Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1876 — INDIANA STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS

~ > - • ' - '' Henry Price, of Pleasant Valley, died recently of bleeding at the nose. The Editorial Centennial excursion will leave Indianapolis Jan. 15, 1876. A valuable deposit of marble has recently been discovered in Miami County. Tk* Presidency of Purdue University is reported to hare been tendered te Hon. E. E. White, of Ohio. Ok Christinas Day a negro named Janies Evans was assaulted by an unknown gang of Indianapolis roughs while returning from church and dangerously wounded. Got. Hendricks has accepted an invitation to deliver the opening address of the Southern States’ Agricultural and Industrial Exposition on the 26th of February. Ok Christinas Eve James Redwine, a young man residing at Fisher's Station, was fatally shot by Richard Parsley. The trouble occurred at a turkey shootingmatch. The upper half of Evans' oil-mill, at Indian&polis, gave way the other morning, without preliminary warning, and between 7,600 and 8,000 bushels of flaxseed were deposited in the alley alongside. A * Air named John Andrew recently committed suicide, near Rushville, by tying an ax to his neck and dropping himself, thus burdened, into a well. A disappointment in love is what ailed him.' A team belonging to a man named Hadley ran away at Terre Haute the other day, throwing out and fatally injuring a lad who was driving. One of the wheels passed over his head and another over his breast. A shooting scrape occurred the other day at Everton, near Conoereville, between John Warren and Elmer Thompson, the result of an old feud between the two. The former struck the latter with a brick and the latter retaliated with a re. volver, five of the shots taking effect. The report of the Secretary of the Btate of Indiana, filed on the 30th ult., shows that during the past year there have issued from the office 4 proclamations, 61 warrants, 67 requisitions, 48 pardons, 36 remissions, 2 commutations, 130 commissions to Justices, 882 to Notaries Public and 44 to Commissioners ot Deeds. During the year 108 corporations have filed articles. Miss Josns Robertson, the Indianapolis young woman who was so cruelly deserted by William G. Munson on the eve of her wedding, last October, has filed the papers in a breach of promise suit wherein she claims to have been damaged to the extent of $40,000. Two weeks after Munson’s exit from Indianapolis he returned, and sued out a writ of replevin to recover possession of certain household goods, rings, pictures, etc., which he had given his fair fiancee when he contemplated matrimony. These goods were seized by the Sheriff on the evening of the 26th, and then the mortified girl turned upon her quondam lover and demanded damages. The local papers say she has no big broth, er and her father is afraid to shoot •- The Stale Treasurer has submitted his annual report to the Governor. The total foreign debt of the State is $1,098,755.12, the character of the bonds d ue remaining precisely as reported in 1874. The domestic debt is $3,904,782.22, making a total debt of $5,003,538.34. The balance in the Treasury is $244,203. The histories of the 3 per cent, and college funds, very complete and instinctive, are given in detail. In speaking of the common school fund he shows that instead of a deficit of $17,562.43 there should be $344,549.91 to its credit. The mistake arises from the confusion of accounts, notably in 1861 and 1862, and in 1873. How the error shall be corrected is left to the decision of the Governor and State officers.

The report of the Auditor of State was filed with the Governor on the 24th. The actual receipts lor the year were $8,748,214-and the expenditures $3,571,023. The tables of the State Board of Education show that the taxable value of the real and personal property of the State is $897,739,783, or $57,117,602 less than by the assessment of 1874. The Auditor has instituted suits against certain citizens of Indianapolis who in 1871 brought suit to enjoin the distribution of the school fund, and by this means deprived the State of interest on that fund to the amount of $50,000. Suit has also been brought against the American Express Company, to test the validity of the law requiring such corporations to file semiannual reports of their business within the State, and to pay 8 per cent, on their receipts for passage fare and 1 per cent, on receipts for transferring freight. The report of the Trustees of the Wabash & Erie Canal, which accompanies the Auditor’s report, shows that the receipts for the year were $71,188 and the disbursements $6,778. The report of the Insurance Department shows the gross receipts of foreign insurance companies in the State for the year to have been $1,710,076; losses paid, $932,355; tax paid, $25,829; gross receipts of foreign life insurance companies, $1,382,509; losses paid, $770,732; taxes paid, $20,311.

The thirty-second annual report of the Trustees and Superintendent of the Indiana Deaf and Dumb Asylum, for the year ending Oct. 31, 1875, was submitted to the Governor on the afternoon of the 30th ult. The Trustees report the institution in a flourishing condition The McIntyre investigation is mentioned at length, and the conclusion which the Board reached at the time of the trial is reiterated—the charges against Bupt. Mclntyre and the Instructor, Mr. Ezr i Valentine, being held unfounded. The Superintendent reports the number of pupils last session, 291; number admitted this term, 50; . whole number instructed, .341; number discharged, 46; number remaining, 295. It is also stated that the institution is now filled to its full capacity. No changes have taken place in the corps of teachers. The financial condition is as follows: Unexpended balance in treasury Nov. 1, 1874, $26,162.30; from appropriations for the year ending March 31, 1876, $60,000; total, $86,162.30. Disbursements, $57,474.50; balance unexpended Nov. 1,1875, $38,887.30. The profits on the work of the pupds in the shops have more than paid the expenses of their support. Fully twothirds of the pupils are under fifteen yq u s Pfage