Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1882 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

It is estimated' that the wheat crop in Sixteen southern counties of the State will reach over 10,000,000 bushels. During the last month the Lafayette car works have used 135 car-loads of lumber, amounting to 1,000,000 feet. Lightning struck Robert Frnzeo and Charles Watson, of Frankfort, killing them ihstantly. M. V. House was injured. During a drunken row at Terre Haute, Goorge Blake, a puddler in the rollingmill, was fatally shot by Frank M. Martin. Some well-informed farmers express the opinion that there will be a larger surplus of wheat and Irish potatoes in Orange county this season than was ever in it before. A Miami county jury has found a verdict for El Clauve in a suit against the Peru Fair Association for the killing of a horse by a target gun within the grounds. Indiana, by the census bulletin, is credited with 498,437 voters, of whom 10,739 are colored, the 487,698 white voters being divided into 414,262 native born and 73,446 foreign born. John Seipp, foreman of Busch’s foundry at Columbus, in atlempting to take the lindfrom under the horse’s tail, was kicked by the horse, breaking his neck. He fell out of the buggy dead. Two shots were fired at David W. Keil, proprietor of the Fort Wayne Daily Gazette, at 2 o’clock in the morning, while approaching his residence. He narrowly escaped being assassinated. Phil, Stonehour, a German resident of Wabash, while drunk fired seven shots at his daughter, without injuring her. Stonehour disapproves of the young man the girl has chosen as her lover.

It is charged against J. F. Williams, Superintendent of the Martin county Schools, that lie has been selling to the teachers the monthly questions for their examinations, and realizing handsomely thereby. While Policeman Cravens, of Terre Haute, was pumping water, a girl pulled his coat, causing the discharge of his revolver, which killed a boy named Roberts, about 6 years old, who was standing near by. ' Forty-five County Auditors of Indiana have made their annual agricultural report to the State Bureau of Statistics. The acre ge for the year is fully up to last year, judging from reports already received. Weed Patch, Brown county, heretofore enjoying the proud reputation of being called the highest point in the State, has been dethroned by a point in Randolph county, which is a few feet higher than the Weed Patch. Mrs. Noah Tyron, of Connorsville, had her leg fractured by the breaking of a seat in Cole’s circus. Her husband at once instituted a suit in attachment for damages, which was compromised, the .circus man paying $175. A statement that W. C. De Pauw, of New Albany (now in Europe) had proposed to give to the Asbury University, at Greencastle, $1,000,000 provided the name of the institution was chauged to De Pauw University, is denied. Two Cass county farmers had a dispute about a monkey wrench and went to law. The case has just been transferred to Miami county, and is being pushed with vigor. The costs have reached $l5O, and there are three lawyers to be paid beside. A gentleman from Boone county, who is raising 130 acres of wheat this year, says his crop will average twenty-eight bushels to the acre, and the grain is heavy and large. Altogether, lie regards it as the best crop he has ever made, and it is the same with his neighbors. The first new wheat of the Season was received in New Albany recently. It came from Boone township, Harrison county, and weighed sixty-two pounds to the measured bushel, and was a part of a crop that will average thirty bushels to the acre. It sold at a premium, bringing $1.30 per bushel—the regular price being $1.25. A little daughter of Thomas Price was horribly bitten by a vicious sow on her father’s farm at Xenia, Miami county. It seems the little child approached tiie pen in which the sow, with her litter, was confined, carrying a small kitten. It is presumed the animal mistook the kitten for one of her brood and attacked her. The poor child was terribly mangled before the parents could reach the scene. The dog harvest in Indiana is reported as showing very favorable results. The dog law which was passed by the Legislature last winter is being enforced, and it has resulted in such security for sheep that the flocks in the State are being rapidly increased. The dog census showed a total number of 164,906 animals within the limits of the State, about 75 per cent, of them being properly registered and taxed. The remainder are being rapidly disposed of by means authorized by law, and the slaughter within the last six months has been 7,958. The court of inquiry appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Vincennes University to investigate into the Haight-Adams scandal, now so notorious throughout the country, made their final report, and the board unequivocally exonerated Miss Adams from entertaining any impure motive whatever, but that she was the victim of the indiscretion of Prof. Haight. The professor is severely criticised for the false entry on the hotel register. There was no evidence of love-making on the train, as charged, and no foundation for the rumor that there had been criminal intimacy between them. The Indiana Slate Bureau of Statistics some time ago organized a thorough system of crop reports, which has worked successfully, and is of marked value both to the producers and to the market men. Nearly all of the 1,011 townships in the State are heard from promptly on the last day of each month, and the summary is published in an intelligent form by Mr. John B, Conner, the chief statistician. The report for July 1 shows that the winter-wheat harvest in about completed in the southern part of the State, and is progressing favorably in the northern and central portions. The crop is very fine, and will aggregate between forty-five and fifty million bushels. The acreage shows an increase of 2 per cent, above the average, and the yield will be nearly 8 per cent, above the average. Considering the cold aiul wet weather the corn looks favorably and shows an average of 98.3 per cent for acreage, and 87.5 for condition. The oat crop is exceedingly promisiug, and will be tliq largest harvested for many

years. The same is true of potatoes ; and all the others are either equal to or above the average for the last ten years. The Evansville Argus relates the following: The people of a little town in Warrick county have been liangingright over the brink of a church scandal, but are not aware of the fact, nor will they be until this copy of the Argus reaches its readers over there. Just before the close of the services last Sunday a good brother walked forward to the pulpit, handed the minister an announcement, ns he thought,and asked him to read it to the congregation before he dismissed them. Just before time was called on the doxology the minister said: “ Brother Brain - loy has handed in the following,” and in a clear voice he read the note, which ran as follows: My Own Pkt Bram : Are you never coming to see mo again V I am dving to woe my darling once more and gaze into liis beioved eyes. 'I lie old mummy that calls herself your wifo will never find it out. How can you endure her / Come, darling, to one who truly loves you, Your own and only Mary. The good brother had handed in the wrong announcement. At tfce close of the reading the minister looked horrorstricken, the corgregation stared at Bramley with cold, hard stares, and his wife rose up ill her seat and glared at him like a tigress. Ho was equal to the occasion, however, and, rising calmly and with a look of perfect resignation on liis face, he said : Brothers and Sisters : It may ams ar strange to you that I should ask our beloved pastor to read such a terrible from the pulpit, but the best way devil is to fight him boldly, face Tim writer of that vile note is unknown to mo, till, is evidently some dopraved child of am who h endeavoring to besmirch my Christian reputation. I shall use overy endeavor to ferret out the writer, and, if discovered, will foark ssly proclaim her name and hold her up to the contornpt of all good Christian people. He sat down amid murmurs of approbation and sympathy.