Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The Liquor law is to be enforced on Sundays at Indianapolis. According to tlie Review Elkhart has a magnolia tree in full bloom. The Catholic ladies of Terre Haute are engaged in temperance work. Lafayette wife-whippers are urged to emigrate after being released from jail. The grand Masonic Hall building contract at Indianapolis has been let for $28,300. Db. Nutt, President of the Indiana State University, has been summarily retired. A popular amusement at Germantown Is wrestling-matches between the opposite sexes. Lafayette young ladies walk the streets howling like hyenas,’ according to th* Courier. Brazil has under contract public and private improvements to cost not less than $125,000. A Spencer County former set out an acre of mullcia under the impression that it was tobacco. Prof. John C. Ridpath, of Green castle, has just finished his school history of tha United States. The Democrat by careful inquiries reaches the fact that 36,600 pounds of wool have been bought in Sullivan. \ company has been organized to build a narrow-gauge railroad from Indianapolis to Shoals, in Marion County. The Thornton union fair have issued their circuliu. Thirty-five hundred dollars cash premiums are offered. An enterprising young man of Kokomo has started a buttermilk fountain, which promises to be a financial success. The negro Monroe, who recently murdered his wife at Indianapolis, has been sentenced to imprisonment for life. TniNGS are being stirred up again among the Brazil miners, and that lively region promises to become lively again. The State Treasurer has bought up sixty-three internal-improvement bonds, which with interest amount to $384,000. The Indianapolis News says there is a disease cijculating among the dogs there which sets them stone blind within a few hours. A farmer in Perry County got two rival machine agents to cut his wheat on a trial and then concluded to wait till next summer to buy. A committee of the Trustees of the State University started East a few days ago for the purpose of looking up an eligible man for President. A boat containing Geo. Campbell and two horses, while crossing the AVabash River a mile east of Logansport, recently, capsized and all were drowned. At Attica, a few days ago, a little elev-en-year-old son ®f Mr. Cook, Superintendent of the Indiana Northern and Southern Railroad Company, fell from the car on to the track, the wheels severing his body in two. The members of the State Board of Education are conducting the examination for State certificates. These certificates are good for a lifetime, and license those holding them to teach in any part of the State. Isabel McOry, thirteen years old, was drowned near Heroin recently. In attempting to cross a swollen creek on a foot log she fell In. A companion also fell into the stream, but by clinging to the log was saved.

The aggregate expense of the publie schools of Indianapolis for the year ending June 30 was $266,793.45, of which $122,953.86 was for teachers’ salaries. The city has twenty-one district schoolhouses and one high-scliool building. A young Jefferson County bride, married on a recent Wednesday, was burned to death on Saturday in the usual manner by pouring coal-oil from a can upon the lire to kindle it. Tier name was Mrs. J. T. Burton, and she lived two miles east of Wirt. Portland City was literally submerged the other day by the sudden rise of the Salimony River. It is stated that all the skiffs in the village were brought into requisition, and many a father was seen stemming the current bearing his family in his ai ms. An eight-year-old son of Thomas Price was drowned in the mill-race at Lafayette the other day. He and two other boys were driving through the mill-race when the horses started suddenly, jerking the little fellows out of the buggy backward into the water. A contract has been let for building a largo addition to the Normal College, located at Valparaiso. Work has already commenced on the second boarding-hall. Every possible preparation is made for 1,090 students at the opening of its third year in September next. Prof. Bell, of England, visited Indiana recently. In his report he speaks in the highest terms of the coal-fields of this State, and particularly of its block coal; also of the Indiana furnaces, which, he said, could successfully compete with any district he had visited in smelting the ores of Lake Superior or Missouri. The Evansville Coririer says that Robert Dale Owen is now safe with his own children at New Harmony, where he is receiving all the care that affection can bc3tow. It is a pitiable sight to see the venerable and gray-haired gentleman passing about the streets of the village of New Harmony and witness his acts, which indicate too clearly his aberration of mind. Jacob T. Lkttermax, thirteen years old, was killed at Parrott’s Grove picnic, near Evansville, on the oth. In fixings awing in a tree he climbed out on a branch about thirty-seven feet from the ground with a hatchet and commenced to chop at the limb to fix the rope. The bough broke under him and the youth struck the ground with such force as to rebound slightly. He fell on his face and was picked up insensible, and died at night. The wife of Richard H. Pigg, Jr., in Cass Township, was alone a few evenings ago when a storm came up, and becoming alarmed took her tw r o youngest children in her arms and leading the other started to go to a neighbor’s. A culvert had washed out in the road, and into the dashing current' the unfortunate woman plunged in the darkness. The two little ones she was carrying were drowned, but she managed to get out with the oldes Child.