Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1882 — THE STATE. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE.

The Ohio fails car company uses 000 leet of lumber every day. Twelve barns were destroyed by fire at Laporte Monday night. Incendiary. Two townships in Wayne county have uo delinquent tax-payers—Harri-son and Boston. •- Werner & Fraukle, butchers at Shelby ville, have been arrested for selling the meat of a calf throe days old. Two million cigars were made ia New Albany during ISBI, most o* which were also consumed there* _T. R Hardy, a Rockport merchant*, bought aud received 160,0(10 pounds ol tobacco last w<ek from Monday morning up to Thursday evening. Barney Birney, a livery stable keeper of Madison, died of tetanus. He ran a splinter in his hand a few days ago, which was the cause. He was about fifty-two years ot age. RobertgjHouston, au old citizen of Monroe county, hanged himself in fear of an indictment for selling liqpur. without government license. At time he was a Baptist preacher. Captain Ham Shoemaker, of Terre Haute, has produced aquautity of wilit rice seed, which grows iu the water, and which he intends to sow in the Wabash river to furnish food for wilit ducks. Mrs. Alvin Gregory, residing at Springfield, a short distance from. Mount Vernon, was fatally shot in the neck. Her husband has been arresteit on suspicion aud his b aid fixed at sl,500. Tue woman’s father went his bail. Alexander OJel, one of the most enterprising citizens of Harrison county and extensively engaged in the nfHliug, dumber and farmiug business, fell from his buggy while driving down a hill, near the Crawford county line, amt broke his ne<ck. Golden’s Hollow/Crawford county* is all torn up over the bad conduct of Mrs. Smith, the wife of a reputable farmer. She tell desperately in love with a negro a lew mouths ago, audl being warned of coming trouble from the “Knights of the Switch” she fled with him and has not since beeu seen. The body of Thomas Lobeir wan found in the barn on his brother’s place, about four miles east of Princeton, the other duy. By his side wasr found a gun, and around bis neck were marks as if a rope had been there, but no wound was round on his body. Fie has beeu regarded as eccentric to the verge of insanity for some time*. Patents have beeu issued to Indiana inventors as follows: To Michael* Winter, senior, Union City, carpet*-stretcher-Jacob Williams, DubliDjCUltivator; J. W. Westcott, Richmond,, fertilizer distributor; J. T. Obenehain,, Logansport, grinding-mill: FI. D. Meagher, Houtb Bend, plow; W. A. Maus, Indianapolis, apparatus for fermenting malt liquors. Two masked robbers were lying im wait for a lumber merchant at Russiaville, on a day when he was known to be carrying a large sum of money fromhis mill to his residence. A clerk came along first, and they took him for thei* intended victim. When they discovered the blunder, one wished to rifle the young man’s pockets, but tbe> other insisted that it was foolish to waste time on him* The highwaymen, quarrelled over the question, and when, they came to blows the clerk escaped,. with his employer’s wallet safe in his pocket, it having been intrusted to him because the owner was too ill to go out.

Out of'over 16,000 tax-payers iu Wayue county, only thirty-six are deli nquen ts. An old law, recently resurrected,, legalizes a lottery at Vincennes, for thebenefit of a college at that place. A woman died, at Greensburg, the other day, at the age of 72 years, who* had been an invalid for fl'ty years. A KILL, has passed the Henate of Congress increasing the salary of the United States Judge for the district of Indiana from $3,600 to $5,000 p year. A produce dealer In Indianapolis is importing potatoes from Scotland, is able to sell them with profit a leseprice than he gets for the borne productThe prospects of an appiopriation of SIOO,OOO at the present session of Congress, for a Government building.: at Ft. Wayne, seem to be very encouraging. The City Council of Terre Haute has contracted for 84,000 candle powerof the Bus'j Electric light, at SIO,OOO ar. year, including repairs. The light is to* be furnished from five towers. Fort Wayne has a sensation lu the* elopement of the eldest unmarried daughter of Hon. William Fleming, t ex-State Treasurer, with Tony Trent—man, a noted gambler of that city. Mr. Levi Curtis, ofPleasaut HI.W, Montgomery county, died a day or two* since from injuries received by a turkey flying agaiust him in an attempt to escape from its coop. Mr. Curtin was a pfomineut and wealthy man. • The union revival meetings at Elkhart, under the leadership of Dr. L.. W. Muuhall, closed on the 10th instDuring the meetings nearly 500 persons professed conversion. A Y. M. C. A., with 150 members, and a W. C.. U , with 100 members, were organized