Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1880 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Thk Boonville jail at present is without a single occupant. The Cannelton cotton-mill has received four now looms the past week. The Palace Theatre, burned a year or more ago, at Columbus, is being rebuilt. Diphtheria has been raging among the female patients at the insane hospital, two cases of which have proved fatal. J. S. Coleman’s hardware store, at Morgantown, burned down the other night. Loss, $15,000; insurance, $6,000. William Glover, a colored preacher at Jeffersonville, has been sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary for stealing a wagon and harness. Some unhung scoundrel gave to a horse owned by Richard Smith, of Madison, feed mixed with broken glass, causing its death in a few hours. John G. Decker, a leading farmer of Decker township, near Vincennes, accidentally shot himself while hunting a squirrel. He was killed instantly. Samuel H. Barton, of Monroeville, Allen county, has received $25,000 as his share of a European estate of $300,000. When first notified of his heirship he treated the matter as a joke. The National Butter, Cheese and Egg Association will assemble at the hall of the Indianapolis Board of Trade, at noon, Wednesday, the 28th inst., and continue three days. There is said to be a Lieutenant of volunteers in Indianapolis who was ordered there in 1865 to await his discharge, and who still waits. His back pay amounts to over $22,000. Thlsre is a proposition at Kokomo looking to the dissolution of the charter of the city and a return to a village form of government, in order to reduce expenses and pay the public debt. Lightning struck a slab in the Northern Cemetery at New Albany, and photographed a cedar tree, that stood near by, on both sides of it. The picture is so perfect that every branch is recognizable. The New Albany woolen mills, the largest factory of the kind in Indiana, has jujt put in additional machinery, increasing its capacity one-fourth. These mills have large orders from the Government. Dr. J. H. Lemon, of New Albany, reports a curious freak of nature in that city. A 13-year-old son of J. Booth is found to have his heart on the right side of the breast, while the liver is on the left side of the abdomen. The widow of the late Gen. Jefferson C. Davis has arranged for the immediate transfer of his remains from Clark county to Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, to occupy a lot in the vicinity of Morton’s and to have a suitable monument. There are now 120 live applications for pardons in the Governor’s office. Sixteen have received executive clemency this year. During the entire term there have been 243 petitions out of more than 600 that received favorable consideration. Chauncey, a 4-year-old son of Frank Jarret, of Fall Creek township, Marion county, was burned, to death by a fire kindled to keep him warm while his father was mending the fence on his farm, the little fellow watching him from a distant part of the field. Northern Indiana Conference. Following are the ministers’ appointments made by the recent meeting *of this conference: Fort Wayne district—Abijah Marine, presidingelder. Fort Wayne—Berry street, C. G. Hudson; Wavne street, A. E. Mahon; Centenary, F. L. Wharton; Third street, to be supplied; Huntertown, D. P. Hartman; Harlan, J. H. McMahon; Auburn, H. J. Norris; Garrett, to be supplied; Leo, J. A. Lewellen; Fremont, E; 8. Preston;'Angola, E. Holdstock; New Haven, P. 8. Cook; Cherubusco and Coesse, B. Tolby; ArCbla, to be supplied; Decatur, J. B. Carro; Monroe, I. J. Bicknell; Geneva, B. Sawyer; Sheldon, Joseph H. Slack; Monroeville, W. R. Wones; Ossion, Newton Burwell; Bluffton, 8. E. Erwin; circuit, H. C. Myers; Roanoke, Y. B. Meredith; Markies, James Wolpert; Huntington, M. Mahan. W. G. Yocum, President of Fort Wayne College, member of Wayne Street (Fort Wayne) Quarterly Conference; Cadis Albro, professor in Fort Wayne College, member of Berry Street Quarterly Conference. Goshen district—A. Greenmnn, presiding elder. Goshen, W. O. Pierce* Mishawaka, A. Cone ; Osceola, J. H. Jackson ; Middleburg, J. T. Blackmore; Elkhart, M. H. Mendenhall; circuit, W.- 8. Stewart; Bristol and Van Buren, M. H. Lampert; La Grange, C. E. Disbro; circuit, J. G. Slussor ; Lima, J. K. Waltz ; Orland, W. M. Van Slyke ; Waterloo, H. J. Lacey ; Butler, C. H. Wilkinson; Hamilton, J. W. Paseall; Corunna, J. Johnson ; Kendallville, J. Green ; Wolcottville, C. King ; Wawauka, H. C. Klingjer ; Ligonier, C. W. Church ; New Paris, G. B. Work ; Milford, W. Lash ; Napariee, O. P. Downs; Albion, J. W. Smith; missionary to Mexico, A. W. Greenman. Muncie district—E. F. Hasty, presiding elder. Muncie, F. T. Simpson ; North Muncie, T. Sells; Winchester, P. Coria nd ; New Burlington, A. J. Lewellen; Dunkirk, P. J. Allright; Pennville, J. W. McDaniel; Montpelier, D. F. Stright; Hartford City, N. Gillam; Albany, D. C. Woolpert ; Eaton, J. L. Ramsey; New Corner, R. H. Smith; Jonesboro, C. E.‘ Bacon; Alexandria, H. C. Smith; Anderson, A. W. Lamport; Perkinsville, C. Harvey; Anderson circuit, to be supplied; Fishersbnrgh, T. H. C. Beale; Pendleton, A. F. Bremington; Fortville, J. 8. McCarthy ; McCordsville, T. J. Elkin. Richmond district—C. Skinner, presiding elder. Richmond—Pearl street, W. J. Tigus; Grace Church, H. A. Buchtel; Centerville, J. M. Woolverton ; Cambridge Yhtv, O. 8. Harrison ; Dublin, E. 8. Freeman; Lewisville and Ogden, W. 8. Boston; Knightstown. H. H. Phillips ; Charlotteville, James Leonard ; Greenfield, J. F. Rhoades; Philadelphia, W. Anderson ; Williamsburg, G. W. Howe; Hagerstown, J. M. Mann; Newcastle, Thomas Stabler; Spiceland, Newton Wroy; JEddletown, M. Wayman ; Cadiz, J. Thomas; Whitewater, J. 8. Carns; Fountain City, W. H. Pierce; Winchester Circuit, to be supplied; Trenton, W. Peck ; Union City, H. J. Meek ; Ridgeville, T. E. Madden; Portland, P. J. Parrett; circuit, to be supplied; J. Earp, professor in Indiana Ashbury University, member of Grace Church Quarterly Conference; W. P. Walker, J. H. Pike, Chentachung Tejni, missionaries to China Warsaw district—J. W. Welsh, presiding elder. Warsaw, R. A. McKaig ; Silver Lake, J. J. Smith ; Wabash, C. W. Lynch ; Wabash circuit, to be supplied; Marion, W. 8. Birch ; Lafontaine, N. E. Tmkham ; North Manchester, B. A. Kemp; South Whitney, F. A. Robinson ; CoI lumbia City, W, H. Daniel; Larwill, M. H. Smith ; Pierceton, W. E. McCarty ; Leesburg, 'A. B. Shackelford; Webster, R. 8. Reed; Bourbon, J. W. Lewellen; Inwpodj H. Woolpert; I Lincoln, A. C. Gerard; Perrysburg, J. W. Mil- ' let; Mexico, J. H. Ford : Palestine, M. Swad- | net; Akron, J. B. Allenman; Lagro, H. M. 1 Mott; Antioch, E. P. Church ; Warner, J. T. ■ Fetro; Mount .Etna, to be supplied; Marion ' circuit, to be supplied. Kokomo district—B. D. Robinson, presiding elder. Kokomo, L. A. Betts; Miami, J. Lowrey; Peru, C. H. Brown; New Waverly, J. B. Cook. Logansport—Broadway, D. M. Brown; Market Street, C. P. Wright; Wheaton, A. 8. Woolen; Walton, John Harrison: Jerome, Y. M. Deamef; Xenia, A. H. Currier; Banta Fa, J. 8. McElwee; Tipton, M. G. Metz; Russiaville, M. G. Brown; Sharpsville, D. D. Howell; Westfield, W. D. Parr; New Brittan, R. B. Powell; Boxley, A. M. Patterson; Alto, T. J, Cooper; Cicero, W. C. McKaigh; Noblesville, F. Craft; Point Isabella, N. Baker; Elwood, C. E. White; Kempton, L. J. Naftzger; Shielville, 8. M. Hathorn; Big Springs, J. M. Howard; Windfall, t A_ G. Mendenhall; G. N. CampbtlJ, conference helper.