Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1880 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

There are now ia roßbd nnmben 1,100 lff>nilF in Indifinfinnlit The Hancock pole at South Bead ia 292 fefit above the ground by actual measureHome very fine jack salmon are now being caught ia the Wabash river at LaThere will he $30,000 worth of ,imp— in the Bales house at InMrs. W. 8. Culbertson, wife of the New Albany m ill ionaire, is so ill that her •friends J fair iff her recovery. * The Indiana university begins the year With an enrollment of 970 students—the largest hennaing it has ever had. Andrew Smith, a Lafayette blacksmith, while dincoming politics ia a saloon, the other day, auddealy dropped dead. The Indiana yearly meeting of Friends began at Richmond a few days since, with an attendance of over a thousand per Most of the churches of South Bend held their prayer meetings Wednesday evening on account of the Republican rally on Thursday evening.. John Lnndiverien, a farmer, has sued Father Rudolph, Catholic priest at Shelby, ville, for $5,000 damages, for an assault growing out of an old feud between them. A farmer near Greenaburg found one of his hogs, the other day, after nearly forty days’ imprisonment under ahayataek, and the hog was very glad to return to his trough. *. _ The trouble among hones that manifested itself in the east a few days ago, has made its appearance in Indianapolis. Several liverymen - report more or leu cases on hand. * Charles Moerier the only son of his mother, and she a widow, at South Bend, stole $760 from his mother the other day, and has disappeared. Ho formerly served. a tern in the reform school. . On Thursday last 40,000 tickets of admission to the state fair *at Indianapolis were sold, against 21,000 for the Thursday in the fair week last year, when President Hayes was an advertised attraction. " The local receipts of railroads, at Fort Wayne, in Septemqer, were: Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago, $27,089; Grand Rapids and Indiana, $20,401: Richmond ana Cincinnati, $16,422; Union Line, 715For the first time since her arrest last February, Mrs. Brown, under sentence of death, at Indianapolis, A>r the murder of her husband, was the other day permetted to see ner “children, who visited her in JaiL While the republicans of Zenas, Jen nifigs county, were railing a pole, it broke into three peicea, which, falling among the crowd, severely injured a number, one of whom, Thomas Jeffries, it is thought, can not recover. At no time since their opening has business been so brisk at the New Albany Woolen mills ss at the present The mills are now run till 11 o’efock at night, and about five hundred employes are engaged in the works. . ’ ' Last Saturday the wife of Minimi H**. xard,.of Little York, Washington county, gave birth to five children—four boys ana one girl. The girl and two of the boys have since died. The other two were, at last accounts, all right. *

The wreck on the Vandal in railroad, at Dennison, has been cleared up. Hie in--jury to the two engines will amount to at least SB,OOO. The postal cars are total wrecks, and thirteen freight cars are in about the same condition. Hie New Albany Ledger-Standard, a democratic paper which has witheld to support from Linden because Linden, as a congressman, refitted Mi support to Mr. Kerr for speaker, now publishes the democratic ticket an advertisement. This afternoon Frank Churchman, a leading banker, went behind the bank building and was attacked by a vicious bulldog find had his hand badly mangled. Hie wounds were cauterized, and no evil effects are apprehended. Dr. James Hughs is missing from New Paris and fears of foul play we entertained. His hat and case of instruments were found a quarter of a mile from town covered with blood and hair. He was known to have had considerable money in his poeeseeon. The Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St Louis and Chicago Railroad company, having sold their Lafayette shop to the Lake Erie and Western Railway company, will at once erect new shops just west and north of the point where the company’s tracks cross Second street. By vete of the Indiana yearly meeting of Quakers, at Richmond, last week.* Earlham college cuts loose from the church end begins an independent exiatence which it is hoped; will great increase its usefulness /ad enable it to take rank with the best colleges in the wattIt will still, however, retain to Quaker character.

The superintendent of the Indianapolis waterworks has a pet alligator and an intelligent dog, The other day the alligator escaped from his cage and was making headway for tbe river, when the dog caugfit the animal by the tall. Then the alligator caught the dog tty the neck, and the dog set up a howl that brought help, and the battlo was speedily decided in his favor. Two boys at Michigan City, named Holden and Maze, aged about 14 years, both connected with a lunch room at the depot, were playing this evening, and Holden pointed a revolver at Maze end jokingly said, “Look out, it’s loaded,” ard discharged the pistol, the ball entering the boy’s brain just over the left eye. Maze lived about fifteen minutes. It is considered to be purely accidental. Both families live in the city. * - ■ It is not an easy thing td wash windows so that they will look clear and well polished, and if soap ends are need, it is quite impossible to do it. Tbe old-fashioned way of taking out all the windows and washing them in soap-soda, and setting them aside to dry, after tbe suds has been rinsed off is, to be sure, the easiest wav of cleaning them, but it is also the wdßt way to make them look dear and bright. First brush them off well with a sponge or brush that comes Aw the purpose, and then wrap a bit of doth about a sharp-pointed stick, and wipe out the dost that adheres to the comers, then take some weak tea, boiling hot, and add to it a table-spoonful of alcohol and a tow drops of aqua ammonia, or a bit of carbonate of ammonia the size of an English walnut. Dip a piece of sponge or flannel, or of old canton flannel into it, and mb the glass one way only until it shines dear. Wipe it off with another cloth, rubbing it until well polished. , Substitute foblS»t» Frames.—The Irish Farmer’s Gatette prints the following: If gardeners and others will give a trial to the following plan, they will find it leas than one-fourth toe expense of glass frames and much more uuefid: Take white eaHeo of a ikee texture, onfr^ea