Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

It takes fourteen grist-mills to do ths custom work of Hamilton County. Thx wheat crop in Huntington and MUmt Counties is said to be splendid. Acttv* work has commenced on the Bose Polytechnic Institution at Terre Hante. Th* tobacco crop of Dubois County will amount to little or nothing this season, it is said. Catkhpillabs are reported as committing great depredations on the fruit and forest trees of Pike County. Rev. V. M. Beaker, a clergyman at Richmond, is a sufferer from .domestic infelicity. He seeks a divorce. A rick containing about 2,790 cords of wood was destroyed by fire at Morristown, Shelby County, a few nights ago. The Rockport Democrat says there are families in Spencer County that have never had a newspaper in their houses. An idiot named Heay, of Rockport, lata, ly shot a $l5O horse because it would not come to him when he said “ Cope, cope!” Horrible affidavits were recently published in relation to Rev. Thomas MacIntyre, Superintendent of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum. A s witching-engine on the Indianapolis, Bloomington & Western Railroad ran over and killed Mrs. Eliza Cox at Indianapolis a few days ago. The State Temperance Convention will meet in Indianapolis on the 9th of June. Special arrangements have been made with the railroads for reduced fare for delegates. The crop of turtle in White River this year is immense. The Noblesville Ledger says a small colony of them loaf on every log in the river during the sunshiny hours. A few days ago Joseph Kamy, who worked for Mrs. Healey, near Montgomery station, was kicked in the abdomen by a horse, and was so severely injured that he died next day. A young girl, named Jane Kelly, was run over at Washington the other day by a train of five cars. One leg was cut oft above the knee and the other one terribly mangled. She died an hour alter the accident.

An Evansville young lady was recently precipitated into the vault of an out-house by the giving away of the floor. The distance was from twenty-five to thirty feet. It was with great difficulty that she was rescued. FrvKjnembers of the family of Councilman Gumbertz, of Evansville, were poisoned in a mysterious^-manner recently. They recovered in a few days, but the cause of their illness could not be discovered. A vicious Indianapolis dog recently made himself somewhat free with James Shane’s dinner, and was treated to a dose of shoe-leather. The enraged animal thereupon sprang upon Mr. Shane and bit off the end of his nose and otherwise fearfully lacerated his face and chin before he could be dragged off. The short-horn breeders closed a twodays’ session in Indianapolis on the 26th. The following officers were elected: Presi. dent, Dr. A. C. Stevenson, by acclamation; Vice-President, Chas. Sawder, of Plainfield ; Secretary, Claude Matthews; Treasurer, S. F. Lackridge; Executive Committee, W. W. Thrasher, Thomas Wilhartand T. C. Hammond. On the 26th the Grand Lodge F. and A. M. of the State, in session at Indianapolis, elected the following officers: Deputy Grand Master, Frank S. Duvall, of New Albany; G. S. W., Andrew J. Hay; J. G. Wi, Robert Van Valzah; 8. G. D., Wm. Kimble, of Lake County; G. G. D. J., G. W. Harey, of Bloomington; G. M., Jno. H. Beebe, of Rochester. The other officers were unchanged. The State Superintendent of Public Instruction on the 24th made an apportionment of the common-school revenue for tuition, showing the number of children in the State between the ages of six and twenty-one years to be 664,602; total amount collected and ready for apportionment, $1,013,000.82; total amount apportioned, $1 ,163,853.99; leaving a balance in the Treasury of $4,973.09; per capita, $1.74. Thk Danville Union makes the following argument for voting aid to the railroad: “ Twenty years ago eggs sold for three to eight cents a dozen, butter five to ten cents a pound, chickens seventy-five cents a dozen, bacon one and a half cents per pound, etc. Those who desire a return of those gopd old days should vote against railroads, for, without the facilities they afford, such prices would still prevail.”

The State Medical Society at its recent session in Indianapolis elected the following officers: President, Dr. J. H. Helm, of Peru; Vice-President, Dr. W. Beard, of Vincennes; Secretary, Dr. G. W Woolen, of Indianapolis; Assistant-Secretary, Dr. J. W. Elstun, of Indianapolis; Treasurer, Dr. J. H. Woodburn, of Indianapolis; Delegates to the Illinois Medical Society, Drs. J. W. Pugh, of Oaktown, and J. M. Link, of Terre Haute. Dr. Milton Lane, of Reelsville, Putnam County, has been found guilty of breaking a promise of marriage with Miss Nannie Smock, and has been adjudged to pay the sum of $2,300 to the brokenhearted damsel, who sued originally for $30,000. The doctor produced a letter from the fair one in which she tendered him “his freedom” on condition that he would “come out like a man and own that he had ceased to love her.” This, she says, he did not do, and held him to the contract. The Supreme Court has overruled the petition of Gordon et al., attorneys for plaintiff in the Carey-Carter case, asking for a rehearing. The facts in the case have already been published at length, but may be restated briefly, as follows: The children of Corey, colored, were denied the right of attending the public schools in their district and, as no separate school was provided for them, suit was brought against the Carter Township Trustee for the purpose of compelling him to allow the children of colored parents to attend white schools. Corey won the suit before Judge Howland, of the Circuit Court, and the defendants appealed to the Supreme Court, who reversed the decision, and now, as shown above, reaffirm it. Maj. Gordon will now appeal to tha United States Supreme Court.