Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1880 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

Nearly 400 student* are snroßril •$ Indiana Asbury University. The commissioners of Scott county have refused all petitions to sell liquor in that county. Mrs. Sarah Vassar, of Greensburg, while fooling with a pistol, got an ugly woundin the thigh. Public sentiment is overwhelming against the proposition to build a new Cout House at Evansville. Ice fishing in the river at Warsaw is excellent, and large numbers of fine bass and perch are being caught. Mr. Jas. H. Sweetzer, a prominent citizen of Indianapolis, fell dead while standing in the door of the New Denison hotel. The public schools of Crawfordsville have seen closed on account of scarlet fever, and will not be again opened until after the Ist of January. Jont Ratcliff, of Henry county, living a few miles southeast of New Castle, had his hand almost cut off by a euzz saw w’hile sawing wood. . / Officer Nevil, of Lafayette, shot and very seriously wounded a rough named “Punch” Jones, while resisting arrest. He will probably die. A farmer named Thomas Eaton, residing near Osgood, was on Monday morning found dead on the floor of his cabin. He had been sick a few days. John H. Barnum, of Rushville, has been arrested and taken to Shelbyville, where he is wanted on a charge jf bastardy preferred against him by Mary C. Crim.

Two masked men attempted to kill the watchman of the Wabash state dam, near Delphi, the other night. They were recognized, and warrants sworn out for their arrest. A. C. Hirst, stave dealer at Greencastle had $450 worth of staves stolen from Amo station near the former glace. They were shipped to Terre iaute and sold. He has a clue to the thieves he thinks. Mrs. McCain, of St. Paul, caught a tramp in her house with a bundle of her clothes and her pocket book, just making his escape. She seized a billet of wood, recaptured her property and drove him away. A shooting affray occurred at Colfax between Augustine Knott and Wm. Moody, over the possession of a barber shop. Moody shot Knott through the shoulder, and was arrested for an attempt to murder, and placed under ssou bail. Knott’s wounds are not mortal.

The Morgan raid claims of this State have been referred to General Ekin, Quartermaster at Jeffersonville, for examination and report. This will be convenient for claimants and will be a large saving in expenses. Judge New has introduced a bill to facilitate the proof in the claims. Two Richmond painters named Charley Bell and Wm. Dennis were at work painting the new depot at Centerville, when a car ran against their scaffold and knocked it out from under them. As it gave way they sprang for a telegraph wire, ana caught it just in time to save themselves from falling in front of the cars which were following. A portrait of the late Governor James Whitcomb has been presented to the State, by Judge Horace P. Biddle, of the Supreme Court. The portrait was originally the property of the late N. B. Palmer, and from him on down through others it descended, finally falling into the hands of Judge Biddle, who had it restored from its somewhat dilapidated condition, reframed and otherwise improved.

For convenience to prisoners the Mt. Carmel calaboose is hard to beat. Thd boys who are now occupying this calaboose have a banjo in their quarters, and they also have a loose board at one side of the calaboose through which they can pass in and out at their pleasure. They have been enjoying themselves of late serenading our citizens late at night, and then returning to the calaboose in time for an early breakfast, as it were. Indianapolis Journal: Some figures which have been gathered by the Bureau of Statistics snow the singular fact that there is enough fencing in the State of Indiana to circle around the world thirteen times. The total length of fence is 111,080,391 rods or 344,201 miles, of which 101,818,835 rods is rail, or “worm” fence, 5,445,790 rods of plank fence, 1,825,601 rods of post and rail fence, 141,589 rods of stone fence, 837,075 of wire and barbed wire fence, 1,433,520 of osage, and 78,031 of willow fence.

A case of considerable interest to the medical fraternity has just transpired at Clifton. Charley Teegarden, aged 6, has been suffering about two years with a disease that has baffled the skill of several local physicians, but the other evening the cause of his trouble became apparent. He vomited up an animal about five inches in length, fish shaped, and of the consistency of a salamander. In a few minutes after the operation*' he took nourishment and wanted to go out and play. The other morning a tramp who gives his name as Frank Moreland was arrested at Anderson, on the charge of setting fire to the courthouse. The charge was based on threats of burning made by Moreland the day before. He said he had a friend in jail whom he intended to have released, and that the jail building would have to go next. It is supposed that the courthouse was fired to get the indictments against prisoners out of the way. The Mayor held the prisoner in the sum of SI,OOO. in default of which he was sent to jail.

A poet chides his girl for her dilatoriness in keeping an engagement. He says: “Bee ? the moon is out, love—come along with me; hear the breezes soft, love, whispering to thee. Birds have sung themselves to sleep, calling you ypur tryst to keep; flowers will soon begin to weep, waiting, lovey, for thee.” We didn’t suppose flowers would weep if she would never come, and as/ <or the birds singing themselves toATeep calling her to keep her tryst, it is ail bosh. Birds have more sense.•' The trouble is, her mother got wind of the clandestine business and locked her up in her room.—Norristown Herald. Many a boy does not receive a large inheritance of money or lands, but every one has a pair of good hands, which are better than thousands of money. And the good purpose to make the best use of them is in every boy’s power. Remember this wise injunction. “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might,”