Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1880 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Fifty of the seventy deaths reported in Indianapolis for the first half of Juue were of children under 5 years of age. Cholera infantum is prevailing in Jeffersonville, and can almost be called epidemic. Quite a number died lust week. Rev. W. R. Halstead, President, and Prof. Ogg, Vice President, of DePauw Female College at New Albany, have resigned. The remains of the late Gen. Lsz. Noble have been brought from Alpine, Col., where he died last November, and interred at Vincennes. In a fracas near Mount Vernon, a stray shot from the pistol of Nat Monroe hit a young lady, also named Monroe, indicting a probably fatal wound. The daughter of a farmer named Taylor, living ten miles south of Terre Haute, aged 10 years, was thrown from a horse and instantly killed. Judge W. A. Woods, was elected a Trustee of Wabash College, to fill the vacancy caused by tlio death of Samuel 15. Gookins, of Terre Haute. The wife of His Excellency Governor J. D. Williams, residing about sixteen miles cast of Vincennes, died,* one day last week, after a lingering illness resulting from a fall some months since. At a picnic in the northern part of Crawford county, James Murphy and William Meßnmio, Avho had been partners in a saw-mill, met and renewed an old quarrel, and Mr. Burnie was shot dead. Work on the new State House at Indianapolis has now advanced so far that the Commissioners will soon be able to name the day of laying t he corner-stone. The ceremonies will probably be held during August. The recorded movement of ears through Indianapolis last week shows a total of 17,857, of which 13,110 were loaded. These would make a (rain reaching from Indianapolis to New York, not including the locomotives necessary to move it. There will ho a general meeting of the Morton Monument Association, at Indianapolis, Sept.' 1, to pass upon all designs, models or suggestions that may be presented by the various sculptors competing for the contract to erect the statue of the late Senator Morton.

Rev. E. G. Wood, D. I)., of the Southeastern Indiana Conference, died at his residence at Moore’s Hill, a few days ago. l)r. Wood was one of the ablest ministers in his denomination in the State, and was for more than fifty years an efficient preacher of the gospel iu Indiana. About(s4o,ooo has been received into the endowment fund of Indiana A.sbury University during the past year, and money that had been invested in railroad stocks which had depreciated in value so that it brought no income has, during the year, risen until it is at par, and will now make its regular dividends. A young lady of Terre Haute was taken-ill, and after being nearly restored to health was attacked by the most torturing pains in her limbs, which were not subdued until after six weeks of suffering. At the end of that time she was able to be removed from her bed to a chair, when the astonishing discovery Was made that she had grown one loot and a half. In the breach of promise suit of Elizabeth McPherson against John Warble, for SIO,OOO, at Shelbyville, the jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant. Considerable interest was taken in the case, owing to the ages of the parties, both being on the shady side of life and rather too old to be figuring in an affair of the heart. Kirk Bundy, a well-to-do farmer of Posey county, had discharged one Phoenix, a hired man, whose attentions to his daughter were unpleasant, to her, and let Phoenix have the use of a gun, which a little later he heard fired in some woods not far from the house. Next morning the bodies of Phcenix and the girl were found in the path leading to her grandmother’s house, where Bundy supposed his daughter had staid over niglit. The fiend encountered heron the way home, and shot her through the heart. A lad named Bailey was struck by lightning and instantly killed, near Economy, while retreating from the harvest-field with his father before a storm. The father was almost beside, him. The work of death was so quick and silent that he did not know-lmt the boy was following behind him, until he reached the door-yard and was told by persons who had seen the hoy fall with the flash from the house. He returned to the field and found his son lying in the stubble, with nothing but a faint red line from his ear to his shoulder to mark the work of the deadly fluid.

CcnMa Kcflirnw. The census will show Kniglitstown to have a population of about 1,700, or an increase of a little over 100 in ten years. The census returns give Kendallville a population of about 2,600, Waterloo 1,900, Auburn 1,600, Butler 1,200, Lagrange 1,400, Albion 1,000, and Ligonier 2,005. The present population of Fort Wayne (official) is 25,957, against 17,718 at the last census (1870), an increase of 8,239 in ten years, or about 4(5.5 per cent. South Bend is pleased with a census enumeration of a little over 12,000. Richmond has 17,000 population. The Supervisor of Census reports that Indianapolis has a population of 75,031, being an increase of about 50 per cent, in the past ten years. This is fully 25,000 less than was claimed. The fact is also developed that the death-rate is alarmingly large. Nothing less than 25,000 would be listened to in Lafayette. The census men have finished, and enough is known to show that Lafayette will have to drop almost if not quite 9,000 from her expectations. There has been but a very small increase. Ten years ago so great was the disappointment at the figures that the City Council ordered, at city expense, a retaking of the census. The result was that the last report made it less than the first; so we are not likely to have a repetition of that trick. The census enumerators for Richmond and vicinity have finished the canvass and find that there are over 17,000 people in the city and suburbs, fully 1,000 more than had been claimed for it. In the First ward they found a man, Father Janhoff, who is 106 years old,-*-and in good health, with a prospect of living many years. The register of his birth and enlistment under Napoleon the First, and various other records, go to prove that his statements and those of his children, concerning his age, arc correct.