Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—A gang of swindlers has just been un- ! earthed that have been operating in differ- j ent sections of the State quite successfully. Their scheme is rather novel and bears on I its face every mark of genuineness, and it is a pretty slick farmer that escapes. These | men go in pairs, and their business is to watch the weekly newspapers for notices of stock that has been taken up and advertised. Soon as one of these notices is found, one of the men goes to the party who has taken the stock up and inspects it carefully, but is very sorry to find that the lost animal is not his. He then goes back to his partner and gives him a full description of the property, and if there is any special mark or blemish on the beast a note is made of it. Then in a day or two the second man goes to the farmer and say 8: “I 6ee you have taken up a horse (as the case may be) and as one of mine strayed away some time since, I would like to see the animal.” “Oh, yes, certainly.” “I would have no objection to describing it,” and then will follow the description, which is always finished with the remark that “I can identify the horse in a minute if he is mine, by a and then some little, peculiar mark is named that was found by the first man. The farmer looks for this, and finds it, the identification is complete, and the Rtock is about to be turned over, when the sharper, half hesitating, says something about Belling it. Then, in his own “slick” way, he makes a cash sale, the farmer agreeing to pay the advertising bill. In due time the rightful owner puts in an appearance, claims and proves up the property, and the farmer realizes that he has been taken in and done for. The trick is a “good one,” and as a rule, works to perfection. —Among friends of Indiana University there has been much anxiety as to what will be the result on the institution by reason of the failure of the Legislature to act on the appropriation bills. It will, therefore, be a relief to know that the result will not affect the institution in any way, save to keep it cramped for need of working room. Dr. Jordan stated in answer to a question as to the resources of the institution: “The failure of the general appropriation will postpone to the next meeting of the General Assembly the building of the much-needed library hall. It also leaves unsettled the disagreement between the University Trustees and the late Auditor of State as to the time when the semi-annual installment of the University’s stated appropriation should be made. Otherwise the work of the University is in no wise dependent upon the action of the Legislature. The sources of income for the next year are the following: Stated appropriation made by law and not dependent upon future legislation, $23,000; interest on proceeds of lands given by the United States Government, $7,000; interest on accumulation of endowment fund, ($12,000) $6,000; fees of students, $3,700; other sources of revenue, SSOO, making a total of $40,000. The income of 1888 should bo about $42,500. While the institution will not secure a building which is much needed, the failure of this bill will in no way check its prosperity.” —At a meeting of McPherson Post, G. A. R., the following persons were appointed as a committee to make all arrangements for the Eighth District soldiers’ reunion, to be held in Crawfordsville next September: T. H. B. McCain, Eightysixth Regiment: Joe Tenth Regiment; W. H. Webster, Eleventh Regiment; S. A. Stilwell, Fortieth Regiment; B. R. Russell, Sixty-third Regiment; W. P. Herron, Seventy-second Regiment, and Mat Doherty, One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment. —An old man recently died in Montgomery Connty who was supposed to be in poor circumstances. It was ascertained, however, when the remains were prepared for burial, that the sum of SI,OOO was concealed about his body. The sum of S4OO was found in his pockets, and there was S6OO in bills sewed up in a belt which passed around his body under his clothes. This money had been carried in this belt, from appearances, a long time. —Some young hoodlums residing near Linden, Montgomery County, jumped upon the second section of freight train No. 24, on the Monon line, and set the brakes, which brought the train to a standstill, and before the conductor could signal a trtAi following it plunged into the second section, making an ugly wreck, which took twelve hours to clear away. Three cars were reduced to fragments and eighteen more damaged. —The Bedford and Tunnelton Railroad Company was organized at Bedford, with A. H. Guthrie, of Tunnelton, as President; George Goth, of Chicago, Vice President; Dr. Ben Newland, Treasurer; H. 11. Walls, Secretary; C. N. Lessey, of Indianapolis; J. H. Ward, of this place, andJ. S. Day, of New Albany, Directors. This road will connect with the O. &, M. at Tunnelton. —The preparations for boring for natural gas at Delphi have been completed, and the work of drilling has begun. A strong company has been organized, and the work will be carried forward as rapidly as possible. It is thought by those well informed in the matter that Delphi is within the great gas belt, and that gas will be found at a depth not exceeding 900 feet. —Dr. Rogers, of Martinsville, has killed a hog which for size is ahead of anything in line. The animal measured seven feet and six inches in length. Its girth was six feet and one inch, and it weighed 600 pounds. Exclusive of the sides it yielded twenty gallons of lard and six gallons of sausage meat. —lndianapolis has been admitted as a member of the National Base Ball League. W • . ** --t - * ■» r « _____ . _____

Common Sense. The proprietors of the Moxie Nerve Food, that is creating such an excitement all over the country as a remedy for the liquor habit and nervoui exhaustion, or results of overwork, talk the best sense yet They say the nervous system is the seat of life, and controls the functions of the body. The functions of the body are to take nutrition and get rid of a corresponding amount of old and impure material. If the nerves are strong enough to do this, wo are well, aud the blood purities itself evory day; if not, we are UL That is the whole system of health in a nutshell Montmautre is a hill on the north side of Paris rising 320 feet above the Seine. It is said that St. Uonis suffered martyrdom there. A nunnery waa formerly situated on the summit, and here was the Chapelle des Martyrs, where in 1534 Ignatius Loyola and his followers took the oath in which the order of the Jesuits had its origin. The Western Settler’s Chosen Specific. With evory advance of emigration into the far West, a new demand is created for Hostettor's Stomach Bitters. Newly peopled regions ore frequently less salubrious than older settled localities, on account of the miasma which rises from recently oloared laud, particularly along the banks of rivers that are subject to freshets. The agricultural or mining emigrant soon learns, when he does not already know, that the Bitters afford tho only sure protection against malaria, and those disorders of tho stomach, liver, and bowels, to which climate changes, exposure, aud unaccustomed or unhealthy water or diet subject him. Couscquently, ho places an estimate upon this great household specific and preventive commensurate with its intrinsic merits, and is careful to keop on hand a restorativo and i romoter of health so implicitly to bo relied upon in time of neod. If a man borrows money ho does not care to have it talked about. He wants to be quietly let a loan.— New Orleans Picayune. Coughs and Hoarseness. —The irritation which induces coughing immediately relieved by use of “Jiro urn's Bronchial Trochei." Sold only in boxes. We don’t hanker for burdens, but wo should just liko to bitch on to a fresh Comstock lode.— Lowell Courier.