Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1882 — THE STATE. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE.

A negro woman, said to be 115 years old, has been an inpaate of the Clark county asylum for 60 years. t Fred Faust, a small-pox patient at the Teijre Haute pest house, died Without medical attendance, all the doctors refusing to visit him. Mrs* Bruins, wife of an Otter Creek farmer, has fallen heir to an estate of five hundred acres in Pennsylvania, underlying which is a rich bed of anthracite coal. A widow near Shelby ville, aeed for-ty-three, induced her daughter to discard a lover aged twenty-three,and then “made up” to him herself* and will marry him. The celebrated hunting dog,Linclon, owned by Harry Bishop, of Tennessee, which had been at New Albany for treatment on account of a railroad accident, died. This dog cost $2,950 in England. William Newton, an old and wealthy citizen of Crawfordsville, died suddenly of congestion at the house of his divorced wife, in pursuance of a threat that if he could not live with her he would die witn her. Mrs. Daniel Huff,of Newport,Wayne county, imported smallpox from Chicago, but the disease was not recognized until her husband and physician contracted it. She was infected while visiting Tier brothers at Chicago. A straw-stack belonging to Warren Wolf, living near Norristown, Shelby county , was blown over a few nights ago,burying underneath it twenty head of fine hogs and a valuable Jersey cow all of whicn were smothered to death. Two years ago Charles Biel, of New Alabany, cut his right leg with a piece of glass. The wound healed nicely, but Saturday a piece of glass an inch long was cut from near the knee, havein g passed around the leg from near the ankle. Louis Peltier, of Fort fcWayne, was badly injured Monday night by walking out of a third story window, while asleep. He had had no,somnambulistic attack for several years, and evidently had risen and dressed himself before he stepped out. Unmistakable evidence has been discovered that David Smith, who was recently murdered.by his own family in Wayne county, was slaughtered in his own house, and it is believed that the whole adult portion of the family participated in the murder. Last July George Sands, a farmer living near Milan, gave his wife S3OO for safe keeping. She hid it in a straw bedtick and forgot all about it. The bed was emptied in the orchard to be renewed the other day, and the nogs wallowed in the broken straw. Fortunately all the money except S7O was found in a mutilated, but useful condition. The contracts for the enlargement of the Indiana cotton mill at Cannelton, the first and the largest in the state, have been let. The new mill will be 375 feet in lenghtand 268 feet width, and of the same style of architecture as the present mill. It will have capacity for looms for 40.000 spindles, though but 14.000 spindles will be put in immediately—giving the capacity of the old and new mill, at the start, at 25,000 spindles. The building will be copapleted and the machinery in operation by next September. The enlargement and additional machinery will coat $250,000. The funeral of David Smith, who was murdered by his wife and sons, took place at the Christian church at Hagerstown. People were present from all parts of the oounty, and it was a day of unparalleled excitement in that village. The persons following the body were the boy George, who 3 as released on bail: Alice, the little rl who first put tne police on the right track; a brother and sister of the deceased, and a brother and sister of Mrs. Smith. The services were conducted by Rev. W. T. Warbinton. His text was: “While they took counsel against me, they devised to take away my life.” At the close of the sermon the minster read to the audience the oonfessioa of the murderers. The body was then viewed by the crowd to the number of over two thousand.

The revival meetings at Elkhart, conducted by Dr. Munhall, continue with unabated interest. At last accounts 383 persons, many of whom were railroad men, had professed conversion. Returns to the State Bureau of Statistics for the years ended May Ist, 1880, show a satisfactory increase of landowners in this State, and refute the general idea that the lands are gradually absorbed by capitalists. The Bureau of Statistics reports mine and quarry products in this State for the year ended April 30th, 1881, as follows: Sandstone quarried 946,047 cubic feet; limestone quarried 2,743,459 cubic feet; lime burned, 1,128,289 bushels; cement manufactured, 144,599 bushels; coal mined,2,128,977 tons; fire clay, 202,838 tons. The Bureau of Statistics reports that Warrick county alone produces onethird of the leaf tobacco crop of the State, and Boone township in that county, leads all townships of the State with a production in 1881 of 675,559

pounds. Whitley county produces the most maple sugar, the product last year being 170,679 pounds, and of this amount 156,591 were made in Washington township that county. Ihe total enumeration of school children .in this State in ISSI* was 714.343. The total number enrolled was 503,555, leaving 210,488 of those enumerated out of the schools. On the average daily attendance this number out of the schools would be largely increased. Making allowance for the persons between the age 3 of 16 and 21, who are otherwise engaged and do not attend the public schools, and for those who attend the parochial schools, there will yet remain at least 100,000 children, of the best school age, who never enter any school.