Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1882 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

The total taxes levied by counties iu Indiana, iu 1881, amounted to $10,148,197. The Governor’s Guards, of Torre Haute, have been mustered out of the State Legion. It is said that a Terre Hante physician received $1,500 for an operation at Paris, 111., recently. A tarantula popped ont of a bunch of bananas in New Castle, the other day, and scared everybody. Two HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOUR Cars were turned out by the ludianapolis Oar Works in February. Four boys were arrested iu the act of burglarizing a grocery store at Sullivan. Their ages range from 8 to 16. Attioa is to have a new fruit-canning factory if the oitizens will assist the enterprise to the amount of $2,500. Barnett Watts, an old citizen of Fulton county, drank too much rot-gut in Peru, and died on his road home. Capt. Conner, of the Indiana Statistical Bureau, lias appointed weather observers in fifty counties es the State. The furniture works of the CooieyMorrison Company, at Connersville, valued at $60,000, recently fell a prey to flames. An old soldier** Jeffersonville has just received $7,800 back pay from the Government for the loss of his eyesight in the late war. At Decatur, during a saloon row, Daniel King, ex-Sheriff of Adams county, was so badly beaten that he died of his injuries. The remnant of the Miami Indians, who recently received their last annuity from the Government, are rapidly drinking themselves to death. One of the finest pieces of land in St. Joseph county, the famous Dickey property in Olive township, 480 acres, was sold the other day for $33,000. A liquor-dealer at Somerset, Ind., having run away, the citizens subscribed enough money to buy the stock from his wife, and emptied it into the gutter.

Miss Bettie Grimsley, a young lady of Gosport, has l>een appointed signalservice observer for Owen oouuty. She is the first lady in the State who has obtained such a position. There is apprehension at New Albany that a great deal of sickness will follow the flood. In the year 1832, folowing the flood, the fever and cholera raged to a fearful extent. A series of Quaker revival-meetings at Richmond ended with 150 conversions and one girl iu the insane asylum. At similar meetings at Economy, three women were made lunatics.

Active preparations are being mode to remove the division headquarters of the Wabash railroad from Fort Wayne and Lafayette to Antioch, Ind. The new yard is said to be the finest in the West.

Tippecanoe county has now fourteen toll-roads, with a capital of $167,680, on which more than $20,000 was collected in tolls last year.» It is proposed that the county should buy the roads and make them free.

Since the starch-works at Columbus began operations, a little over a year ago, there have been manufactured and sold by that company 6,000,000 pounds of starch, worth 6 cents a pound at wholesale—s3oo,ooo. Capt. Wm. M. Meredith, formerly of Indianapolis, now of Chicago, is an applicant for the position of Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in the Treasury Department. The Captain has been connected with the Western Bank Note and Engraving Company of Chicago for several years. Ninety-six orchardists of this State have answered the request mode by the Secretary of the Indiana Horticultural Society by naming the variety of ajfbles best suited for home use and market. The favorites are in the order named : Maiden blush, early harvest, Ben Davi«, rambo, winesap and Rome beauty. A new frame house was blown down by a hurricane at Fort Wayne. Four men were at work on it, of whom two escaped by jumping, but Mr. Vail, a carpenter, had a leg broken, and John Davis, the aged father of the owner of the house, was crushed beneath the roof and fatally injured. Several other small buildings were blown down. Princeton Clarion: Rev. R. L. Cushman, while digging out a stump on his farm near King’s Station, uncovered a lot of Indian arrow heads, which had evidently been buried at the root of the tree, lliere were eighty flint arrowheads in the lot, and the manner in which they were placed indicates that they had been deposited there by some human hands.

The Cambridge City Tribune says : Our School Board contemplates building a new school-house, for the colored people on the west side of the river. It has been decided by the board, as well as by the courts, that the colored children shall not be admitted into our public schools and receive instruction with the white children. South Bend claims the champion pie-biter of America. He is a barl>er. A match recently took place in his shop, in which he and two other admirers of pastry participated. The pies were mince and warm. Eacn contestant took a pie in his hands and waited the signal. When the word was given the barber made his pie the shape of a moon three-quarters full at the first bito. The second bite took oft’ one of the horns, and the third the other. After the third bite the others came in such rapid succession that nobody could count them, and the barber swallowed the last of his pie in just one minute and two seconds from the first bite. The others followed, one in three and one-half minutes and the other in five minutes.

The second annual report of the State, Coal Mine Inspector, Thomas Wilson, Jr., shows that fifteen counties havo coal mines in operation in the State to the number of eighty-six, employing 4,567 men, and producing last year 1,771,376 tons of coal. The capital represented is $1,442,210. Only ten fatal accidents were reported during the year. The Inspector finds that the want of practically educated mining engineers is seriously felt, particularly with regard to the ventilation of mines, as the airway in most of them is entirely too small. This, he says, is the result of mining on the cheap system. He finds that Indiana is the fourth coal-produo-ing State in the Union, and there is little danger of a coal famine in the State.

The Democratic Sentinel •VVMIALPAFEB FBIDAI. MARCH 17.1882.

An exchange well says that Arthur is like th » Yank* e’s powder-slow but dreadfully sure-to get a Stalwait in when the time comes. The article on first page of to-day’g Sentinel, on tne “Enormity of the Tar iff-“Protection” During 1881”—is on titled to a careful perusal, home ttutulent third termer shold p ish a bill into Congress to Pension Fred Grant. It will have to be done * , me rime. Grant mendicancy is row a National disease. The religious people of Clarinda lowa had a week of prayer for ex- ( mptiomfrom smallpox. The scourge passed by the town, and now a day of thanksgiving is appointed.

the indications are favorable for the rest. r tlon of Goner. 1 Fitz Joi n Porter to all the rights, privileges and honors which were years ago wrested from him by a packed Military Cour r

Senator Logan has had hfs son in law Tucker, a man under thirty, who never had any connection with the army, appointed paymaster over th** heads of many old soldiers. It is a life position, worth $4,200 a year.

A Belgian, who landed at Cast!** Garden on Saturday, has a pair of horns an inch long protruding from ,his forehead, and seems proud of his peculiarity The doctors say they could not he cut away without great danger, as the incision would proba bly reach the braiu.

Reports have lfihat Senator Bogan is pressing Grant io think of something else he wants to make him comfortable in his old age. Well, pressthc act to pension ex PresidentsThis with the act retiring him as General—should it pass the House—he will be well pensioned.

Senator Hoar, o f Massachusetts, in referring to Judge Roscoe Conkling,of New York, in the United States Senate recently maliciously said: “He (Conkling) is being spotted with the blood of the National’s chief Magistrate.” Such talk coming from a brother Senator is disgraceful. If Conkling can be charged with the b'ood of Garfield, so can President Arthur.

Merely because President Arthur was moved to tears by the sweet song s of some wandering sons of Ham, an irreverent correspondent of the Times fancies that he is unlike the father of his country, because Washington never slopped over. Yet Washington was regarded as a man of sensibilities, and if he had sat up all day like patience on a monument smiling at office-hunters, he. too, might have wept at evening if the represenatives of an enfranchised race had held out. to him in tuneful numbers the promise of a blessed and restful imortality.

Indianapolis Sentinel: Ic will deubtless be conceded by those who have placed the highest estimates upon Garfield’s character that nothing ; co’d have been more unfortunate than to publish a private letter, written bv Garfield at a time when he was chief of General Rosecran’s staff to Governor Chase, of Ohio. The publication of the letter in question was doubt less owing to the fact that Blaine, in his memorial eulogy, sought to confer upon Garfield military renown based upon nothing more substantial than fiction, and to prop up this airy fabric Garfield’s letter is brought forward. Unfortinately for Garfield and his friends, Rosecrans is stil living to reply, and to rescue his inili tary reputation from such stigmas as duplicity and fasehood sought to fix upon it. Rosecrans, in his reply to the a legations made by Garfield, exhibits an indignation which all true men will endorse. He charges Garfield with falsehood and exaggeration, with treachery and ingratitude, for which, if the Commanding General had had information, Garfield would have been promptly court martialed and dismissed in disgrace. The affair in the light of truth, surrounds the character of Garfield with any thiog but a halo of glory, and thoughtful men will not fail to ana. lyze the facts. This done, and it will be seen that General Rosecrans had for his Chief of Staff a man who, whil‘> professing friendship, was nothing better than a stealthy enemy. ingratiated himself fully into the Commanding General’s confidence tnis Chief of Staff used his position and opportunities to assassinate a reputation amidst the fire and smoke of battles—an exhibition of deceit, of mean mendacity without a parallel. General Rosecrans says of Garfield’s statements, that they die “a mixture of untrulhes and misrepresentations,’ - and do “discredit to the memory of a dead man,” and adds: “I bad ne idea at the time that I was harboring a person capable of 6ueh falseness anti double dealing or there would havt been a court martial at cnce. I did not look for such an exhibition of General Garfield’s character as this, and am sorry that the letter ever saw the light. Rut it should never have been written, for, as I have said, it is a compound of untruths and * xaggeiations.” Foitunately fo 1 General Rosecrans h* is now in a position to set himself right, and to rhuiaoterize “unthruths and exagger i tions” as they deserve. It is thus that the mill of the gods reduc' dropsical pretensions, mendacious f- in*, and all that goes to make hypo < tsy successful, to dimensions of 1 ite contempt and abhorrence.