Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1880 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

▲ drag clerk of Vincennes took a light into a cellar to draw spirits of nitrStrom a carboy, and hu head is. now swathed in bondages. ■ « xvy ' . I One negro in Wabash county.defenfling Mie honor of his wife, only succeeded in slitting the ear of tho-othet negro who had insulted her. . Elkhart connyt and vidntty has been visited by light frost for several evenings resulting in settere damage to corn crop in the lowlands. ■-« Dennis, son of John Barnard, aged 21, was killed almost instantly, near Flora, Carroll county, his horse running away and throwing him ander the wheels of the wagon.

The receipts of the late sangcrfcet at Lafayette, fell short of the expenses some S4OO or S6OO, which will render necessary an assessment of about 40 per cent on the gnarantee fond. A little daughter of Charles Lair, of Connersville, was relieved of an alleged catarrh by die extraction of a locust pod an inch long from her nostril where it had resided for a year. Wm. Goodwin, a young matt of Orange county, left Mitchell intoxicated on the Ohio and Mississipi railroad trick/ and collided with a passenger tratrr half a mile west of town, killing him iastmfy. ii V'i *i*T Jefferson Davis, of Wfthdfaft, 'Tipton county, while bavliQglogsae&stfca&plfct,. Saased on a small bridge, which broke' own, precipitating the log on Mr killing him instantly. The deceased leaves s wife and six children. A dispatch from HagefriEbwn says a man named Hover fell off Iks wheel of a wagon yesterday while climbing in to go home, and was apparently only slightly injured, but before tn tonight was seiml with hcmoraghes.and died in a few homm,

Charles B. Byars, of Frankfort, Indiana, » single man,aged twenty-eight,was found dead this morning in an old out*table. He has of lste been under the influence oi , whisky continuously. Charley once held' a position as deputy county cleik. Death was from exposure. A shooting match for a beef was beingheld at the farm-house of a Mr. at Maxville, Greene county, When a young man by the name of Newton shot a little girl .who passed in front of his aim, the riflo ball penetrating her bowels, killing her almost instantly. At the county fair, in progress near Crawfordsville, a rang of pickpockets surrounded Mrs. Will McLean and snatched her tine rold watch. She, being a large, muscular lady, held fast to Ihe leader of the mob and procured his arrest. The watch was not recovered. * The case of Samuel Perkins, who was murdered at the Union depot, Vincennes, was disposed of by the Coroner, who rendered a verdict that deceased came to his death by the hand ot H. Harris, a fakir from Pittsburg, who was the last person seen with him. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Harris. *

A circus elephant being transported over one of the Indiana railroads, the other day, in a car next to the tender, became thirsty, and exhausted the locomotive's supply, compelling the engineer to stop and fill up again. Tne engineer did not submit to late until the elephant had opened his trunk and fired several bucketsfull of water at him. The two-story brick building owned by Scroggins and Miles, at Brooklyn, Morgan county, and being fitted up by them ' for a saloon, was blown up with powder \ and completely wrecked. One tido and end were completely blowb down, tod the remaining wails were taken down next day. Loss estimated at SI,OOO. This was the second attemptio opena licensed saloon in town, against which there is a strong feeling.

A young lady of Rushviile was taken,, quite ill a few days ago, and since that.' tmie has passed into a peculiar state. When spoken to she stares at you and seems to partially recognize yon, but bes palid and careworn look is one of the most expressive ever seen. When food is placed betore her she refuses to esj) while any one is near her, but when alone she will eat as hearty a meal as she ever did; and will read andenjoy herself seemingly as contented as she ever did, if no one is in the room to attract her attention. A Miami county former, the other day, complained of a new swindling operation by which he had been caught He said he had purchased a baggy at Pera : not long ago, paying S6O for It. Bathe had hardly got home with the vehicle before a fellow came along with S4O mortgage on it, and the brands and numbers agreed so nearly that there was ns goiagback oil »*e mortgage. The farmer was give* his choice to deliver over the baggy or the S4O, and in fils dilemma he sought the advice of attorneys. As thepegsonof whom he purchased the buggy Is irresponsible, be was told that he totfld j>sy off the mortgage or gife up the case of which he is the loser. The i*ort~ gage is a first-dills swindle, and was no doubt gotten up by the pnAies interacted for mntual benefit. Constable A. R. Bellof Logansport, was shocked to leant that hL \ daughter,** cripple aged 18, was In an Interesting Cod dttion, and upon qucttioniSg- her hs* te the author of h«r nun, she stated, dial he was one George Calloway, a P&n-HaSdlc brakeman. Bell then bad Calloway ar rested, when, on a preliminary hearing far was bound over to the circuit court in tfae ram of SI,OOO. The prisoner then asked to be allowed to go in search ot bail, and was permitted to do so being accompa nied by an officer. But Calloway tt a very “slick” fellow, and managed to get away from the officer and escape in tne dark ness, since which be has eluded captors Officers are keeping a sharp lookout foi him, however, and feel sanguine of event ually catching him. The nnfortnnate gir claims that Calloway succeeded in retains her by giving her drugged candies, bar this ke deoios, and says he “never did it*

i .. Ilf Last summer our dog Towser was clayin’ in the ran trine to sleep, but the flies was that bad that he couldn’t cos he jugi to catch’ em and bime by a bee lit on his bead and was workin’ about like the dog Was' hism. Towser he held bis ; bead rtill, and when the bee was. close to his nose, Towser ( winked at him like he aed you see vtbit this buffer is doin’ he thinks I’m' *- lily, of-the-valley which isn’t open yet, bat you just wait till I blossom and yon will see some inn’ and share en as Towser opened his month very slow sons not to fritten the bee, and the bee went , into Towsbr’s modlh. Then Towser he snut his eyes’ and Ms mouth too, and bad begun to Mike a peaceful smije when the bee stung hi m, and you never see a lily-of the-valley ackeo in your life. > \ A