Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1880 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

The revised enumeration of Fort Wayne is 26,917. There were $60,174.64 in the Fort Wayne treasury on the Ist day of December. Governor-elect Porter has appointed as liis private secretary Frauk H. Blaokledge. Mrs. Peele, the State Librarian, reports an expenditure in two years of $1,27^ for new books and binding. The oldest man in Washington county is David Voyles. His age is 98 years; and lie lias been a resident of the county since 1816. The widow of the late Gen. Jeff G. Davis has contracted for the erection of a monument at New Albany similar to the Wool monument at Troy, N. Y. Three stone-planers have been purchased by the State House contractors, at a cost of $15,000, which will greatly facilitate the progress of the work next season. Col. Robert M. Goodwin, of Broolcville, has been convicted of the murder of Iris brother, Dr. John R. Goodwin, and will be sentenced to imprisonment for life. An invalid soldier at Madison lias just received $2,800 back pension, and gave the whole of it to liis sister, Mrs. Harry Hoagland, who lias cared for him these many years. Miss Mattie Lafollette, only daughter of Judge D. W. Lafollette, lias been adjudged insane from injuries io her spine by being thrown from a buggy a few weeks since. The old Johnny Fisher homestead, in the suburbs of Craw'fordsville, comprising twelve acres, was sold, a few days since, for $50,000, and will be laid off in town lots. The new’ reservoirA)f the New Albany water-works has been filled, and is ready for use. Its capacity is 6,000,000 of gallons, giving the company a total reservoir capacity of 9,000,000 gallons. Samuel Funk and wife, who had been married fifty-three years, moved from Harrison county (where they bad been early settlers) into New Albany, a few weeks ago, and both died there on nearly the same day last week. The Marion County Court House lias been arranged for the accommodation of the Legislature—one of the Circuit Court rooms for tho Senate, and the room of the Criminal Court for the House of Representatives. The directors of the Prison South met last week and elected officers. Capt. A, J. How’ard, the present incumbent, was re-elected Warden for four years. John Craig was re-elected Deputy Warden, and Matt Huette, Clerk, for four years •ach.

The State Grange met last week, when an annual address was presented by Aaron Jones. Eighty-five delegates were present, representing fifty-seven counties. Statements show nearly 400 lodges in the State, with a membership of 8,000. The Twenty-sixth Indiana infantry held a reunion last week, and celebrated the eighteenth anniversary of the battle of Brairie Grove, Ark., in which engagement the regiment lost in twelve' minutes 202 in killed and wounded out of a total strength of 444. Miss Addie Hay was engaged to te xch school near Jeffersonville, and when the school house was burned the Trustees failed to provide other quarters. Miss Hay has now, by process of law and a Supreme Court decision, obtained her salary for the entire term. The managers of the Female Prison and Girls’ Reformatory report that the number of inmates at the beginning of the year in the penal department was 41; number admitted, 34; total, 75; discharged by expiration of sentence, 22; pardoned, 1; died, 3; number remaining at the -close of the year, 49. In the girls’ department at the beginning of the year there were 147 inmates; received during the year, 42; returned from ticket-of-leave, 4; total, 193; number discharged, 16; released on ti ket-of-leave, 24; escaped, 4, of whom 2 were recaptured; number remaining at the close of the year, 151. The total amount received from the State ti’easury during the year was $22,556.22; the total expenditures were $21,500, leaving a balance in the treasury of $1,056.22. The managers ask additional appropriations of $7,500 for 1880-’Bl, of $40,000 for 1881-’B2, and for 1882-’B3 of $30,000, beside an additional amount for library and sewerage. The Commissioners of the Boys’ Reform School have reported showing that since 1868 the number of boys admitted has been 1,384 ; the number admitted for the year ending Oct. 31, 1879, was 107, and for the year just closed, 149 ; and the number remaining at the close of the year, 338. The appropriation for the year wis $40,000, which, with the earnings of the institution, made a total of $43,544.55. The cost of support, schooling, and maintenance was $35,857.49, which, deducting the amount of accounts held against counties filed with the State Treasurer, leaves the actual cost of the institution from the State treasury only $15,994.87 for the support, clothing, and schooling of the 338 boys, which was the average number present during the year. The board asks liberal appropriations for repairs and for some improvements, but no sum is fixed. The cost of keeping each inmate for the next year is estimated at SIOO.

The report of the Trustees of the Indiana University has been prest ided to the Governor for the years ending October 31, 1879 and 1880. The report for 1879 shows that there was remaining in the treasury at the last annual report $3,000.47, and the amount received since is as follows : Oh account of interest on lands in Newton, Pulaski, Knox, White, Dubois, Martin, and Jasper counties, $1,068.37 ; by endow'raent fund interest, $7,900; semi-annual appropriations, $23,000; contingent fees, 1,669.50, and small sums from other sources, making a total of receipts of $36,487.40. The total warrants drawn during the year amount to $27,951.08, leaving a balance in the treasury of $8,536.32. The total receipts for the last fiscal year, including balance, were $25,466.56, and the total expenditures $24,856.05 ; balance in treasury, $610.51. The Finance Committee of the board recommend the following appropriations for the next year : For salaries of President, professors and assistants, $18,000; purchase of books for library, $3,500 ; salaries of officers of board and janitor, $1,500 ; sa’ary of Trustees, SI,BOO ; lecture fund, SBOO ; contingent expenses, $2,000 ; buildings and grounds, S6OO ; department of natural philosophy, $200; department of chemistry, $000; total, $29,000.