Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1880 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Indianapolis has $49,070,115 worth of taxable property. The State Prison, North, has 575 prisoners within its walls. Simeon K. Wolfe has been appointed Judge of the New Albany circuit, vice John S. Davis, deceased. The census of Brookston and township, as reported by the enumerator, foots up 2,144 inhabitants. The population of Floyd county, including New Albany, is 4,612, an increase of 1,312 in ten years. The State House Commissioners have decided to have the corner stone of the Capitol laid on the 28tli of September. The glass-works at Jeffersonville turn out ready for shipment an average of 1,000 feet of finished plate glass per day. The population of Adams county is 15,300, a gain of about 4,000 since 1870. Population of Decatur, 1,905, a gain of 1,060 since 1870. The New Albany woolen-mills and hosiery works have closed a contract with the Government for SIOO,OOO worth of kerseys and socks. The new steamer 11. T. Dexter, of the Evansville and Cairo Packet Company, burned off Jeffersonville a few days ago. Loss, $25,000; insured for $15,000. The Evansville pacer, Sorrel Dan, lias been sold to a St. Louis man foi* $12,000. He was raised in Porter county, and c< >st his late owner less than $1,500 eight months ago. The census returns of 1880 give Gibson county a population of 22,840. In 1870 it had a population of 17,371, showing an increase in ten years of 5,469, or nearly 33 per cent. ■ Hon. Henby C. Hanna, Judge of the Circuit Court for the district, died very suddenly, one morning last week, at the home of his mother near Fairfield, Franklin county. Thebe lives at this time in Patoka township, Crawford county, an honored citizen named John Brock, who is now 88 yeays old, who participated in the battle of Now Orleans in 1815. The census of Marshall county shows that in 1840 there were 1,651 inhabitants ; in 1850, 5,348; in 1860, 12,722 ; in 1870, 20,211, and in 1880, 23,374, making an increase of 3,163 in the last ten years. At the Walkcrton huckleberry marsh Mrs. Wiseman was attacked by an enormous blacksnake. She was all alone at the time, but had sufficient presence of mind to grab the reptile around the neck and keep it from coiling about her, while she screamed for help. Some boys killed the snake and it measured seven feet in length. While engaged in a game of pool at a saloon in Edinburg, Albert Nicholson, aged 18, and Wm. F. Ziegler, aged about 23, got to quarreling about a bet, when, suddenly and without warning, Nicholson struck Ziegler a terrible blow over the head with a twenty-ounce billiard cue, causing his death the same night.

The New .State Asscsniiuh(. The following is the total value of taxable property for 1880, by counties, in Indiana as reported by the County Auditors to the State Board of Equalization. The list is complete, with the single exception of Floyd county, which is given at the figures of last year : Counties. Valuation. Adams $ 3,446,525 Allen 18,936,41)3 Bartholomew 9,7711,622 Bruton 5,241,303 Blackford 2,OSH. 41!) B >oue fe,887,290 Brown ‘ 1,544,760 Carroll .... ( 7,286,348 C.iss !», 124,863 Clark 7,070,671 Clay 0,104.541 Clinton 7,717,005 Crawford 11,044,114 Daviess 5,337,199 Dearborn 8,147,040 Decatur 0,235,787 Do Ka!l> 5,759,034 Delaware - 8,543,299 Dubois 2,880,004 Elkhart 12,390,667 Fayette 6,841,182 Floyd 9,645,515 Fountain 7,283.107 Franklin 7,510,215 Fulton 4,882,355 Gbson 9,210,851 Grant 7,372,100 G.eene 5,000,633 Hamilton 8,977,205 II» nOtick 7,478,475 Harrigon ' 3,931,776 Hendricks 10,178,942 Henry 11,404,028 Howard. 6,061,541 Huntington 7,084,085 Jackson 5,706,925 Jasper 2,678,814 Jay 5,686,535 Jefferson 6,540,639 Jennings 2,952,251 Johnson 9,866,010 Knox 10,099,255 Kosciusko 1 9,522,807 Lagrange 5,344,685 Lake , 4,792,185 Laporte 12,195,570 Lawrence 5,743,230 Madison 0,282,220 Marion : 66,759,285 Marshall. 6,479,771 Martin 1,833,831 Miami 6,634,737 Monroe 5,138,965 Montgomery 13,492,935 Morgan 7,186,010 Newton 2,885 665 Noble 7,306,222 Ohio 1,702,480 Orange 3,437,135 Owen 4,941,555 Parke 9,188,467 Perry 2,232,110 Pike 3,172,854 Porter 6,348,950 Posey 7,164,346 Pulaski , 2,534,134 Putnam 11,687,659 Randolph 10,702,325 Ripley 3,837,710 Rush 11,952,830 Scott. 1,457,451 Shelby 12,071,300 Spencer 4,761,501 Starko 983,714 St. Joseph 13,824,505 Steuben 3,740,145 Sullivan 6.411,840 Switzerland 3,154,745 TiprecaDoe 19,887,535 Tipton - 2,898,989 • Union 5,025,410 Vanderburg 20,931,105 Vermillion 5,053,609 Vigo 21,950,670 Wabash 10,079,215 Warren 5,562,020 Warrick 4,495,675 W aehiugton 5,536,847 Wayne 23,003,242 Wells •*.... 5,756,145 White 4,721,719 Whitley 5,994,341 The value of real estate and lots without improvements, as reported by the County Auditors, has been increased by the Board of Equalization as follows : Benton, 10 per cent.; Daviess, 5 per cent. ; Green, 8 per cent. ; Hendricks, 5 per cent. ; Henry, 5 per cent. ; Miami, 5 per cent. ; Newton, 10 percent. ; Warren, 6 per cent. Decreased, as follows : Fulton, 5 per cent. ; Huntington, 5 per cent. ; Pulaski, 10 per cent. ; Starko, 10 per cent. ; Sullivan, 5 per cent. ; Wells, 5 per cent. ; Whitley, 10 per cent. All were acted upon except Marion and Floyd. The decrease of taxable property in Indiana since the year 1875 is $159,047,788. Thirteen and two-thirds per Cent, of this was on lands without improvement, 10 per cent, decrease on improvements, on unimproved lots 17 per cent. ; improvements on lots, 9 per cent. ; personal, 20 percent., making an average on the total of 15J per cent,