Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Prof. Bugg Is a Folsomville pedagogue. There are nearly 700 boys in the ReForm School. Tub Knox County Court-House will cost $500,000. Posey County has $58,000 ahead and don’t want a cent. A bkuhioh of the Eighty-seventh Indiana Volunteers la talked of. Thebe baa never been a dance in Spiceland that anybody knows of. A Habbisoh County woman has had nineteen children at seven births. The Daviess County folks are talking horse, to come off on the 15th prox. The total valuation of the real and personal property in Goshen is $1,687,770. Wheat harvest will not commence in Clinton County before the middle of July, they say. Geologists say coal may be found in Northern Indiana at the depth of 800 to 400 feet. All but twelve of “ the old guards” at the State Prison South have been officially decapitated.

The proprietors of the Bucyrus mowing and reaping machine works are talking oi removing them to Terre Haute. The change from the Baxter law to the present liquor law puts $3,000 in the school fund of Warrick County. A blind man named Kfktz, living at Chili, committed suidlde the other afternoon by taking 240 grains of opium. Terry County intends to build two exposition halls, one 24x50 and the other lOx 32 feet, 21,000 feet of board fencing, and eighty stables. A child at Graysville, Sullivan County, was fatally injured a few nights ago through carelessness in lighting a fire with non-explosive kerosene. No licenses to sell liquors were granted by the Commissioners of Union County at their late session. There were only two applications and both were denied. William Ennis, while walking in the woods near Indianapolis with a young lady, was killed the other afternoon. She claims that in plaj-ing with his revolver he accidentally shot himself. Thomas Miller hung himself with a clothes-line at the house of his uncle in Rush County a few days ago. He was twenty-three years old and unmarried. No reason is assigned for the rash act. Terre Haute is going to hive a grand Fourth of July celebration on Monday, the sth, at Early’s Grove. Judge Long will read an historical essay and Dan Voorhees and Col. McLean deliver orations.

It is probable that there will not be over half an average crop of wheat in Rush County this year, and unless the season is very favorable henceforth there will not be more than a third of an average crop.— Indianapolis Journal. A new dodge has been devised for advertising reapers and mowers. It is for all the agents to deliver all their sales in one day, give a grand dinner to the purchasers, and have a procession of the machines sold. Such an affair came off at Frankfort the other day. It was equal to a circus. A few days since a daughter of Rev. Mr. Tanzy, of Graysville, kindled a fire with coal oil, and the old story was repeated. The oil caught fire, exploded the can, and enveloped the young lady in flames. Her clothes were burned off, and her lower extremities so badly burned that she died. The drunkest person that got on .the Vandalia train yesterday was a pretty young woman at Brazil, whose rosy cheeks were aflame with vile potations, and her insane laugh as she reeled to the platform at Staunton made a shudder go through the frame of all who love purity and virtue.—Terre Haute Express. Mr. Parsley Hosbrook, of Indianapolis, recently requested the Treasurer of Morgan County to pay him $5,720 interest on some bonds. The Treasurer kindly responded by sending a perfect check for $57,200, and Parsley was just green enough to send it back. The local papers applaud his honesty, as if he deserved great credit. Jerry Monroe, a colored man, living in Indianapolis, recently brutally murdered his late wife by beating her brains out with an iron wrench. She had been lately divorced from him on the ground of cruelty. Deceased was thirty-three years old and a member of the colored Baptist Church. When visited in jail, two hours after his arrest, and told his wife was dead, the brute exhibited little emotion, but expressed a belief that he would be hung.

The Indiana Volksblatt, the oldest-es-tablished Gorman paper in the State, having reached its twenty-sixth year, is to be sold. It is reported that the paper will be bought by a Catholic corporation, and hereafter published as the official Papal organ of the State. Herr Grimm, formerly of the Daily Telegraph , and now of the Illinois Stoats-Zeitung, of Chicago, it is said, will be editor-in-chief. A most distressing accident occurred near Greentown a few days ago, resulting in the death of a little boy, the son of Mr. Pierce. The deceased, with several of his playmates, was playing in a gravel-pit from which several teams were hauling gravel. As one of the wagons was pull-, ing out of the pit Mr. Pierce’s boy caught hold of the side of the wagon, it seems for the purpose of jumping on, when he lost his hold and fell under the wagon, one of the wheels running over his head and kill] ing him almost instantly.

The following postal changes were made In Indiana during the week ending June 19, 1875: Established—Greenfield Mills, LaGrange County, William H. H. Groves, Postmaster; Soto, Stark County, Isaac R Bascum, Postmaster. Discontinued—Nelson, Vigo County; Tassinong, Porter County, Postmasters appointed—Dorsey, Blackford County, Harrison R Harter; Ewing, Jackson County, John Wallace; ' Hartsville, Bartholomew County, Nicholas 8. Holcomb; Haubstadt, Gibson County, Frederick Monroe; Jordanville, Knox County, John Gilmore; Merrillville, Lake County, John P. Merrill; Mount Liberty, Brown County, John Clark; New Haven, Allen County, Joseph Whitaker; Pleasant View, Wabash County, Jonathan R Wilson ; Rexville, Ripley County, Thomas S. Vawter; Williamsburgh, Wayne County, Mrs. Lydia Bunnell.