Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1882 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

The bond required of Mr. 8. P. . Rounds, the new public printer, is $400,000. ' ’ ' _ The bond of the treasurer of the United States, who handles all the money, is only $150,000. New York City proposes to bring its water supply from Lake George, 225 miles away, and 322 feet above the city. ~ The daughter of “Bonanza”Mackey soon to be married will receive as a wedding present from her father $4,000,000 in cash. ) 1 ' if '■ A. colored lecturer in Chicago is claiming that Moses, Luke, Scipio, Hannibal, and other worthies of the bygone time were negroes. Secretary of War Lincoln has just ordered an army officer to join his regiment who has been absent from it for seventeen years. A Texas paper says that if the Mormon doctrine had been set loose in the Garden of Eden, Adam would not have had ribs enough to go round. Florida is said to be more prosperous than ever before. The raising of early vegetables promises to be as great an industry as orange culture. On an island, near Ningpo, China, the Buddhist priests have a library so large that twenty-one huge volumes alone are required for the catalogue.

Mason must not be pardoned too soon. The contributions to “Betty and’the baby” would then fall off. The fund should reach SIO,OOO before subscriptions cease. The reported ueath of General Hurlburt, late minister to Peru, may delay the investigation of the Peru-vian-Chili affair and may forever cover up some important testimony. The astonishing statement is made that one hundred and twenty-five farms in the county of Halburtan, Ontario,, have been abandoned and their former occupants removed to the western states and Manitoba. It is evident that we are annexing Canada very fast. A Venetain glass manufacturer has invented a glass bonnet for ladies. We look upan this as the great bonanza of the age. Every lady will have one, as she can use ft for a mirror and also see just how she looks by gazing in the back of the lady’s headgear in front of her at church and at the theatre.

Dr. Strother, a Kentucky lecturer, is propagating the belief that the Garden of Eden was situated in the Mississippi valley. His theory derives its chief support the Brooklyn Eagle thinks from the fact that the Mississippi valley is the section which has on hand the best stock of snake stories. According to the report of the department of agriculture there is a heavy shortage in the wheat and corn now on hand compared with the amount in 1081. The report covers the seven great corn and wheat producing states and indicates a comparative shortage of 213,000,000 bushels, or 55 per cent, less coi n on hand than on March 20,1881. and also a decrease of 28,000,000 bushels of wheat, or 44 per cent, less than on March 20, 1881, in these seven states. In addition there is a shortage in three other surplus wheat states—Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota—which are credited with 75,000,000 bushels as the crop of 1881. H

It is hard to believe that any one in this age of torpedos, dynamite and tremendous cannon would fear a simple tunnel only admitting the passage of a few men at a time. Yet the Nineteenth Century the leading mag. azine of England contains a protest against the proposed tunnel under the English channel between England and France on the ground that it would involve England in military dangers and liabilities from which as an island she has hitherto been free. Among the dignitaries who signed it are Lord Lytton,late viceroy of India, Sir Bichard A Cross, Cardinal Manning. Alfred Tennyson,Robert Browning, Professors Huxley and Gold win 8m J th, James Caird, Generals Sir Linthorne Simmons and Sir Henry Havelock Allen, Sir Theodore Martin, the editors of the Spectator, the Morning Poet, and the St. James Gatetie, and Blanchard Jerrold.

Rockport 'has fourteen telephone subscribers. Thirteen prisoners in the Pike county jail. Street prostitutes have disappeared from Rockport. The Pike county poor house contains thirty-four inmates. Twenty six new students have enrolled in the academical department at Purdue so far this term. Ex-Vice President Colfax, in a printed card, declares most pointedly, that he could not accept a term in congress. The barbed wire and metal post company have purchased ground near the junctioa, Crawfordsville, and will erect extensive manufacturing works. Preston Fielding, an old Citizen of New Albany, fell from his wagon, and received injuries that caused his death in half an hour. A woman ffrom Indianapolis, who refused to give tier name, became the mother of a child while being taken to the county asylum, at Crawfordsville. Another fire broke out at Ladoga, destroying a barn belonging to Samuel Gill, together with two valuable horses, a quantity of grain and farm implements. The residence and furniture of Charles Ogan, living southwest of Wabash, were destroyed by fire. Loss $2,001), upon which there was not a dollar insurance.

Presten Finley, an old negro man of New Albany, aged fifty-nine years, fell from his express wagon and subsequently died liom concussion of the brain. Norman Selby, a twelve-year old son of Jesse Selby, a farmer living near Shelbyville, was thrown from his buggy by a run-away horse, in that town and badly hurt. Eddie Fletcher, aged five years, living with his parents on Watt street, Jeffersonville, was impaled on a picket fence, and so very badly injured about the abdomen that the attending physician does not think he can recover. Among the old scraps purchased at the steamjorge works at xVe tv Albany, was a loaded shell, which was placed in a charge for the furnace and about to be thrust into the Hames, when the .character of the missile was discovered and was removed.

It is proposed to remove the shops of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago railroad to some more central point on the line, and Lafayette otters fifteen acres of laud and a bonus of $2U,000 as an inducement to secure their local ion there. —A definite settleuient of the matter is not expected for some time yet. Michael Murphy, an aged man residing in Greencastle, was bitten by a bulldog, and his Life is now despaired of. Tne dog had been chained for years, and the old man had just loosened him to give him away, when the ferocious brute seized him in the face, lacerating it dreadfully. The neighbors ran to nis relief and killed the dog.

Mr. J. D. Lovering, of Madison, will soon leave for Germany, for the purpose of procuring the extradition of “Prof." O. R. Halpert, who swindled him out of $1,500 some years ago. Other Madi»onians sutler-id heavily at the same time. Benjamin S. Parker will retire from the Mew Castle Mercury after one more issue, to assume his duties at Sherbrooke, Canada. Mr. Elwood Pleas, formerly of the New Castle Courier, has purchased the Mercury and will hereafter conduct it. Ownie McCrary, aged fourteen years, was horribly mangled by a Lake Shore train at Sjuth Bend Sunday evening, and died shortly afterwards. He attempted to jump on a cattle car and fell under the train, which cut his body in two at the hips.

Many persons owning land along the line of the Jackson, Muncie & Jndiana railroad have, in building new fences, encroached on the land of the company aud actually held possession of the land—some of them for years—and refuse to vacate when requested by the company. Becoming tired of that kind of work, the comK instructed Colonel Stanifer to j suit against certain parties and on yesterday the supreme court decided in favor of the company, even where some of the parties have farmed the land (or twenty years, and considered it their own by right of possession, if not purchase, from former occupants. This decision will cause the removal of a good many miles of fencing. M. H. Haskell, who resides near Madison, informs us that one of the heaviest hail stortns he ever witnessed swept over that portion of the country in which he resides at about noon the other day. Hail stones as large as hens’ eggs fell at his residence, and upon the river and hills opposite they seemed to be still larger and so numerous that the Ohio river was beaten into a white foam on the surface, resembling a stream covered with a white fluffy frost. The descent of the heavy h«il in the water made a terrific roaring like the “rushing of many waters.” In the soft mud on the Kentucky shore holes as as goose eggs may yet be seen, where the hail stories were driven in. The area of the fall was .limited to a few miles along the river and h nee no damage was done—at least noue has been reported.