Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1882 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Fob the first time in the history of Seymour, corn is 10 cents higher per bushel than wheat. A man in Greensbuvg imagines that he has beßh called upon by God to whittle flesh off the- bones of a living child. Thb blackberry crop of Jennings is immense. The finest of berries are a drug on the rtiarket at 3 oents per quark Gov. Portbb has been invited to address the National - Locomotive Firemen’s Convention • 'at Terre Haute, Sepc. 11. *• A young man, son of Finley Cartor, while unloading hay at Milroy, caught his hand in a pullr on the hay-fork and the hand was crushed. , Thkbk is a steadily increasing demand for real estate in New Albany. It is next thing to impossible for ono to find a house for rent in the city. Mk& Nbllie Colkman took the morphine route 1 to eternity, at Fort Wayne, becauso the man to whom she was engaged to be married was very attentive to another woman, Jvhn MoLAfiatuJN, of New, Albany, who was aliyo at last accounts, has suffered fernt years with cancer of the face, and during the past thirty-seven days has eaten scarcely anything. A good -deal of packman wheat will be sown in Floyd county the coming fall. This.wheat is propounoqd far superior in quality 'by the millers,' as it flours better tbah Other kind and produces well. *«»•'. *.« '■ Mbs. Henry Williams, of Bedford, swallowed five grains q! morphine in mio dose witji suicidal intont. The timely arrival*ll physician AaVed" her life. The- cAmte or the* attorn p t was despond-» enoy. • * * > Map. Jlakhv HUvmond, whose parent* live in an interior Indiana town, and Who has beeta married only four months, was deserted at a Chicago liotel* by her husband> who Carried, away her clothing and j«wplry.

As soif * ( parties wore prying out stumps with a teqm of horses in tli,o. vicinity of Milroy, the lever, flying out, struck Ehdoh Spurgeon, breaking his log and dislocating fin*hip and ankle and severely injuring him. , . LiOHTi*iN« 4iot-rtro to a. big« barn belonging to A. It. -Starbeck, a .prpmjnent farmer residing near Wabash. Many valuable* impimnofits, twenty tons of hay, and ‘.several bushels of corn and wheat were destroyed.' k .». , ; t Jlabt-Ab V strong,-of Lawrence coun *- tv, harvested 1,012 bufehels of wheat off thirty six acros» of ground, being an average of over twenty-eight bushels to thC'acife! He allowed stock tb run over the field Until th/f 10th Vrf April; - Thomas N.- SraVffNs; ,architect and builder, of Bedford/ While examining a building be w«w» remodeling! was crushed in a most fearful manner by a heavy stair Way fallfng ‘on him. One of his 1 broken ribs-penetrated-his lungs. Mrs. Summkbb, ft resident of Fulton obunty, was--visiting friends m Gass county same days .ago, when.- she at-i teipppfd,filicide by taking morphine. ‘She was iu a critical condition, but may refcoVfcr. She is nr widow, aged 60. BVdkY On VNjt, a young woman of malodorous reputation, was - found dead near Wabash, Ind., near the grounds where Forepaugh’s circus exhibited the day befofo. Morphine, * whisky and Abuse by tlife oanvasmen caused her-death. A living hi Enir- township, near Preu, h id a most horrible ride the other day. His horses,’ attached to a hay-r%ke, beQsate unmanageable and ran away. He became entangled in the rfeins and was dragged fully half a mile. AnNte Horuff, bf Madison, was contending with- a little boy for the- possession of a buttonhook, and he. finally threw it At liqt, catching the hook in her eyelid. TlieMsliild pulled it down, instead* of up, and aevowly lacerated the flesh. * . . »

Tqp. Eogansportr National Bank has brought suit to Recover SIO,OOO from a gambler name?! John Condon, who is alleged to have induced Cashier Goodwin to wager and lose that amount at faro. An action for a like amount was instituted against Goodwin’s bondsmen. New Albany's air-lino, railroad, for which she paid a mint of good money, will bjing her coal from the Pike county mifies at a total oost of 9 cents per bushel, allowing nothing for haddfing; when good Pittsburgh coal can be had by the" barge-load for 8 cents. There is vigorous kicking. *■ ' While dlemeht Heeter, son of George Heetur, a prominent fi r nor living near NortlV Manchester, Wabash county, was at work oh a straw-stack, he slipped and fell, alightiDg upon his back. Both of his lower lhnbs are how completely paralyzed, and dhe physician thinks lie will * die.,. „ i Tpq county pfpeers throughout Indiana ere this year answering the quest tibdrfbifoftonnded't© them by the State BtMMfi of Equalization • with* more promptness than, during any prpvipup , ! *ear, and the chief of the bureau thinks hiWepdrt tii*# year will be mu'ch fuller ‘ than ever before. • •*. ' J It is alleged that.a half-witted youth, ?eho was recently adopted by a farmer tn Caxrdlft county, wan*- cruelly tortured by his foster-father in order Jo cqmpol a 1 Confession of tliefC .’fbpsuiu of $lO had been stofert from tnfe house, and the boy * was hanged By the farmer and a neigh* 1 bor until ho fonfesapd bis guilt. The , bqy’s injuries ! afo saul to be serious. • Al BußTqy, Muncie, aas unload- ( ing a carboy of caybolic acid when It brokfc? flrdberring his leg from ‘the knee* down. His trousers were .burned from . his Ipg in jin instant, and the. acid run-, ning into his boot burned him,terribly. Fortunately' tliero Wok soihe solla at" hand, an# the application of it relieved him at once, butjiot till l»e was seriously , Plainfield Progress : tt ferny not bd : unltatferesfibg to our readers to know that blue grass, aulquous in Kentucky, -was .first raised in Indiana at a little‘lndian villsge called Jrfinmi Village, on White river, in Hitmilton county, lu tlio ypar 17,81 John and William Connor were Stolen by thenndians. from Pittsburgh, Pa.', .and’brought 4o tliis village. . John here became the chief tnan among the Ipc^ians,antfthrough Ifim we learn that blue grass Was a native of wbat is ' mow‘Hamilton. 'ln, 1810,.as Gen,: Harrison’a army Was returning south, they, took quantities of it to' Vincennes and - Tleniucky, and from t there it spread. •Judgß Piheh.'of IndiahapoWs, has often |bebn heard jto jcorsqburate ibis statesmen!. that blue grass wgf,first raised in what ’was then known dk the Northwestern Territory, Mo# Indiana, »