Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1882 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

The house committee has agreed to recommend th» eon-(.ruction of public buildings at New Albany, to cost $7,0(f0. Hereafter tire convicts'in the prison at Jeffersonville are to he allowed tobacco, a luxury denied them for the past four years. The Ohio Falls Car company is building fifteen passeugei coaches for the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railway. William Smith, ah eleven-year-old son of James Smith, of Salem, went fishing, fell in. the creek, and was drowned, lie was Subject to epileptic fits. So many ladies have been accosted and insulted bn the streets of Muncie that one of them set 3 an ■ example to her sex by wrilking abroad with a revolver in her hand, The saloon and general store of George French, at New Lebanon, viljage six miles from Sullivan, burned Thursday night. He thinks the temperance people know something about it. Loss $2,000. Edward Tobin, aged fifteen was received at the prison south, from Wayne county, to remain one year, for petit larceny. He only weighs ninety pounds, and was sent up for stealing a ninety pound stove in Richmond. • The sheriff closed the dry goods and gents’ furnishing establishment of Emil Becker, at Plymouth, on a claim of SIO,OOO. Tt is known that another claim of the same amount’will follow. Bad roads and poor collections are the alleged cause for tire failure. The principal of the public schools at Williamsport is said to have struck one of the lady teachers a terrifiic blow in the face witli his hand,- while engaged in a dispute. An investigation resulted in the discharge of the principal and the elevation of the lady to his place.

Cicero Watts, a young farmer of Greenfield',lias received word that he is an heir to part of the celebrated Spangler estate of Germany, and will at once take steps to prove his heirship. The estate amounts to many millions. W. H. SkekeU, of Kentucky, is also an heir. Their part will be over SIOO,OOO. William Isley, a farmer, started from his home, a few miles south of Veedersburg, a few days ago, saying that he was going to see.a neighbor about a half mile distant on business. He, has not been seen or heard from since. He 1 had been buying timber, and it is thought lie had money with him when lie left. Foul play is feared. Aaron Jones, who was last week sentenced to jail, at Rushville, for thirty days for perjury, has heretofore stood well in the community, and is among the wealthiest farmers of the county. It is thought the judge will pardon him, as he is 62. years old. *’ A suit instituted against the state in the name of Carroll couhty, to recover certain amount's of money"expended in advertising delinquent tax lists, will, if successful, bring the state in debt to the several counties for nearly $200,000 onjt]ie4ast_collection of taxes. The in the Walton murder trial, now ThXprogress at Vernon, is very damaging tch-Garrett. Frazier, the negro murderer and Iris wife, both give very plain and manifestly honest evidence against him. Mr. Frazier testified that Garrett brought the ammuui* lion to the house ou the afternoon before the shooting. Garrett is losing his cheerfulness. • . ’ Argus Dean, llic Madison peach grower, predicts that the pencil blooms will be unusually full, and the only danger is the spring frosts. From the fact that two crops have been gathered in succession, the yield will be less in quantity and poor in quality, unless wise care has been taken of the trees. The prospect for all stone fruit is quite as good as for peaches. The newspaper men of tjic second coufrressioual district have derived so much icncfft from the editors’ and publishers’ union, inaugurated by them at Vincennes six months agu, that they now propose to extend the organization to embrace the state, and with that end in view have called a meeting at the Grand hotel in Indianapolis, on the 29th of March, to discuss the matter.

A soldiers’ reunion will be held in Attica on September 19 and 20, 1882, which will he participated in by the following Indiana regiments: 10th, lltli, 12th, 15th, 10th, 20th, 33d, 40th, 60th, 63d, 72d, 86th, 116th, 150tli, 154t1i and 11th cavalry and 18th battery. The arrangement committee, consisting of one member of each of the regiments named, will meet in Attica on Saturday, March 25, apd they invite all their comrades who can conveniently go, to meet with,,them on that day. Particulars of a desperate fight between David Abshire, a farmer living near Roann, and his wife have been received. Mrs. Abshire became enraged at her husband and attempted to dissect him with an ax, and in self-defense he gave her a drubbing, which will probably result fatally. Mrs. Abshire, who lias been married before, attempted to carve her deceased husband in the same way and receives but little sympathy. The Jeffersonville correspondent of The Louisville Courier-Journal denies that the crazy Miss Herman, who lately deceased in the Clark county alms-house, comEleted a fast of sixty-two days, or that er body was reduced from 192 pounds to a mere matter of about 70 pounds. The remains made a healthy looking corpse of 125 pounds, and persons who saw Miss Herman within the last two weeks assert that she was strong in voice and mind, and not very weak physically, and that she could not have fasted the time specified. Friday night a tramp broke into the residence of U. P. Forbes, Peru. Ilis wife was the first to discover the man in their bedroom, aud awoke hot husband, who ouietly pulled,a revolver from under iiis pillow and shot, the ball passing entirely through the abdomen. The man, though not dead, is in a dying condition. He gives the name of Fred Whittei', of Halifax, England. He. lately left water Valley, Miss., and was on his way to Patterson, N. J., where lie says lie has an uncle living.- Two letters was found in his pocket recommending him its a young man of good moral habits, etc.