Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1881 — THE STATE. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE.

•r Th#toiA4lfa*da%? leage^fbe l Snio# Nmd to a eometetfivfe' trial Ofdkill'for iffSVa side. oJf >0 It <J |sf ti ITo t Davids Con trill „arebahU to go jtoklß|>en»tllt4rap iWoidi*on,4>r , tu | *trri*iial * ▲ lad named somofr Louis Wtottre, as Sfafttjviftoy' whltof playings ’WM pustoediervM* iwdtf school yard, receiving internal injutfes^ota ironing turned frovft t*ov£,with a hot iron and, struck, the uplnt.of it in the eye of herlitUd four year old son, completely destroying the' sight bf it John F. Mill eh the P. f C. A Sin lias purchased ft handsome Tally Hb coach wMbh madeits first appearaooe tia streets qfj Richmond, behind four spirted horses,Sunday. f_r.rf.ft; ... f Win! Willis atfd Robert Prunett living thiW to ileft Aerff of Wew Albany, agreed to settle an old feoff according to the code, and faced, cash other and emptied their revolver*. Will'.3 was dangerously wounded in thwfitoe. Prunett was unhurt. j . daughter of Uecfrge Atehinson of Wabash, Ufcd p» 3ftWfty-of>rhat appeared to bq Mftfch' she was- bSedpnglrig the animal was mad anu tyj her. A'biock'orice iSeltotflp Qliaries Barline’s ice-chest, at was found to cohtatft ft "frog weighing ft quarter of a potmd audlu good health How itr livjed through War or ifve months frozen in 9 solid bhook of'ice is a conundrum . .. Two live axototi Have - been tjadght in a pond near Baytop, Tippecanoe county. They digs ckch, with fingers and tops, and ope long fin running the frill length of the spine, with a tali like ail ftelT odd singular fins like wings. Otherwise "resembling the cat fish. .1 . .

The grasshopper . has appeared in portions of Fulton oounty.-Uaut numbers are ‘Working with vei)geafi64 on the arm owned by Mr. Abbott. They have destroyed a field 0/ timothy, leaf and stem...ln. Wayne, Union township, they did considerable damage to. clover until ctil “ Nokr they yrork on corn. - * D 9.18 OT jnOt A little soiDttf O. DecMr'/jr. ansville, ootteeived the idea of footing off a toy pistol through the bunghole of an eiipty gasoline barrel] sitting on thq sidewalk, just to hear it “boom.". The head of the barrel neW through the awping. smashing the wiiiddw and burning the boy’s arm badly. There will be a union holiness camp meeting held in Patton’s grove, JAporte, commencing Jnly 27, under the management of the Western Hojln&s association, and continue for same days Prominent preachers from abroad will be in attendance. Tents will be. furnished on the grounds to those who wish to occupy them. A reduction iu railroad fare is expected. A Rochester youth named * Dawson, built himself an immense hot-air balloon for the ever memorable Fourth, and wishing to get the “hang of the thing," attempted a trial trip several days ago. The balloon caught fire from the furnace just as the ropes were cut, and he bad sense enough to let go before he was too high to make the fall disastrous. The air-bag was entirely, consumed. ' * '

Two unknown men fought In a skiff at Evansville, when one stabbed the other, and ill throwing hiip overboard upset the skiff. The murderer endeavored to swim ashore, but sank exhadst ed and was drowned. The two officers who witnessed the fight endeavored to save the man without success. It Is supposed they were Kentucky fishermen who had sold their fish in Evansville and were quarreling over a devision of their money. - 1 t u% v y-; ■ About 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon alone woman by the name of Higgenbotham stepped into a saloon kept by one Tom Powell at Liberty, and in Die presence of ft large crowd of men, took up a chair and demolished everything in the then threw all thefiUUard balls in the street, winding up bylireaking all the windows in toexlouse, not even leaving a veitige or thVsash remain burin theframes. AllouWecount of Powell eelliuglier husband liquor.

Sunday morph*#* about JO o’clock, Hal leek Dannattell, a young, man living four miles south of Seymour, armed himself with a shot-gun and went out to shoot squirrels. He fired into a a mulberry tree, when to hie surprise, Mr. Emile. Hein rich, who <tu*.qp in the tree to s<Vrne mulberries, came rolling down. It wrffc fount! that the right side head atro ftofe was filled with shot, some of. -whioh went into tbe throat. /The wound* s ’ .Perhaps no Marlon is all torn base of abduction wMch toOk place oh Saturday night. Mfed ffoura Dugan is feat 14 years of .age, and W* remarkably handsome. Sbe is thaw daughter of highly respected parents. "Thecc .an six or seven interested in the Rbdaction, but only two have been epught— Pearce Copink, of Marion, khd John Freehand, of Kokomo. Lust Saturday night, it is alleged, theaeUut&enticed the young lady from her home, and the three went«to the vfooas where they remained all, sight., a ,# a ,

The negro Jwpcfe Lindsey, who-' was charged with assaalthig iheo little Cog girl near New Salem? Thursday.’ was arrested Thursday n lKbOpteted in jail and brought before 'Suture .Uuire Friday ahd-discharged, not being sufficiently strung so bifid "oier to cqwrtr notwithstanding that his actions re damnable. .It isatteged that after he left his little girl ha yj ent to the'resMefiCe Of James Perkins and Wm. Ramsejr stark naked, and frightened the women folks v U>tHaPthefr screams brought, abemt assistance* and that Perkj chased him. a way with hfc The c&fe'fef G&ort&Yloldeh V£T tJhas. W. Gheenfes, SYdifttfr for the loss of feotl^arms-which has. just been concluded in tire Claft <sir-’ cuit court, tire jury returned a herdict awarding the pi*inij£,f3,6qd~ Goujon - waft ah engineer or Gheene’s cement mill when thewccidim;' occurred;’ He found the machinery on eentbfrjfaxi taking bold of the flywheel, turned it. and both anntr so XeiritJlv , mad• glad that thev were ear the el bows. The ease hinged a poll Hie question as to whottvf opnot-thd<Walve was selective, ;; 6M v v,.- r