Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1881 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

A stone forty-two feet long, four feet wide and three feet thick was quarried near Bedford.

Con. IsoM Wray and Hon. William Patterson, of Shelby county, have recently purchased 1,800 acres of pine timber land in Angelina county, Texas. An attempt to blow up a saloon was made at Liberty, Marion county, by placing a bottle filled with powder under the floor. The flo’or wits torn up, but no serious damage was done. The National Camp Meeting for the promotion of holiness will begin s>t Warsaw, Kosciusco, Aug. 5, and last for ten days. Revs. J. S. Inskip, Wm. McDonald, J. A. Wood and others will be present.

Gov. Porter aud wife have been visiting Corydon. The Governor will soon deliver an oration at Asbury University on “The Early Governors.” His trip to Corydon was to get some data of Gov. Jennings. Gilbert Vertezen, a Frenchman, who has led the life of a hermit, dwelling in a cave at Frenchtown, Floyd county, many years, was lately found dead in the woods near his cave. Death was the result of exposure and neglect. He was 66 years of age. At Charlottesville, Hancock county, a boy named Pitts, 9 years old, set fire to a straw stack on his father’s farm, in which his little sister, 2 years old, was asleep, and she was roasted alive. Her remains were almost consumed when raked out with a pole. Wiltham Perkinsc% an old settler of Scott county, living three miles south of Lexington, was driving a load of hay. The wagon ran into a deep rut in the road and Mr. Perkinson was precipitated to the ground. His skull was fractured and he died the next day. The State Attorney General holds that residence in a county sufficienttime to be a citizen and vote does not qualify a man for the office of Superintendent, and that applicants must reside twelve months in the county before they are eligible for appointment. Albert G. Anderson, of Greenfield, has brought suit iu the Hancock Circuit Court, against Lucas & Lucas, druggists of Fountaintown, Shelby, charging them with carelessly putting up a prescription of three grains of morphine for a dose, instead of one-half Mrs. Anderson lost her life. <

Gen. Lew Waddace lately returned to his home in Crawfordsville, and his neighbors and friends, with a brass band, serenaded him. In behalf of his neighbors, L. B. Dillon made a “welcome home” speech, in which he reminded the General of the high regard and esteem in which he is held, and to which he feelingly responded. The largest crowd that ever gathered in Marion was present to witness the laying of the corner-stone of the new Grant county Court House. This event closes the fiftieth year of the settlement of the county and town. The new structure will cost, when finished, $135,000 or more. The Masonic and Odd Fellows’ fraternities of Central Indiana were present to perform the ceremony. Near Idaville, 13 miles west of Logansport, a man named Samuel Wilson desired to remove the remains of his wife, who died six years ago. Upon reaching the body the startling discovery was made that it was petrified. The arms and limbs had withstood the effect of the petrification, and nothing remained of them but the bones. The trunk of the body was as hard as flint, and, upon being taken from the grave, was found to weigh about 300 pounds, while the woman during her life weighed about 140 pounds. J. B. Gilbert, of Jeffersonville,’ the well-known livery-stable proprietor, went to die country with his hay wagon to bring in a load of hay. When nearly loaded he concluded he would slide down over the rear of the hay to see if the wagon was properly loaded. In the rear of the hay frame stood a sharp woode'i peg, eighteen inches long and five inches in diameter. This impaled him in the hip, penetrating seven or eight inches, producing a frightful wound. The seventeenth annual convention of the Indiana Sunday-School Union, held in Trinity Church, Evansville, was largely attended, and was a success in every respect. Rev. G. R. Curtis, D. D., of Indianapolis, delivered the closing •address. W. H. Levering, of Lafayette, was elected President; Charles S. Hubbard, of Knightstown, Vice President; Charles H. Conner, of New Albany, Secretary ; Charles D. Meigs, of Indianapolis, Treasurer; W. H. Ripley, of Indianapolis, Statistician. The place of meeting selected for next year was Crawfordsville.

A Richmond correspondent says. that horse stealing has become so common that hardly a night passes that one or more arc not taken from Wayne, Union or Preble counties, within ten or a dozen miles of Richmond. The thieves are experts, and notwithstanding the most expert detectives in the State have been working up the eases not one of them has been captured, and only two horses recovered. They operate on what is known as the “ Indianapolis” method, which is to watch a farmer drive up to a rack, and, after he has entered a store or church, to unhitch and drive away with his horse.

Fifteen or sixteen years ago the store of Albert H. Johnson, in Mitchell, Lawrence county, w'as burglarized one night and several thousand dollars in money and bonds taken. Mr. Johnson employed detectives to work up the case, but nothing satisfactory was ever accomplished, and the matter was finally allowed to drop, and had almost become forgotten. Recently, however, the Bedford Bank received a SIOO Lawrence county bond for collection from the Bank of Bloomington. It proved to be one of the three bonds of that kind that were stolen from Johnson. It is now, however, worthless, as duplicate bonds were issued to Johnson some time after the burglary, which were paid nt maturity. It may be that this old bond will be the menus of disclosing the names of the burglars and bringing (o light the whole affair,