Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1881 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

New Albany is much dissatisfied with its police force. The Court House at Connersville is to lie remodeled ata cost of $4,000. Gold is said to have been discovered in Scott county, near the Jefferson county line. Suspensions of policemen in Evan* ville average one a week, mostly for drunkenness aud disorderly conduct. A disease resembling lung fever has made its appearance among the horses of Jackson township, Huntington county, which causes death in a very short time. The Ohio Falls Cur Company has iu course of construction at Jeffersonville thirteen passenger coaches for Western roads. It has paid out to employes $45,000 the present week. The act constituting the State Board of Health does not go into effect until the laws are published, and the four physicians who are to compose the board will not, therefore, be chosen before the end of July. A number of aligator gars, a fish very rarely found in North, rn rivers, have been’captured recently in the Wabash near Logansport. The gar lias a Hinikelike body, a long, slim snout, and is altogether a villainous-looking reptile. Judge A. B. Carlton, of Terre Haute, has fallen heir to a large estate from a deceased bachelor relative who resided in Kentucky. It is estimated that the Judge's share iu the estate will be over $20,000. The property lies chiefly at or near Chillicothe, Ohio. The work of making the soundings for the bridge at Sand island..is in progress on the Kentucky side, and will soon be commenced on the Indiana side. The corner stone, it is announced, will be laid with great pomp and ceremony ou or about the 4th of July. The United States snag boat K. W. Lind Ims arrived at Terre Hunte for the purpose of commencing operations on the Wabash river. All obstructions l>etween the city and the mouth of the river will be removed at once, and it is hoped to make the Wabash navigable for large boats the year round. As a skiff containing two women and three men was crossing the river at, Evansville, it was run down by the steamer Thanhauser, with a tow of barges, and the women and one of the men were drowned. The occupants of the l>out were all negroes with the exception of one of the women, who was white. A singular story comes from Jackson township, Decatur county, of a bachelor who bought a neighbor’s buxom wife of her impecunious husband for SIOO, with the understanding that the latter was to retain charge of the two children. He then sold his farm and “went West,” and it is reported that the woman iu the case has also disappeared. Dr. Ramey, of Zenas, has a chicken which has four legs, the two rear ones being placed one behind the other. The third leg has a perfect foot, and, when it crows, the chicken leans back and rests on this third foot, being enabled thereby to get his head back in a more aristocratic manner than any other rooster can do. • Mr. Wm. C. Hampson, house father at the Reform School for some time past, last week received a telegram from Golden, Col., giving him notice of his appointment as Superintendent of the Colorado State Reform School, and Mrs. Sampson, his wife, as matroh. Immediately upon receipt of this he telegraphed their acceptance. The examination of applicants for ailmission to the West Point and Annapolis military schools was held in Crawfordsville a short time ago. Nineteen young men presented themselves, and all passed very creditable examinations. The fortunate ones were: To West Point, Thomas J. Stunkord, of Terre Haute; alternate, Will. Grimes, of Rockville. To Annapolis, Lewis Cumberland, of Crawfordsville; alternate, Percy Bates, of Rockville.

Samuel Cunningham, an old and wellknown citizen of Crawford county, and a popular river pilot, was sent to tne insane asylum at Indianapolis, ton or twelve days ago, from his home at Leavenworth, under the supposition of insanity. Twenty years ago he was bitton by a rabid dog.' The wound healed, but the virus remained in bis system. He died at the asylum, his symptoms being precisely those of hydrophobia. In relation to the wool clip of 1881, information has been gathered from nineteen counties in Southern Indians,' in which there wore in 1880 232,634 sheep, and the wool clip of that year was given as 637,592 pounds, or nearly three to the head, not counting off anything for lambs. The number of sheep in these nineteen counties has been considerably increased since the clip of 1880, as the farmers in the southern count es of Indiana are annually increasing their wool growing as well as improving the breeds of their flocks. It is safe to say that the clip of 1881 ini these nineteen counties will exceed that of 1880 by from 75,090 to 100,000 pounds. Tire officers of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows reported the order exceediugly prosperous. The Hecretaiy reported five new lodges institut' d and that four had surrendered their chart rs, making a net gain of ono lodge. During the term 1,174 brothersand 208 widowed families have been relieved. The sum of $28,005.83 has lieen paid for the relief of brothers, $3,064.26 for the relief of widowed families, 8826.96 for educating orphans, $5,16152 for burying the dead, and §1,669.76 for other charitable purposes, making the total for re ief $33,771.83. There are 532 effective lodges, with a membersliip of 26,511, an increase of 1,107. The resources of lodges are $1,301,650.15; receipts, $105,030.14; expenses, $45,035.23; dues to Grand Lodge, $5,444.08; orphan fund of lodges, $820,254.67. The returns from Rebekah lodges are unsatisfactory. Though over 200 charters have been sent out, only forty lodges have sent, in reports,