Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1880 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Ti rbi; Haute is to have a hub and spoke factory. The people of Terre Hante are petitioning for a Government building. Gen. Ben Harrison will deliver the oration at New Albany, on Decoration day. The machinery for lighting Wabash with the electric light will be put up soon. Two new gravel roads will be built out from Danville this season, both running northward. The Presbyterian congregation of Wabash will build a church this summer to cost $17,000. Evansville nas 100 miles and 830 feet of streets, of which nine miles arc bowldered and graveled. A bold thief smashed in a SSO plate glass at a store in Madison, and grabbed a fine revolver, with which he skedaddled. A child of John Stephenson, living near Richmond, died from the effect of a piece of dried apple becoming lodged in its throat. A woman living near Sullivan, by the name of Lizzie Boon, was the other day suddenly struck speechless. The case seems to be a curious one. Thirty applications for executive clemency have been received by the Governor since the Ist of January of the present year, making 1 330 since Jan. 13, 1873. Benjamin Meredith, of Jeffersonville, went duck hunting. He leaned on the muzzle of his gun while getting over a fence, and the fool thing went off, killing him instantly. Mrs. Mock, an aged lady living on Otter creek, near 0.-good, nhile passing near a stove iguited her clothing, and while running to a neighbor’s for assistance received burns which caused her death. A skeleton was unearthed lately in the garden of William Baldwin at New Harmony. There was a string of beads around the neck, and a number of Hint arrow-heads were taken up with the bones. J. F. Miller, proprietor of the Richmond street railway, lias purchased six chariot omnibuses for use on the streets while the burned street-cars are being rebuilt, and to run to Hawkins’ springs daring the summer. Forty persons have stepped overboard from the Cannelton wliarfboat and been drowned. The forty-first walked overboard the other night with his hands in his pockets, but was fished out with a boat-hook and saved.

Miles V. McCunk, a brilliant but invalid attorney,' of Seymour, went to Stafford City, Arizona, for his health about a year ago. Be invested in mining stocks, and a letter written to a friend says he has just sold his interest for $75,000. The Wesley Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church choir, of New Albany, is rehearsing for a telephonic concert. The singiDg and orchestral parts are to be performed at a distance of a quarter of a mile from the church in which the concert is to be given, and the sound transmitted through eight telephones. At Fort Wayne, the Grand Jury, which has b.en investigating the alleged abuses at the County Asylum, submitted its report, setting forth that the charges made by the Sentinel are true, and that the greatest cruelty has been used in the treatment of unfortunate inmates, who have been starved, tortured and beaten in a shocking manner. Dr. W. R. Nofsinger, for many years a prominent resident of this State, died at the capital last week, aged G 5. His death was sudden, resulting from an apoplectic stroke. In 1854, in the Know Nothing excitement, he was elected Treasurer of State, aud after leaving that office engaged in large financial operations. Goy. Williams has pardoned James P. Smith, who was convicted of assault and battery by the Delaware county court iu 1879, and sentenced to two years’imprisonment. Smith’s wife secured his release by Aval king over fifty miles to obtain signatures to the petition. While on one of her journeys in his behalf her babe was frozen to death in her arms.

H. M. Orbison, a prominent citizen of Fort Wayne, was recently married, at Sturgis, Mich., to Mrs. M. S. Orbison, his former wife, who obtained a divorce from him in 1869. The parties lived together over twenty years, and raised a large family of children. In 1869, however, they had differences which resulted in a divorce, and for eleven years they have lived apart. The Supreme Court has decided the case of the State vs. Douglass, reversing the decision of the lower court. It appears that defendant was arrested and, on being taken befoie a Justice of the Peace, gave bail on Sunday. The lower court said that the action of the Justice was void, as violating the Sunday law, but the Supreme Court held that the Justice was serving the public good and therefore sustained his action. A fire was discovered in Union Block, at Crawfordsville, the other night. It originated in the room occupied by John L. Miller, dealer in boots and shoes, from which it quickly spread to the adjoining store-room of Bryant & Son, hardware dealers. The stock in each of these rooms was totally destroyed. The fire company, by energetic work, prevented the flames from spreading iurther. The total loss is $15,000, on which there was an insurance of $9,000, The Indiana Bureau of Statistics has the following figures in relation to the churches: They show the approximate number of churches in the State to be 4,857. The membership comprises onethird of the entire population, and increased during the past year 10 per cent., while the increase of the population was but 3; so that, according to arithmetical progression, if the increase continues at this rate it will comprise the entire population in about fourteen years. The increase in the value of church property from 1870 to 1878 was 14 per cent.