Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The library of Wabash College numbers 23,C00 volumes. A large bell in Southern Indiana is about to be placed in the Catholic church at Jasper* Its weight is 6,500 pounds. Frank Law, a gambler, went crazy at Fort Wayne studying a scheme to beat faio. He is not the first victim. * Alexander Sherclift, of Shoals, has been sentenced to two years and a half in the penitentiary for attempting to bribe a trustee to employ a certain teacher. D. B. Moore, of Orange county, who has been one of the messengers at the Senate for five years past, was recently given <he bounce. A. T. Peacock, of Indiana, was one of the twenty-five naval cadets at Annapolis who were found deficient in their studies and dropped from the rolls. August Mohrs, an aged citizen of Indianapolis, formerly possessing great wealth, killed himself with a revolver because he had become dependent upon friends for subsistence. Dr. W. Humphries, a leading physician and Democratic politician, killed Lee Carruthers at Fontanet, eight miles east of Terre Haute. They .were at law over a doctor*! bill, and Humphries was drinking. Humphries has given himself up, and is in jail at Terre Haute. Ehabtus Shake, of Carlisle, and his wife did not live happily, and had been separated for some months. Recently they agreed to live together again, and that night the young men of the neighborhood gave them a charivari. Afterward Mrs. Shake disappeared, and was found drowned in the cistern next door. City Marshal Coburn, of Anderson, has begun suit against Fred Bronnenberg, brother of Susanna Nelson, who was murdered near Terre Haute by Perry Manis, claiming the reward of SSOO for the arrest and conviction of the murderer. Bronnenberg goes back on his offer, but la abundantly able to pay. Hon. Moses Chans Culver, one of the oldest pioneers of Fayette, died at the age of sixty-one Tears. He was a member of the State Senate from Tippecanoe County from 1858 to 1864, a class-mate of the late Gov. Morton at Oxford, Ohio, and a warm personal friend of the latter. The citizens of Evansville are trying to obey the divine order, “Let there be light.” They have had gas works for thirty-five years, but last year adopted the system of electric lights. Arches adorned with electric globes now span all the streets. Not satisfied with the dull system of illumination, a company has been organized and is now asking for a charter to supply the city with water gas. The members of the Grand Army post at Rose Lawn have sent to their Congressional delegation a series of resolutions demanding the equalization of bounties, land warrants for qparter sections for each soldier, restltu. tlou of the difference between good money and the depreciated greenbacks in which they were paid, penslonrfor every soldier or sailor who served three months, and $2 for each day spent in Confederate prisons. A meeting of millers from Indiana and adjoining States was held at Indianapolis. Resolutions were adopted recommending the grading of wheat in the principal wheat markets of the world, pointing out that the exorbitant price of wheat, relatively higher than flour, presages the ultimate ruin of the miller, and recommending that such millers as are drawing their supplies from St. Louis, Kansas City, and Chicago at once stop their purchases until the prices of wheat are at least equivalent to the prices of flour; that millers should stop the production of flour during such times as it is evident that there are no margins in the making thereof. ." Mr. Charles Wayman, of Jeffersonville, has a curiosity in the way of a white pig, with the head of a monkey. On the left side there are three small oars, similarly constructed to a human ear, on the right side one pig’s ear. The face is dished like a baboon, and there was one eye in the center of the forehead, over which grew out a tail. The crown of the head is as round as a ball, while the jaws are square and strongly resemble those of a baboon. Otherwise the animal Is like a pig.

There Is on exhibition at Logansport a zoological specimen that puzzles all who see It The creature resembles an eel more than anything else. It is fourteen inches long. Its head is a wonderfully shaped affair, and Just below it are two arms, like those of a water dog. These arms are an inch long and end in four fingers, on which there are tiny little finger-nails. In the place of gills, like a fish, there are frill-like appendages on .each side of the bead. These frills &rk divided into three parts, and can be laid flat ■ alongside the body, so as not to be distinguishable. The animal can change its head Into various shapes. The eyes are so small as to be hardly noticeable, and the mouth is much like a sucker’s, only more flat-shaped. The only food the specimen eats Is bread. It was caught a short time ago in a ditch in one of the out townships. The Vigilance Committee in Petersburg, Pike County, since the lynching of Charles Harvey, the night before Christmas, have been doing effective work in bringing criminals to justtoe. Harvey was suspected of complicity in the incendiarism that resulted in almost wiping the town from existence, and a committee of twelve citizens were forced to raise a fund and ferret out other criminals. The committee selected detectives and put them to work. Ben Battles was tracked to Illinois and brought back to JalL John T. Wyatt was captured at Lake Providence, La., and will be brought to ■ Petersburg this week. Wyatt will appear in court to ansjrer to the charge of burning a whole square ot the business part of the town the night of Dec. 0, 1882. The evidence against him is his own alleged admission to three different parties. C. C. Uppinoton, an employe of ope of the railroads passing through New Albany, owed Mrs. C. Mundel. The woman sold the account, and the holder collected the amount by garnishee. Uppington lost his situation, and now sues Mrs. Mundel for tfl.ooo damages. The history of the late war has not'been taught in Indianapolis schools for the past eleven years. The United States history, up to the beginning of Lincoln’s administration, is taught, however. — i-• I An inclined railway up the knobs at Now Albany will soon be built.