Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1880 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

A number of white families have arrived iu Grant county from North Carolina. Scarlet fever has broken out afresh at Kokomo, and the public schools are again closed. Jeremiah Wample, of Bainbridgo, is the oldest man in Putnam county. Jle was born in 1780. Dr. McCrillis, an old man of 70 years, was sentenced to the penitentiary by a Delaware county jury. A beautiful block of granite from Maine has beon received by the Stato House Commissioners. Prof. G. F. Mead, Superintendent of Pubiic Schools at Union City, died last week after a short illness. Prof. Campbell, of Wabash College, has placed a brush dynamo-electric machine in Peck Scientific Hall. Bishop Bowman, lia3 dedicated the new Greencasile Methodist Episcopal Church, known as College Avenue Church. It is said negotiations are pending looking to the consolidation of the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons with the Indiana Asbury Uuiveisity. Thomas Burgess, merchant, of Glenwood, Bush county, settled up his affairs, took his little boy, turned his business over to his wife, and left for parts unknown. A saloon-keeper at Pittsboro, Hendricks county, for selling liquor in violation of law, and in some cases without license, in others to minors, was lined in six cases $165. Frank Springer, at Kokomo, lias been held to trial for picking a lady’s pocket in the postoffice. He is an heir to the immense Springer estate, but that did not prove his character. The new owners of the New Albany ship-yard are sanguine of receiving contracts in a few weeks for the building of five first-class steamboats for the St. Louis and New Orleans trade.

The report of the Jeffersonville Stato penitentiary, made to Gov. Wi liams, gives the receipts as $71,470.28; the expenditures, $68,819 73; number of convicts, 593, and the daily average number, 624. One oi the large coal-pits at Pierceville, Bipley county, containing sixty cords of wood, exploded the other night, and the shock was felt for two miles around. Bricks were thrown 300 yards. The location of the starch works in Franklin is assured. Surveyors have laid out the ground, and work will be commenced in a few days. Iho woiks will cost in the neighborhood of $50,000, and will give employment to a large number of workmen. A disease has broken out among tho cattle in the vicinity of Newpoint, which generally proves fatal within twenty-four hours from the first attack. They become weak in the back, stiff in the joints, and unable to move. Tho disease proves most fatal to the young cattle. A 2-yeak-old child of Sheriff Smith was fatally poisoned at Greensburg, last week. The father presented the chilli with a set of building blocks which were painted green, and the infant during the past week had been in the habit of putting them in its mouth and licking the paint therefrom. By the end of the next building season the now State House will be built up to the second story, and the iron cross-beams put in piace. By that timo $500,000 will have beeu expended. Tho contractors have already expended $50,000 more than they have received from the Board of Commissioners.

Daniel P. Ker?in, who was sent 1o the State prison Oct. 21, 1865, for twen-ty-one years, for manslaughter, was discharged March 21, 1879, his good time amounting to seven years. Good timo is reckoned, for the first year, one day off each month; for tho second year, two days off each month, and so on in arithmetical progression. A Grekncastlb correspondent says that some of the farmers in Putnam county have tried hemp culture with very satisfactory results. Experiments show that an average yield of hemp is half a ton to the aero, worth at present prices $65. Allowing S3O for the cost of seed, labor and interest, leaves a clear profit of $35 per acre, which is much better than raising corn. The Supreme Court of Indiana decides that the legal name of a person consists of one Christian name and a surname. Any i>erson may have as many middle name.., or initials, as are given him or as he chooses to take. They do not aflect his legal name, and may be inserted or not in a deed or contract without affecting its validity. Nor does a mistake in the middle initial of a name, in a deed, in any way affect its validity. John F. Filley, aged 74, was found dead recently on the floor of his house, in Spencer township, Harrison county, horribly gnawed by rats. He appeared to have been dead a week. There was no food in the house, and nothing to preparo food with. He was refused credit for flour three weeks ago, and it is supposed he died of starvation, though he had money hid away and owned a good farm of 100 acres. He lived alone and was a widov er.