Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1881 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

The Muncie temperance people are making a strong tight against lioense. Editor Keil, of the Gazette, has beefli reappointed Postmaster at Fort Wayne. A Norman horse weighing 2.045 pounds was lately sent to the New York market from Lafayette. The fine steamboat John S. Hopkins, built at a cost of #40,000, was burned at the wharf at Evansville. A son of Senator Dan Voorliees will, it is said, appear upon the dramatic stage next year with a company organized by himself. Mr. Draper, a resident of Hammond, died in the dental chair of Sovereign Brothers, in Chicago, while under the influence of chloroform. The safe of Marine, Brooder & Co., Lafayette grocers, was blown open by thieves and robbed of cash to the amount of about #l5O. Fort Wayne has voted #150,000 to the New York, Chicago and St. Down* road, on condition that it build construction and repair shops to employ 1,500

men. Farmers in Southern Indiana state that the growing wheat is entirely too thick, the roots and stalks being stronger than was ever known at this season. The New Albany Street Railway Company offered Mrs. Featheriugill #SOO to settle a suit for personal damages, and, the case going to a jury, they awarded only #275. William Patterson, a farmer living near Brazil, killed his sou, aged 5 years, by accidentally discharging a gun. Tins entire charge entered the boy’s head, tearing it to pieces. Judge Gresham, of the United States Court, sentenced Dr. H. C. McDowell to pay a fine of #IOO and costs for sending obscene matter to Miss Amanda Rockhill through the mail. The Bureau of Statistics has prepared a table which, though somewhat ancient in date, shows the amount of fruit raised in the State in 1880. There were (>,- 080,698 bushels of apples, 50,240 of pears aud 669,398 of peaches. Oscar Noe, a school-teacher at Warren, Huntington county, revenged himself upon a successful rival in (i lovematch by firing the stoic of the bridegroom and destroying the residence where the bride was stopping.

Armistead Lewis, a wealthy farmer who disappeared from Hope, Bartholomew county, has returned, but gives no very satisfactory account of liis wanderings or the reason for them. Ho lias been to Tennessee and Canada. Jonathan Winslow, of Delaney’s Creek, Washington county, aged 78 years, got upon a horse and started to ride him to water. Ho was last seen near the creek, all well apparently. In about ten minutes another person came along and found him dead in. the highway. New Indiana patents: T. M. Bales, Dublin, cockle-machine; M. Hedrick, Oakland City, aid-binder attachment for harvesters; W. Hossman, Richmond, caster; W. Hessman, Richmond, furni-ture-caster ; A. Hosack, Silver Lake, bridle ; W. Kendall, Logansport,showerbath ; M. C. Meigs, Romney, cultivator; E. W. Poston. Fort Wayne, car-brake and starter ; J. R. Rude, S. B. and G. W., Liberty, grain-drill (reissue). G. A Wagner, Portland, steam generator. In answer to an inquiry as to whether the Commissioners of a county can lawfully order all the county advertising to be dwne in a paper designated by them, the Attorney General expresses the opinion that under the act of March 9, 1875, it is the duty of the Auditor to make the publication ; that he has the right to determine what paper in the county has the largest circulation, and his decision is final. In the case of Sheriffs, Clerks aud administrators, no one has the authority to control their action in selecting a paper for the publication of their notices, unless it be the court, and even its power is doubted.

A dreadful murder was recently enacted near Greencastle. Benjamin Lynch, a farmer with an unenviable reputation as a bully, and whose wife had recently obtained a divorce from him on the ground of brutal treatment, started to see his child and get some articles belonging to him, when he was met near the house by his two stepsons, who shot him four times in the abdomen, and then beat out his brains with a club. The Coroner held an inquest on the body, and the jury returned a verdict of willful and premeditated murder in the first degree against the Young boys. Lynch, the murdered man, was a cousin of the lato Gen. Nelson Trussler. The annual report of the Directors and officers of the Southern Penitentiary at Jeffersonville has been submitted to the Governor. The Warden’s report shows the number of convicts in the prison, Oct. 30, 1880, to bo 5(52 —received from the courts, 225 ; total, 787 ; total discharges, 2.(59, leaving in prison 518 convicts. The unexpended balance of the general appropriation is $2,221.38. The average cost of each .convict per day was 39 3-25 cents. The daily number of men employed was 425, and the total earnings on contract labor were $57,007.04, and the total expenses of the institution for the year were $74,881. During the year there were nine deaths. Since the penitentiary was opened, 7,260 convicts have been received. Twenty-two per cent, of the convicts this year could neither read nor write, and 60 per cent, were married. State Treasurer Hill has submitted to Gov. Porter his report for the fiscal year ending Oct. 31. The total net receipts from all sources during the year, and including $888,865.37 balance on hand Nov. 1, 1880, were $4,167,025. The net disbursements for the year for all purposes were $3,426,374.28, leaving a balance in the treasury Oct. 31, 1881, of $740,650.72. Tlie total receipts of the general fund, including $501,589.84 balance on hand Nov. 1, 1880, were $6,912,920.02. The largest items of expenditure were : Exihuisos of penal and benevolent institutions, $012,415.39; the State judiciary, $147,828.83; the payment of interest on the State debt, $285,500.09; sessions of the Legislature, $146,626.58, and the payment of the warloan bonds, $139,000. The foreign debt is shown to be $971,825.12, being a decrease of $12,215.70. The domestic debt consists of 6-per-cent, non-negotiablq bonds due the common-school l'uud interest payable semi-annually, amounting to $3,904,7851.22 ; making the total debt of the State $i,8i6.6(>3..’4.

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