Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1880 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

The roads are in a terrible in various parts of the State from the recent heavy rains. Thebe are three headless roosters exhibiting at different places in Indiana, and Mr. Bergh’a agent should look to the matter. The State Statistical Bureau lias now received some 2,000 reports, and they will be compiled for publication as speedily as possible. Mrs. Fruits, of Alamo, died last week, aged 100 years. Her husband, George Fruits, died four years ago, at the advanced age of 113. A little child of Mr. Fuqua, of Tone Haute, was burned in a most horrible manner by venturing too near an open fire. Death relieved her sufferings next day. There have been so many suicides among patients in the Insane Asylum that the Coroner has felt moved to censure the Opportunities furnished for suicide. For some time petty thieving has prevailed at Lexington, and a vigilauce committee has notified all hard characters to leave or have their necks stretched. A German speaking lodge of Odd Fellows, at Vincennes, has thrown up its charter because of opposition to the order from the several German churches in that town. The worthy professors at Asbury University, Greencastle, were much shocked,.and their modesty irretrievably ruined by the full-dress costuming of Mrs. Scott Siddons.

A couple of octogenarians applied to tho Hendricks County Court for divorce. The Judge dismissed them with tho remark that it was a guardian not a divorce they needed. Benjamin Olive a, at one time tho most prominent stock-dealer in Eastern Indiana, and well known among that fraternity throughout tho country, died at Rushville a few days since. John Mosier, a mute living near Morgantown, went out hunting, and, later, was found dead in a field a short distance from his home. The Coroner came to the conclusion that it was suicide. Some Brookville boys, who had been taking lessons of a horse-tamer, attempted to train aline horse. The result was the horse was thrown backward with such force as to cause instant death. The Vincennes Draw-Budge Company has just declared its first dividend of 4 per cent. The company has been in existence twelve years, and has a capital stock of SBO,OOO, of which the city owns nearly half. Hon. John G. Crain died, a few days ago, at Terre Haute, of a paralytic stroke. He was formerly Judge of tho Criminal Court, was Collector under Lincoln’s administration, and a prominent citizen of the county. Under a recent decision of the Indiana Supreme Court, widows are no longer allowed an exemption of SSOO wheu they are assessed less than SI,OOO, and they will save trouble and cost by paying their taxes while yet current. A young couple went into Columbus to be married, and, on retiring, blow out the gas. Later in the night the door was burst open and the unconscious bride and groom were carried into the fresh air, which soon revived them. It was a lucky escape. The students at St. Meinrad Catholic College, in Spencer county, were firing a salute in honor of the return from Europe of a favorite professor, and by a premature discharge of the small cannon two students each lost the right eye, while another had his hand shattered. The third wife of James C. Martin, a prominent farmer of Union county, has obtained a divorce on account of incompatibility. The parties themselves, it seems, could have lived together agreeably enough, but they each had children by former marriages, and these quarreled, and this soon involved the old folks in difficulty. The Directors and Superintendent of the Indiana Deaf and Dumb Asylum have submitted their thirty-sixth annual report to the Governor, showing 334 pupils received, and forty seven discharged. Receipts from all sources, $G0,649’03; disbursements, $55,855.30; extraordinary expenses, specific appropriation, $12,000; expended for improvements, $5,420.07.