Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1881 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

John R Douglass, a wealthy farmer in Whitley county, suicided by hanging. The crop of watermelons this- year is by far the largest ever raised in Jackson county. The system of “graveyard insurance” is being successfully worked in Cass county. At Yorktown, Delaware oouaty, Wm. Coppersmith smote William Paldy with a billiard cue, inflicting fatal injuries. Edward Francis, an English peddler, aged 76, committed suicide at Richmond by shooting himself through the head. There is talk of calling an election in Tipton to vote a tax to aid in the location there of an agricultural implement factory. Asbury University will realize between $20,000 and $25,000 from the Meharrv estate. It got about $15,000 during his lifetime. The city authorities of Richmond will proceed to enforce the ordinance requiring property owners to plant shade trees in front of their property. TriE Board of Directors cd the Pike county fair gave ono Elmire exclusive right to run a wheel of fortune on the fair grounds in consideration of $250. The New Albany ship-yard will soon be reopened by Messrs. Murray & Co. upon a new and most substantial basis, and, it is said, with contracts aggregating over SIOO,OOO. There are at present 245 teachers employed in the schools of Indianapolis, lifteen of whom are in the High School. In the white schools there are about sev-enty-five colored children. The Bluff'ton Times tells of a case of fatal rattlesnake bite, the victim being Mrs. Hammond, of Nottingham township. The reptile crawled up through a hole in the floor, and upon the bed wliero the lady was lying. Carrie Moyneiian, of Logan sport, aged 13, has an insane desire to kill herself by jumping beneath every train that passes her mother’s door. Her mind trouble dates from the time of the killing of her brother in a railroad accident some months ago, A farmer near Nashville, Brown county, has been hauling water to his logging camp in the woods. Rattlesnakes discovered where the water was kept, and congregated around the barrels at night, to the great fear of the men and fright of the teams, some nights keeping up a fearful hissing and rattling. Near Madison, a few days since, a Mr. Hudson cut down a tree in an open field. When the tree fell it broke, exposing a cavity out of which fourteen snakes came squirming and crawling, and were killed. Mr. Hudson says he could find no opening leading to the cavity, and the snakes seemed to be blind from long confinement in the dark. How they got*there is a conundrum. Quite a sensation was created in Spencer by a colored citizen sending his children to the school provided for white children. A good, comfortable house has been provided for the colored children. and a competent teacher emploved, and things have been moving along smoothly until now. The colored citizen alluded to, for some private reason, dislikes his teacher and refuses to send to him. What the end will be is a mooted question, as the Trustees have decided not to admit the colored children, and fixe parent still persists in sending them. The following table, showing the comparative acreage of oats and tobacco, lias been issued by the Statistical Bureau at Indianapolis:

OATH. TOBACCO. v h. U- XUCOUNTIES. 3 3 3 52 S 3 1881. 1880. 1881. 1880. Adams 8,178 9,190 5 Allen 16,000 18,25- 1 « Bartholomew 5,584 25,560 128 258 IJeuton 15,528 12,380 20 Blackford 1,882 2,837 2 1 Boone .' 2,997 6,068 13 51 Brown 2,811 14,251 295 284 Carroll 5,195 17,489 4 205 Cass 0,260 6,322 1 Clarke 7,875 10,431 118 32 Clay 2,903 14,380 199 Clinton 7,916 28,406 43 Crawford 5,991 7,822 21 24 DaviesH 0,949 5,221 8 26 Dearborn 9,819 14,120 15 6 Decatur 3,998 8,526 6 \ DeKalb 10,722 11,489 11 7 N Do aware 3,566 6,646 Dubois 10,564 9,096 940 Elkhart 11,282 10,793 1 Fayette.... 2,396 3,848 6 7 Floyd 3,171 2,402 4 Fountain.... 4,172 11,112 2 Franklin 7,075 8, 81 4 Fulton 4,785 7,182 2 20 Gibson 1,433 2,732 19 187 Grant 4,139 8,827 3 9 Greeno 6,226 10,013 77 66 Hamilton 5,396 4,93 d 1 8 Hancock 3,580 1,665 13 2 Harrison 9,758 10,041 88 10 Hendricks 3,138 6,476 2 10 Henry 4,204 9,708 4 8 Howard 2,479 2,878 18 43 Huntington 7,472 6,682 .... 10 Jackson 8, '284 10,560 24 132 Jasper 10,922 7,269 2 2 Jay 8,601, 9,436 2 3 Jefferson 6,769 9,2 8 .... 20 Jennings 1,691 6,732 18 12 Johnson i,675 4,644 2 54 Knox.. 1,629 6,656 17 66 Kosciusko C,687 23,105 3 .... Lac range ..•••••• 5,889 6,209 .... 1 Lake.... 20,348 16,979 100 200 Laporte 16,030 20,438 2 3 Lawrence 11,117 17,01. 1 .... Madison 3,628 3,744 21 200 Marlon «,159 15,244 8 201 Marshall 7,328| 12,574 4 7 Martin. 5,658 7,645 11 10 Miami 3,802 6,208 .... 2 Montgomery 3,130 7,350 ... 64 Monice 6,121 12,511 5 4 Morgan 2,618 3,777 1 10 Newtos 11,587 9,717 3 8 Noble 7,133 11,404 ) 16 Ohio 1,250 611 80 4 Orange 11,218 11,947 82 76 Owen 4,726 6>478 1 258 Parke 2,536 7,212 2 13 Perry’ 4,353 4,039 266 189 Pike 3,170 7,721 711 924 Porter.. 12,498 21,392 .... .... Posey 1,648 2,410 11 10 Pulaski 6,291 3.165 22 6 Putnam 2,393 6,085 15 218 Randolph 13,417 11,96- 7 93 Ripley »,445 12,961 7 Bush . ! 2,726 3,292 10 20 fccott 3,422 4,141 56 24 Shelby 2,096 8,267 97 25 Spencer 6,631 12,089 3,786 12,930 Starke 1,240 1,198 1 3 Steuben 6,218 5,48.. St Joseph 8,257 8, 03 4 Sullivan 2,38 7,472 1 77 Switzerland 2,686 2,82'. 1,684 50 Tippecanoe 10,272 9,976 i 16 1 Tipton 95. 1,077 26 3 Union , 1,968 2,147 12 Vanderburgh I 2,372 1,148- 6 VcrmiUion 1,674 6,31.1 ] 108 Vigo 2,219 3,5571 21 Wabash 6,868 5,364 24 56 Warren................ 8,502 19,717 8 3 Warrick 6,163 4,2.5 1,234 5,624 Washington 4,453 19,8-0 118 48 Wayne 7,874 10,5 1 717 226 Wells 6,4«7 6,618 2 4 White. 13,6‘W 11.994 4 Whitley no re. 6,799 note 3 Total 556,10. [823,817 12,-2.' 14,220 The total aoroage of meadow for 1881 is 952,119, against 1,018,681 for 1880. qpi m suamioads 000*E 19x0 ‘norprqjc ;> tTsvq mgu pun ‘spuauioi. jo v SJußoaßoa uoexj wuaiC uaoyitd 9tty *°l epu49N Jo OWg kbj,