Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1880 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

There are thirteen" thousand school teachers in the state. The Peru and LaSalle Telephone exchange, numbers 92 instruments. 'Kockport Gazette: Gentryville claims to have shipped 6,(100 rabbits last week. Hundreds of acres of corn are in the bottoms of White river not yet gathered, on account of the early winter. William Richey, of Milroy. wa«> seriously injured by at vicious horse. He was kicked in an unmercifiil manner. * The Boonvilte Standard says there will be telegraphic communication made shortly between Boonville aue. Jasper., William Fleming, ex-Treasurer o* State, in company with some horat capitalists, is agitating the erection of ap extensive paper-mill at Franklin. A young girl named Clara Morrison, aged about 16 years, residing in tli> west end, Madison, was horribl. burned recently. Her recovery . doubtful. Henry Crawford, colored, of Evanst vilie, shot himself through the breasthe other day..but will probably cover. His alleged reason for the aP is that he was tired of life, y There will be more improvement in Rushville next year than there lias been for the past five years. One building association will ouiid eight houses by the time spring opens.

Harry Sprangle, the ten or twelve* year-old son of A. H. Sprangle, while skating on the river at Covington, rau into an air-hole and was drowned. The body has not yet been recovered. An infant child of Milton Wooley was found dead in its cradle at Williamsburg. ■ With the exception of a slight cold,it was in perfect health when its mother put it to sleep the night before. , While workingona “man-killer” in the Studebaker wagon factory, South Bend, Fred Bernhard, a well-known musician, suffered the amputation of a finger from .his right hand and the others were badly injured. Elijah Powell, an old . citizen of Owen county, died at his residence four miles west of Spencer, aged near eighty years. .He had suffered with cancer for the past fifteen years, whiCh was the immediate cause of his death. At Greenfield, as James Barrett was playing with a pistol it was accidentally discharged, shooting him in the hand, making a bad flesh wound., A boy named Matthews was shot iu the face, one shot taking effect in the eye. The Columbus Democrat has been purchased by Mr. Ad. Arnold for *5,000. It will be edited by Mrs. Laura C. Arnold, a lady of considerable talents as a writer, and her son, the purchaser, will assume control of .the local department. At Slate Cut, a bloody fight occurred between two young ihen Samuel King and John Brown, in which King was terribly beaten. The young men quarreled over a young ladv, to whom both were paying their addresses. Both were severely hurt, but King’s injuries are serious. * Sometime ago a young mt#ried man named Jenkins Foster*ieft his homo on GuthrieCrepk in Lawrence county, on horseback ifod went to Bedford, whefe he had his horse put in a livery stable, telling the proprietors he wanted it to remain till next day. He then left, since which time nothing has been heard of him. .

A verdict of s{,ooo damages for inhuman treatment of a boy has been given by the Logansport Superior court jury against James McTaggurt. clothier. It was alleged that a year ago McTaggart struck the little son of Mr. Coons upon the back, injuring his spine, because the boy was crying oUt the sale of papers in front of his store. Michael Basher, of Goshen, aged seventy-four, one of the oldest citizens in that section of Indiana, died recently after a short illness. Mr. Basher lived the lifo of a hermit in asmall shanty on Main street, and several |weeks ago was burned out, it is reported, losing -$30,000 in unregistered bonds, which so preyed upon his mind that he became sick and died. John Henabn was sitting on a bridge of the O. and M. railway, two' miles east of Shoals, and as the work train came east the stop of the * locomotive struck him on the head whirling him around with his leg ©n the track. He was taken • un and brought to Mitcheir. Dr. Yost, the railroad’s local surgeon, amputated ‘ his leg, hut the shock was so, great that he died. • - At Richmond a two-story frame A house occupied by a family named Gee, situated between Earlham and Sevastopol, was destroyed by Are. Mrs. Gee rushed up stairs to save the furniture and retreat was almost instantly cut off by the flames. She threw herself out of the second story window Just as the Are broke through tbe flo °r coder her, and escaped with a few slight bruise*. > Theopbilus P. Reece, a young man living in New LoiAlon, toward county, committed suicide by taking morphine. The deceased was rather a rOU f*s °f excellent business qualifications, but about two years ago took to drink, since which time he has goiqj steadily down. For some time he has been paying attention to amostestimable young lady, who, a short time ago, broke off their engagemention account of his * .. : .V. * In an article on Miss Amy Bradley’s work at Wiimington, N. C., the New England Journal of Education says: “There is hardly an element of the new Southern alvflization that is springing so fair all through these states that is not.included in the work of this admirable woraan, who has become to hundreds of little children and thefr parents a veritable mother / of souls.”