Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1882 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Th® citizens of Columbia City are making arrangements to take out a city charter. G. 8. Halb, of Wabash, has sold his fine stallion, Gen. Knox, to T. H. Wilhite, of Emporia, Kan., for SI,BOO. During the past year 1,104,371 cars were handled at Indianapolis, as against 859,391 in 1880. The number of loaded cars in 1881 was 816,767, and in 1880 727,383. Lewis J. Baker, of Bedford, a prominent and respected citizen, dropped dead immediately after eating a hearty supper. Apoplexy. Moral : Don’t eat a hearty supper. During the past year $83,564.33 were expended in Indianapolis for street improvements, and $40,745.61 for sewers. About SBOO,OOO were invested in building improvements during the year. Hon. Calvin Cowgill, Indian paymaster, has begun disbursing the final payment due from the Government to the remnant of the band of Miami Indians living iu the vicinity of Wabash. There are now but 375 members of the tribe left, and the amount to be paid them is $225,000, or about S6OO each. While Lewis Green, a farmer living in Grant county, was digging a ditch on his farm he unearthed portions of a mastodon’s skeleton. Seven years ago Green’s brother, while digging in the same place, found several teeth weighing over four pounds each. Green says that he now preposes to search for the rest of the bones. This discovery is the third one of the kind made in the vicinity during the past three years. A session of the Woman’s State Industrial Association was held at the State capital, the attendance being small. Papers were read by Mrs. Anderson, of Franklin, on “ Child-Rearing as a Business by Mrs. George Merritt, of Indianapolis, on “ Industrial Schools for Girlsand by Mrs. A. B. Campbell, of Indianapolis, on “ Woman’s Work in Indiana.” The following officers were elected : President, Mrs. Mary E. Haggart; f irst Vice President, Mrs. Dr. Annie B. Campbell ; Second Vice President, Mrs. F. W. Townsend ; Secretary. Miss Florineo M. Adkinson. Judge D. D. Banta, President of the State University at Bloomington, in his annual report to the Governor, shows receips, $31,461.90; expenditures, $30,045.43, leaving a balance of $1,416.58. The Financial Committee report the estimated receipts for the year ending Oct. 31, 1882, to be $35,866.58, including the cash balance of $1,416.58 and the State appropriation of $25,000. The Committee recommends the appropriation of $22,850 lor the purcli se of books and periodicals for the library, and other sums, aggregating in all $33,165, for the total expenses of the university for the current year. The Statistical Bureau of Indiana has completed a table showing the different vocations of women, ’and the number engaged therein, as returned by the various Township Trustees of the State. Women are engaged in fifty-two vocations, among which are the following : Apiarists, 37; authoresses and newspaper correspondents, 66; bar-tenders, as an occupation, 52; boarding-house proprietors, 533; book agents, as an occupation, 107; farmers, 2,252; clerks, as au occupation, 522; physicians, 98; printers as a trade, 51; preachers, 126; bookbinders, 57; basket makers, 10, and many other professions where women have not heretofore been known professionally. A meeting of the State Wool Growers’ Association was held at Indianapolis, Fielding Beeler, President, in the chair, and J. W. Robe, Secretary. Papers were presented by C. Darnell, on “Sheep—How to Increase the Number and Quality in Indiana ;” by the Hon. Robert Mitchell, on “ How We Shall Supply the Looms of the United States With All the Wool They Manufacture,” and by W. W. Sunman, on “Sugar Beets, Wurtzels, Rutabagas, Carrots and Parsnips in Relation to Sheep Husbandry." The following ofiicers of the association were elected : President, Fielding Beeler, Indianapolis; Vice President, R. J. Farquhar, Trenton; Secretary, J. W. Rohe, Green Castle ; Treasurer, S. W. Dungan, Franklin. The Delegate Board ot Agriculture, made up of abotrt seventy-five Presidents of District Boards and the members of the State Board, met at Indianapolis. President R. M. Lockhart delivered his annual address, in which he said that by the assistance of the Governor and the favor of the Legislature an act had been passed, by which the board was enabled to refund the loan on its ground and buildings for five yews, with the privilege of ten, at a much lower rate of interest. The board had paid off five of the original bonds out of the money earned by the fair. Instead of a bonded debt of $60,000, bearing 8 per cent, interest, as one year ago, there is now $55,000, bearing 6 per cent, interest, making a saving of $1,500 annually on the interest account. He recomniended a redistricting of the State for agricultural purposes, as the present law was totally inadequate to secure justice and equality. Alexander Heron, Secretary of the Board, submitted his annual report. It shows the total receipts for the -year to have bean $44,059.45, and expenditures of $24,061.43 in cash orders, and in premiums $6,885.50, leaving a balance of $13,142.52 iu the treasury. The net surplus realized from the State fair was $2,212.85. The figures show an increase of $1,278 over the receipts of the State fair in 1880. The Secretary stated that the remilts of the fair were especially encouraging in view of the unusual discouragements at the time, among them the drought, the assassination of the President, and counter attractions. The other reports showed a very encouragijig state of affairs. Prof. Stevenson, of Putnam county, read a paper on “Indiana’s Inducements to Immigrants,” and Prof. Campbell, of Wabash College, on “The Geodetic ■Survey of Indiana.” Gov. Porter delivered an address. Tire week of'Sept. 26 was chosen as the time for holding the State Fair. The following officers were elected: President, Henry C. Meredith, Cambridge City ; Vice President, L. B. Custer, Logansport; Secretary, Alexander Herron, Indianapolis; Qeneral BUperjntendent,Fielding Beeler, Indianapolis; Executive Committee, Robert Mitchell, John P. Baines, J. K. O’Neil gnd W. B. Seward. “ f 7, * ■ • •* - •