Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1881 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Pinkeye is very bad among the horses of Fort Wayne. A son of Richard Jackson, of Lawrence county, was kicked to death by a horse. A vicious boar, belonging to Frauk Ray, of Montgomery county, killed a $l5O horse by goring him with its tusks. The New York, Chicago and St. Louis railroad lias been graded, aud is ready for the ties and rails through Kosciusko county. A child of F. M. Goby, 2 years old, living near Logansport, was crushed to death by a wood pile tumbling down upon it. Walter E. Savage lias been awarded $3,000 damages from the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific railroad for being put off a train at Aboite, Allen county, while drunk. Mrs. James ErsE*', a most estimable lady, of Rising Sun, died the other day, of leek-jaw, caused by a wound received in her face while taking up flowers in her garden. Two Mormon priests have been secretly working for some mouths in the vicinity of West Lebanon, and tlio result is said to be twenty-two converts, most of whom will soon go to Utah. < The directors of the Northern Stato Prison, of Indiana, report the average number of convicts at 572. The earn- ■ ings for the year were $77,429.40, aud the deficit $1,359.47. Policy holders in the Northern Marriage Dowry Association, at Muncie, were bled the other day $l6B a head to meet matured policies. The marriage dowry businesses growing too heavy, and a crash is anticipated. Hereafter the needy poor of New Albany will go to the asylum, excepting for coal, which will be furnished by the city and township. The free soup-house lias proved an attraction lor ‘dual- bouts and has been discontinued. Benjamin Singleton and Smith Call brothers-in-law,got into an altercation, near their homes, eight miles from Greencastle, over an old feud in regard to a partition fence. Call stabbed Singleton several times in the side, giving him injuries that are pronounced fatal. Col. Ben Sayre and wife, of Wabasli, have been married over sixty-eight-years. The Colonel s son, Dam 1 nay re, recently celebrated the forty-nith anniversary of his married <iie, while liis son, Hon. Warren G. Sayre, lias enjoyed over sixteon years of connubial felicity. The clothing ®f Mrs. Ralph Prosser, of Huron, Lawrence couuty, took fire from a stove nUrnuig tier body from hex ankles to her should* is. V\ he;, she covered her clothing on lit* she ran but of the house anil crossed the ei«» R twice, and, strange to Buy, nev. tnought of lying down in the water. The saloon of John Cawley, at Bainbridge, Putnam county, was entered at night by burglars, who, after robbing the till of several dollars, wasted all the liquors on the floor, broke up the furniture, defaced the pictures, and turned the whole institution into a total wreck. This is the second time tho saloon has been demolished within a y'ar. A saloon-keeper of Clovcnlale, Putnam couuty, named Hart, took an ounce of laudanum witli suicidal ini cut. After a night of work by the physician his life was saved. Hart is a young man. and only recently embarked in tlie liquor business. His conscience condemned him so strongly that he sought to atone for his sin by takiug his own life. The Indiana State Board of Health published an order forbidding uny person to enter any public or private school, either as pupils or teachers, after tlie Ist of January, until thev have been successfully vaccinated. The order also requires all persons who shall come into tho State to be vaccinated within sixty days after date of arrival in tho State. . The annual report of the managers of the State Female Reformatory shows that there are forty-live prisoners in the penal department, and 143 in tlie reformatory ; average number, 187 ; deaths during the year, one; expenditures, $26,052.28. The cluim is made that 76 per cent, of tlie inmates have been reclaimed from evil ways, aud that the institution throughout is in superb condition. Gen. John S. Simonson, who died lately at New Albany, was tlie oldest regular soldier in the United States. Ho served as a volunteer in the war of 1812, served through the Mexican war, took part, in the Indian wars up to 1861, and served through the war -tor the Union. In 1865, on the recommendation of Gen. Grant, lie was breveted Brigadier General for long anil faithful service, and was afterward pluced on tho retired list. At the time of his death lie wub 85 years of age. A colored man named William Hood, who lately died at Seymour, was ut one time possessed of prodigious physical strength. We quote from a Seymour paper: “ Hood once resided in a cabin near this city, and worked as an *xdriver. He would lift bodily one end of a saw-log that was sixteen feet in length aud two feet in diameter, and load it upon his wagon. He would handle a dozen ordinary men as if they yero playthings. On one ‘occasion an imuriated ox attempted to g re him, v*lieii he grabbed the animal by the horns aud hold it until a yoke was put up«.n its neck. He was a mcrcil.ss man, and would sometimes kuockanoxdownutoue blow with his list. It is said that on one occasion five men, with handspike* were tryiug to up-eud a rock, when he uughingly approached, ad, uuaHsi ted, raised the rock until a wg o was backed against >t, ■'*> *■ he shoved it into position f«u h i* n while the crowd st od *<y .n auia. m In the days when there w.i* n»» <> tom ’ to the roads leading from M nU-on, Hood was one of several te>nn»r«»is ogaged to move a sawmill from b> i place to Jennings county, tie > the rear and heaviiy loaded witn ;u i>*> • shalt. 1 liose wh .nd c." e double-teamed up hill, and :ok • i teams back to help pull Hoou’s .o id un. They were almost paralyzed at ui t-Ling him half war up the lull wa king o his team with the shalt upon Ins shou der, which lie carried to the top ol the hill and replaced upon the wagon. Arrived at tho destination a crowd congregated, when Hood’s feat was told. A muscular man present said that he could lilt as much as Hood. He tried to lift the shaft, failed and swore Hood ould not carry it asstated, and that no living man could do so ; wliereui on, with app -r nt ease, the dusky man shouldered the shaft, carried it to the building and placed it in position. The other stiong man shook hands, congratulated thq giant and subsided,”