Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1880 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

The sportsmen are all of the opinion that there will be plenty of fish in the Wabash river this spring. The brick-yard for the new State House will be locate! in Morgan county. William Horstman, a farmer living near Edwardsport, committed suicide while suffering the pangs of inflammatory rheumatism. At Fort Wayue the saloon-keepers have secu.ed the indictment of a large number of druggists who have beeu selling liquor without license. A Fort Wayne “he,” dressed ns a female, recently tried to get into the employ of a family, evidently with intent to rob the house. The rise in the river at New Albany has been something remarkable. Jn the short space of sixtj-five hours the river rose more than thirty-five feet. Miss Nbllie Brown, a prominent young lady of Vincennes, was severely burned by the explosion of rose oil, with v.'hich she was cleaning kid gloves. A boy 17 years old, named AV. E. Bates, Jr , has been discovered at Columbus, who wields a cornet in a manner that gives promise of future fame as a soloist.

The question has been raised whether F. C. JohLson, the Census Supervisor of the New Albany district, can hold the office without surrendering his trusteeship of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum.

General Erin, of the Quartermaster’s Depart ment, has received an order for the manufacture of a large amount of a: my clothing, and will give out w T ork to more than a thousand sewing women.

Mrs. Sarah Jameson, aged about, 83 years, and one of the oldest, if not the oldest, citizen in Harrison county, died at Corydon a few dajs since. She was a citizen of Corydon at the time it was the capital of the State. It is believed by some very couqjetent lawyers that the law which allows 35 cents per description for publishing the delinquent-tax list is void, on account of a defect in its title, and that 20 cents is the maximum that can bo collected.

One of the large coal-pits in Pierceville, Ripley county, containing sixty cords of wood, exploded the other night, and the shock was felt for two miles around. Bricks were thrown 390 yai ds, and the large iron door, weighing about 400 pounds, was thrown 250 feet. In an altercation occurring at Plymouth between Mrs. AVood, a woman of 50, and her grandson, the woman attempted, to shoot the boy with a shotgun, but was frustrated by the father of the boy shooting his mother in law witii a pistol, the ball taking effect over the right eye. Judge Britton, in the Circuit Court at Crawfordsvillc, has decided, in accordance with a recent ruling of the Supreme Court, that no prosecutions can be made against. licensed saloonkeepers for selling liquor to minors or for keeping open on Sundays or legal holidays, or alter 11 o’clock at night. The decision practically removes all restraints upon the sale of liquors.

The Board of State House Commissioners have decided to lay the cornerstone of the building in the first week in May, the occasion to be made one in every respect worthy the structure to be erected. The programme is not yet completed, but it is known that the Masons will have charge of the cert monies; that all the Governors of the States will be invited, and that no pains or expense will be spared to make it the grandest day in the history of the city. The wife of El ward Fisher, living three miles north of Belle Unicn, Putnam county, was burned to death the other day, by her clothing igniting at on open file. On the same day Mrs. McCammack, who lived almost in sight of the Fisher residence, placed her 2-year-old girl in a chair near tire stove and left the room ior a few minutes. The child, being restless, and endeavor ing to get down from the chair, overturned it in such a way that its face was caught between the chair and the stove and held there until one side was literally roasted. One of the child’s hands was also burned to the bone.

The Connersville Examiner says: “A Docatur county farmer named Pruitt is the possessor of a monstrosity in the calf line that is attracting a great deal of attention. The calf is a reddish color, 6 weeks old, and has two heads, four eyes, four cars, four nostrils, two mouths and two tongues. One of the heads has front teeth in the upper jaw, while the other head has teeth only in lower jaw, the upper jaw being padded and adapted for grinding. It takes all fluids in on one side or head and all solids on the other side or head. Another strange feature noted in this double-headed calf is that it has only one esophagus, which is bifurcated at the top, running to each head. This strange freak of nature seems to be healthy as any ordinary quadruped is, and as frisky, too, at that age. Mr. Pruitt values his curious poseossiou very highly, and has refused quite a large sum which was offered by a Connersville showman for the purpose of exhibition.”