Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1880 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Clinton county is talking about building a new’ court house. Ash Gwinn, of New Albany, lost uu SBOO horse by epizootic a few days ago. William Wilson shot at a chicken, in Sullivan, and, the bullet glancing, struck a tine horse, killing it. There were *27,189 acres of wheat sown, and 232,117 bushels of wheat threshed in Jefferson county in 1879. Asa James, living a few miles north of Knightstown, while away from home a few days ago, had twenty large, fat imps stolen. Scarlet fever in its .most virulent form has broken out among the children in the- eastern part of the c ity el Richmond.. Mr. John Carney, who was elected County Auditor at the October election, died at his home in Vernon after an illness of two weeks. Joseph LaPlante, a wealthy farmer, residing a few miles below Vibctimcs, accidentally shot himself while attempting to remove a gun from a bureau in the house. He died in a tew hours. Jacob Gunkle, of Independence. Warren comity, caugh t from the Wabash river, at one draw of the seine, J.mt week, 1,100 good-sized fish -the smallest about four pounds -and the largest ten pounds The New Albany city ('lection does not take place until next May, but already there are eight candidates for Mayor, four for Clerk, four for Treasurer and five for Marsind, and not half the city heard from. Up to date $332,000 have been expended upon the new State House, and it is estimated that work will I advanced hereafter a. a rate which will involve the t-xpenciime of $4011,009 a yitf lor the next three years. Mayor Bennett, of Richmond, I: lost his voice, and is only aide to converse in a strained whisper. A:\.'r consulting physicians, he has started j'orllte St. John’s river, Fla., a change of <-'imate being his only hope. Wm. Franklin, a wealthy farmer living three miles south of Spenc. r, r. :• • I four members of bis family h -.v - dit-d within a few weeks, and one of the two remaining is dangerously id. The disease is apernicious fever, caused 1y 1; i < >.l poisoning. While the congregation of the Big Spring church, eight miles w’<-st >f Sul livan, was kneeling in prayer at an evening meeting, the report of a pistol-shot ivas heard outside the building, and bullet came crashing through, the wall and barely missed one of th.? worshipers. Jake Francisco, of Madison, was bilten in the hand by a copperhead anitee, a few days since, and immediately the arm became much swollen, and he fml in a dead faint. Liquor in larg ■ (plan! ities was administered, and, at last accounts, he was lying in a precarious condition. An engineering party of seven, in charge of Chief Engineer W. JI. Coshorn, have been engaged for several weeks surveying the Wabash amlFiie canal from 'Toledo to Fort Wayne. Tim object of this is to estimate the cost of a ship canal. -Thus far everything has been quite favoral>le to the ] >l eject. Con - gress appropriated $15,000 for surveying expenses. A son of J. W. Brown, a farmer living near Hazelton, in Gibson county, was killed the other evening a horse running off with him. The boy was letting the horse drink, with one end of a bridle-rein fastened in the halter while with the other eml he formed a noose, which he put over his head. The horse scared and' threw him, dragging him head-foremost, and, running, against a log, killed him almost instantly. Solomon Glick was gathering corn near Columbus, and his li: tie boy Bercy, aged 5 years, was standing at the 'rout end of the wagon, and the horses on moving up stopped suddenly, when the little boy was thrown violently forward under the horses’ feet, one of them stepping on his stomach. He lived in great agony, and hml spasms a lmost continually, until relieved by death next attention. Henry Coblenz, living near Hartsvd'e, Bartholomew county, died the other day from hydrophobia, attributed to a bite from a rat more than a year ago. The bite at the time caused him some trouble, but soon henb d, and it was almost forgotten, until about three weeks ago his hand and arm began to swell, the glands distending, showing every sign at severe blood poison, His condition became worse from day to day, and he exhibited every symptom of hydrophobia, being in convulsions most of the time, and requiring the combined strength of several persons to hold him in bed. The most notable pigeon-roost in the West is located in the southwestern part of Scott county, and covers many hundreds of acres of the. forest. To this roost come nightly, in the fall season when pigeons are abundant, millions of these birds. They commence arriving as early as 5 o’clock in the evening, and often until midnight the flocks pour in. The birds commence leaving at daylight, and by "8 or 9 o’clock all have departed for the feeding-grounds, often hundreds of miles away. During the roosting season this pigeon-roost is a notable and exciting place. Hunters visit it from all parts of Indiana, and from Ohio and Kentucky, Tin y come armed with shot-guns and long poles, and supplied with torches and sacks, the latter to be used in carrying off the captured birds. The banters usually commence tin I about 8 o’clock in the tvci-in. , ; icnco on through the night the scene Is an exciting one. The roar of shot-guns is heard on all sides. Added to this is the clacking and falling of the limbs of the tr< es from the accumulated weight of the pigeons upon them. Torch' s flesh on all bides through the forest, tie. crush of the long poles through the lover limbs of the trees as they sweep down the birds, the shouts of the hunters and the whirr of the wings of the li. iiig and settling flocks create confusion worse confounded. Thousands of birds are killed nightly, and during the day droves of hogs roam through the forest to fr.tteu on the killed and wounded birds left on the ground during the night’s foray. At intervals of many years the pigeons change their roosting place, but never locating far away-from the old roost. A week ago they made a change of base, taking new quarters a few miles distant from the former roost. Tito hunters are now bagging the birds at a great rate. Patti has a castle in Wales, and Gerster a palazza among the Italian Appenines.