Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Cut- worms are catting corn in the vicinity of Corydon. Terre Haute is talking park with a fountain attachment Hoe cholera is carrying off hogs at a fearful rate in Pike County. Seventeen attorneys live ofl the legal quarreling of Harrison County. A baht) of gypsies are peddling “fate” in the vicinity of Bowling Green. A ditch seven miles long is to be cut in Tipton County at a cost of SO,OOO. Centennial societies are being organized in several counties of the State. Rushvillb is infested with thieves who help themselves to gold-headed canes. Cass County claims to be better financially fixed than any other in the State. The apple crop is reported from all parts of the State to be a complete failure this year. Job Gardner, a farmer, had his pockets picked of $l6O at the Goshen races the other day. During a heavy storm at Berno a few evenings ago a large show-window in a drug store was blown in and a clerk fatally injured. In the excavation for the new Terre Haute gas-holder a number of very beautiful shells, Indian beads, petrifactions, coal and other objects of interest have been unearthed.

The detectives of Indianapolis are accused of having released three prisoners arrested for robbery and receiving stolen goods on the payment of S3OO. The affair is to be investigated. The wife of Jesse Artis, a colored man living in Lost Creek Township, Vigo County, had her throat aut a few nights ago while she lay in bed. At last accounts her murderer had not been discovered. Charles Ford was found two miles south of Borne City the other morning, where he had lain since the night of the 20th, having taken a large dose of morphine. The supposed cause is separation from his wife through the influence oi her friends. Charles Ageno, a clerk In the wholesale confectionery establishment of Heing Bros., at Terre Haute, while swinging in the rear of the house of one of his employers the other evening was thrown twenty feet by the breaking of one of the ropes, and fatally injured. The following postal changes were made in the State during the week ending June 26, 1875: Established—Beechwood, Crawford County, Mrs. Sarah J. Jenkins, Postmistress. Discontinued—Canby, Putnam County; Fish Creek, Steuben County. Postmasters appointed—Alert, Decatur County, Miss Jennie Taylor; Slate, Jennings County, Charles N. Taubman. As the Toledo train of the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad was approaching Leonard’s Crossing, a few miles north of Highland, a few mornings ago, a man was observed by the engineer standing about twelve feet from the track. Just before the train reached him he ran up to the track, laid his head upon the rail, and before the speed of the train could be checked it had passed over the man, severing his head entirely from his body. His name was Oliver W. Armstrong. He was twenty-eight years old, and had previously threatened suicide.

In an appealed liquor case at Indianapolis the other day, under the new License law, Judge Perkins held that it was not within the ordinary judgment of the Commissioners to decide whether the applicant was a fit person to be connected with sale of liquors, but that such fitness or unfitness must be judged by sound legal discretion upon charges made and proved. Concerning remonstrance, it must be one by voter or voters, in writing, who must specify with reasonable certainty the grounds of unfitness, and, if they do not in themselves constitute legal unfitness, the Commissioners may strike them out or refuse to hear proof of them. If they constitute legal unfitness they must be legally proved, and, if legally proved, license shall be refused. Charles Pbobst, living near Terre Haute, owned two valuable horses, and a thief caught one of them, put on a bridle, and rode away. The other horse then began neighing and afcting so strangely as to attract Mr. Probst’s attention. Seeing that one horse was missing he went to the field, when the remaining animal began to neigh loudly. Presently Mr. Probst heard an answering neigh from the missing horse far in the distance. Saddling the remaining horse he at once gave chase, the two horses, singularly enough, keeping up that kind of horse language at frequent intervals. He galloped over hills and through gullies in this manner for about two miles, when a turn in the road brought him in sight of the thief and the horse. A last neigh disgusted the thief, and, abandoning his stolen animal, he took to the woods on foot.

Some time ago J. R. Buell and Susan R. Gilbert, residents of Indianapolis, took out a license and in presence of certain witnesses and themselves solemnized a ceremony of marriage and took each other for husband and wife respectively, so long as the union of love and life shall last. They were subsequently indicted for maintaining an adulterous connection. It was claimed that the marriage was not legally solemnized, and that, therefore, the parties were living in open violation of the law; but Judge Chapman held the marriage, although irregular, to be valid, since the parties themselves believed it to be so, and lived together as husband and wife. The Judge, in concluding his decision, said: “I conclude that the defendants contracted a valid marriage, such a contract as can only be dissolved by death or decree of a competent court; that their agreement to dissolve the contract by their own consent, incase their respective love natures failed to harmonize, is in law void and in morals vicious; that if the parties should act under this stipulation for a termination of the marriage contract and thereafter enter into a similar marriage contract and relationship with other parties they would be guilty of bigamy; and that good morals mid sound political ethics, as well as the statute law, require that they shall be held firmly to the marriage contract they have assumed, and to all the duties and responsibilities the law attaches thereto; mid, therefore, that the parties are not guilty as charged n the indictment"