Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Nineteen lawyers constitute the“B*r” of Knox County. Th*. small-pox is creating considerable alarm at Grand View. Tint Worthington Sun is dead. From its ash* the Journal will arise. 1 >jj Assistant State Geologist Bobdkn is about to begin a geological survey of Decatur and adjoining counties. Thw outrageous conduct of a Kaightetown young woman compelled relatives- to fasten her to the floor with chain and staple. - - : n * t Crawford Brown, of Perry County, sold a boat-load of prodoee in New Orleans, and had about SI,BOO of the money in his trunk on the Reporter when she banned. A raw days ago, at Mayville, a suburb of Terre Haute, a party of roughs, beaded by one Berber, kicked and beat a physician named Mercer so severely that he died three days after. Judge Baldwin, of Logansport, will deliver the Alumni oration at Franklin College on the 14th of June. His subject will be The Defects in the Constitution of the United States.’' The Lafayette Courier speaks of “ the Hon. 8. S. Cdx, President of the Wabash & Western Railroad.” Sunset will be surprised to find that he is President of a railroad. Miss Cabbie M. Crane, a talented young artist who was lost on the Schiller, was a sister of Milton A. Crane, of Terre Haute. . She was on her way to join her unde, Geo. P. Marsh, Minister to Rome. It was a hardware man who remarked, upon seeing a young Terre Haute lady walking with some of her country cousins ofWfeom she was evidently ashamed' that"; he. hated to see people act so “superstitiously” toward poor relations. Preston Campbell, a young farmer of Sullivan County, bought a dose of strychnine at Shelburn the other morning, swallowed it and died in half an hour. He was unnprrted, and trouble about a woman was thought to be the cause. / The Madisim. Courier says: “Oneof '.our attorneys was making a red-hot speech the other day before a jury, and became so warmed up in bis argument that he pulled off hfe coat to it. The Judge cooled his enthusiasm by compelling him to put it on again.” ‘ - - The Kokomo Democrat “ doubts if any city in Indiana can boast of so few business failures in proportion to the tion as Kokomo. We do not believP there is a city in the State of less than 10,000 population whose business will show up as well or any better than that of our own thriving, wide-awake city.” { The house of John R. Bell, in Evansville, was struck by lightning during a recent storm. The occupants did not know that it was on firt until the second story was Eblaze and they were almost 1 overpowered by the heated smoke. The servant girl escaped by jumping from'the second-fftpry window, but she was terribly and jirwiably fhtally burned.

? The Heptasophs recently held a session at Indianapolis, at which the following officers were elected for the current year: Hon. W. E. Foster, of Virginia, Supreme Archon; R. H. Morrison, of Michigan, Chancellor; O. R. Dudley, of Virginia, Prevost; S. B. Wolf, of Maryland, Secretary; W. S. Cone, of Indiana, Treasurer; U. B. Wilson, of Missouri, Prelate; D. J. Grady, of Texas, Inspector-General; J. Ortner, of Ohio, Herald; J. L. A. Green, of Illinois, Guide; J. E. Whicher, of California, Warder, and G. S. Hubbard, of Virginia, Sentinel. The Supreme Conclave will meet in Philadelphia next year. 1 Bill Rodifer recently made another attempt to tescape from the JeffersOhville State Prison at three o’clock in ; ;the morning. One of the guards heard a noise as if some one was using a heavy implement on the walls of a cell. * On making an examination ho was suddenly confronted by thhisrisoner -armed with a revolver. The guard retreated for help, and. further examination proved that Rodifer in some mysterious manner secured the keys, unlocked the cell door and silently seized the inside guard, disarmed him and threw him into the cell, locking him in, and then made an attempt to knock a hole in the wall large enough to escape. He failed and was locked up. Walter H. Wild, Superintendent of the Buckeye Cannel Coal Company, Cannelbdijg, suicided riecently. The Washington Gazette says: “On Thursday morajng 'Mr,. Wild purchased a bill of goods from a commercial traveler, it is said, mid a short time afterward the agent, on leaving, called to bid Mr. Wild goodby, and telling him to take good care of himself, which Mr. W. said he would do. Hethea walked into his room over the company’s store, where it appears he indited a letter, stating that he had been seeing a great deal of financial trouble of late, and informing his brother Edward, in Cincinnati, the particulars of his imaginary transactions, and giving embarrassments as the cause es the rash act he was about to commit. This letter was not signed, but the handwriting Was recognized as his. It appeared as if he had not completed the letter, hut rose up, seated himself on the bed, and with a navy revolver, the muzzle placed to the side of the head, discharged it, almost literally ■hooting the top of his head off. Another letter found in his pocket and directed to •'hie brother Edward was of the same purport 93 the one named above, and this was written- two days before, one on the 4th and the other on the 6th.”

Ilf order to preserve eggs as long as possible it is necessary to prevent the contact of air with their interior by closing the pored of the shell. It has been recently asserted that the most efficacious means of doing this is by the employment of soluble glass. This substance, which is a silicate of sodium, forms with the calcium car* bon ate which composes the shell a hew compound—calcium silicate—thus inclosing the shell in an impermeable coating. The soluble glass should be used as a solution of a sirupy consistence. Use eggs, previously well cleaned, are plunged into the solution for a half hour, beiugremoved from time to time to ascertain that the solution is thoroughly in contact with them. They are finally withdrawn, dried and placed on shelves which are eUher bored full of holes or covered with grain husks. They should be preserved in a dry'place.— N. 7. Independent, > iv/ j “ The girl whose feet don’t bend the grass" Ufff ip Colorado.