Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Dwelling houses for rent are very scarce in Peru. —A catfish was recently caught in the river at Lawrenceburg that weighed forty pounds. —Out of the 11,000 dogs owned in Evansville, only eleven have owners who have applied for licenses, so far. —Elder M. M. Vancleve, of the Baptist Church of Crawfordsville. performed his 531st marriage ceremony on Sunday. —Lucky Baldwin, the California millionaire, is an Indianiau, says the South Bend Times, having left Olive Township, St. Joseph County, a little more than twenty years ago. —Oren Van Winkle, of Markleville, Madison County, a man about 24 years of age, committed suicide with a shot-gun. Disappointment in love is supposed to have induced the act. •—The prospect of silver in paying quantities in the central part of Pike County is attracting attention. A test of the quartz has shown 10 per cent., or $lO per ton, of the ore, and lead shows 10 per cent. —Abiah Hayes, aged 71, of Elizabethtown, was married to Miss Aurelia J. Millon, aged 17, of Harrison. The affair was very quietly arranged, and not a single member of his family knew a word about it until the man drove home with his bride. —A farmer’s wife in this Stato who runs a vegetable garden of half an acre, not only kept a large table bountifully supplied, but sold last year more than SIOO worth of vegetables to the town folks a few miles away. This half acre was of more profit than any four acres which the husband cul-

tivated. —Officers from Ohio arrested at Richmond a lady who was formerly the wife of a wealthy citizen of Cleveland named Cobb, charging her with kidnaping her own son, 9 years of age, the heir to a large estate. Sho lias married again, and tho administrator jof Mr. Cobb’s estate seeks to obtain possession of tho lad. The mother and child were discharged by Judge Kibby on the ground of defects in the requisition. —The late Schuyler Colfax, at a meeting of the Daughters of Rebekah in Indianapolis last summer, declared from tho rostrum that it was his pride to say that the Rebekah degree was the best kept Hecret in the order. Men had been expelled from tho order (Odd Fellows) for divulging the secret work, but there was no instance on record of a woman having ever proved recreant to her obligations. —Albany Express.

—Thu Ledger has received from R. O. Brown, of Pike County, some handsome specimens of Pike County lead ore, plumbago or black lead, white kaolin, and fireclay. The lead ore is a fissure galena, almost pure. The plumbago is a very rich specimen. The kaolin is equal in quality and whiteness to any found in the West. The fire-clay is of a quality that may also be used in the manufacture of the finest stoneware. —New Albany Ledger. —The report of the State Board of Agriculture for 1884 is now being distributed. It makes a volume of 495 pages, and contains, besides a detailed statement of the business transacted by the board, a number of papers of interest to agriculturists. Among the subjects treated are “The Farmer and Higher Education,” by Prof. C. H. Hall; “A Farmer’s Recreations and Amusements,” by Miss Lulu A. Davidson; “French Agriculture and the Breeding of Norman Horses, ” by Col. J. A. Bridgeland; “Food and the Adulteration of Some Articles of Diet,” by Dr. John N. Hurty; “The Fish Interest in Indiana,” by Enos B. Reed, Stato Fish Commissioner; “Fish Culture and the Profit of It," by Isaac N. Cotton; “Fertilizers Relation to the Growing Plant,” by F. G. Wiselogeli; “Destruction of Crops by Insects, ’’ by J. G. Kingsbury; “The Value of Birds as Insect Destroyers,” by Fletcher N. Noe; “Road* Paving Material,” by John T. Campbell. The volume also contains reports from the officers of county societies regarding the condition of agriculture in different sections oP the State. The volume will compare creditably with the reports issued by the agricultural boards of other States.

Casting Out Devils. [Wabash telegram.] It has just beed discovered that Mrs. Ohm, a widow living in the vicinity of Laketon, this county, professes to enjoy the power of divination, and has been regularly engaged in the business of “casting out devils” for some months past She is said to have done a lucrative business, her patrons taking good care to maintain the strictest silence respecting their re!ations with the lady. It is now learned that a man named Clinker,acting upon her advice, has sought to compel a man named Click, on whose farm he a mortgage, to leave the country. Mrs. Ohm, upon consultation, having made the discovery that a child of Clinker, who was veiy ill, was bewitched, and that the spe 1 was duo to the malign presence of Click, she said that Click must bo gotten away at all hazards, otherwise the child would die, and Mr. Clinker has since been assiduous in his endeavors to secure his removal, going so far as to begin foreclosure proceedings on the mortgage. This resulted in the expose of ihe whole superstitious affair, and created a sensation of no small magnitude in the vicinity of Laketon.