Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1882 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Dr. Theophilus Parvin has resigned his chair in the Medical College of Indiana. William Peake, of New Albany, lately married, has mysteriously disappeared. Lizzie Smith, a servant girl at Roann, Wabash county, fell down a flight of stairs and sustained injuries. The New Albany School Board reelected all the old teachers and seven new ones for the coming year. State treasury receipts during May, from all sources, $1,417,401.12. Same month last year, $1,464,029.42. New Albany dealers in harvesting machinery have been having a heavy trade the past two or three weeks. Word has been received that new military companies are being organized at •Lebanon, Seymour, Francesville, Mulberry and Bluffton. David Cramer, living at Belden, Wabash county, jumped off a moving train and fractured his skull. It is thought he will die. The infant daughter of J. M. Brown, of Fort Wayne, fell into a cistern, and the mother, unable to rescue her child, was compelled to stand by and see her drown. The new paper-mill at Lafayette will bo in operation within a few days. The machinery is all in position, and soon this valuable institution will be turning out from 8,000 to 10,000 pounds of paper per day. Miss Sarah Bassett, daughter of Prof. Bassett, of Wab ish College, who six years ago went ns missionary to Persia, is on her way home, having lost her health. She was to have remained ten years.

Burglars effected an entrance to the residence of Rev. Miller, a preacher of -the Dunkard church, at North Manchester, Wabash county, and stole sls in. money, a gold watch and a largo amount of jewelry. A. D. Brandriff & Co., an old and reputable hardware firm of Fort Wayne, are in the hands of tlie Sheriff. Their liabilities are placed at $85,000, and their assets at $55,000. Members of the family hold notes for SB,OOO. The usual average rain-fall for a year, at Lafayette, is about forty inches. Up to this time, from Oct. <1 .last, there has already been a fall of than fortytwo inches, and more than three months yet to go on to complete the year. The new city directory of Evansville contains 15,339 names, against 14,089 last year, and an increase of 1,244, indicating an absolute gain of nearly 3,500 in population. Allowing three persons to a name, it gives Evansville a population of 46,017. Much excitement was caused at Wa bash because of an assault made by two agents of a plow company upon Lee Linn, editor of the Wabash Courier. The Courier denounced them as swindlers, and one of the gang attacked Mr. Linn with a knife. He drew a revolver, but no gore was spilled. An Indian mound has been discovered at the old town of Clarksville. Four Indian skeletons have been unearthed, one with wampum in his skeleton hands. The bones are in a fine state of preservation. Saws made of bones, pipes and various Indian tools were found, and are in possession of Mr. Rusk, the discoverer.

Thb insane asylum drew from the State treasury, for current expenses during the month of May, $19,168.96, and for clothing, $664.36. The institution paid in on account of earnings for the month $74.78. There is but very little of the $7,500 appropriated by the last Legislature for repairs of the asylum left in the treasury, it nearly all having thus far been expended. Rbturns continue to be received at Peru concerning the operations of the lightning-rod sharpers in that vicinity. A Mr. Miller, of Clay township, signed a bogus contract and compromised by paying S2OO. Mr. Kuight, of Santa Fe, is a victim to a considerable amount. John Springer, an estimable farmer, donated $208.66 to the sharks. There seems to be no end to the rascalities e of these fellows, and, as most of their dupes prefer to grin and bear it, the sharpers are comparatively safe. Miss Kittv Almm had a nrarow escape at Cliffy Falls, near Madison. She was among those who attended a picnic at that place, and, while searching for a path to descend the declivity west of the falls, the soft earth gave way beneath her and she shot downward almost sixty feet. There was nothing to break the fall save some small underbrush, and these were clutched at by Miss Alling as she descended, but so great was her velocity that nothing she grasped checked her speed. Bho was unconscious by the time she alighted, but prompt medical attendance restored hei. She is doing well and will soon be about, but her escape from instant death was very close.