Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1881 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Three-fourths of the bees in Southern Indiana were killed by the hard winter. Dr. Homer Iddings has been appointed physician to the Northern penitentiary. Collector Cumbaok has decided to remove the Collector’s office to Lawrenceburg. The Evansville directory for the .present year will have fifty-two pages over the previous year. The New Albany woolen-mill has sea $200,000 contract for manufacturing army clothing. The entire depth of snow-fall in Warsaw since the 17th of October has been seventy-seven and one-half inches. Mrs. Mary E. Burson, of Muncie, has accepted the appointment as a member of the Board of Alanagers of the Female Reformatory. There are now in the Evansville Orphan Asylum sixty-one children—thirtysix in the white and tweniy-fivo in the colored department. Judges Frazer, Turple and Stotsenburg have been appointed by the Governor as Commissioners for the publication of the revised statutes. A trotting stallion owned in Greensburg, and for which an offer of $6,000 was recently refused, was found poisoned with strychnine the other morning.

John Lawler, living near Muncie, took a fit, fell in a }>ool of water only a few inches deep and was drowned. He was found within fifteen minutes after leaving home. The Seventeenth Indiana Union State Sunday-School Convention will be held in Trinity M. E. Church, Evansville, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, May 31, June 1 and 2. Some Evansville children were given castor beaus to plant, but ate them instead. Six of the children became very sick, and were only saved from death by prompt medical assistance. Prof. John Collett has been reappointed State -Geologist. His term as Chief of the Bureau of Statistics has also expired, but he-will continue to hold it until his successor is appointed. John Gmiffeth, Esq., of Seymour, is aged 91 years, and claims the honor of being the oldest Presbyterian in the United States. He writes a beautiful hand, reads without glasses, and walks without a cane.

An uneven pane of glass in the residence of Dr. Stiers, of Selma, acted as a sunglass, and set fire to a stool a few feet away. If there had been no one at home a mysterious conflagration wouid probably have resulted. The codification of the School laws of Indiana having failed to pass the Senate’, the School laws, as published in 1877, remain in full force and effect, with the “single change that women are made “eligible to any office under the general or special School laws of this State.” Mrs. George Talls was found lying stark and stiff in her garden, a few miles east of Clinton. She was cleaning out the weeds and rubbish when her dress caught fire and she wasTiterally burned to a crisp. As no ojie was near, her cries for help were not heard. She' was about 70 years old. Col. R. N. Hudson, of Terre Haute, has claims upon real • estate in Evansville, including streets once occupied by the Wabash and Erie canal. His claims have been confirmed in the litigation that has been in i>rogress for some years, and he now seeks either to be paid for the property by the present occupants or to have the same relinquished to him.At Midway, Spencer county, Mrs. Larkin Gowen went too near an open grate, and her dress caught fire. She jumped upon the bed, where her infant lay, hoping t» smother the flames with the blankets, but only succeeded in setting the bed on fire. She screamed for .help, but when her husband rushed in both herself and the child were so badly burned that they died soon after. Gov. Porter has concluded that the condition of the law in relation to the State Bureau of Statistics, although obscure, is such that the department can be properly continued. He will not, however, make any appointment of Chief of the Bureau at present, as the appropriation for the Statistical Department is not available until next November. 1 Jacob Tash was born in Rowan county, N. 0., in 1790, and came to Indiana in 1816. He died a few days since at Salem, aged 91 years. He left seven children surviving him, fifty-four grandchildren, 1,006 great-grandchildren and fourteen great-great-grandchildren. He leaves, as the offspring of his 1,081 living descendants, and fifty-four that have deceased before him, making a total of 1,135.

Tlie New Hoad Law. The new Road law enacted by the Legislature provides for the election, in every township in the State, on the first Monday in April, 1882, and every two years thereafter, of a Superintendent of Roads, who shall have charge of the roads within his township, of ail of which he shall have charge both for construction and repair. He shall also execute all orders of the Board of County Commissioners concerning the change, location and the vacation of any highway in his township, and shall have charge of all funds for road or bridge purposes. A road poll tax of $2 is to be assessed upon every able-bodied man between the ages of 21 and 50 years and the County Commissioners shall also levy a tax not exceeding 25 cents on the SIOO on all property pi the township subject to State taxation, except that property in incorporated towns shall be exAnpt from such tax. The Township Superintendent shall put all the roads in his territory in as good order as possible during the months of April, May and June of each year and make such ditching, draining and embankments, and build such bridges and culverts as shall seem to him prudent and best to construct a road not less that eighteen feet in width, and when material is at hand may cover nine feet of the same with gravel or any other substance which will make a hard surface, expending all the available means in his hands by the 15th of November of each Eear. He shall also cause all roads to e mowed at least twice a year in August aud Novemlier. The work is divided into “ extraordinary ” which must be done during the months of April, May and June, and “ ordinary ” -which must be done between April 1 and November 15, and when the citizens of any township contribute work or money to make any ditch, drain, embankment, or to gravel any such road, the Superin*

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Undent shall contribute an equal amount if he has the means at hand for this purpose. The Superintendent * shall appoint at least one roadmaster in each township, and as many others as he may deem necessary, such roadmasters to employ laborers, mechanics and teams at specified wages usual in the township for such work, such employes to work ten hours a day, the road-master being held responsible for the manner and quality of such work. He shall have the power to discharge any hand employed, and sh.-.1l give his order on the Township Superintendent, which shall be sufficient voucher. The road-master is to receive $1.50 per day, of ten hours, and the Superintendent $2 per day. The Superintendent mrty let out all work over $25 by contract, with power to reject any or all bids. Any person who shall injure any dam, drain, embankment, ditch or other construction made for the protection of any highway, or injure or deface any guide post or inscription, or hinder passengers by obstructing any highway or bridge, or who shall fail Io keep to the right hand when meeting another vehicle, shall be subject to a fine of $5, and it is made the duty of the Township Superintendent to prosecute the same when information is conveyed to him. The Superintendent is authorized to enter upon any land adjoining the highway and take any necessary material for the construction.of said highway, for which any person aggrieved has action against the township, the methods for the determination of which are fully set out. It is made the duty of the owner of any land through which any highway runs to remove all obstructions ns soon ns knowledge of the same comes to him, for which he shall be entitled to reasonable compensation. The office of Supervisor of Roads is abolished, and all his duties arc made incumbent upon the Township Superintendent. Persons are to be permitted to work out their poll tax under the direction of the Superin-' tendent. The law contains no emergei - cy clause.