Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The spelling-school mania is sweeping over the entire State, and promises to be as much of a rage as it was last winter. Several of the Republican papers in the State are speaking of Hon. D. D* j Bratt as a probable nominee w Governor. Logansport has been three times repre sented in the United States Senate and twice in the Supreme Court of the State. Judge Gresham has declined to bo considered a candidate for Governor before the coming Republican Convention. The wife of the son of Elder Vanness, of Tipton, was kicked in the head a few days ago by a vicious horse, sustaining . fatal injuries. Thomas S. Holland, a well-known actor, fell dead at the Terre Haute depot while waiting for a railway train. Whisky and heart disease killed him. A brakeman on the Indianapolis, Cincinnati & Lafayette Railroad, named James Dean, was knocked off a car by a bridge, near Indianapolis, on the night of the 13th and instantly killed. President Shortridge, of Perdue University, has resigned and his resignation has been accepted, to take effect Dec. 31. No arrangements for his successor had been completed up to the 14th. Considerable interest is being manifested in the meetingof the State Road Association to be held in Indianapolis Jan. 6, 1876. County agricultural societies are taking the matter in hand and will send delegates. Adolph C. Stein, lately a resident of Seymour and editor of the Aneeiger, a German paper printed there, committed suicide at Cincinnati the other day. He was discharged from the paper because of his drunken habits.

A little two-year-old daughter of Henry M. Edson, of Logansport, was playing near the stove the other afternoon, when her clothing caught fire, and before she could be rescued by her mother she was burned to death. A little four-year-old boy named Stewart, living at Terre Haute, was burned to death a few days ago. His clothes caught fire from an open grate, and before the flames could be extinguished be was burned to a crisp. A Few nights ago one Jelley, a rising young lawyer of Rising Sun, shot and probably mo, tally wounded an old citizen named Dr. J. T. Watson. Jelly had been waiting on Dr. Watson's daughter, but had recently been notified to discontinue his attentions. The Women’s State Christian Temperance Union have forwarded a memorial to the National Centennial Commission, asking that body to refuse to grant to any person the privilege of selling intoxicating liquors within the Exposition building and grounds. The memorial is signed by tbe President and other officers of the union, and is indorsed by Indiana clergymen and business men. Within a mile and a half of the CourtHouse at Huntington thirty-two limekilns are in operation, burning in the aggregate 1,250,000 bushels. Some parties sell by measure and some by weight—seventy pounds to the bushel in this State. It takes twenty cords of wood to burn 1,000 bushels of lime, and this wood costs about $2.25 per cord, tis abundant in that vicinity, it being in the heart of the timbered district. The family of Postmaster Denny, at Vincennes, five in all, were poisoned at supper on the 11th by a servant boy who put arsenic in the oyster-soup. One of the family had offended the boy, who sought revenge in this w ay. Medical aid was promptly summoned, and at last accounts all were considered out of danger. Denny took the boy in as an act of charity from a disbanded circus company. The boy has run away. Owen M. Eddy, State Swamp Land Commissioner, died at the Occidental Hotel, in Indianapolis, on the 11th, from congestion of the brain. At the time of his death he was in his thirty-fifth year and unmarried. A large number of applications have been made for the successorship, but it is stated that the Governor does not contemplate an immediate appointment. The papers and records of Mr. Eddy have been taken charge of by the Secretary of State, who reports them all in good order, with the exception that the result of his recent survey of the southwestern counties had not been entered up, and that work will probably have to be gone over again. James Ferguson was convicted last August, at Madison, for the murder of John Stilheimer, in a drunken row at a negro picnic, and sentenced to the State Prison for life. On appeal to the Supreme Court a new trial was granted which came off a few days ago, resulting in a twenty-one-year sentence. On the afternoon of the 11th he was allowed to visit his mother, six miles out in the country, before going to the Penitentiary. The Deputy Sheriff remained below, a la Tweed, and Ferguson went up stairs and jumped out of the window, also a la Tweed, and effected an" escape before the officer had got through examining tbe mantel ornaments. The Sheriff offers a reward of SSOO for his recapture. The following postal changes were made in Indiana during the two weeks ending Dec. 11, 1875: Established—Johnsonville, Warren County, George W. Johnson, Postmaster; Oakwood, La Porte County, Lemuel 8. Fitch, Postmaster. Discontinued—Northern Depot, Boone County; Reed, Tippecanoe County; South Cleveland, Whitley County. Postmasters appointed—Americus, Tippecanoe County, Andrew Mcßride; Augusta Staton, Marion County, Reuben Kilgensmith; Bretzville, Dubois Coun'y, John C. O, Ritzman; Cason, Boone County, Fielding , Denney; County Line, Tippecanoe County, Andrew Metzger; Freeport, Shelby County, Hiram B. Crate;Greenfield, Hancock County,Hugh B. Wilson; Laketon, Wabash County, William A. Forst; Lyons, Greene County, Isaac Halstead; Mariah Hill, Spencer County, Mrs. Barbara Wagner; Milledgeville, Boone County, James E. Pinnell; New Mount Pleasant, Jay County, Mrs. Sarah N. Ingersoll; Paw-Paw, Miami County, D. L. Repp; Pleasant View, Wabash County, W. G. Gardner; Somerset, Wabash County, H. D. Lawslie; Stilesville, Hendricks County, Bary M. Gentry; Whiteland, Johnson County, Joseph D. Beebe; Wolf Creek, Marshall County, John J. Thompson.