Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Tipton has but one school-house and is talking of buildiDg another. —High rents, it is comp’aiued in Martinsville, cause nrauy Uouso3 to stand empty. —By a boiler explosion iu a Brewery at Peru, Marcellns Burtch was killed and the engine-house demolished. —Terre Haute will employ no married women as teachers hereafter, and :f any teacher marries she will be dropped. —Nathaniel McLaughlin, a resident of Lafayette, was killed by a Wabash train at Clymer s Station. Boih legs were cut off. —Schwabacher & Selig, wholesale tobacco dealers of Indianapolis, havo been closed on attachments. They owe $75,000. —Edinburgh has a clergyman who rides tho bicycle, plays 1 ase-bail, and indulges in nearly every kind of manly sport, nnd is a musician of fine attainments. —Henry Laudiubarger, of Wabasha, mowed into a bumble-bees’ nest, and while fighting the insects with his scythe cut a dangerous gash in the calf of his leg. —John Brock, aged ninety years, a pioneer of Crawford County, aud a soldier of the war of 1812, died at his home, near English. He was the oldest resident of Crawford County. —Madiscta is getting to be the finest and best produce market in tho State, especially iu butter, eggs, and chickens. One dealer says that his shipments are threo times as heavy as last year. —Ed Smith (colored) formerly keeper of a gambling-house at Vincennes, has caused the arrest for gambling of ten young men who used to play there, and who refused to pay him hush money.

Some boys were snapping match-beads at Delphi, in tho lube of a shot-gun, thought to be empty. Janies Gordon aimed squarely at Walter Bachman, and an old load was discharged into his neck, killing him instantly. —lndiana is the leading State in tho Union in the production of starch from corn, having eight factories and producing more than one-third of the total amount made. There are sixteen factories in the other States manufacturing starch from com. —Charles L. Deen, of Louisville, Ky., killed himself in Oxford becauso separated from a Miss Mattie Hilman, with whom ho had eloped. Miss Hilman was detained in the house of a friend, and Deen shot himself under her window. He was but 18 years of age. —The party that went down to explore tho new cave, one mile from De Pauw station, on the Air Line Bailroad, have returned with tine specimens of stalagmites and stalactites. They were in the cave all night, and think they traveled about three miles. The cave is said to be a very tine one, and in many re|pects a rival of Wyandotte.

—The Columbus Republican, in a review of base-ball, calls to mind the Seymour club of twenty years ago. In searching for tho reason of the breaking up of the club it was found that one of tho members was in the Missouri penitentiary and four others had been hanged by a mob, for it was a club which enrolled five of the once celebrated Beno gang in its membership. —Gen. Black, the United States Pension Commissioner, has appointed James Britts, of Gosport, Owen County, who served in the Federal army and was severely wounded, to be a special Pension Examiner without passing a civil-service examination. This appointment has been made to test the question whether veterans of the civil war are subject to the regulations of the civil-service law of Congress. —The other day a boy found an old gun in a hollow tree eighteen miles south of Shelbyville, which was the first clew to the solution of a mystery of sixty years’ standing. The gun was identified by Bev. J. H. Edwards, pastor of tho First Christian Church, Shelbyville, as belonging to his grandfather, Jacob Edwards, who disappeared one Sunday in the fall of 1826, and was never seen or heard of since that time.

—Mrs. James Foster, of Otterbein, on going into her garden was amazed at finding a full-blown rose of a beautiful green color. It was blooming among a large collection of roses of the ordinary tints, red, pink, and white, but this one stood alone, the only representative of its kind. It was sent to Lafayette to a botanist of distinction, who avers that it is a marvel, as no works on floral culture speak of such a thing. If this new variety can be propagated it will cause a revolution in the floral kingdom. —Eev. John Fender and his aged companion, a daughter of the late Morgan McMahon, of Union County, celebrated their golden wedding at Abington, Wayne County. Itev. Mr. Fender is a son of Henry Fencer, one of the very earliest pioneers of the Whitewater Valley, and is himself one of tne oldest native-born pioneers of Wayne County, having been bom~iir Abington Township January 9, 1814. He joined the Methodist Church in 1830, and was licensed to exhort in 1842, but it was not until 1873 that he was licensed as a preacher. He and his wife have lived at their present home since the year of their marriage.