Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Logansport put* in a claim to 15,000 souls now. Grbkkcastls is to hare a stone-front and three-rtories-high opera-house. Tskbb are no houses for rent in Vincennes, and a spirit of general improvement prevails. A $2,500 hobsb snagged its foot and died from the injury, a few days ago, in Miami County. Tbs Wabash Medical Association will meet in Vincennes June 8. A large at” tendance is anticipated. Thb total value of real estate transferred in Steuben County during the month of April was about SIOO,OOO. Thb Clay County miners’ strike had entered on its thirteenth week on the 16th, and there were no signs of yielding. J. Barnes & Sok’s mill, at Farmland, Randolph County, was recently destroyed by fire. Loss $5,000; no insurance. Twit number of school children in Vigo County has increased 325 during the past year. The total number is now 13,710. A firb started in a Knightsville saloon the other day which was not extinguished until SIO,OOO worth of property was burned. It is estimated that 150 head of sheep have been killed by dogs in Hanover township, Jefferson County, during the past winter. Jenny Hall, of North Manchester, has sued J. H. Shively of the same place for breach of marriage contract. She thinks she has suffered $25,000 worth. The barn of Eli Thorp, at New Pittsburgh, Randolph County, was struck by lightning a few nights since, and consumed, with all its contents. The Lebanon Pioneer says: “ The cherry crop is not all killed; there will be a great many cherries yet. Also the late apples are showing signs of life.”

The type and material of the Indianapolis Evening Globe was recently taken out of the State, it is thought, to save it from attachment on certain mortgages. An old man lately died in Bloomington, Monroe County, within one month of- being 117 years old. A centenarian indeed! He first saw light in Guilford County, N. C., in the year 1758. The spring fair of the Middle Fork Union Agricultural Society, composed of Clinton, Howard and Carroll Counties, will be held at Middle Fork, Clinton County, June 18 and 19. Mb. Wobl, a wealthy farmer of Wayne County, living near Walnut Level Station, and his wife were recently poisoned with some substance placed in their coffee. They were lying in a critical situation at last accounts. Twenty years ago Wm. H. Pierson, of Hendricks County, swallowed a nail, and has been trying to digest it ever since. But a few days since he gave it up and also gave up the ghost in consequence of the unfavorable diet ▲ farm-hand named McCord was recently killed in Jefferson County in a very singular way. He was seated under a large tree eating his dinner, when a large limb broken off by the wind fell upon him and killed him instantly. The State Editorial Association is to meet at the otate-House June 10 and 11, with a programme devoted entirely to business and papers of practical interest to editors and publishers. W. S. Lingle, of the Lafayette Courier, is President. All the machinery for the cotton-mill at Evansville has now arrived from the East. It has taken seventy-five cars to transfer all the contrivances used in spinning cotton. The immense factory will be in operation by the middle of June. The Lafayette Courier says: “Eleven entries already for fine cattle at the next Tippecanoe County Fair. Our premiums have attracted attention in Europe, and have been paragraphed in the Standard an evidence of the growing interest in fine stock in America.”

Thr Martin County Herald says: “ Ona night last week a party of masked men went to the house of Isaac Utterback, who resides some three miles north of Harrisonville, broke open the door of his house, took him out to the woods and whipped him severely. No cause is known for this outrage.” Charles Wade, an Evansville watch, maker, while carrying some watches in a valise from his shop to his residence the other night, was knocked down and robbed before he could use the revolver which he carried on his person for defense. Some thirty watches, valued at S6OO to S7OO, constituted the booty. One of the most important resources ol Washington County is her valuable sandbanks, situated in the southeast part of the county, about four miles from the railroad. It is doubtless the best sand for the pur. poses for which it is used to be found in the United States, and is *said to be the only sand which will make star glass.

Arrangements are already in progress for holding the Acton camp-meeting, located in the bounds of the Indianapolis District, which is to be held Aug. 10,* continuing at least ten flays. The campmeeting spirit is wonderfully on the increase in that region, and there is every prospect of.a large attendance. An old citizen of Cloverdale, Upton Shaw, recently lost his life in the followtag manner: He had a favorite stallion which required new shoes, and, mounting the horse, he started for the smith-shop to have the necessary work done. On his way the horse stepped with his fore feet into a hole and threw Mr. Shaw over his head. He died next morning from the effects of the fall. The following postal changes occurred in the State during the week ending May 15, 1875: Established—Granger, Monroe County, Isaac A. Chandler, Postmaster. Postmasters appointed—Alqutaa, Lafayette County, Matthew R. Hull; Crothersville, Jackson County, Edwin W. Wade; Gessie, Vermillion County, William H. Salsgaver; Graysville, Sullivan County, Stephen V. Brewer; Kewanna, Fulton County, Jesse W. Carter; Lawrence, Marion County, Alexander A. Johnston; Locke, Elkhart County, Jacob Hemininger; Orth, Montgomery County, Ira 8. McLaughlin; Pulaski, . Pulaski County, Matthew M. Hughes; St. Joseph’s Hill, Clark County, Jacob Schaefer; Wolf Lake, Noble County, Charles V. Barnhart.