4,000 and $5,000, while the State loses the building, not of much value. Mbs. Jane B. Smock, of Greenwood, Johnson county,died recently. “Mother” Smock, as she was called, was born in Mercer county, Ky., Jan. 15, 1793, and moved with her husband, tho late John B. Smock, and two other families, into the neighborhood of Greenwood, in September, 1823. Jt was at her house, then a rude log cabin, that Rev. Isaac Reed, on Dec. 31, 1823, organized the First Presbyterian Church of Greenwood.

Gov. Williams has appointed to the vacancy on the bench of the Supreme Court, John T. Scott, of Terre Haute, a warm, personal friend, and, like himself, six feet three inches in height. Judge Scott is a Kentuckian, aged 68. He came to Indiana in 1853, as a civil engineer on the Indiana and Illinois Central railroad. He began practicing law in 1856, at Montezuma; was elected Prosecuting Attorney in 1860, and moved to Terre Haute. He was on the bench of the Court of Common Pleas from 1868 to 1874. One and a half miles northeast of Newcastle, the county seat of Henry county, along a tributary of the Blue river, is a most remarkable collection of mounds, of such construction and arrangement as to strike any beholder with astonishment. No one can see them and doubt for a moment that they were constructed by men who were far more advanced in civilization than the North American Indians. The principal mounds number ten, and border an open space of about forty acres. They are all snrrounded by what seems to be a ditch and a wall.