Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Seymour shipped’ over 42,060 doze* eggs to Eastern market*last month.. —There is an old lafly named Carrell living near Indianapolis; who i* 109 year* old. —lt is reported that a poultry house io Evansville scalds and plucks chickeni while yet alive, and that the tortured fowl squawks even after it is passed into th 4 ice-box. —While Davis Wheat'*- children were playing in their yard at’ Kent, Jefferson County, a large gray eagle swooped down upon them and tried to carry off the smallest. Minnie, the largest child, was slightly hurt in fighting the bird off from her little sister, and the latter’s clothes were form —Ex-Senator McDonald sand on Grant's birthday: “six years before this present Congress I Toted in the Senate of the United States to place Gem Grant once more upon the rolls of the army, and there never was a time since the question was first mooted, down to the present time, that I did not stand ready to vote that way.” —A woman went into a Laftyctte grocery store and secreted about'two dozen eggs in a large pocket made for such purpose beneath her panier. The clerk detected her,, and without saying anything about it slipped up, as she passed, out the door, and administered a smart, spank with a barrel: stave. She painted the town yellow on hei homeward way. —A skeleton, bellevedito. be that of a Swede named Charles Shetler, who disappeared from Buena Vista nearly thirty years ago ( has been feund in a swamp twentythree miles south of Tipton, near the Wabash Railroad, by a man named Goody Koontz, while digging in a ditch. Ths murdered man had accumulated considerable money getting out ties for the railroad. Although, the daed has been committed so many years, it is believed the guilty eulprits yet live; and. that they may yet be brought to'justice.