Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1880 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

The cost of Hie Indianapolis schools last year was $244,036. Thus far 2,685 dog licenses have been issued in Indianapolis since June 1. The devil that was reported to possess a South Bend woman proves to be tapeworm. An excellent quality of iron ore has been discovered on a farm five miles north of Corydon. John S. Davis, Judge of the Floyd and Clark Circuit Courts, died at New Albauy, last week. The contract for a new Court House at Marion, Grant county, lias been let to Chicago parties for $133,000. The “Great Arabian Circus” collapsed in Salem last week, the employes attaching the property for their salaries. The number of cal's of freight handled at Indianapolis last week was 10,116, or 2,188 more than in the preceding seven days. Jasper Stevenson died at Noblesville, from lockjaw, caused by a stab in the arm received while in a fight with Sam Kiger. The Kansas grasshopper has put in an appearance in Northern Indiana, and his coming is looked upon witli considerable dread by the farmers. { Rachel Morris, of Spiceland, bedridden for several years, has begun to walk again. She claims that her recovery is a special answer to prayer. Milton Staff Yawter, of North Madison, lias in his possession a relic of old-time journalism—a copy of the Indiana Republican, published at Madison in 1828. A daughter of William Giles, residing in Tippecanoo township, Carroll county, while out in the woods playing, ate a number of May apples, and died of the poison. The oldest man in Marshall county is James Yan Valkenburgli, of Plymouth, who is in his «4<)oth year; the oldest woman is fekniggers, of West township, %ho is 97. People at Madison, who some years ago subscribed to $160,000 stock i:i a Chicago insurance company that has since failed, are now writhing under a liability for double the amount. Father Imhoff celebrated his 105th birthday, last week, at the residence of his son, in Richmond. He was much sprier than niauy of his friends twenty or twenty-five years his junior, and gives promise of living to be enumerated in the next census.

Mrs. Polly Davidson still live s, at the age of 91 years, on the place where she settled, in Hendricks county, in 1828. She is the mother of fifteen children, and her descendants, so far as known, number 490. The old lady is in fair health, and can see to thread her needle without “specks.” What is known to their sorrow among ruralists as the “Western Medical Association” is again rising in unfavorable mention. A Putnam county farmer was in Indianapolis, the other day, seeking relief from a $212 note given in the usual way, and now held by an “innocent purchaser.” The surviving members of the Box family, near New Albany, supposed to have been poisoned three months ago, are slowly recovering. Paralysis of the arms stili remains, though in a muchmitigated form. The case is still shrouded in profound mystery, and the real cause of the poisoning may never be developed. About ten days ago, a son of Galen Bray, of Worthington, Greene county, stepped on a piece of glass, cutting his lieei so severely it was feared he would bleed to death. Relief was obtained soon, but the wound commenced bleeding afresh, and amputation was thought necessary; hut before this was begun he bled to death. Indiana shows an extraordinary increase in her wheat acreage, occasioned by the two successive heavy crops previous to the harvest just closed, which induced many farmers to sow wheat upon fields that years ago failed. The grain is short of weight, but the increased acreage places the product far above that of any previous year. The crop was saved in fair condition. An Indianapolis reporter observed an unusually brilliant meteor pass along the southern sky at 10:15, the other night, and says: “It was as large as a score of stars of the first magnitude, and its light was sufficient to cast a distinct shadow against the waning light of the moon, which it outshone two to one. It left a trail of light smoke behind it that lingered about as long as a steam cloud of the same size would have done.” Johnnie Hogan, aged 9 years, and Bennie Aldrich, aged 9 years, left their homes in Jeffersonville, a few days ago, for the purpose of going in bathing in the old mill-race at the head of the falls. About 3 o’clock in the afternoon some other boys found their clothes on the bank of the river, and the supposition is that the little fellows went out too far and got over the “step-off,” as it is called, and, not being able to swim, both were drowned. Hon. Lucien Barbour, whose death is announced at Indianapolis, was a native of Connecticut, having been born in 1811. He early emigrated to this State, and has been prominently identified with the State and city for many years. He was originally a Democrat. He became a Republican in 1854, and was elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress from the Indianapolis district. Previously, as a Democrat, he served as United States Attorney. His death was the result of a general giving way of natural forces.

The UeiisuN. The population of Ohio township, Warrick county, has decreased 1,120 since 1870, which is over one-third its total number of inhabitants. Putnam county has 408 persons over 70 years of age in a population of 22,270. Fort Wayne has 20,048 inhabitants, an increase of 8,330 in ten years; the towns of the county have 28,510, an increase of 2,146, and the county of Allen therefore counts 54,554. Marion county has 102,000, including Indianapolis. It is estimated that the total population of the State is 2,400,000. The census returns give La porta county a population of 30,943, being a gain of 3,881 since 1870. Michigan City has 7,352, a gain of 3,457. The city of Laporte has 6,184, a loss of 397. Decatur county has a population of 19,800, a gain of 740 in ten years. Greeusburg has 3,129 of the number. The population of Union City is 2,489, with enough late arrivals to make it even 2,500 —a gain of 80 per cent, since last census. The population of Wayne township, outside of Union City, is 1,892, an increase of 111 since ten years ago. ;