Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1880 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

I John Fisher, an old Quaker gentle- ; man. voted in Union at his seventeenth ; Presidential election. I The receipt of lumber in New Aibany from the northern pineries was never heavier than during the present season. The German Count Frantz Wilhelm I Ferdinand von Wekier, who stole sev- | era! saws at Fort Wayne, has been sen- | tenced to the penitentiary for one year. Harry Yost and Buddy Collins, boys of 14 years of age, residing at Mitchell, had a quarrel over an apple, which resulted in Yost stabbing Collins twice in the abdomen and once in the back. The November term of the State Supreme Court begins the fourth Monday of the month, when a new Chief Justice will be elected. The newly-elected Judges will not take their seats until January. The wife of Captain John A. Meek, of Galesburg, ex-Sherifl', presented him with triplets on the evening of the election. The two boys he has named Garfield and Arthur, respectively, and the girl he lias named America. Epizootic has assumed a very virulent type in New Albany. Three horses died of the disease in one day, and many teamsters were compelled to suspend business. The street-car company reduced the trips made one-half. The establishment of the free postal delivery in Richmond is a fixed fact, the Postoffice Department having sent a special agent to examine the claims for one and received a satisfactory report. The service will go into operation on the Ist day of January. The building, at an early day, of the long-ago proposed Evansville, Seymour and Lake Erie railroad, which is to traverse the counties of Vanderburgh, Warrick, Dubois, Orange, Washington, Jackson, Decatur, Franklin and Union, is likely soon to be consummated.

The tax-levy in aid of the Local-Trade railroad for this year, in Perry county, is $11,476. The people of Cannelton, Tell City and Troy expect to hear the toot of the locomotive next year. The road is now completed from Gentryville, Spencer county, to Evansville. A telephone exchange for Union City was organized last week, by the election of a board of six directors. The capital stock is $3,000, divided into thirty shares. Fifty instruments are taken, and lines will be put up, and the exchange established in working order inside of thirty days. Miss Anna Hoffman, of New Albany, who lost both her arms by being run over by an engine on the Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis railroad, sued the Pennsylvania Company, lessee of the road, by her father, for SIOO,OOO damages. The case has been compromised, the company, it is said, paying Miss Hoffman SII,OOO. Herman Engler, of Fort Wayne, and a comrade were out hunting in a spring wagon, and while getting out the trigger of the gun caught, shooting both of them. The ball lodged in Engler’s right arm, severing the main artery. He lost so much blood before his companion could get him home that he died soon after. His companion was not seriously injured. The fire which destroyed the Bloomingdale Brewery, near Fort Wayne, was the work of an incendiary. * Several hogsheads had been filled with kerosene oil and fired. A bucket used at the brewery was found half full of the combustible liquid. A pair of pants, saturated with oil, but which were not burned, may possibly lead to the discovery of the guilty wretch. A duel with pistols at Madison, the other night, growing out of political animosity, had a tragic termination. There was a great deal of yelling on the streets by young men who were excited over the election. There were shouts for Garfield, for Hancock, and for Jeff Davis. The shouts for Jeff Davis came several times from a crowd of six or eight young fellows one door below George Glass’ saloon. Capt. Fred Trenck, near by, was heard to remark that no one could halloo for Jeff Davis in his presence, and •tarted over for the crowd, followed or accompanied by George Watson. Trenck said, “I want to find the traitor who yelled for Jeff Davis. ” In response to this remark, Glass, who was nearly face to face with Trenck, struck Trenck with his fist on the right cheek bone. Then followed an interchange of seven shots between Glass and Watson, both men standing up bravely to the fierce work. During the firing the crowd dispersed and sought safe quarters. When the last shot was fired, Watson retreated across Mulberry street to Hargiu’s corner, and Glass started back into his saloon. As he entered the door he was about to fall, when he was caught and laid on a table nearest the door, where the wounded man died with a few gasps, uttering the words, “I am shot.” The ball passed through his lungs and heart. Watson was severely wounded in the leg. School Superintendent’* Report. James H. Smart, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, has made up his annual report, the statistics of which are given below: From the reports of the county superintendents on enumeration it appears that there are 703,558 children of school age (between 6 and 21 years) in the State, of which 354,761 are white males, 334,249 white females. 7.162 colored males, and 7,386 colored females. Between the ages of 10 and 21 there are in the State 1,090 males and 957 females who can neither rdad or write. The children attending school during the past year numbered 511,283, namely, 265,872 males’, 237,395 females, and 8,016 colored. The daily attendance was 321,659, and schools have been taught in 9,383 out ot a total of 9,425. The colored schools numbered 104, the graded schools 339, the township graded schools 153, and the average length of school term within the year was 136 days. In the work of teaching there were employed 13,578 persons, of whom 7,731 were white’male teachers, 5,732 white females, and 115 colored. The table showing the compensation of teachers is interesting, as it shows that there is a wide margin between the payments for the same description of service in the several counties. For instance : In townships the per diem for male teachers vanes from $1.35 in Newton to $2.29 in Vanderburg, and for females from 93 cents in DeKalb to $2.23 in Vanderburg. In town schools male teachers are paid for their daily service all the way from SI.W in Howard to $5.33 in Lawrence, and female teachers from 75 cents in Fayette to $2.33 m Parke county. In city schools the payment of male teachers ranged from $2 in Posey to $7.50 in Knox, and of female teachers from $1.65 in Posey to $5 in Floyd. There are in the State 9,647 school-houses, of which 85 are built of stone, 2,189 of brick, 7,288 are frame, while 75 of the original log school-houses still remain in the service. During the year 359 new school-houses have been erected, and these are valued at $410,972.86, while the total valuation of school property, including buildings, apparatus, etc., is $11,817,954.53.

township Trustees were paid during the ye.tr for managing educational matters, §77,-

721.93. The township libraries contain 241.824 books, and 3,774 have been added during the year. The State account of revenue fbr tuition stands as follows > Un hand Sept. 1,1879 .$1,9?8,433.02 Amount received February, 1880 1,417,549.35 Amount received June, 1880 1,412,777.55 Miscellaneous receipts 125,147.05 Total revenue for tuition $4,883,906.07 Amount expended since Sept. 1, 1879.... ojxxi 432.07 Amount on hand $1,877,174.90 The special school-revenue account stands as follows: Amount on hand Sept. 1, 1879 $ 927,903.70 Amount since received 1,461,891.15 Total $2,389,794.85 Amount since expended 1,485,418.81 Amount now on hand $ 904,376.04 Election Keluriis>. The following counties show Demacratie gams over the Qctpl >er vote given Mr. Porter : Allen 487 Monroe. 59 Bartholomew 129 Noble 94 Blackford 47 Orange 65 Boone 15 Owen 64 Brown 137 Petry 108 Cass 8 Pike 2 Clark 89 Porter 114 Clinton 81 Posey 69 De Ka>b 68 Pulaski 137 Dubois 84 Rush 19 Floyd 101 Shelby .' 53 Fountain 20 Spencer 79 Franklin 6 Starke 7.5 Gibson s'Sullivaii 46 Hamilton 36: Switzerland 33 Hancock .66 lipton...'. 50 Harrison Hi. Union 7 Huntington 13 Warrick 73 Jasper 128'Washington !>8 Kosciusko 40l Wayne 30 Lawrence lOiWeri 29 Madison 185'White . 2 Marshall 201 Martin 110 Total 3,465 The following counties show Republican gains : Adamg 6!|Lak<> 58 Benton 24:Laporte 13 Carroll 68' Marion 271 Clay 81 Miami 67 Crawford 2|Mont ornery 138 Daviess 60|Morgun 35 Dearborn 53|<;hio 3" Decatur 112|Parke 33 De aware 86:l’utnani 80 Elkhart 1251 Randolph 67 Fayette 15 Ripley 16 Fulton 33‘Scott 20. Grant 48 St. Joe 252 Greene 68 Steuben 5 Hendricks 62'Tippecanoe 233 Henry 84 Vanileiburg 41 Howard 1 to Vermillion 12 Jackson 17: Vigo 45 Jay t 51 Wabash Hl Jefferson.. .’ 45 Warren 11l Jennings 14, \\ hitley 70 Johnson 44 Knox 531 Total 3,070 LaGrange 55