Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1883 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Vincennes has 889 pupils in her public schools. Kight of the churches in New Albany have pipe organs. The postoffice at Rockland, Henry county, has been discontinued. The dairymen of Lafayette have advanced the price Of milk to 10 cbnts a quart. Revival, meetings are now in progress in many of the churches of Southern Indiana. New Albany won in every competitive display her manufacturers entered into at the Louisville exposition. During the past year 2.0C0.000 bricks have been manufactured by the brick-yards in Jes. fersonville. [ In the past thirty years 227 persons have been sent to the State Insane Asylum from Floyd county. It is said that the hair of Mr. Coleman Hieks, of Jeffersonville, which has been gray twenty years, is turning to its natural colorGeorge Danber, a man 35 years of age, fell from the head of the Terre Haute operahouse gallery stairs to the first floor, sustaining probably fatal Injuries. Logansport is to have electric lights, the City Council having contracted for fifty lights of 2,000 candles each, to be placed in all the most prominent parts of the city. According to the new city directory, the population of Lafayette is 24,748, an increase. pt 1,751 over the estimated population from the directory of two years ago. But little more than half the children of Vfgo county attend the public schools, and .Terre Haute makes a worse showing than the rural districts. The number of schcol chiL dren has increased nearly 15 per cent, in the last year. Mayor Zollinger, of Fort Wayne, receives an annual salary of Si,Boo. In addition, he derives an income of $2,200 from the fees of the office, making the total receipts of the po- . Sition SI,OOO. In Lafayette the Mayor’s salary and fees amount to about $1,500.

: A Miss Kemp, a milliner, tells a strange story of the Woodmansee murder in Seymour. She says she occupied a room next to his on the night of the murder, and heard him beg for his life; heard some one say “Kill him, Sam,” and heard the blow. As the murder wfraxjo/nmitted, seventeen years ago, she has been a long time in telling it. Mr. Anton Kleespie, of Jeffersonville, has an idea that he can do the surrounding country a valuable service by establishing a fish pond in the vicinity of Utica. It is his Intention to have a pond covering an area of about four acres well stocked with German carp. * In about three years he hopes tp be able t<? supply the market with fine fish of the carp variety. Alton, a small town on the Ohio river, in Perry county, is going through the excitement of a crusade against liquor-sellers. A stfosg organization of women, backed by men, has been formed in the town, and they opened the war by calling at the saloon of John Atwood, and requesting him to sell Out to them his stock of liquors and sign a contract to sell no more in the town, or take the consequences. He sold out to the women and signed the contract, and they poured the liquors into' the river—four barrels in all. Recently William Barlow, in opening a gravel pit about five miles southeast of Tipton, made some rather interesting discoveries. Besides a number of relics ho found six human skeletons, fairly preserved, and the skeleton of a dog. There were no indications of coffins or anything that was burled with them, except some earthenware made of powdered shells and sunburnt mud. The remains were evidently those of large and powerful men, probably Indians. The Secretary of the State Board of Health has completed tqble No. 3* comprising loca 1 diseases and being the largest of the tables to be made .out and submitted as part of hifl report. The following comprises totals of these classes: Diseases of the nervous system--1,637; of the circulatory systepa, 470; of the respiratory system, 1,997;: of the digestive system, 837; of the urinary system, 285; of the generative organs, 50; Osseous and lo<comatpry, 13; integumentary, 21; making a-' total of 5,391 under class 3. Last year the mortality tables under this' head aggregated 5,01/,. .While this comparison would show a result favorable to the health of 1832, it must be tpken into account that the reports are much fuller than last year, and that the present has really been one of less mortality. —lwfiunapoHi} Sentinel. The Fort Wayne Gazette is responsible for the following snake story. The story is the more remarkable because Fort Wayne is several hundred miles distant frem Kentucky: “At intervals for she past six months a serpent, has been seen in Pleasant Lake. It is at least, forty feet long, and swims with its head tour feet above the water. Its horrid head Is as large as a half bushel measure. On Monday morning it was scon by Red ley Moore, Will Miller, Sam Majors, Job McGrew and Rollin Snurr, all reputable citizens of Pleasant Lake. A well-known citizen, William Sprlggles, who resides on the bank of the lake, saw the snake a few days ago, and stlys it is a tremendous serpent, latge around ' as a barrel. Mr. Charley Gaskill saw it last summer when it was swimming with some. Six feet of its body above th} water. Gaskill had his shot-gun with him and'fired at the snake, with what effect he could not ascertain, as the reptile plunged beneath tfie surface and he saw it no more. When the snake approaches the shore the path its body makes through the bushes shows Its body to be as big arotted as a barrel. Several plans have been suggested to trap his snakeship, and a determined effort will be made in a few days. So many have seen this terror of the lake that It will not do to laugh or cavil. In this connection it may be mentioned that blue racers twelve feet long are frequently seen near the lake.”

Mrs. Lizzie Johnit.in, of Norristown, Shelby county, was granted a divorce from her husband, and was immediately married to Mr. Thomas J. McCain. Mrs. Johnston will be better remembered as Mrs. Lizzie Arnold, the lady who married an assumed German Count some three years ago,. The “Count," after securing a good sum df money from his wife, mysteriously disappeared, and has not been heard of since. The lady in question ia handsome, rich and, stands high in the community. * The authorities of New Albany have or, iered all the saloons closed on Sunday.