Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1883 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

A N«w Uabtlb man paid a traveling swindler <4SO for the State right of a patent egg stimulator. EiCHY Deck, daughter of Henry Deck, of Noblesville. was drowned in White river at the edge of town. It was accidental. Ar Portland, William Pitzenberger, while in the act of throwing a belt in Kant A English’S stave factory, had a leg torn off. Miss Nrarnt Hormkb, of Marion, has performed the feat of writing 2,080 words on a postal card, every word being perfectly legible Thkjub are 0,666 school-houses in Indiana against 8,090 thirty years ag0—5,481 of these being brick. The log school-houses have decreased from 1,188 to 41. AnoY Fisher, of Madison, has perhaps the oldest horse known of at present He is forty years old, and was foaled within the walls of the City of Mexico. Ex-Judge B. F. Schebmbkhobn, for years an ornament to the Delphi bench and bar, and Major of the Forty-sixth Indiana Volunteers, died very suddenly there. Ths flr"t marriage license granted tn Grant county was issued on Sept 5, 1831, to John Smith and Mary Ann Thomas, who are still living and enjoying good health. A Louisvmus young man while in New Albany, reoenty, had an attack of delirium tremens, jumped out of bed and ran down the street with no clothing on but a shirt A Pnot count hunter claims to have killed, one day last week, three geese at one shot, four at another, and five at another, making a total of twelve geese in three shots.

There are eighty-six Postmasters In the State appointed by the President, and their salaries combined amount to 1158,900. The aggregate gross receipts of these office* are #719,98a The Wabash City Council has decided not to purchase any additional electric lights, on the score of economy. A portion of the city Is well lighted, but the balance is left in darkness. John Montgomery, watchman at the Ohio Falls oar works, Jeffersonville, met a mad dog at the door of the works on Thursday and killed him Just as he was about to bite a workman. The new Game law in this State prohibits the killing of wild ducks between the 15th of April and the Ist of September, and the exposing of ducks for sale after April 15 is also a finable offense. Clark C. Moore, of West Point, and James O’Brien, of Toledo, a canvasman in Van Amburg’s circus, were killed at Lafayette. Both accidents occurred on the Wabash tracks, inside the city limits, by switch-en-gines. The following Postmasters have been commissioned: H. E. Wells, at French Lick; D. Hall, at Funk’s; Thomas Towle, at Lieber; G. W. Weeks, at Newville; Henry Core, at Woodburn; J. M. Thomas, at Marble Corner, and Alfred Clapp, at Marysville. Exports from Brazil are that the coal trade has fallen very low. The mines are running about half-time, and it is feared that it will be so all summer. The rolling-mill is still running, employing from seventy-five to 100 men and boys. The furnace has blown out for repairs; it will probably be idle from four to five months.

The Northwestern and Central Synods of the Reformed Episcopal church have confirmed the selection of a location at Fort Wayne for the proposed Orphan Asylum, as 'recommended by a commission which recently visited that and other cities The ■land selected comprises a tract of fifty-seven acres, and lies two miles northeast of the city, on the banks of the St, Joseph river. Fifteen thousand dollars will be expended this season in buildings The new law in Indiana relating to oleomargarine Is as follows: “Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, that whoever sells or has in his possession with intent to sell, or exposes for sale, or whoever keeps on any table at any hotel, 05 any other public or private board-ing-house, any butter other than that made from pure milk, without first' labeling the same in targe letters ‘oleomargarine,’ shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not more than >SO nor less than •10.’* The rooting hogs are doing great damage to pavements in the upper part of New Albany, and there is much complaint from property-owners. One gentleman whose pavements have been rooted up and destroyed says he is wafting anxiously for the Council to order him to repair his sidewalks. He will do so as soon as ordered, and compel the city to foot the bill if it requires a salt at law. He contends, and rightly, too, that an ordinance prohibits hogs running at large, and, if the officers of the city fall to execute the ordinance and hogs damage his property, the city is compelled to pay the damages

The twenty-ninth annual convention of the Grand Commandery Knights Templars of Indiana was held at Indianapolis lads week, there being a large attendance of grand officers and delegates The Grand Treasurer, Charles Fisher, presented the following report for the year ending April 21, 1883: Receipts, balance in treasury April 24 1882, >2,444; dues for 1881, >387; dues for 1882, >2,871; incidental receipts, >500; total >5,658. Total expenditures, >2,702. Cash balance in treasury, >2,955.56. He also presented some statistical tables showing the following totals: Total membership of the Order in the State for 1882, 2,006; for 1888, 2,223; increase, 217. The deaths during 1882 numbered twenty-two. Municipal elections were held in the following cities of Indiana on the Ist inch, with the results as follows: Vincennes —The entire Democratic ticket elected. Delphi— Democratic ticket elected. Greencastle — The Democratic ticket elected by 225 majority. Greenfield—The whole Republican ticket re-elected. Logansport—The Democrats elected the Mayor, Treasurer, Clerk, Marshal, and four out of five Councilmen. Muncie— The Independent ticket was elected. Kokomo—The Democrats elected the mayor and marshal- The rest of the Republican tick el was elected. Madison—The Democrats elected the Treasurer, Marshal and Assessor, and four of the six Councilmen. New Albany— The Independent candidates for Mayor and Clerk Were elected, defeating the regular Democratic nominees 'the Democrats elected the Treasurer and Marshal, and two Councilmen; the Republicans two Councilmen, and the Independents one. Columbus—The entire Democratic ticket elected. Richmond— The Republicans elected the Mayor and Marshal and seven Councilmen. The Democrats elected three Councilmen. Terre Haute— The Republicans elected the Mayor, Treasurer, Marshal and three Councilmen. The Democrats elected the Clerk and three members of the Council Wabash—The Republican candidates were all elected. Elkhart—The Republicans elected the Mayor and four out of five Aidermen. Fort Wayne —The entire Republican ticket elected. La Porte—The Democrats elected the Mayor nd a majority of the Ooundk