Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The vocalists of Layfayette will hold a musical convention in January. —An Indianapolis couple were married by a Justice in just fifteen seconds. —Amos Baxter, an aged colored man of Muncie, was fatally injured by the cars. —Mrs. Charles Watkins, of Wabash, has eloped with James Ellis, a book canvasser. —A rich Vein of iron ore has been discovered on the farm of Michael Shoop, near Peru. —lt is astonishing wliat risks some people will take with other people's money.— Indianapolis Times. —There are said to be thirty-five saloons in Cass County selling liquor without the formality of a State license. —Dr. L. J. Ham, a prominent physician of South Bend, was given a surprise by his friends on his 80th birthday. —The small towns around Indianapolis complain of a grant influx of burglars and petty thieves since the workhouse went into operation. —Wesley Crum, a Scott County farmer, 60 years old. has just married his seventh wife. Two of his wives died and four were divorced.

—Jack Henning having been taken away to Rockville, it can now be said that, for the first time in twelve years, there is not one man in Vigo County jail charged with a felonv.

—There have been four' elopements the past month at Logansport. James Street, who was recently divorced and remarried, abandoned his second spouse on Monday, and eloped with wife No. 1. —At La Grange -Tuesday a tramp went into the anteroom of a school-house while school was in session and stole the cloaks and caps of the students, at the same time making away with twenty-six luncheons. —A thief entered the barn of Calvin Henshaw, a wealthy farmer living south of Winchester, and stole a valuable bay mare, a fine new carriage, and a set of nickelplated harness, the whole outfit being worth $350. —The Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Company have been greatly annoyed and suffered considerable loss through the stealing of coal from cars along the line. They have now commenced a vigorous prosecution of the thieves. —One thousand dollars’ worth of silverware and fine dresses, stolen from Judge K. M. Hord’s residence in Shelbyville, a week ago, were found in a s'able three miles from town Saturday by Jessie Ray, who will receive $l5O reward.

—The engine and eighteen cars of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Indianapolis freight train tunfiled into a creek near Indianapolis Wednesday morning, and four persons were injured, one fatally. To clear the track it was found necessary to burn the wreck, freight and all. —“Yes,” said the poet J. W. Riley, in answer to the Odds-and-Ends man, “I have added another stanza to ‘The Frost is on the Punkin.’ It has never been published, but when I recite the poem this last stanza sort o’rounds it off.” Mr. Riley repeated the lines, and here they are: When yer apples all is gathered An’ the ones a feller keeps Is poured around the cellar floor In red and yeller heaps, An' yer cider-making’s over, An’ yer women folks is there, With their mince an' apple butter An’ their souse an' sassage fare— I don't know how to tell it, But if such a thing could bo As the angels wantin’ boardin’ An' they called around on me, I’d want to 'commodate ’em, The whole endurin’ flock. When the frost is on the pumpkin An’ the fodder's in the shock. —lndiaiuipoliu Journal,

—The State Board of Health elected Dr. Metcalf Secretary for four years. The transportation of corpses infected with small-pox, typhoid, yellow fever, or cholera is forbidden in Indiana from Nov. 15 to March 1. All other dead bodies may be transported without restriction, except those of persons who died of diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, erysipelas, or measles, and these must be wrapped in a sheet thoroughly saturated with a solution of chloride of zinc (one-half pound to a gallon of water), incased in an antiseptic intermentsack, hermetically sealed, and placed in a coffin, which must l>e inclosed in a tight wooden box and surrounded by sawdust saturated with a solution of chloride of zinc, the same as above. Articles and persons exposed to the contagion must not accompany the corpse. Provisions are also made for physicians’ and undertakers’ certificates, etc.

• —“The ChriHtmas thieves are nearly due again,” remarked a Washington-street merchant. “Don't know who they are? Well, every year just before Christmas there come to this city from Chicago, Cincinnati, and other places, fellows with various kinds of goods and wares to sell. Some have furs, some dry goods, some silverware and jewelry. -The three weeks immediately preceding the holidays are, in most lines of goods, better than any two months in the year, and these pirates come here, and, as they pay no taxes and are under little expense, Carry off the cream of the trade, frequently unloading old goods that are out of fashion, while our tax-paying merchants, who should be protected, are robbed of a patronage they would otherwise have. The Council should put a tax upon these trade marauders that would practically amount to prohibition.”— lndianapolis Journal.