Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Pendcs UsmauHTT reopens in September. Knighttville will soon be the city of Th» army- worm is operating in Dearborn County. Mux-ockhsm prevails in some portions of Perry County. Aniin County will bold its first fitir in ten yean this fall. Tnn old-settlers of Sullivan give a basket pienic on the 14th. A bbw paper is about to be started at Dublin, Wayne County. Tippecanoe County is to have a dog show during her county fair. Thb mines near Brazil are being rapid, ly filled with German miners. Grates are rotting in Hendricks County, especially the “ Concords.” MoifTURB prevails to an unpleasant degree in Tipton County real estate. Ok* man is putting np twenty-five resi. dences at Oonnersville this season. Thb soldiers of Northern Indiana will hold their reunion at Fort Wayne, Oct 5. Potatoes are selling for twenty-five cents a bushel in Richmond, Wayne County. Evxbt mud-hole in Wayne County is being analyzed in a search for medicinal springs. Mbs. Cass, of Logansport, was recently killed at Windfall, Tipton County, by a runaway team. This year’s growth of apple trees in Greene County is dying as though infected with some deadly insect. Thb Peru Times says the southern part of Maine County and part of Howard are but little better than lakes.

Tkkbb Haute has a prominent female member of the legal profession in the per. Son of Miss Bessie Eaglefield. Jambs Weight was killed by a recent cyclone, in Hendricks County, and his wife and six children more or less injured. Thb Evansville Medical Society is still troubled about its code of ethics. Purging itself of an advertising member don’t settle the difficulty. Thb Enightstown Burial Case Company has erected a new and more commodious building. This company requires more room than its patrons. Thb annual session of the Vigo County Teachers’ Institute will begin on the 80th of August, under the management oi Superintendent Royse. William Campbell, a brakeman, fell under a train at Knightville, the other day, and was instantly killed, his head being crushed into a jelly. Thebe are in the State 21,840,350.17 acres of land. Jasper stands at the head of the list with 374,345.40 acres. Ohio is the smallest county, having but 54,742.72 acres. The Grand Lodge of the United States Independent Order of Odd Fellows will meet at Odd Fellows’ Hall, Indianapolis, Sept 20, and continue in session until Sept 26. % Noble County doctors recently met and resolved—they won’t advertise unless they can do it for nothing, by getting some ed. itor to describe the miraculous operation of lancing a boil, or something of that sort

The Indianapolis Journal Company and John G. Doughty, bidders for the State printing, have obtained a temporary injunction against the Commissioners ol Public Printing for awarding the contract to ths Sentinel Company. A freight train on the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad recently went through a trestle forty feet high, between Putnamville and Cloverdale, killing the engineer, conductor and head brakeman. The fireman had one arm and one leg broken. Only the rear brakeman escaped. Ths Trustees of the Indiana Medical College have accepted the resignation oi Prof. Dugan Clark, who for the past six years has occupied the chair of the principles and practice of medicine in that institution. Dr. L. D. Waterman, of Indianapolis, has been appointed to and accepted the professorship. The Soldiers’ reunion will be held at Indianapolis on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 14 and 15. Regimental reunions will Ibe in order for the first day, and on Friday Brand parade with an oration by Senator and others. Prospects are very Smog for large representations of sol- . all parts of the State. States keeps two river sig|l|!|l9l burning opposite Rising Sun in the year, one at the Bn of the bar on the Indiana side and Tne other at the foot of the bar on the Kentucky side of the river. The compensation of the men having charge of the lights is fifty cents per night, and a barrel of oil is sent to each man every three months.

Sokb weeks since Israel Ulrey, of Rising Sun, was robbed of $6,000 in money, the savings of many years, which he was about to invest in a farm. The robbery was committed at noonday by breaking open a desk or bureau in his dwelling, where he had deposited the money., Mr. Ulrey and a detective have been quietly working up the ease, and one day recently five citizens, who have heretofore borne good characters, were arrested, upon what is claimed as conclusive evidence of their guilt William M. Aughiubaugh, a young Indianapolis druggist was arrested the other day for stealing drugs from several wholesale drug-houses. It seems that Aughinbaugh in laying in his supplies of stock would call at the drug-houses at an early hour in the morning when there was no one in attendance but the porter, and call for some article which he knew was on the second or third floor, and while the porter was absent filling his order he would stuff his pockets with the more valuable drugs. At a recent session of the Bute Board of Education a resolution was adopted: “ That in order to secure a more complete system of public instruction in the State of Indiana this Board will hereafter issue commissions to ffigh-school teachers to examine candidates for admission to Purdue University upon the same conditions upon which they are examined for the State University." Also: “ That this regulation be communicated to those Superintendents of high-schools who have received commissions from this Board during the present year,"