Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1880 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

There are seventy-three postoffices in Indiana to which a salary of SI,OOO or more is attached. Ralph Waldo Emerson has written a letter congratulating the Indiana Bureau of Statistics on its first nnnuul report. David Foutch, a boy living in Brow township, Washington county, died from “damps” in a well on his father’s farm last week. Vinncenes will shortly boast of starch works. The factory of J. A. Cuuniugham, now located at Danville, 111., will be moved there. Mr. Ruel Custer, a well-known Jefferson county farmer, aged 90 years, died at his home last week. He had resided on the place for sixty years. Mrs. John P. Reynolds and Miss Ella Sheridan, of Madison, ure heirs to an estate in England valued at £200,000, and an annual income of £4,000. At the annual meeting of the Wabash Association of Detectives, in Crawfordsville, a few days ago K eighty-three local associations were represented. A fisherman at Madison, a 4ew days since, caught a blue catfish weighing 100 pounds. It is said to he the heaviest of the species ever caught in the Ohio river at that point. The starch works now being built at Columbus are by t«r the largest of the kind in the United States, and cost near SIOO,OOO. They will be completed late in September or early in October. A “ blast” was made at Black Diamond cement mills, at Jeffersonville, a few days ago, which took thirteen kegs of powder. It, dislodged enough of rock to make 13,000 barrels of cement. The shock was felt for miles around. A 3- year-old child of N. W. Graves, of Galveston, Cass county, has lost ilslife. The child being sick, a pill was given it, which lodged in its wind-pipe. Death came to the relief of the little sufferer before medical aid could be rendered. Roger Russel, an old man of 70, fired two barrels of a shot-gun into the face and breast of his son-in-law, John Norman, four miles from New Albany, inflicting fatal wounds. Norman had been ill-treating his wife, Russel’s daughter. Diphtheria in its most malignant form-lias been raging as an epidemic in Waynetown, Montgomery bounty. Over fifteen deaths have occurred in the village alone, and a number not reported in the vicinity. The disease is spreading to adjoining towns. Rev. George Chainey, of Evansville, formerly a Unitarian clergyman of some, prominence, but now a denouncer of Christianity—for which cause lie has been deposed from the ministry and expelled from his Masonic lodge—is now on the lecture platform. A movement is on foot, projected by property-holders along the bank, to make Pigeon creek navigable five miles from its mouth. This is proposed in the interest of manufacturing establishments, and if done will be of incalculable benefit to Evansville. Jesse Worthington, a farmer of Warrick county, wotuided his forefinger while cutting grass with a sickle. A few days afterward the finger inflamed and suddenly the arm swelled to three times ils normal size and was a mass of putrid flesh. The doctors were sent for and found the poor man writhing in agony. They hail intended to amputate the arm, but they found his left side in a horrible state of mortification, and saw that death was a matter of very short time. He lingered in most intense agony for two weeks, when he expired, and had to be buried immediately. AMNCMMincnt on Ititilroad I'roiicrtf. Following is a table of main track, side track and rolling stock of railroads in Indiana for the year 1880,"* as assessed and equalized by the State Board of Equalization :

> NAMES OF ROAPB. <5 "T 2 J 2.= 2.i S.'" J.'” £ ~ ■ •* ft" , Anderson, L. & St. X.... 19.37 1.36 19.37 $ 49,110 Balt. & Ohio * Chicago. 146.33 15.(13 140.35 1,473,305 Bedford, S-., O. &B. .. 41.00 9.00 41.c<) 63,30(1 Bloomfield N. Gauge... 9.00 9.00 13,500 Cleveland, C., C. & 1... 83.84 27.32 83.84 399,065 Cincinnati, 11. * 1 78.03 8.08 78.63 f 0,710 Cincinnati, H. & 1 85.89 3.63 85.85) 399,005 Cincinnati, K. & C 5.98 .85 5.98 56,716 Cincinnati, W. & M.... 109.51 5.48 109.51 500,495 Cincinnati, L. & C 23.77 3.26 23.77 184,795 Cincinnati, 1., St. 1.. & C 153.69 30.77 153.69 1,521.595 Lawreneeburg branch.. 2.57 5.05 2.57 34,515 Cincinnati, It. * H 37.14 .99 37.14 125,211 Cairo* Vincennes 6.92 6.92 31,140 Chicago & Eastern 111.. 19.61 4.74 19.61 127,140 Chicago, Cin. & L 71.47 5.01 71.47 293,395 Chicago & Block C0a1... 12.75 .13 12.75 26,268 Chicago & Canada K 54^846 Eel River 93.84 7.79 93.84 501,990 Evansville &T. H 108.40 2 '.87 108.40 1,082,795 Evansville, T. H. & C... 62.68 10.13 52.68 396,340 Frankfort & Kokomo.. 25.55 1.08 25.55 60,925 Fort Wayne, M. & C... 104.17 5.66 104.17 396,749 Fort Wayne * Jackson. 52.39 5.46 52.39 320,021 Fairiand, F. * M 38.30 1.82 38.30 79,798 Grand Rapids & 1 52 27 2.52 52.78 346,055 Havana, R. & E 8.50 .14 8.50 14,534 Indiana (C. &G. T.)... 79.00 5.70 79.00 682,900 Indianapolis U. It. C... 3.23 129,200 Indianapolis, P. & C... 72 87 11.73 72.87 656,007 Indianapolis, D. & H.... 74.77 5.04 74.78 471,63,8 Indianapolis* St L.... 79.42 15.50 79.42 832,950 Indianapolis, D. * C.. 26.42 .66 25.42 53,170 Indianapolis, B. & W... 78.61 15.33 78.15 848,008 Joliet* Northern 1.... 15 40 1.94 .... 192,560 Indianapolis * Vicennesi 116.44 5.25.116.44 511,392 Jeffersonville, M. & X.. 110.28 22.331110.28 1,234,032 Mad’n branch same road 45,90 5.63| 45.90 202,957 Columbus & Shelby vilie 23.28 .98 23.28 88,671 Sheibyvilie * Rneliville. 18.45 .98 18 42 70,447 CambridgeCityExtens’u 20.97 .72 20.97 79,645 Kingan 421 .46 3,480 Louisville & Nashville.. 28.411 3.85 28.41 198,817 Louisville, N. A. * C... 288.26j25.45 288.26 1,054,979 Louisville, N. A. * St. L. 26.00 i 26.00 58,500 Little Miami 4 19| .94 4.191 29,115 Lake Shore A Mich. S’n. 167.70 (59.42 '67.7(i| 3,800,640 Lake Erie* Western... 157.89|14.14 157.89 1,086,705 Lake Erie, E. *B. W’n. 17.00 .45 17.0n| 49,840 Michigan Air Line 5.62 1.01 30,120 Mich.City*l usdianapolis 12.75 506 12 75 58,084 Michigan Central 42.41 24.72 42.41 989,490 Ohio* Mississippi 1171.89 28.32j171.89 1,769,482 O. * M.—L. Branch... 53.31 6.251 53 31 375.008 P. C. & St Louis 410.64 45.72J416.64 4,074,408 P., Ft. W. & Chicago...U.s2 57 44.10 152.571 3,896,370 T. H. & Logansport.... 115.07 9.50 115.07 421,745 T. H. * Indianapolis... 79.88 74.82 79.88 1.467,6(91 T. H. * Southeastern.. 40.00 2.37 40.00 152,518 T. D. & Burlington.... 37.30 .66 37.30 37,960 U. R. T. &8. Yard 12.10 6.07 12.10 502,620 W., St L. & Pacific.... 166.00 46.00 106.00 2,0743810 White River 61,40 4,00 61.40 . I'ljfLo RECAPITULATION. Milek. Value. Main track 4,275.47 $29,785,260 Sidetrack. 687.54 1,932,102 Rolling stock 0,7141,273 Canada Southern right of way 54,846 ' Total $88,142,941