Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

CAT at Goshen Wks down on less-favored felines. Wrr.T.TAir Braden, of Indianapolis, recentty failed'with about sl4s,oo6'’limities. Hutcocx County has $380,830 in value of railroad track, side-track and rolliogThe thirty-sixth annual convention of the Beta Theta Pi meets in Evansville Aug. 26 and 27. Drury Flexner wsb instantly killed by a stroke of lightning, at Rushville, on the afternoon of the 18th. There is a vast amount of inflated veracity appearing in the papereof the State about prairie-chicken killing. Charles H. Littlefield poisoned himself with strychnine, at the Tremont House, Richmond, a few days since. y Ptth tp McGinnis was crushed to death at Indianapolis the other day while endeavoring to move a frame building. Mr. Joseph O’Connor has terminated his connection With the Indianapolis 'fitou. ttnel, and is succeeded by Robert Matthews.

John Dbcker, an Indianapolis hod-car-rier, recently committed suicide by drowhing himself in White River. He was tern-' porarily insane. Chas. Welker, of Huntingburg, has raised a cucumber four feet and two inches long, weighing eight pounds and measuring ten and a half inches in circumference. "" Burdett Spencer, employed as a fencebuilder near Logansport, was struck by a piece of coal thrown at him from a passing coal-train, the other day, and fatally ip*. jured. i - • -? Caleb Scudder was the first addition to the white population of Tippecanoe County. His first squall rung out on air April 11,1828. Caleb still takes his annual ague on the bunks of the Wabash. At Brazil, on the afternoon of the 21st, Hugh Steverisoh, one of" the members of the Caledonia Coal Company, while engaged about the mine, ; accidentally fell down the shaft and ’wasj instantly killed. D. F. Clarf, one. of the oldest settlers in Wayne was instantly killed by lightning a few nights since. His sqn, wha was walking with him as the bolt decended, was knocked senseless, but final-. ly recovered consciousness. A shRAWd game was recently practiced at Liberty Mills by a grain-shipper who consigned four cars of wheat to Hamilton & Cd., Toledo, obtaining bills of lading therefor, drawing on the consignees, then purloining the dispatches from jhe railroad office, drawing again, and obtaining $8,500 by the fraud. The following postal changes occurred in the State during the week ending Aug. 21, 1875: Established —Nelson, Vigo County, John Jacobs, Postmaster. Discontinued—Mortonsville, Clinton County; Orth, Montgomery County. Postmasters appointed—Calcutta, Clay County, A. H. Derby; DeKalb, DeKalb County, Orville Broughtcn; Fayetteville, Lawrence County, Lewis D. Kern; Northfield, Boone County, Miss Laura Fox; Waynesburtrh > Decatur Cbunty, John 3 > Koyes, a farmer living near Union City, committed suicide recently. Two years ago he was wounded by a. sickle on a reaper While working in the harvest field, and has since spent over $2,000 in the Surgical Institute at Indianapolis, without material benefit. Returning home a few days ago he found his crop nearly ruined by rains, and dressing in his best clothes and bidding his wife good-by, without stating where he was going, he left the house and walked out to the jiarn. Half an hour afterward, his wife’s suspicions being aroused, she went to the bam 4 and found him hanging lifeless. The following table shows the number of hogs in the State by counties on the first day of April, 1874 and 1875, as reported to the Auditor of State and by him compiled: Counties. 1874. 1875. Adams 23.182 22.300 Allen 38,267 33.361 Bartholomew 37.245 39,456 Benton '. 13,467 14.180 Blackford 14,192 20.855 Boone 51.235 39,290 8r0wn18.638 15.433 Carroll 40.686 35.392 Case 29,417 25,136 Clarke: 19,009 16,578 Clay 84,101 24.617 Clinton 50,509 , 38,427 Crawford. 12,913 10,058 Daviess 32.850 27,432 Dearborn 15,214 12,461 Decatur*...... 33,019 33,019 DeKalb 25,579 18,893 Delaware 62,059 46,736 Dubois 18,704 Elkhart 29,879 25,744 Fayette 29,256 27,207 Floyd 3,502 3,346 Fountain 55,406 29,470 Franklin44,ll3 42,893 Fulton 22,704 23,474 Gibson 15,352 28,142 Grant 63.114 60,525 Greene3B,26s 83.777 Hamilton 51,190 42,277 Hancock 30,716 29,376 SB ffiS Jasper... 14,156 9,478 Jay 29,351 27,338 Jefferson 14,658 13,825 Jennings 26,971 20,872 Johnson.- .. 45,529 54.763 Kn0x.1.... 40,669 46,340 Kosciusko 42.378 33,309 LagrangeZ 40,494 15,145 Lake* 19,900 - 19,200 Laporte 16,602 13,496 Lawrence 22,493 41,792 Madison.< 81,677 48,896 Marion* 40.852 40.852 Marshall* 7,715 7,715 Martin 14.523 12.658 Miami. 33,671 81,809 Monroe 28,481 21,382 Montgomery 64,772 36,428 Morgan....; 62,923 25 897 Newton 17,096 9.386 Noble 28,628 20,085 Ohio 8,351 2,996 Orange 35,550 31,177 Owen 24,027 18,882 Parke 34,054 30,886 Perry 10,385 8.643 Pike 21.591 22,279 Porter 16,014 17,528 Poeey 22,935 22,718 Pulaski* 7.897 7,897 Putnam.l. 88,938 29,912 Randolph.n... 44,568 55,432 JHpley 16,863 14,448 Rush 69,685 66,958 Scott M l 10,495 5,179 Shelby 59,3® 45,944 Spencer 21,751 20,563 Starke 2,777 2,038 St Joseph 22.280 16,212 Steuben..., 26,636 13,999 Sullivan 27,475 27,788 Switzerland 10,229 9.662 Sffi ftg Vermillion. 6,281 1,283 Vigo... 82,088 28,021 Wabash 87,218 31,966 Wanen. 84,022 20,879 Warrick 17,248 20,886 Washington 80,966 29,765 wayn« 68,069 88,595 Wells 37,054 27,332 White... 27,066 20 273 Whitley* 19,401 19,401 •MortportfuraUbeWm,