Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1881 — THE STATE. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE.

THfc Supreme Court has rev creed the decision of that a Sunday cigar is a necessity. A little s>n of Mr. E. Gans,of Evansville, was choked to jpfeatli by a niece of egg-shell, the other day. There have been several deaths from small-pox at Fort Wayne recently, slid new cases are reported almost daily. . Busan Francis has got Judgment Against Joseph McCabe, in the Shelby circuit court, for $1,500 for breach of promise aud eeduction.. . The Brush Electric Light Company, having procured the necessary authority, will erect posts, masts and wires for street lighting at Indianapolis. On Tuesday night the house of Den nis Ritchey, at Little York, was set on fire by an incendiary, during the absence of the family, and it and all its contents were burned. Indiana, under the recent census, takes her place as the sixth State in Union in point of population, being preceeded in order by New York Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio and Missouri.

Chris. Bmllh, treasurer of the K. of P. lodge, a painter and the largest contractor iu Seymour, has disappeared, leaving a large number of creditors to mourn the loss of sums veryiug from $lO to SBOO. The grand jury paid a visit to the Orange county poor-house, and their report is to tbe effect that it is a disgrace to the county. The jury say the building is utterly unfit for the purposes fur which it is used. A young man named Edward Wallace, was working in a gravel pit, near Wabash, when a bank of dirt caved on him and inflicted serious and possibly fatal injuries. He remained imbedded iu the gravel for some time before the men could release him.

John Burke, who for ten years has been considered one of the most successful groeerymen of Vincennes, has given notice of his failure and transferred his stock to Peter E. Laplante. For some time Mr. Burke has been speculating in New York margins aud consolidated Colorado mining stock. The liabilities are yet unknown,but are -thought to 'be heavy. A gang of villains has for seme time been operating between Bridgeport and New Providence, and their work consists in poisoning horses, though burglary is occasionally committed. They hbo pounded glass in the poisoning of horses, mixing it with the feed. A chapter of accidents occurred at the Ohio Falls car works at Jeffersonville on Saturday. Claude Wilson sustained a broken leg by the falling of lumber. A chisel fell off the top of a car, striking V. E. Dunna in the eye. putting it out. Charles Cresswell lost a finger in tbe wood-worker,

At Decatur the other day, while in Ihe act ot handing a revolver from the bureau to her cousin,Mto3 Anna Johnsqp caught the weapon in her clothing, discharging it. The ball shattered her left hand so that amputaiidD may be necessary. Miss Johnson resides in Darke eoilnty, Ohio. • Phillip Bender, a bar-tender, of Covington, in the employ of bis brother Henry, while under the influence of delirium tremen*-, left his house Tuesday night under the impression that he was being pursued for hto life, and lias not returned or been found. ‘lt to thought be has committed suicide. At a saloon fight in Fisher’s Station, Hamilton county, seven miles from Indianapolis, begun Saturday evening and lasting over Sunday, one man was killed and thirty-two wounded. It appears to be a great misfortune of the case that the figures were not reversed, giving., thirty-two killed and one wounded A case is pending beforo the Supreme Court whioh Involve* the question whether the discrimination made by the Sunday law between Hebrews and Christians does not invalidate tbe whole law. If tbe decision of this qOestidn snail lead to legislation that -will require Sunday observance as a police'regulation, the law may be ap- ' piled alike to Jew and Gentile, and will have a Bauch broader and stronger foundation In public opinion than teml-religious enactments. Nothing so increases reverence for others as a great Borrow to one’s self. It leaches one tne depths of hunum ’nature. In happiness we are shallow and deem others ao. j. I . *~ ;