Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1880 — INDIANA SEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA SEWS.

A permanent roller skating rink has been established in Edinburgh. At Winamac, a young man named Jack Whipple was strangled to death by goitre lately. James P. Bf.okau, one of the County Commissioners of Delaware eounty, has died from lung fever. Worthington received its first mail over the Terre Haute and Southeastern railroad New-Year’s day. A young man named Arthur Highland was drowned recently while skating on Bruc3’s lake, near Winamac. During Ihe year the Governor of Indiana has issued sixty-five remissions, and three commutations of sentence. The extensive rainfall in the region about Vincennes has done immense damage to railroad and other property. Hon. Festus Hall, one of the early settlers in the county, died at his home in Ripley township, Rush county, lately. Two of the colored emigrants from North Carolina died at Greencastle, and in both cases death is attributed to change of climate. W. B. Howard, of Chicago, has succeeded to the interest which George H. Kanmacher held in the Indiana State House contract. A firm of grocers at Evansville has been sued for $2,000, for putting a man’s name upon the Grocers’Protection Association books in what is called the dead-beat list. The condition of the school fund at the January apportionment was as follows: Number of children between (i and 21 years of age 108,101 Balance in treasury, after deducting di awbacks allowed Lawrence and Boon < counties $12vfi33.0l Total collected from counties 178 845 02 Total ready for apportionment $007,279.88 Amount apportioned 000,088:70 Balance in treasury $7,10113 Per capita, $1.28. The people of Mount Vernon, the town whose municipal officers all resigned recently to e' cape levying a tax to pay the interest on $150,000 debt, have compromised. They agreed to pay $50,000, the citizens taking half in 6-per-cent, bonds, and the Newark Savings Association taking the other half in bonds. There have been no Councilmen and no Government in that city for three months. . A movement is on foot to consolidate the interests of the Indianapolis, Delphi aud Chicago Narrow Gauge and the Lake Erie and Western extension from Boyleston to Indianapolis, making the line, when built, standard gauge. Much of the way the roads, if built as projected, are only from one to five miles apart, and the friends of both enter-, prises begin to think it would be wise to double teams and push the road to complete n. A six-pound brass cannon was stolen from the town of Lexington, Scott county, the other day, which has a history. It was made in Paris, France, in 1792, and was oaptured by the Americans at New Orleans in 1815. Mr. McFarland, who participated in the battle, and who subsequently founded the town of Lexington, presented it to the town. The relic was stolen by boys engaged in the scrap-iron trade, but it was recaptured. The Fort Wayne Council voted to sell bonds to the amount of $270,000 to pay for a system of water-works. The bonds were to have drawn 6 per cent, interest. A portion of them have been sold at a premium, and the question that now agitates the minds of the city fathers is, whether the premium belongs to the water-works fund or not. Some think it does, others think it don’t, and others want it used, so far as it will go, to pay the interest on the bonds.

Two young men -of Lawrenceburg bought a bottle of whisky, on Christmas, and went to the old bed of the Miami river to enjoy themselves, where also they fell asleep. Next morning the younger found it impossible to arouse hiß companion, and proceeded home alone. It is now supposed the missing man froze to death whore ho lay, and that the sudden rise in tho river swept the body away, as the tree under which they were lying is now six feet under water. The State Teachers’ Association elected the following officers: President, Prof. John Cooper, Richmond; Vice Presidents, D. E. Kelley, Evansville; J. H. Madden, Bedford; Lillian Moore, New Albany; J. P. Tristher, Lawrenceburg; Kate Huron, Danville; J. P. Mather, Bedford; E. F. Brown, Indianapolis; W. H. Fry, Crawfordsville; John Stout and William Ireland, Whiteviile; William Rnssell, Marion; S. D. Crane, La Grange, and Hugh Brown, Valparaiso; Secretary, Miss Annie G. Lemon, Spencer. The annual meeting of the State and delegate Boards of Agriculture was held last week. The session was spent in hearing the address of Robert Mitchell, President, and of other officers and department Superintendents in charge of the late fair. They were all satisfactory and congratulatory. The financial statement showed $35,554.65 receipts, of which $22,015 50 were from the fair proper; expenditures, $23,284.66; $4,091.30 for construction and repairs; State fair, including premiums, $9,318.01; interest account, $4,804.55; balance on hand, $12,269.99; net gain in the year. $4,586.47. The geological department cost $1,150.30 np to the time of its discontinuance in June.