Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1883 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Washington county was left out of the Southern Indiana fair circuit. Thehk are more quails in Southern Indiana than has been known for many years. The apple crop of Howard county is estimated to be worth about $300,000 this year. G. W. Wood, of Hlllsbury, Clinton county, has harvested a pumpkin weighing 220 pounds. The city of Evansville will be furnished, with forty additional arches or masts for eleotric lights. The Northern Indiana Hunting association. | will start on their big annual hunt in Northern Michigan on Nov. 1. The enterprising inhabitants of Steuben county kre talking of building a railroad from Angola to Orland. The city of Logansport has entered into a contract with an electric light company to furnish that city with fifty lights of 2,000 candle power each. Jacob Cook, a wealthy farmer near Columbus, defies the engineer corps of the Columbus, Greensburg and Hope railroad, with shot-gun and revolvers, to run a line through his farm. Mrs. Jesse Thurman, of New Albany, paid two Gypsy women $350 for ridding her of a witch, and then, realizing her duplicity, had the officers on their trat k, who made thorn disgorge their “knowledge” money. Francis J. Kelly, 17 yenrs old, confessed at Rockport that he murdered R. T. Arnett, the owner of a trading boat, on the night of Sept. 29. Kelly claims that Arnett threatened to kill him If he left his employment. People crowd the jail of Lafayette to see Nelllng, the murderer of Ada Atkinson. Many of theso curious callers are ladies. The crowd became so large that tho Sheriff was compelled to refuse permits to visitors. Mr. Eli Cross, living in Rush county, heard a pistol-shot in an adjoining room, and on entering found his 13-ycar-old boy dead with a pistol-ball in his brain. It Is not known whether it was accidental or intentional. Two wealthy farmers near Spencer hava procured a diamond drill and other necessary machinery and have commenced to bore for coal In Deer creek prairie. Geologists say that the coal-drift Is 800 feet above them. William M. Prichard has entered suit against Donald McPherson, at Terre Haute, for damages In tho sum of $5,000, for alleged injuries sustained while digging a well, and causod by the carelessness of McPherson. Quite a sensation was created in Hope by a teacher of one of the schools compelling a white child to kiss a colored one for some offense. There Is strong talk among tho white class, but it is probable that nothing will be done. An*old citizen of Lawrence county went to a neighboring .town recently and purchased a ticket for some remote region in Kansas, but before train time he had a premonition to return home and wait a few days, where he died, leaving a wife and six children. Henry Holmes, a carpenter, is in the jail atWashington charged with burning a church and several stacks of hay belonging to one of the ohurch trustees. The cause of tho rash act was a quarrel about the wages of Holmes, who had been at work on the church building. Several roughs who occupied tho front rows of an opera-house In Vincennes, became Involved In a fight, and nearly created a panic in the more respectable part of the : audience. Fair damsels screamed and fainted, while others almost maimed themselves in endeavoring to'get out of the house. Mr. Murchie Moods, the only colorod boy who ever graduated from the Jeffersonville schools, is now In Africa, where he served as a British soldier during the late unpleasantness at Murchie. About two years ago he took unto himself an African maiden, and he ,1s npw living a quiet and happy life.

Two Mormon preachers have made their appearance in Franklin county, the location where two of the same faith wore tarred and feathered, and say they have come .to stay, and propose to take away with them twenty of the best-looking girls in that section, who have been partly converted to their faith. They asked to stop over night with Mr. De Armond. Mr. Do Armond objected, and they so persisted in their request that he went out and brought in a corn-knife and told them he would behead them if they did not leave at once. They reluctantly departed. The case of Agnes Balter, a young lady residing at Lafayette, is most marvelous. Ih the morning she was unable to move, and was blind; now she walks and can see. Eight years ago she was seized with the dreaded disease cerebro-spinal meningitis, which left her lower limbs paralyzed. She had gone to Ogdensburg to enter a convent, and was taken ill the second day after sho had arrived. In a few weeks she was brought home, and for eight years she has been a constant sufferer. The best physicians of the city have treated her and pronounced her incurable. Dr. 8. T. Yount has been her physician for three years. She was in convulsions most of the time, and these would continue as long as two and three weeks. Dr* Yount states that she presented a most horrible sight. For weeks at a time she had no nourishment whatever. Recently a young lady friend. Miss Kinsman, returned from Europe and brought her some water from the fountain of our Lady of Lourdes. This sho has been applying and drinking. A nine days’ season of prayer was inaugurated by herself and other members of the church. This terminated when she was removed in an unconscious condition to the church. She at length was revived, took ''communion and instantly she could see and walk unaided. Sho behoves that prayer did it. Dr. Yount and others pronounce It a .most marvelous case. When the ioctor and reporters called she walked across the room to show them that she wus indeed cured. Her case seems mir&culous, and there are many more besides herself who, familiar with the case, attribute it to the power of prayer. A horridly mutilated body of an unknown woman was found recently in the woods near St. Mary’s, in Yigo county. The skull was fractured and the face crushed in, showing signs of murder. The body had been lying* there for some time, it is supposed, because when found it was in a state of decomposition, and had been rooted and partially eaten by hogs. Undergarmentsof the finest quality and a dress of excellent goods wore found near by, but it afforded no clew to the terrible affair. An effort is being made to establish a read-ing-room for railroad men at Indianapolis.

t«rri€IALPAPKB OPTASPBROODfiri . FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2 1883.

Mi- 1 - Joaie McCauley, of Liberty township, White Geunty, attemp.ed suicide Oct. 20th. Timely remidies prevented accomplishment of the design. Keifer, the late Speaker, no leuger mournfully exclaims “It is too bad, to# bad,” He abruptly says, ' I D-o Ohio,” aad goes into a discussion of the Civil R'ghts bill. Our former fellow-citizen, Charles Barouche we arc pleased to noti is the Democratic candidate sot Treas** urer us Kingman County, KansasThe Kingman Citizen, a Republican paper confesses that he is a siroug man, Ye?, and as capable and hon est as be is strong, and without know ing his opponent, or meaning any disparagement to him, we will say that the citizens of Kingman County cannot do better than to elect “Uncle Charlie.” *