Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1880 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Richmond is to have the free-delivery system established there. Gov. Williams and party have arrived home from their Southern tour. A good deal of horse stealing is goingon in the country surrounding New Albany. A great deal of old railroad iron is being received at the New Albany rail mill for rerolling. The Terre Haute ear-works are so crowded with orders that the employes work until midnight. During the past four months the Gov ernor lias received sixty applications for executive clemency. The County Clerk at Indianapolis presented the delegates to the Butter and Egg Convention with 5,090 cigars. Harvey P. Ferguson, of Edinburg, bitten in the hand by a rat, a few week . ago, was, at last accounts, dying of lockjaw. Articles of association of the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan Bailroad Company have been filed with the Secretary of State. The Angola firemen are soliciting funds to defray the expenses of a tri State tournament, to be held at that place about June 15. Samuel Swezy died at Cliffy, Decatur county, last week, from triehinotis disease, caused by eating diseased pork. He had been sick ten weeks. The latest statistics on the subject give 2,052 as the number of insane people in the State, about 1,4000 f whom arc in jails and in private charge. Two ladies were nominated by the Indiana Nationals as dclegates-at-large to tin' National Convention at Chicago, one as principal, and tlie other.as alt r n ate. John F. Miller, Superintendent of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Loiu . road, is fixing ii]> a park in magnificent style, at Richmond. It covers 100 acre;, of ground. A ten-year-old son of Peb-r Car penter, of Butlerville, while wa.mh ring in a grove, ate some buds ami new Jeav s of poison ivy, from which he di'd in about two la airs. Mr.?JMatt I. Huette, clerk of tlm Prison South, has submitted the following report to the Auditor of Stat ■ from Feb. 29 to March 31: Receipts, 51,91 I ; expenditures, $5,657.57. The eleCtric-light-engine tumult al Wabash closed by tin* award of the contract to L’ vi Dolhison, ol Wo bash. The cost entire of lighting th“ city p; r year will not exceed S9OO.

'two boys about 12 years of age, whose parents reside at Shudder-station, have gone West to kill desp'-radoc •, scalp Indians, rescue and marry levels maidens, etc. They have been readingdime novi'ls.

W. W. Dudley, Postmaster Holloway, Jojjii C. New, E. B. Martindale, and John C. S. Harrison haw begun a canvass of the State for the purpose of working up an interest in the Morton Monument Association. Capt. Joseph Berber died very sud denly at Rochester lately. He s rv< <1 his country during the late war, holding the position of Lieutenant of Company F, Eighty-seventh Indiana volunteers. Since the war he has been subject Io ep ilepsy. The familiar disease, glanders, has broken out among the horses in tin northern part of Knox county. A com mittee of farmers went to Indianapolis for a veterinary surgeon, w ho condemm <1 seventeen of the animals, some of them being taken out and sh t, by his ord' r. William P. Gillespie, of Columbus, on his death-bed, a few days ago, made a confession that he and two others, names not given, killed a wealthy stocktrader named Janies Jamison ten years ago, and divided between them a large sum of money found on his p rson. Jamison’s body was never found, and this is the first, clew to the manm-r of dis death.

The Delphi Journal records the death of Elizabeth Smith, formerly of that place, in the 91th year of Imr age, ami says: “The subject of this sketch was of a proud and aristocratic family, and was a schoolmate of .James Buchanan, and, had fortune favored, would have been the lady of tin- White House, The wedding clothes were prepared, the day was set, and preparations made, when, by some cause nev -r revealed, the match was broken by a solemn pledge that neither would ever marry -a pledgethat was sacredly kept." James Johnson, living six miles east of Jonesboro, reputed the largest landowner and wealthiest citizen of Grant county, had his throat cut, almost from ear to ear, few days ago, with a razor in the hands of John Miner. Miner had but a few hours previously been adjudged insane, and directed to be removed to the Asylum for the Insane. The cutting took place in a field about half a mile from Johnson’s house. Miner was standing a little to the rear of Johnson, and, placing his left hand upon Johnson’s shoulder, drew the razor through his throat with his right, cutting just below the root of the tongue and above the windpipe. Miner was found dead in the woods half a mile from where he made the attempt on the life of Johnson, with his throat cut from ear to ear by his own hand.

A terrible tragedy was enacted the other day, at Brookville, resulting in the death’ of >). R. Goodwin, President of the Brookville Bank and del (gate to the General Methodist Con erence now in session in Cincinnati. Mr. Goodwin returned to his home Saturday evenin'. l , having been present at the organization of the conference Saturday morning. A day or two before his brother Robert, wlio had been confined for four years in the Indianapolis Insane Asylum, returned to Brookville, having been discharged as cured, (in arriving he met Charles F. Goodwin, son of the murdered man, and remarked to him that he intended to get even with the men who had put him in the asylum. Nothing was thought of the threat until this evening, when he met the bank Pr< sident and shot him with a revolver, inflicting a wound which result l d in death in about an hour. The man who committed the deed was a Brigadier General in the army, and was Provost Marshal at Nashville for two years. Since the war he has led a dissipated life, resulting finally in insanity, which caused his removal to the Indianapolis Asylum, where he was kept as a boarder, free from special restraints. He is about 45 years old, a lawyer, unmarried, and lived formerly in Indianapolis. The man who was killed was one of the foremost men in his section of the country, owner of the bank of which he was President, and the chief supporter of the Brookville Methodist Church.