Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1881 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

A peach orchard of 50,000 trees is in litigation at Madison, the terms of a lease being in dispute. • The supply of coal in New Albany is about exhausted. The dealers are selling at 22 cents per bushel- <; A young man who wandered away from Seymour, in July found in an insane asylum in Ohio. Charles Lewis is in Rushville jail for obtaining money under false pretenses with which to elope with a school-girl. Miss Louisa Waimier, of Vincennes, has sued Fred Spangle for damages in the sum of 85,000 for breach of promise of marriage. Calvin Fletcher, State Fish Commissioner, will go to Washington to secure a quantity of carp to be planted in Indiana waters. Thomas Butler, an inmate of the county poor-house, near New Albany, for twenty-seven years, died there a few days since, aged 69. Julius Coleman, who is a term in the J effersoih vile, prison, is arranging to translate** “ Virgil’s JEneifl ” into quatrain verse. The State House contractors are making every effort to complete all the brick-work of the first story before the building season closes. Track-layers oh the New York, Chi cago and St. Louis railroad are at a point this side of the farm of. Wm. Mclptdeh, —2*ur< VFayne Sentinel. , Julius Hoehru, on trial at Evansville 'for rape, left the dourt House and efin not be found. He walked out before* a crowded house, Judge, jury and officers. A Mite. tcPWhHSe two Bloomington salood keepers 1 bad sold wbisJiY|«Qt PYW:l>X#np**l»‘h&the miijors ana Seymour, though divorced from her vagabond husbaiid, went to New Albany tne day wheA she heard he wim witlij paralysis, and took him home.. 1 , Thad Withers.-a Brookville miller, was .looking mtojhe dust box at his mill when a shaft caught his flowing beard, and iKlld Oh till every hairwas pulled out by thd roots. • ’ * .. The ( weight of coal in Indiana has been fixed ,at eighty* ppquds to the bushel, and a law of the last LegisWiye makes a penalty for selling Any less pounds for a bushel. A farmer: near Pera, Mlaini county, increased the weight of -fifty head of hogs 4,000 pounds in thirty days by actual weight, thus realizing $1 P or bushel on 268 bushels of corn. Prof. Blobs has suggested, by rc,quest of the Statistical Biircau, thirteen competent persons in as many counties not ‘.heretofore provided for, to take charge of the State weather service. Miss". Addie Hay, of Charlestown itownship, Cltirke county, has sued John King for 810,000 for breacji of promise, and again sued her towpship (Trustee for a place afe school teacher, lin'd has had trouble all along the’ libej- ' ' Some excitement was created in Madison, the other djty, vliy ithe mrnonneeinent that the sTyear-olj,s T year-olj, son of Franz Schrinfer had difcd of 'black malignant small-pox, iind that a 7-ybitf-oW‘daugh-ter was.down with the same Klixirtso. Mrs. W. Houok, of Sullivan, attempted suiejdv, by, taking lophine. By the timely airriyal of physicians she was but it ndeinS ’that The trouble in the family is still unsettled. A few days after her husband, while in a drunken papsiop, lattempted to take her life by shooting her, but failed in the attempt, and w.iS At once lodged in Jail. Richard White* and his ‘wiftf, who live on a farm some fourteen WiilekWeet of Seymour, went out to ent down a tree one day last week. }Vfiep they had the tree nearly sawed in tw'Oj they noticed it was tottering, and ran in-bpposite directions. Before Mrs. White could escape the tree fell and struck, ipflicting such injuries that she died in a few hours.

The Sheriff of Morgan county attempted to take a boy to the Home of Refuse one day last week, wlpm- the boy’s grandmother, mother apd swter attacked him, the mother boating' him with an umbrella, while the others struck bfin over the head, tearing lus clothes,-flbe. The Sheriff finally, however, came out victorious with the boyin Ins charge. The case of Berry McCrary against Jonatharf WWwltrWftff*fct Rusliyille. last week, und flie'jdfy- brought in a 875 verdict for the. plainkiff.;. T^es- plaintiff sued the defendant fpr.saying been stealing. He wanted $-\OOTto patch over hfe ,J fifH<rated chrfrfirtcr. The parties are.weli-to.’do farmery <ud> will light, {pr. yefirsi as th? ( 'W C IPH 89 h/ tye Thebe was a great celebralion at New Albany, 06t. ikying- the potmar-Momv drlw niqr aUfce great tpidge that is. -..torfftn fiOOyOOD; On-file UAi#‘dhy ! urationj-of hw track layfag' westWiffd * Alipipthto caljed.out to. Jus fellow-workman.. ‘ I 'There ‘t&d been a ghostly legend of some old dtittr who buried his wwilth in -that neghborago, wad, r 'S«cad that Pat. had lomul a pot pf money; and, ’as’TatiieK Opiit work on 'ftie rAilrdad’a vhe* ot'tWo later, taatff ¥c»ny”WlieiM that hb had fotfmLß6.-000;iu.iij; ■ ■■.■ J Fo# years the *Wabash,. 8t Louis and Ruciijc assed , "by the City Govcrrynent at XTiuit-ingtbn-J Whenever there was the slightest vitiation of any ordinance of thlt little burg, the railroad employes would I>6 hauled up .before the Mayor, ami made to contribute to the town’s elcharpier. •To escape €liesd pWsHutioßc thf poippany now ppdfuecfclkiovji'ibih ß depot to .the crossing of- Wm.phicago w 1 Atlantic road, a quarteEnf a mile cast of Ittiprt&lFlt&itrM * e ,'J MJ t ,IJW >ll should 'smile-. Jf/rst look at • the ruddy ‘ fHces qf iheopdlidaitmDidkr jSau Antonio and other r itnwfrvta wiMlb«u>dhWent. Hedikek’tiie lAfigUkge es ‘ twe ifountry to whadj hd ia u! irxol