Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A large amount of tobacco was raised tn Pike County. A farmer east of Terre Haute is fattening 4,000 hogs on mast. A farmer killed a full grown wolf, near Charleston, the other day. Picked winter-apples are selling at one dollar a bushel in Bloomington. Lafayette will have her water works finished by the Ist of November. The Logansport National Bank is about to retire $50,000 of its circulation. Aman named Cornell was recently kicked to death by a mule at Goshen. They are to have an annual district temperance convention in Spencer, Nov. 1 and 2. The middle of December will see the roof on the Montgomery County Court House. The diphtheria is raging at Angola, and several deaths from the disease are reported. Throat diseases are reported as becoming almost an epidemic in some parts of the State. The Valparaiso Normal Schpol has 800 pupils in attendance. One-fourth of them are ladies. It takes but two car-loads of coal to keep Scott County officials warm during the winter. The hickory-nut crop in the Wabash bottoms is said to be a failure this year. High water did it There are eighteen applications for divorce on the docket of' the Howard County Circuit Court. James H. Cunningham and Nathan Powell, of Madison, have donated to Hanover College $5,000 each. The Indianapolis Journal says cholera is killing more hogs in Hamilton County than are slain by the knife. The Gibstn County National Bank will pay a4O per cent, dividend to its creditors about the Ist of November, they say. A State Judge has decided that a young woman may, if she wants to, simultaneously sue fifty young men for breach of promise. J. D. Pratt shotand killed J. Warurck, at Tampico, the other night. They were quarreling about the possession of some property. The three-year-old daughter of C. Mullen Irving, near Indianapolis, was burned to death the other night in consequence of herclothing catching fire from a hot stove. An elevator in a Terre Haute spoke-fac-tory fell the other day a distance of thirty feet Three men were standing upon it and are very badly injured—one of them fatally. Durwalt & Co.’s planing-mill in Lafayette was burned to the ground on the morning of the 14th, involving a loss of SIO,OOO. The fire was the work of an incendiary. The fine new union school-house at Auburn was burned to the ground on the night of the 16th, Involving a loss of about $15,000, upon which there was only $3,000 insurance. Martin L. Pierce, of Newport, was thrown over the head of a horse which he was riding after cattle, a few days ago, and instantly killed. He was a prominent Odd Fellow.

Mrs. Rufus Schoolcraft, of North Manchester, asked her servant-girl to give her a dose of quinine the other day. She gave her a dose of morphine instead, and on the 15th it was thought Mrs. Schoolcraft would die. The Board of County Commissioners of Gibson County have ordered the sum of $7,000 to be expended for the purpose of furnishing work to the families made destitute by the high waters. Each laborer is allowed $1.50 per day. The annual report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction shows that the State school fund has increased $87,000 during the last year and now amounts to $8,798,000, besides 11,507 acres of unsold Congressional school-land, valued .at $105,000. , An exhibit of the receipts and expenditures of the late State Exposition shows: receipts, $28,646.45, expenditures, $28,539.87. This showing does not include the building or interest account, but is merely a financial statement of the exposition and fair. AMass Temperance Convention of the Eighth District, consisting of Dearborn, Franklin, Fayette, Union, Wayne and Randolph Counties, is called to meet at Richmond, Nov. 28 and 29. The call is signed by Mrs. Marika Valentine, VicePresident W. C. T. Union for Fifth District. The following were the postal changes in Indiana during the week ending Oct. 16, 1875: Discontinued—Stephensport, Warrick County. Postmasters appointed--Indian Village, Noble County, Henry Mellinger; Knightstown, Henry County, John F. Bell; Reynolds, White County, John A. Batson; Solsberry, Green County, Thomas R. Cook; Whitleyville, Jackson County, A. W. Draper. In the case of Sumner et al. w. Beeler, on the 18th, the Supreme Court used the following language, which is of decided interest to those holding public positions: “Officersand others are liable for acts done under an unconstitutional act of the Legislature. All persons are presumed to know the law, and if they act under an unconstitutional enactment they do so at their peril and must bear the consequences.” The Supreme Court has just decided unconstitutional so much of the law of March 5, 1875, as requires Sheriff’s sale and other notices to be published in German newspapers. The court holds the law to be in conflict'with Sec. 22 and 23 of Art. IV. of the Constitution, requiring that all laws regulating the practice in courts must be uniform. It is thought this doctrine will apply to all legal notices of every kind. A runaway team hitched to a heavy road-wagon ran into a buggy, in on the 17th, in which were seated Gen. J. J. Reynolds and W. 8. Lingle, editor of the Lafayette Courier. The team apparently tried to jump over the buggy and came down upon it, crushing all to the ground. Gen. Reynolds was cut in the head and otherwise injured, but not seriously. Mr. Lingle was insensible for some hours and, at first, he was thought to be fatally injured, but he revived on the following day, and at last KtooiWbe was thought likely to reoorer.