Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1881 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

The New Albany Council proposes to reduce the number of the police force. A little son of Mr. Thus. P. Moore, of Albany, fell on the icy sidewalk, aud bit his tongue nearly off. While playing with a toy pistol, a z small sou of Edward Huffman, of Reelsville, Putnam county, was shot in the abdomen, A Kokomo wretch named Pnrsely is charged with starving bis horses so that one of them died, and the other is a mere skeleton. James L. Fvgit. of Greensburg, aged 78, who held many positions of public trust, including, the office of County Clerk, is dead. At Clinton, City Marshal Fitzpatrick waA stabbud to the heart by Jacob Shirley. whom lie attempted to arrest for disorderly cpuduct. The City Council of Richmond has parsed an-ordinance for renaming all the streets of the city except Main, and for renumbering the houses. The New Albany Oilstone Works have shipptsl to Europe, on orders, 4,5'J0 pounds of the finest quality of oilstones, to be used in European watch manufactories. A Mr. MoTaooaht, of Fort Wayne, slapped a newsboy for crying the names of papers in front of his store-room, and damages to the amount of SI,OOO have been awarded. The dwelling of lion. Christopher Girton, near Flat Rock Station, Shelby county, was consumed by fire the other night, with the household goods. Csyisv, a defective flue. Loss, $5,000 ; no insurance. Col. F. A. Sears, ex-County Treasurer of Lawrence county conus out in his account s with the county about $7,000. short. He mortgages his property to his bondsmen to make them secure, or nearly so. . . Prof. William A. Moore, Superintendent of the New Castle public schools, and for a number of years Professor of Mathematics in Earlham College, died a few days ago, of pneumonia, at his home in New Castle. " The Fayette county Commissioners have appointed a committee to negotiate with the trustees of tlje association for ; purchase of the Conners v il I e fair grounds, to prevent them from being cut up into lots and sold. A party of eleven colored North Carolinians arrived at Greensburg last. week. They report their people in that sections trying to raise u.eans to transport themselves, and predict a large exodus from that State during the winter and spring. Articles of incorporation of the Indianapolis apd Sullivan Railroad and Coal Company have been filed ; capital, $700,000. The Spragues, of Detroit, are the chief movers hi it. The road is to be 100 miles long, the object chiefly to supply coal. Clark Antiiis, one of the most prominent of Knox county farmers, was drowned in \\ hite river. He was in the act of driving from the ferryboat with a mule team, when the animals became frightened and ran into the water; and he and one of the mules sank surface. An 11-year-old boy named Joe Goodwin, at Shelburn, pointed a pistol at Ellen McCroelin, not thinking it was loaded, and pulled the trigger. The ball struck the girl on the temple, inflicting a wotind which proved fatal in three hours. Mists Lillie Hendricks, of Petersburg, niece of Hon. T. A. Hendricks, accidentally sat down on a pair of largo scissors, when closed, running both blades entirely through the thigh, just below, and at the outside of the great trochanter, producing a painful, if not. dangerous wound. The State House Commissioners are giving particular attention to the choice of woods required in the finishing work of the building. These will all be native to the State, but the problem ,of getting them well seasoned against the time they are needed is that which will engage the attention of the board for some time. There is a movement on foot between the present Sheriff of Delaware county and Sheriff-elect McKinney, whereby the latter will purchase the remainder of* the former’s term of office next spring, and the present incumbent will remove to his farm. This is done to give the present. Sheriff an opportunity to get out his crops in the spring. The death of Hon. Allan Smith, at his residence near Wabash, occurred the other night, from the effect of cancer on the neck, from which he has been a -suffeier for some time. Mr. Smith came, here in 1839. He represented Wabash in the Indiana Legislature two terms, in 1867 and in 1869, after which he was elected Director of the Northern Prison and served one term as President of the Board. The official bond of Edward H. Wolfe, Auditor-elect of the State, in the sum of SIO,OOO, has been approved by the Governor. His bondsmen are all from Rush county, Mr. Wolfe’s residence. Mr. Wolfe bus made his appointments of Deputies as follows: John N. Coons, principal Deputy ; Wright Wharton, City Clerk in the Insane Department; and Isaiah Piatt, Clerk in the Land Department. On the 231 day of December, 1863, Jennings county offered to id! persons who would enlist in the army to the credit of that county a bounty of sllO. At that time s< v« rid members <f the Twenty-second Indiana, who w< re then in the South, were discharged, but instead of returning home, tumid around and re-enlisted in another regimenton the day above named, having, at this time, no knowledge of the above bounty. Now comeitwentyione of these soldiers who re-enljisted in the South, aud bring suit against the county, claiming the ‘.bounty, which, with seventeen years’ interest, amounts to $-421.20 each, or an aggregate of $8,908.20. . Clark county is the only county in the State that has a regular settlement of Mormons. Their settlement is near New Providence, in Wood township, and has been flourishing for years. The members of the church are called Joe Smith Mormons. Severalyears ago a missionary Mormon from the West made his appearance, and converted nearly every person in that section. These Mormons believe in immersing three times instead of once, as flie Baptists do. The members do not practice polygamy, as Brigham Young’s disciples do. In the southern pait of Wood township there .is no other church, excepting those of t|y’ Nlormoiic and C.dh- 1 olios,