Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1882 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

The Evansville electric-light works have commenced supplying consumers. Thebe are eighty-four Masonic chapters in Indiana, with a membership of 4,500. Delaware county has sold $12,000 in free gravel-road bonds for S7O premium. David Shilling, one of the bestknown farmers of Allen county, blew the top of his head off with a shotgun. A tramp huckster named Davenport assaulted and fatally cut a man named Baysinger, at Maxville, near Terre Haute. Mrs. Sarah Pope, residing near Shelbyville, was instantly killed by a kick in the neck from a cow she was engaged in milking. Fred Gaumer, of Madison, has a bean vine which has produced four crops of beans this summer, and is again in bloom. Henry Gbeen, a well-known citizen of Crawford county, has become violently insane upon the subject of spiritualism. Mrs. Nancy J. Sistore, of Jefferson county, raised a beet which measured thirty inches in circumference and weighs fifteen pounds. Two stock companies were organized at Seymour, the other day—one for erecting large spoke-works and the other for starting a tulu factory. Samuel H. Robinson, of Delhi, has presented the State Museum. with a plate made in England some time during the latter part of the eighteenth century. At Elkhart, a boy named McMann, while riding on a log-wagon, was thrown off, and the log rolling on him he was dangerously aud probably fatally crushed. Burglars entered the residence of Samuel Kerr, near Newtown, Fountain county, and succeeded in capturing Mr. Kerr's pataloons, in the pockets of which were S2OO cash and a check on the Attica Bank for SBOO. Charles F. Barcus, of Tippecanoe county, has begun proceedings in the Superior Court of Lafayette to have set aside the decree of divorce lately granted his wife, alleging fraud and conspiracy,on the part of the lady and her relatives. The owners of the old Wabash and Erie canal have conveyed to the 1 ort Wayne, Lafayette and St. Louis road the canal bed for a distance of ninetytwo miles, between Lafayette and Lagro, and the railway will be built on the tow-path. Kate Thompson was so eager to marry Andrew Van Horn, at Hope, Bartholomew county, that she eloped with him; but when, within an hour of the ceremony, he got hilariously drunk, she was so eager to get rid of him that she went home alone, and has sued for a divorce. George Haggard, who now languishes in the Steuben county jail, had to wait outside until the Sheriff could be found to let him in. He therefore gave utterance to the humorous remark that he had often been locked in jail, but that during all of his checkered career he had never been fastened out before. The work of the Chicago and Atlantic railroad, near Huntington, is progressing rapidly. The iron is now laid from that point eastward a distance of fourteen miles. The grading is almost completed. The work on the shops and roundhouse is well advance.!, the foundation of all the buildings except the engine and boiler-room being in, while the walls of the roundhouse are halfcompleted. Side tracks are being built in £lie yards. Planaforrtlie depot have been received. Thte gapJbe tween Huntington and the point to where the iron i& laid west will, apon be laid, and the work of ballasting that portion will commence. Indiana has 15,289 citizens on the pension rolls, who receive annually sl,638,325. With the arrears added tin y received last year $3,106,817. Only four States exceed these figures, Indiana being fifth in rank on the pension list. In a consideration of the pension payments by Congressional districts, we find that the Second district bears the palm, having 1,367 who draw from the treasury annually $148,368. Last year, together with arrears, they were paid $281,899. The Third district comes next, with 1,336 on the pension list, who receive $142,876, and last year, together with arrears, $271,464. The Thirteenth district has the least number, 856, receiving $91,628; with arrears, $174,094. When the counties are reached we find Marion at the head of the list, with 939 pensioners. They received $100,517 last year; with arrears the payment was $190,982. It will be seen that the arrearages add largely to the regular annual payments. Indiana Crop Report. The final crop bulletin of Indiana for 1882 has been issued by the Bureau of Statistics. It presents the following: The wheat crop amounts to 46,928,643 bushels, grown on 3,063,348 acres. Last year the crop was 30,625,668 bushels; acreage, 3,201,547. The average production per acre in the northern division of the State was 11.42 bushels; in the central division, 16.87; in the southern division, 16.70. The corn crop of this year is 115,699,757 bushels; acreage, 3,312,683. This was a great surpi ise to the bureau, so mubh so that after the reports were in and tabulated pains were taken to verify them. Last year the yield was 71,387,075 bushels, from 3,135,178 acres. The aggregate production of oats is the largest even known in the State. The acreage was 684,622, and number of bushels 19,615,516; last year the production was 14,398,617; in 1879, the largest crop grown previous to 1882, the yield was 15,599,518 bushels. Rye is one of the minor crops of the State; the acreage was 36,695, and yield 548,405 bushels; in 1881, 15,839 acres were planted, producing 208,912 bushels. Barley is also but slightly cultivated compared with the staple productions. This year there were grown 1,138,717 bushels on 44,242 acres; last year the yield was 526,364 bushels from 26,238 acres. Flax is raised in seventy-five counties, and 13,784 acres were sown, producing 905,451 bushels of seed. Forty-two of the ninety-two counties in the State have more than 1,000 acres apiece. Wabash is the banner flax county, raising 82,118 bushels. The area planted in tobacco this year

was 17,234 acres, which produced 13* 593,386 pounds, against 6,565,782 pounds raised last year on 13,615 acres; only twelve counties report no tobacco grown. Warrick and Spencer have over 4,000 acres each, and Pike and Dubois over 1,000 acres each. There were 984,982 acres in meadow, producing 1,599,949 tons of hay, the largest crop in the history of the State. Last year's figures were 988,560 acres and 1,303,217 tons. Fruit, especially apples and peaches, was largely short of an average crop. Apples are reported at 28,180,683 bushels, and peaches 2,063,636 bushels. There are 233.082 pear trees of bearing age in the State, 112,222 plum trees and 51,933 quince trees. Irish potatoes are a large crop, much above the average. The area planted was 72,934 acres, and production 7,264." 830 bushels, against 2,396,350 bushels last year on only a little smaller acreage ; in 1880 the crop amounted to 4,148,034 bushels, with about the same area as this year. Sweet potatoes are reported at 696,245 bushels, from 10,506 acres; last year, 239,511 bushels. The home value of the crops is estimated as follows: Wheat, $44,582,211; corn, $57,849,898; oats, $4,492,344; rye, $411,304; barley, $910,974; flaxseed, $950,723; tobacco, $2,718,697; hay, $22,3999,286; apples, $12,108,410; peaches, $3,095,454; Irish potatoes, $3,632,415; sweet potatoes, $696,245 ;total, $153,847,961.