Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1881 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Improvements to the Clinton county Court ifouse will cost $5,000. Aldrich’s livery stable, in Logansport, Cass county, has been burned. The Jefferson county grange jubilee will take place at Madison Sept. 1 and 2. A mortgage for $3,500,000 on the Illinois and and Indiana railroad has been recorded in Decatur county. A new and careful canvass of Clinton county shows that the wheat crop is much better than was expected. A little daughter of George Atchinson, of Wabash, Wabash county, died of what appeared to be hydrophobia. Christina McKay, a well-known music teacher, fell down stairs at Madison, Jefferson county, and killed herself. Dr. A. Martin, of Asbury University, will start to England in a few days, to be in attendance upon the Methodist Ecumenical Council. The estate of the late William H. Morrison, of Indianapolis, was paid $20,000 the other day on a policy of life insurance held by the deceased. Five members of the faculty of the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute have tendered their resignations, because of difficulty with President Brown. The people of Franklin, Johnson county, incensed at the high price and poor quality of gas furnished by the gas company of that town, talk of introducing the electric light. There is a farm in Fayette county, settled away back in Territorial days, on which no death has occurred since 1818. Twenty different families have lived on the farm since that date. Adolph Winters, son of Louis Winters, of Shelbyville, Shelby county, while playing, was pushed over in a school-yard, receiving internal injuries, from which he died soon after. The Government has interfered to compel the parties building the railroad bridge over the Wabash river, near Merom, in Sullivan county, to construct it according to the act of Congress. Dr. L. O. Bunker, of Greensburg, Decatur county, administered chloral and extracted a tooth for Addie Elder, the 9-year-old daughter of D. C. Elder, and the child died shortly thereafter. After several earnest efforts and a series of lawsuits, the city of Frankfort, Clinton county, has been successful in extending her limits. The new additions will add about 600 to the population. Mrs. Jacob Vogle, of Plymouth, Marshall county, while ironing, turned from the stove with a hot iron and struck the point of it in the eye of her little 4-year-old son, completely destroying the sight. Notwithstanding the hot weather, which is severe on the operatives, the New Albany factories are kept running to their full capacity. This is made necessary by the heavy orders upon them. Geore W. Barker fell in love with Nora Brassier, an attractive domestic, at Terre Haute, and, when she repelled his advances, he fled for refuge to cyanide of potassium, but the stomach pump was too quick for him, and he still lives. It is said that an Adams county school teacher, who also preaches in the neighborhood in which he teaches, whipped a couple of his pupils recently with a buggy whip. The doctor who was called to see one of them counted fifteen welts as thick as a man’s thumb. Charles Cook, one of the original settlers of Marshall county, and a farmer of some prominence, was killed by being gored by a vicious bull. He was crossing a field, when the animal attacked him. He was 80 years of age, and leaves a large family. Mrs. McCoy, of Charleston, Clark county, who recently lost SI,BOO, and created a sensation by causing the arrest of her own daughter, afterward discovered the money, SBOO in one, abd SI,OOO in another place, where she herself had placed it, but had forgotten the circumstance. A mass-meeting of the citizens of Greencastle was held at the Mayor’s office to pass resolutions regarding the departure of the Japanese students to their homes. Appropriate resolutions were passed, and speeches made by the citizens, to which the Japanese boys replied in suitable terms. They spoke feelingly of the many kindnesses received at the hands of the citizens of Greencastle. The following is a copy of a message from William Henry Harrison to the Legislative Council and House of Representatives, under date of Dec. 6,1810. In the early history of the Northwest Territory, before legislation by the Territorial Legislature, the poor debtor had nothing exempt from execution, and the rich creditor might insist upon having the last article of furniture sold away from the poor, leaving wife and children helpless, without food or bed. This injustice was early called to the attention of the Legislature by Gov. Harrison, as the message below will show. The document is an old one, but the writing is legible. The paper is an imitation of parchment: Gentlemen of the Legislative Council and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: I have lone; thought that our laws are unnecessarily rigorous to insolvent debtors. If I do not mistake, there is scarcely an article, even of the greatest necessity, that is not subject to execution for debt. To take from the debtor those articles which only contribute to his ease and convenience is, no doubt, proper, but I should suppose that justice ought with these to be satisfied, and humanity strongly pleads in favor of leaving a distressed family a few articles which are indispensable to their existence. I recommend to you, gentlemen, to take the subject under your consideration. A bed, a cow and a few cooking implements are no great matter to a rich creditor, but are all important to a familv which has nothing else. William Hex by Harrison. December 6, 1810,