Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1882 — INDIANA AFFAIRS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA AFFAIRS.

Vaccine Virus. The State Board of Health has passed a resolution that all packages of vaccine virus shall be put into envelopes bearing the name of the proprietor of the farm, and the date it was taken from the cow. The board also modified the rule relating to the vaccination of school-children by making their exclusion from the schools depend upon whether or not virus may be conveniently obtained. An Editor Jailed. S. J. Thompson, editor of the Shelbyville Daily liepublican, was recently sentenced to thirty days in jail for contempt of court. Thompson’s paper had severely criticised the Grand Jury for failing to find an indictment in a certain case, stating that man was clearly guilty, but that influence had been used to secure his release. The 1’ rand Jury summoned Thompson and asked his authority. Refusing to divulge he was sent to jail. Shocking Discovery. A horrible discovery was made in the woods four miles northeast of Logansport. The remains of a woman were found, and the hogs had eaten so much of the flesh from the body that nearly all semblance of humanity was obliterated. Appearances indicated that the woman had been well dressed. A small amount of money and a note-book bearing the name Ella Flay, or Ella Hay, were found. A number of clippings from a Warsaw, (Ind.) paper were also discovered. Government Sale# hi Indiana* J. w. Donnelly, Chief of the Division of Accounts in the General Land Office,at Washington, has prepared a statement showing the total sales of public lands in the State of Indiana from Jan, 1, 1817, to June 30, 1882, and the amounts received therefor. This statement shows that 16,918,382 acres of public lands were sold in Indiana during this time, for which the Government received $21,011,219.42. The largest sales for any one year were made in 1836. being 3,155,742 acres, for which $3,974,727.(50 were paid. The first year 993,289 acres were sold, which, at $1.25, brought $1,058,992.89. The last sale was in 1878, when only 4 88-100 were sold for $ 2.60. In the years 1864, 1867 and 1868, no public lands were sold in this State. A Modern Instance. It is understood that the events in the closing chapters of W. D. Howells’ last novel, “A Modern Instance,” transpired in one of our neighboring cit’cs. The Tecumseh of the novel is Crawfordsville. The plot of “A Modern Instance,” so far as it can be, in the divorce scene, is from actual study. Mr. Howells visited Crawfordsville last summer, and spent several weeks there in studying the city, the court and the Indiana divorce system. Augustus H. Hawkins, the Court Clerk in the fiction, is Mr. T. D. Brown, uncle of Miss Mary H. Krout, and present Clerk of Montgomery. The Judge of the book is Judge Britton, now on the bench in that county. We think the paper in which the divorce advertisement was printed must not have been of Crawfordsville, as Mr. Howells refers to it as “a flimsy, shabbily-printed country newspaper.” There is a study of the Crawfordsville bar in the closing chapters of this remarkable novel said to be quite realistic.—Richmond Independent. Methodism in Indiana. The following is an exhibit of the numerical increase of the church, and its increase as compared with the growth of the population of the State marked by decades from 1810 to 1870: Papula t-i o n. Me t tioili sts. 1810 24,520 755 18 0 147,178 4,410 1820\ 343,031 17,551 1840 685,866 52,625 JB',o. 988,410 74,583 1860 1,55 ,428 96,905 1,668,000 113,800 In 1810 there were, in round numbers, 24,000 people in the State; of these 755 were Methodists, being 1 in every 32 of the population. In 1820 the population had risen to 147,000; of these 4,410 were Methodists, being 1 in every 33 of the population. In 1850, in a poidilation of 988,000, there were 74,000 Methodists, being 1 communicant in every 13 of the population. In 1870, with a population of 1,668,000, we had a membership of 113,000, being 1 for every 15 of the whole population. The value of the church property is as follows: Indiana Conference —Churches, 370; value, $11(5,995.82. Parsona es, 82; value, $73,075. North Indiana Conference—Churches, 403; value. $862,542. Parsonages, 108; value, $130,243. Northwest Indiana ConferenceChurches, 295; value, $7(58,149. Parsonages, 82; value, $103,700. Southeast Indiana Conference Churches, 291; v due, *5757,050.57. Parsonages, 57; value, $56,375. Indiana District, Lexington Conference—Churches, 17; value, $21,900. German Methodists —Churches, 52; value, $137,850. African Methodist Episcopal Church —Estimated value of church property, $75,000. Total number of churches, 1,436; value, $2,740,486.39. Tota 1 number of parsonages, 329; value, $<363,393. Total value of churches and parsonages, $3,103,879.39.—D/-. Holl id iy'* Report to the State Methodist Convention. State* IteniH. The City of Jeffersonville s, building water-works to cost $75,000|0r $80,030. Upon a modest gravestone in Vin cennes appears this plaintive legend: “His neighbor played the cornet.” Six or eight miles distant from New Albany the woods abound in squirrels. Quail, however, are said to be very scarce. k Edward Shock, of South Bend,' aged 16, blew into the muzzle of his shotgun to see if it was loaded. It was. He died instantly. A romantic couple were married a few days s neo in Wyandotte cave, Crawford county, and the cave w.ih brilliantly illuminated with parti-col-ored lights. Asbury Universily, is to receive an endowment of $1,000,()00 from Hon. W. C. DePafiw, on condition that it assume his name and comply with some pecuniary requirements,