Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Babytown is an Ivußville suburb. Salim comes to tie front with a mad dog. Winchester calls for more tenement houses. Scarlkt ncvßß prevails in Harrison County. . Ci i Union City recently voted to iacorporate as a city. Terre Haute supports a noonday prayer-meeting. The grape crop in Union County is being damaged by blight Hancock County has seven representatives in the State Prison. Vevay pays its School Trustees twenty, five dollars a year each. Logansport claims the title of “City of Natural Advantages.” Terre Haute claims to have a “ bearing banana bush” in that city. - There is a living two-legged calf belonging to a farmer near Lafayette. The State printing has been awarded to the Indianapolis Sentinel Company. The wheat harvest in Sullivan County is over. It was saved in fair conditionThe Richmond Palladium tells about “ emersions” in the Whitewater. What? Terre Haute sees Lafayette’s two legged calf, and calls, with one having five ears. A poor inebriate named Edward New-: man floated over the falls at Bluffton and was killed. ATebreHaute clairvoyant proposes to find Charley Boss within twenty miles of that city. The New Castle Courier Company, with a capital of SIO,OOO, has paid a dividend of 5 per cent William Ludwig, while cradling wheat south of Richmond a few days ago, dropped dead. *- < John Schwetzbergeb was sun-struck at Indianapolis on the 18th. He dipt) aL. most instantly. t . ,* - Forty-one Adventists have obligated themselves to observe Saturday as their" Sabbath, at Ligonier. Hon. A. J. Boone, State Senator from Boone and Clinton Counties, died at Lebanon a few days ago. Gov. Hendricks will address the old settlers’ meeting at Oakland, Hancock County, Aug. 7, next. Miss Maggie Thompson is preaching for the United Brethren in different parts of Switzerland County. Arrangements are progressing for a grand reunion of soldiers at Indianapolis sometime in September next J. T. Boyer, editor of the-Logapsport Journal, has been recently* appointed Revenue Collector for his district r - A fat, fair and saucy young" of Connersville threatens to bring suit against a widower of that town for breach of promise. The State Board of Equalization has deducted 5 per cent from the assessed value of lands and improvements in Randolph County. Mrs. Nancy Rigney, of Orange County, recently gave birth to triplets—all boys. The rising family live in Stampers Creek Township. The Worthington Journal is authority for saying that that town “ contains some of the most genuine dead-beats of the nineteenth century.” Willie Stone, at Putnamville, was struck by a stone thrown by a boy and so badly hurt that he fell. In falling he struck on the edge of a tub and broke his neck.

The only postal change made in Indiana during the week ending July 10, 1875, was the appointment of Samuel B. Edson as Postmaster at Frankton, Madison County. A farm laborer while plowing in Mr. Robb’s field near Princeton, a few days ago, turned up a paper box containing forty-two dollars in Mexican and Spanish •liver coin. Indiana-has thirty daily, three tri-week-ly, three semi-weekly, 295 weekly, twentyfour monthly and two quarterly publics, tions, making a total of 857 newspapers and other periodicals. The State Board of Agriculture has elected the Hon. John Sutherland, of the Eleventh District, and R. P. Haynes, of the Second District, Trustees of the Agricultural College at Lafayette. Phillips & Son, of the Kokomo Tribune, receive the munificent, sum of one-, eighth of one cent per square for publishing the ordinances and other legal notices for the Common Council of that city. The Auditor’s report of Decatur County shows a balance in the treasury of $57,858.25, while the county is out of debt. Taxes have been reduced to twenty-five cents on the SIOO for all county purposesA train on the Vandalia Railroad recently ran over and killed a fireman named Andrew Kelly, at Fillmore. He attempted to climb on his engine while it was moving and fell beneath the wheels. A Terre Haute husband recently hired a man to watch his domicile during his absence. His wife seeing the guardian in the back yard sent a bullet on an exploring expedition in that direction. Exit watchman. The Indiana Christian Sunday-School Association will meet in annual convention in the town of Greencastle, at two o’clock p. m., Tuesday, Aug. 3, 1875, and continue in session until the Thursday evening following. A lady, who said she came from Virginia, made three attempts to commit suicide at Indianapolis, the other day, by throwing herself on the track in front qf sin advancing train. The cued her three times and then placed her in custody. * •■»' ■ I The storm on the morning of the 14th caused great damage in the vicinity of Lafayette. A stable, several houses and the Wea Church (the finest edifice in the county outside of Lafayette) were struck by lightning, and crops were beaten down and destroyed. The Rushville Republican says a man named Richmond, living near that town, recently whipped his daughter so severely with a wagon whip -that she had to be placed under the treatment of a physician. The offense she committed was to pull beets out of the garden. The fellow is not insane—he is a natural brute, He pow disgraces the jail.