Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Large numbers of fine shad are now being caught from the Ohio Biver and it* tributaries, they being the prodnot of the plant in the Ohio of Potomae shad made three or four years ago. —Maj. W. P. Gould, United States Army, offers a S2O gold medal as a prize to toe successful orator at the next oratorical contest of Vincennes University. The award will be oontinned from year to year. —New Albany is heavily in debt. The city taxes are mnch higher than State and county taxes, and economy is necessary. It is advocated that toe office of Chief of Police be abolished and the police force eat down to six men. —Near Mnncie, Wesley Hupp called upon Joseph Frazier to make inquiries regarding his health, when the latter, without a word, shot Hupp through the heart, killing him instantly. The motive for toe murder is a mystery. —Mrs. Polly Shoulders, living seven miles from Jasper, is now in her 82d yearand yet recently she walked into Jasper to attend to some business, and walked oat home again next day, What lady of 82 years can do better? —The remains of Georgs W. Petty, of Owltown, Daviess County, have been exhumed and his stomach transferred to a sealed jar for examination. Petty died in February, and his widow and Joab H. Hoggatt are under suspicion of having poisoned him. —A. L. Compton and William Hutchinson, two young men of Newcastle, were ia the woods late in the evening, throwing np their hats and shooting at them with a shotgun, when a load of Compton’s gun struck Hutchinson, blowing the whole top of his head off.

—Ed Sleoth, who lives with John Bordon in Marion towushp, Shelby County, ran a piece of wire about two inches long into his foot. The wire was extracted, and the wound was thought to bo doing wellnhtil recently, when he took the lockjaw, and his death is hourly expeoted. —Sensational circulars distributed about Seymour give toe information that a vigilance oommittee, similar to that which took such signal vengeance on ths Reno gang, has been organized for the purpose of giving similar treatment to lightning-rod swindlers, thieves, and other evil-doers who infest that region. —James Leason, of Jackson Connty, has been oomplaining for some time, and has contined to decline in flesh. The other day he was taken to North Vernon for examination, and Dr. Green out from his body a large bullet whioh he received at toe battle of Fort Pillow in 1863, It is thought Mr. Leason may recover. —The heirs of toe Harlem commons estate, now valued at about $1,000,000,600 (the land being 60,000 acres lying along the northern part of New York City), are asked to meet in Terre Haute June 2. If the State of Indiana is too small to hold the heirs, an overflow meeting will be held in Illinois. —Last week John Helm, of Jeffersonville, was to have been married to a young lady, bnt she refnsed at the last moment, and he sent the coke he had provided to the ooal fleet. The other day Mr. Helm and Miss Theresa Miller, another yonng lady to whom he proposed after his previous fiasco, were duly married at St. Anthony's Church. This time no oake for toe coal fleet.

—The ninth preminm of $25 at the Philadelphia Silk Culture Exhibition was awarded to Mrs. Anna Husted, of Liberty. There were 182 oocoons to the quarter pound, and the yield in reeling was 96-100 of on ounce of silk, and 3 4-100 ounces of waste. One hundred oocoons yielded 53-100 of an ounce of reeled silk. Osage orange was used in feeding the worins. —James and Elizabeth Trueblood, husband and wife, who, nearly seventy years ago, settled in Washington County, have both died within a few days of each other, on the same farm they began their married life upon in 1815. They belonged to the Society of Friends. Mrs. Trueblood died April 22, in her 87th year, and the husband died on the Bth of this month, in his 91st year. —ln New Philadelphia, Washington County, two brothers, Jonas and David Hamilton, became involved in a quarrel over a dog. It seems that David hit his brother’s dog, that had been out killing sheep the night before, which so enraged Jonas that he ran into the house and returned with a shot-gun, the contents of which he discharged at his brother David. The shot took effect in his left hip. The wound, although a painful one, is not considered necessarily fatal —The raw-fur season has closed, and Indianapolis dealers estimate the number of skins purchased in that market during the winter at 200,000, valued at $150,000. The above figures do not include the number or value of cattle hides. Of the 200,000 pieoes of fur the greater number were muskrat, and ’coon, ’possum, skunk, mink, and beaver were largely represented. The bulk of these furs were shipped East, and were designed for the foreign market. The season has not been a very profitable one, values declining somewhat at the close. The winter’s catch was a good one. —There are at least 3,000 dogs in Floyd County, and the law says that (hey shall be (axed at not less than $1 per head. f Yet the dog tax receipts for the post six months are but $334. —The Aurora Fair commences Aug. 5, this season, which is about five weeks earlier than 'Usual. The North VernOn Fair will be held the same week. —The new public libmry of New Albany will be located in the De Pauw block. i