Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Ths New Albany Gas Company has reduced the price of gas to $2 a thousand feet. —Nealy King, a young boy at Terre Haute, was severely bitten in the aim by a vicious herse. —New Albany Royal Arch Masons, when they call “from labor to refreshment.” refresh on a dozen or more watermelons. ■ —Mrs. Lucindt Acres, of Aurora, has been adjudged insane, and sent to the State Hospita 1 . Her disorder is caused by religious excitement. , —The tie-binding of the Justices of the Peace at Jeffersonville mostly comes from the other side of the river, runaway couples from Kentucky. During the past week ten marriage licenses were issued by the County Clerk of Clark County, none of which were to Jeffersonville parties. —lndiana has got a watering-place. It is a lake they call Maxinkuckee, and is actually four miles across. Indiana newspapers talk of the climate about that lake with wild enthusiasm and tear themselves all to pieces in describing “oderous breezes’* and “changeful skies.”— Chicago Tribune.

—Michael Kain, an old citizen of Wayne Township, was found murdered near his house, and Patrick McGuire, a neighbor, who has disappeared, is suspected and a reward offered for his arrest. A broken rail was the weapon used. There had been frequent quarrels and lawsuits between Kain and McGuire. —A special from Vincennes, says: Dr. McKenzie, a wealthy and prominent citizen of Eldorado, Kas., while enroute to Corey, Pa., jumped through the window of a pas-senger-coach this morning on lightningexpress train No. 2, east-bound on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, near Flora, 111., and while the train was skimming along at the rate of forty miles an-hour. The train was soon stopped and backed up to look for the stranger, who was found comparatively unhurt. Dr. McKenzie is regarded as insane. He weighs about 200 pounds. When found he was sitting upon the grassy embankment of the lailioad, and he said: “Gentlemen, I’m not hurt, and my money is safe, thank God.” He had $2,000 w.th wi.h him.

—The most interesting thing at alate old settlers’ reunion at Plainfied, perhaps, was the presence of two twin brothers and their twin wives. The brothers are named March, or Martz, and live in Arcadia, Hamilton County. They are 87 years old, and their wives, who are twin sisters, are 84. The two couples were mairied at the same time—the 27th day of the month. Each has reared twelve children—seven sons a id five daughters—every one pf whom was born on the 27 th day of themonth. The parents and children all belong to the same church, the Christian. The fathers, to a stranger, look alike as two peas, and so do the mothers. The maiden name of the latter was McCoimick, audit was stated that their father was the first white man in Indiana. His cabin stood where is now the site of thenew State House at Indianapolis. Married in Haste. [Letter from Vincennes.] There is a story told in this city of twolovers who courted, wooed, won, wed, and were separated, all in twenty-four hours. Last Saturday a well-dressed and latheihandsome stranger arrived here and began meandering aimlessly around town. Beseemed to have no particular miss on here. In his careless walk the stranger, whose name is Jerry Kelly, and who claimed to be a nephew of Senator McDonald, halted in front of a house on Main street. He entered, and in just thirty minutes fell madly in love with one of the young women residing there —Miss Marie Mosier, on whom he had never laid eyes before. Miss Mosier makes no pretensions to a display of that feminine fascination or witchcraft which is supposed by some to entwine itself around the heart of susceptible males. Nevertheless, the stranger fell deep in love as sincerely as ever any man did. His love was reciprocated, and the two were engaged. Immediate marriage was proposed and accepted by the girl. Kelly left the house shortly afterward, only to return again in a buggy. He called for his sweetheart. “I’ve got them! I’ve got them!” he exclaimed, excitedly, meaning the marriage certificate, which he waived in the air. Miss Mosier was requested to go into the house and put on her hat. She complied and soon returned, jumped into the buggy, and the two drove rapidly down the street to the office of a Squire and were made man and wife. The couple returned to the house in which the bride was first seen, courted, wooed, and won. She startled her friends by the announcement that she had just been married, and before they had recovered from the shock she had. procured her wearing apparel, jewelry, etc., and was off again with her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Kelly engage 1 lodgings at a. boarding-house near the Union Depot, where they cooed and billed like doves until the time came for them to retire. Bright and early the next morning the inhabitants of Mrs. Kelly’s former home were again sartled to see her return alone. Being questioned, she told them that her husband said he was a nephew of Senator Joe McDonald of Indianapolis; that he had married her to give her a home and because he loved her. The new-made wife, however, did not like the treatment of her liege lord, and considered his methods of matrimonial devotion too much at variance with her own ideas on that point He wanted to whip her, she says, and threatened to kill her. One day of married life was quite enough for her, and she preferrd to return to her former life of single blessedness. Kelly disappeared suddenly the next day and has not been heard of since. It is said that years ago he was connected with the “William Tell” saloon here, which at that time was conducted by Prof. J«ke Brienig, leader of lhe Ringgold Band of Terre Haute.