Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1881 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

A street railway company has been organized in Vincennes. South Bend claims itself entitled to have free postal delivery. A lady 75 years of age was married a few days ago at New Jackson county has organized a sosiety for the protection of fish and giime. Jay county is taking the lead in the organization of marnage benefit companies. Trains of the Indianapolis and Chicago Air Line now run from Delphi to a few miles out of Chicago. * The Jeffeisonville Council has grunted a right of way for a street-railway company throughout the city. The excellent coal fields which abound in the southwestern corner of the State are being extensively worked. Owen Blackmore, aged 88, a soldier or the War of 1812 and a pensioner, died at the residence of his son David, near Kingston. Miss Overpeok, of Clinton, committed suicide by poison because she was not allowed to marry the object of her affections. People who live in the neighborhcxxl of Vienna, Scott county, are very positive that gold does exist in paying quantities in that township. Bev. Newton Burwell, of Wells county, while hunting a few days ago, captured alive au albino squirrel with white fur and pink eyes. Robert S. Ruston, an old resident of Evansvelle, died a few days since. In 1865, as the result of an ac ident, he suffered the amputation of both arms. A Jennings county farmer has sent to Indianapolis a peanut plant on which there arc twenty-six large and well-de-veloped nuts, as proof that the peanut can be successfully grown iu Indiana.

County Sheriffs in Indiana are said to have fallen into the reprehensible practice of taking criminals to the State prison one at a time when several are on hand, and might all be taken at the same time. . u The store of R. W. Akiu’fl Sons, at Carlisle, was entered by burglars, and a gold watch and $2,100 in money taken from the safe. The firm offer a reward of SSOO for the return of the property and the conviction of the thieves. A crowd of several thousand persons assembled at New Alban v, recently, t > witness the laying of the first steel rail westward on th • iS I ’. Louis Air-Line road and the corner-stone ceremonial of the Kentucky and Indiana bridge. Argus Dean, the famous peach grower of Clark county, has closed his accounts of sales and shipments of peaches made by him the present year. He states that the net profits of his crop aggregate the large sum of $27,600.

While a little daughter of Samuel Fanning, of North Manchester, was carrying an infant child > cross the floor, she stumbled and fell, throwing the baby into a tub of hot water. The baby was horribly scalded, and died a few’ hours later. The will of the late Samuel Shigley, of Clinton county, disposing of some $30,000, is called in question by two minor heirs, who claim to have been deprived of any share in their grandfather’s estate through the machinations of their aunts. Jacob Kitt, of Huntington county, died aged 102 years. Mr. Kitt was born in Yorktown, Pa., and came to this State thirty-five years ago. His oldestchild is 78 years. Mr. Kitt was by far the oldest man iu Huutington county, if not in Indiana.

The Eviinsville Gouricr has been sued for $25,000, the libel consisting of a charge that one Wetkins F. Nesbi tt and others had def auded the city of Evansville out of its just proportion of stock of the Cincinnati, Rockport and Southwestern railroad. A poor old French woman, who has lived in the outskirts of Evansville for many years, died alone and friendless a few days since. She was known there as Mrs. Asher, but from documents found after her death it is thought that she was of noble ancestry. Some two years ago the Ford PlateGlass Works' of Jeffersonville suddenly changed owners one night, and at the same time changed its name to the Jeffersonville Plate-Glass Works. By this transfer ihe large stockholders wiped out the smaller ones, who have now instituted proceedings to upset the whole transaction.

Fort Wayne Sentinel: Sinbe the law went into effect there has scarcely been a person brought before the Mayor for disorderly conduct. They have all been converted into square, unadulterated drunks, because there is a fee of $1 for every arrest made for State offenses, of which drunkenness is one, and disorderly conduct is not. Burglars entered the store of Dr. Fowler, in Lockport, about ten miles south of Terre Haute, drilled Open the safe, and extracted nearly $2,Q00 in money belonging to Brill & Connelly, grain dealers, who kept their money in the safe there over night. As soon as the money was secured the thieves set fire to the building and decamped. The store and stock were totally destroyed. Loss about $4,000. Delana E. Williamson, while.pleading a case in the Putnam Circuit /Court, called the prosecuting witness a liar. The jury returned a verdict of acquittal for Williamson’s client, but added the following clause: “We, the regular impaneled jury, being men who love decency and courtesy toward our Jellowmen, do say that D. E. Williamson did, without any cause whatever, call a lady, Mrs. Saunders, a liar. We do say that we denounce all such conduct, and Jrespectfully suggest that he be reprimanded by the court.”

A cord of stone, three bushels of lime and a cubic yard of sand yvill lay one hundred cubic feet of will. Five courses of brick will lay on® foot in height on a chimney. Nine bricks in a course will make flue eight inches wide and twenty inches long, and flight bricks in a course will make a flue eight inches wide and sixteen inches long. Eight bushels of good lime, sixteen bushels of sand, and one bushel of hair will make enough mortar to plaster one hundred square yards. One-fifth more siding and flooring is needed than the. ndmer of square feet of surface to be covered, because of the lap in the siding and matching of floor. One thousand laths will cover seventy yards of surface,'bra eleven pounds of lath nails will nail them on. Qne thousand shingles laidfou%inches to the weather will cover one/ntndred square feet of surface, and five 3 founds of shingle nails will fasten them <n. Arabia* scale armor was saasetimei, made of thin plates of horq, >