Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1882 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Mbs. Cohn, of Fort Wayne, fell from a carriage and broke her back, dying immediately. The Indiana Democratic State Convention, called to meet Aug. 2, will contain 1,121 delegates. Flames swept away the large gristmill of Nelson & Co., fifteen miles south oFWabash. Loss, SIO,OOO. A gang of boys, the oldest not 16, have been arrestpd at Richmond for breaking into cars and stealing goods. Work has been commenced on the $25,000 wagon bridge across White river, in Freedom, Owen county. Warren county is greatly excited over alleged discoveries of gold, silver, copper and lead, three miles east of Independence. Wabash College will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary on the occasion of the approaching “commencement” exercises, June 28. It is stated that bog cholera has made its appearance in Fulton county, and some alarm is manifested by farmers. One man has lost forty head of hogs. The probabilities are that a suspension bridge will be adopted by the Louisville and New Albany Bridge Company instead of the structure originally designed. The postoffico and three stores at Somerset, Wabash county, and the ticket office of the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan railroad, at Jonesboro, were burglarized a few nights ago. The Tippecanoe county Court House contractors, it is understood, offer $lO,000 in addition to the balance due them, and the material on the ground, to cancel the contract for building that edifice. Levi Hepler, aged 40 a well-known farmer of Putnam county, in getting off a Vandalia freight, ten miles west of Greencastle, fell from the bridge thirty feet on a pile of stone and was killed instantly. The mystery attending the burning of buildings last summer at Richmond, has been unveiled by a confession of one of the incendiaries after he had been converted in Cincinnati by the boy preacher, Harrison. A citizen of Five Points received a warning that an attempt would be made to steal the body of his young sister in the cemetery. He therefore kept watch at night ana captured one of the ghouls in the attempt to open the grave.

It is reported that oil in paying quantities has been discovered at a depth of 600 feet in Washington township, Carroll county. The alleged “strike ” was made on the farm of a Mr. Appleton, and the people in the neighborhood have a bad attack of oil-fever. A black bear in the zoological garden at Richmond broke from its quarters and joined a picnic party from the primary rooms of the schools. It played with the children until the teachers saw it and called men, who chased it into an inclosure with pitchforks and then shot it. It has been discovered that the ground upon which the Huntington county Court House stands was deeded to the county on condition that no Indian or negro ever be allowed to live within the city limits of Huntington. So far the conditions have not been violated. Dr. Stemen, of Fort Wayne, formerly a Method st minister, preached from a pulpit in that city the other Sunday evening, and thought he discovered his bitter enemy, Dr. Sweringer, making faces at him. He walked down the aisle, and ottered thrash him at once. Sweringer retaliated by having Stemen arrested on a charge of provoke. When they met in the Justice’s office, Stemen put in three stinging blows on his adversary’s face, which drew blood, and the cote was adjourned. The State Superintendent of Public Instruction has just completed the summing up of the school enumeration of the various counties, together with the school revenues. The following are the totals: School children in the State 700,4*24 Interest derived from tax 5787,894.32 Amount collected on common school fund since last apportionment; 104,189.00 Aim lint derived from unclaimed fees.... 810.86 Total amount reported by counties ready for apportionment 892,894.27 The enumeration of 1881 showed 714,223 school children in the State. The decrease in the number for 1882 is attributed to the more reliable plan of making the enumeration.

Not long ago a resolution was adopted by Congress calling for a statement of the number of persons drawing pensions in the United Btates, by counties and States, and the amounts paid. The following is the statement so far as it relates to Indiana. It will be found of great interest, as it shows the number of pensioners residing in each county of the State, and the amount of money disbursed for pensions in each county: il h rt H il.il il.il Gibson 186 $37,833 Marlon 116 $23,869 Perry 172 34,846 Shelby 196 89,864 Pike. 206 41,876 Clay 177 36,054 Posey 136 27,461 Fountain... 140 28,477 Spencer.... 182 37,057 Montgom’ry 188 38,152 Vanderbnrg 228 46,376 Parke 187 27,824 Warrick.... 118 24,062 Vermillion.. 148 30,126 Davleaa 160 32,558 Vigo 380 77,079 Dubois 91 18,430 Warren 79 16,069 Greene 290 59,037 Boone 209 42,438 Knox. 159 32,308 Clint n..... 15 3-,991 Lawrence... 219 44,528 Hamilton... 175 8 ,6,9 Marin 162 32,92-) Madison.... 161 32,771 Orange.... 162 82,923 Tippecanoe. 344 69,981 Sullivan... 161 36,594 Tipton 158 32,<>26 Clarke 218 43,236 Benton.... 61 12,416 Crawford... 184 37,331 Carroll 91 18,4 8 Floyd 167 34,033 Cana. 196 39,908 Harrison... 159 32,361 Fulton 104 21,189 Jackson.... 212| 45,190 Jasper 78 15,785 Jennings... 155 31,464 Lake 75 15,299 Scott 75 15,230 Newton 52 15,018 Washington 161 32,619 Pcrter 103 21,044 Dearborn... 189 38,365 Pulaski .... 104 21,212 Decatur.... 162 33,007 White 147 29,777 Franklin... 128 26,069 Adame 67 18,794 Jefferson... 232 47,112 Blackford.. 48 9,789 0hi0........ 64 10,518 Grant 16 32,710 Ripley 185 87.567 Howard... 183 37,179 Switzerland 109 22,200 Huntington 112 22,868 Union 43 9,872 Jay 147 99,838 Barth’lom’w 229 46,520 Miami 157 31,943 Brown 75 15,2 !8 I Wabash ... 199 40,538 Haudricks.. 130 26,357 I Welle 101 20,528 Johnson.... 160 26,212 Alenl 249 50,624 M0nr0e..... 128 26,19. DeKalb 34’. 70,270 Morgan 158 32,057 Lagrange... 15 30,780 Owen 162 32,999 Noble 234 47,432 Putnam.... 194 39,573 Steuben.... 196 89,885 Delaware... 172 34,937 Whitley 7b 15,41$ Fayette 61 12,441 E.khart..... 172 34,907 Henry 202 41,109 Kosciusko.. 162 32,802 Randolph... 226 45,965 La Porte.... 16<' 32.-.05 Rnah 110 22,29> Marehall.... 149 30,332 Wayne...... 246 50,023 St. Joseph.. 173 85,370 Hancock.... 138 27,155 Ifttarke ,| 4f 8,178 A charaater in “ Oddities of Southern Life ” thus describes himself : “ I am a fighter from Bitter creek ■ I’m a wolf, and this is my night to howl. I’ve three rows of front teeth, and nary tooth alike. The folks on Bitter creek are bad; the higher up you go the wuss they are, and I’m from the headwaters,’’