Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Work on the Government building at Evansville is progressing rapidly. There was a sham battle at the fairgrounds at Cambridge City on the Fourth. Gen. Williams is endeavoring to bring about a reunion of the Twelfth Indiana Regiment. Bedbugs have been admitted to the Tippecanoe County bar, the Court-House being infested with them. The next meeting of the Northern Indiana Editorial Association will be held at Plymouth, Thursday, July 15. The bridge over Lick Creek, north of Connersville, and 100 feet of embankment were washed away during a recent storm. The Mount Vernon Democrat says 100,000 acres of land in cultivation can be seen from the dome of the Posey County CourtHouse. It is said that a Spencer County clergyman has retained an attorney to collect old unpaid marriage fees from delinquent bridegrooms. Henry Elliott, a Knightsville tanker, was killed a few days ago at Watson’s works while attempting to pass under a descending cage. There is a little blackhopper, not much larger than a flea, that is doing serious damage to the cabbage-plants in the vicinity of Grandview.

The young men of Lafayette used to sleep on the porches, but since a burglar rolled one of them to the sidewalk the sleepers sleep elsewhere. Local editors throughout the State are remarkably vigilant In unearthing rascality, incited by an evident desire to utilize the word “ hoodlum.”— •Journal. Eli Shyhawk, a very long young man of Fayette County, recently “sucked” thirteen raw eggs at the railroad depot on a three-cent wager.—New Cattle Courier. The stinking catalpa is the inspiration of much flowery writing about this time throughout the State. They catch the aroma (?) at once.— lndianapolis Journal. The Worthington Timet says: “Ifnothing destroys the corn there will be more raised in this vicinity during the present season than has been for many years before.” The prisoners in the county jail at Indianapolis were treated to ice-cream and cake on the sth by three ladies. And then they growled because strawberries were not included. Indiana has thirty daily, three tri-week-ly, three semi-weekly, 295 weekly, twentyfour monthly and' two quarterly publications, making a total of 357 newspapers and periodicals. The Odd Fellows of the two districts embracing Kentland, Goodland, Fowler, Rensselaer, Remington, Brook and Morocco will hold a grand picnic at Brook Grove, Aug. 12, 1875. Reub Lamb, of Evansville, robbed a barkeeper’s drawer and was sent to prison for two years. His wife proposes to sue the barkeeper for selling him the whisky that made him commit the crime.

President Woodward, of the Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad, has resigned, and th* election of Mr. Thomas D. Messier as his successor, to date from the Ist of July, is announced. No cause is assigned for the change. Mbs. Vinte Whitney, of Logansport, quarreled with her husband, and to prevent further family jars made a meal of morphine the other night Medical assistance was promptly rendered and the poor woman was relieved from immediate danger. Milton Wool and wife, and David White, of Richmond, were recently poisoned with arsenic, the drug havjpg been placed in their coffee. On recovering, Mr. Wool accused one of his neighbors of having doctored his favorite beverage, and has sued him to recover SIO,OOO damages. A farmer who had a horse grazing in a field near his house went out to shoot a hawk last week, but before he got within range the rifle was accidentally discharged and he returned to the house. When he went for his horse next day he found him dead, shot by his own hand.— Rockport Re-publican-Joumal. Berty G. Stover, who was known as the “ Crawfordsville boy-preacher,” died recently in Denver, Col. He began to fill the pulpit when but fourteen years of age, and up to the time of his death, during a long collegiate course, he preached regularly. He was in his twenty-second year at the time of his death. Louisa Jane Tucker, of Plainfield, has got a judgment in the Hendricks Circuit Court of $750 against J. Walton for breach of the marriage contract. The defense attempted to show that the young lady was engaged to two men at once, but the jury did not consider a trifling matter like that worthy of consideration. A young woman named Eliza Younce, residing about two miles from Hartford City, committed suicide on the 4th by hanging herself to the limb of a tree within a short distance of her home. She was not found for some time after the committal of the rash act The cause was unknown. She seemed to be in good health and spirits. John Lengter, living in Richmond, recently went into the woods south of that city to shoot squirrels. While there he thought it would be a good thing to do to commit suicide. So he bent down a sapling, tied the trigger to it and then let it go. He had a heavy load of shot in the region of his heart when the body was found. He was formerly in business at Richmond but had recently sold out, and it was supposed that financial and domestic troubles induced the act

The Attorney-General has published an opinion concerning the effect of an appeal to the Circuit Court on the part of an applicant for a liquor license from the judgment of the County Commissioners, refusing to grant him such license, in which he says: “The provision of the law in regard to appeal is palnly applicable only where the applicant has been granted a license, and the appeal taken by the remonstrants, and has no bearing upon such a case as you state. It is the only provision of this sort in the act, and in the absence of a provision in the statute there is no rule of law upon which sales made in violation of the act by a person whose application was refused by the Board of County Commissioners could be adjudged lawful on account of an appeal to a Circuit Court, the appeal still pending,”