Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

---The Indiana and Hoosier State Polo Leagues have united. —The federated miners in the Stato'iaive united in an organization and secured a charter. —The State House at Indianapolis will be decorated by statues set up in appropriate places. —Granville Carter, colored, who ran a nail in his foot while working on the new State House, died of lockjaw. —On Dec. 29 the scientists of the State meet at Indianapolis for the purpose of forming a State Academy of Science. —lndiana was one of very few States wherein there were no seizures of property for violations of the internal revenue laws. —Eva Adler has brought suit against the city of Evansville for SI,OOO damages sustained in the overflow of her cellar from a defective sewer. —Lon Scott, formerly well-known as a traveling man, and proprietor of a country 6tore near Richmond, has made au assignment. His assets are said to be worth $14,000. •—The work of drilling for natural gas at the Do Pauw American plate-glass works in New Albany will soon be commenced. If there is natural gas within 3,500 feet of the surface at those works Mr. De Pauw will find it. He intends to make a thorough test of the matter, regardless of cost. —A “Law and Order Club” lias been organized in Harrison County with over three hundred members. The object is to detect and bring to punishment the members of tbo mob known as the “Knights of tho Swith,” whose acts have of late brought so much disgrace upon the county. ~, —A preacher at Terre Haute has oomo to grief through a slight eccentricity. After due consideration he concluded that Theodore Parker’s sermons were bettor than his own, so be preached them, and won groat renown. Finally the congregation hoard of tho cheat, became wroth, and kicked. Tko erratic preacher is now without the pale of the church. —Thero are nine churches of the Mormon faith in Southern Indiana. They Irelong to the Joseph Smith, or anti-polygamy, wing of the church. There has been a church in Floyd County ever since 1868, and it is said the sect is growly slowly but surely. Elder Morrts Scott, of Galena, Floyd County, is head of this branch of tho church in Indiana. —Boone County lias issued a county order for $23,500, in aid of tho Midland Railroad, to bo placed iu tho hands of a committee, who are to use the proceeds to purchase materials to complete the road to Westfield, tho company agreeing to at tho same time furnish money to purchase all additional materials to finish the esatem end of tho road, and to at once proceed to lay track. —lndiana farmers are experiencing on attack of the Bohemian oats disease. In Tippecanoe County one of the shaqiers has been at work, and has fleeced many of the farmers. lie sells the oats at $lO a bushel, taking a negotiable note, and gives a contract to take double the number of bushels at the same price from the first crop. The oats are worthless, the seller never shows up, but the notes appear all right in the hands of the bank. —A wealthy stoek-raiser from Indiana, named Theodore Fowler, eomplained to the Chicago police that he had been held up in a dark street and robbed of $1,500 in bank notes and two watches by two “friends” whom he had pieked up. On a description furnished by him, the police arrested Louis Doutrie and Ed Hardy. Fowler’s pocketbook and several promissory notes were found in their room. The man with the “boodle” is still missing. —The Indianapolis Times speaks as follows of the City Council: “The session last night was no exception, but was rather the climax of the confusion and disorder that have' reigned at previous meetings. Two members were present in so drunken a condition that they could not speak understandingly, nor stand squarely upon their feet. Several other members were also under the influence of liquor. Instead of the sober and level-hended members endeavoring to frown down the disreputable actions of their besotted colleagues, and up-' holding the dignity of the representative body of Indianapolis, they merely laughed at the drunken antics and allowed the stultifying imposition to go unchecked.” —Miss Melissa McClery, a well-known young lady of Fort Wayne, answered an advertisement two years ago from a gentleman advertising for correspondents with a view to matrimony. Correspondence progressed until photographs were exchanged, followed by a matrimonial engagement. Tuesday Mr. Wilbur Richards, of Clarksburg, arrived at the residence of the young lady and introduced himself to Miss McClery as the expectant bridegroom. Hurried arrangements for a wedding were commenced, and Wednesday afternoon they were married by the Rev. D. A. Northrap, of the Jefferson Street Baptist Church, and started at once for their future home in Virginia. The gentleman furnished letters of recommendation from prominent men in his State, among them Senator Mahone. He is editor and proprietor of a newspaper at Clarksburg Springs, and was, until a few weeks since, Postmaster at that place.