Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1882 — INDIANA AFFAIRS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA AFFAIRS.

Live-Stock Statistic*. The State Statistical Bureau has completed tables giving the number of cattle, sheep, hogs and animals slaughtered for food in 1881 and 1882. Totals are as follows: Cattle —April 1,1881,1,254,G 55; 1882, 1,110,632; during the yeir 29,217 cattle died. Hogs, 1881, 2,328,394; 1882, 3,066,267. Sheep, 1881, 1,146,556: 1882, 1,092,601. Limbs, 1881, 456,309; 1882, 502,447. Catt’o slaughtered, 1881, 138,485; 1882, 94,872. Hogs, 1881,1,421,375; 1882,1,897,055. Sheep, 1881,46,729; 1882,54,516. The bureau also furnishes tables giving the number of acres of fallow ground in 1881 as 638,395, against 657,183 in 1882. In 1881 the newly-olearo 1 ground in the State amounted to 132,159 acres; iu 1882, 225,468 acres. „ Poultry am! Egg*. The State Bureau of Statistics have compiled from the April reports of the township Assessors’ statements showing the production of poultry in each oounty of the State, together with statistics relative to tho quality of eggs sold and used by poultry raisers and the feathers picked, from which the following comparative summary of tho last three years is taken: ' ' j 1880. 1881. 18827* Chtokens, dozen 062,840 558,491 628,286 Turkovs, dozen 58,713 28.067 44,089 Geese,’dozen 48,348 26,408 25,403 Ducks, dozen 21,835 14,068 15,064 Guineas, dozen 4,748 2,410 2,976 Peafowls, dozen .. 2,329 6,125 Eggs, dozen 17,150,661 19,188,783 Feathers, lbs 518,787 346,681 310,733 The statistics on eggs include the production from all kinds of fowls, and the feathers are only those picked from geese. The total number of fowls of all kinds, according to the last report of the Assessors made in April, is 722,043, and of this number 628,286 are chickens. The statistics are probably incomplete in some respects, but they certainly made a very creditable showing for the poultry producers of the State. CongreHxinnal Nominations. The Congressional pominations in Indiana are as follows: FIBST DISTRICT. Republican, William Heilman, Evansville, Vnmferburg county; Democrntl •, John J. Kleiner, Evansville, Vamlerburg county. Tman DISTRICT. Republican, Will T. Walker, Kcottsburg, Scott com ty; Democratic, 8. M. Stockslngor, Corydon, Harrisnn county; National, JolinO. Green, New Albany, Floyil oounty. FOURTH DISTRICT. Democratic, William H. Holman, Aurora, Dearborn county; Republican, W. J. Johnson, Madi-on. FIFTH DISTRICT. Republican, C. C. Matson, Oreencastle, Putnam county; National, Samuel Wallingford, Bloomington, Monroe county. SIXTH DISTRICT. Republican, Thomas M. Browne, Winchester, Randolph county; Democratic, L. J. Pender, Richmond, Wayne county; National, Thompson Smith, Webster, Wayne county. HKVENTH DISTRICT. Republican, Stanton J. Poelle, Indianapolis, M ariou county; Democratic, Will E. English, Indianapolis, Marion county; National, R. W. Medkirk, Indianapolis, Marion county. EIGHTH DISTRICT. Republican, Robert B. F. Pierce, Crawfords vide, Montgomery county; Democra ic, John E. Lamb, Terre Haute', Vigo county; National. JohnW. Copner, Covington, Fountain county. NINTH DISTRICT. Republican, Godlove S Orth, Lafayette, Tippecanoe county; Democratic, Thomas B. Ward, Lafayette, Tippecanoe county; National, Richard F. Jacks, Lebunon, Boone county. TENTH DISTRICT. Republican, Mark L De Motto, Valparaiso, Tot ter conn y; Democratic, Thomas J. W od, ( rown Point! Lake county; National, James N. Moore, Lowell, Luke county. ELEVENTH DISTRICT. Republ can, George W. Htee’e, Marion, Grant county; Democratic, Joseph R Daly, Bluff ton, Wei is county; National, Evan Thompson, Huntlnguin, Huntington county. TWELFTH DISTRICT Republican, Wesley C. Glasgow, Lagrange, LaTrango county; Democratic, Rolien Lowry, Fort Wayne, Allen county; National, Joseph Butler, AneoJa, Steulieu county. THIRTEENTH DISTRICT. Republican, W. H. Calkins, Luporto, I,arorfce county; Democratic, J. H. Winterbotham, Michigan City, Ltiporte county; National, B. F. Shively, south Bend, Bt. Joseph county. Here and There. A military company lias been organized at Knightstown. There is a pending offer to construct a cable line for street cars in Columbus, provided the city will grant a satisfactory charter. Capt. M. O’Donnell, a butcher of Vincennes, was gored in the side by a cow at his slaughter-house, and seriously though not fatally injured. Farmers in Southern Indiana report mast more plentiful than for a number of year ?. The woods are full of squirrels, and pigeons are m iking their appearance. William Henry, a prominent farmer near She&yville, is sued for d voice by his second wife, who demands SIO,OOO alimony out of his estate, worth at least $60,000. Franklin Simmons, the American sculptor, notv in Rome, has nearly completed tho statue of the late Gov. Oliver P. Morton, on which he has long been engaged. The figure is about eight feet highland represents Mr. Morton in the uct of speaking. Judge Gregory, formerly of the Supreme Court, and his wife celebrated the fifty-first anniversary of tbeir wedding at Lafayette, and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Andrew, of Cliauncv, near Lafayette, celebrated the fifty-fourth anniversary of their wedding. Frank Meyer has brought suit against Enos Hedges for $3,000 damages, for injuries sustained while employed by the defendant in erecting a railroad bridge in Denrliorn county. The injury was received by a heavy stone falling upon his left leg. Joseph Fry, an aged miser of Vincennes, has closed his career of moneyg. tting. Some years ago tho Board of Health required him to got a new bu t of clothes. Inside his shirt, after death, there was found a stinking mass of greenbacks, amonuting to $4,250. His chief avocation has l»eon the collect on of cigar stumps, and he died from attempting to live on green apples. His will gives $250 to the Catholic ohnroh, and the remainder to a sistor in Germany. . They were two little children, and they were painting pictures in their school-books. One youngster ftni bed a cow in blue, and then remembered never to have seen n blue cow. “Never mind,” encouragingly said tho other; “well say the cow is cold.”