Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1882 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

Ingersoll has been offered and accepted SIOO,OOO to deliver one hundred lectures. Morrill, of Vermont, is the senior senator of the United States senate in age. He is seventy-two. The man who predicts a cold summer is very numerous just in the eolumns of the weekly press. The inventor of our modern telephone admits that the Chinese knew of such an instrument three hundred years ago. Miss Ada Sweet has been nominated to be pension agent at Chicago at a salary of $4,000 per year. “Sweets to the Sweet.” Thirty-one ladies voted at the recent school election in Madison, Neb. A vile and slanderous local paper remarks that the candidate who had the loveliest mustache was elected. A new guide-book to Europe with six maps will soon be published in a volume small enough for the vestpocket. It will fujly represent the vest pocket full of knowledge that the average tourist brings home from Europe. Says the Pittsburg Post'. “The removal of Jesse Janies affords an opportunity to Cyrus W. Field to expand his taste for monuments. Jesse has more friends than Andre.” Yes, but the English nobility isn’t sweet on James.

The advocates of the auti-Chinese bill always estimate the earnings of the Chinese as a total loss to this country, wholly ignoring the fact that every dollar of their earnings necessarily represents its equivalent in labor performed—that is to say, in production of some kind. Mrs. Sarah J. Van Buren’s face now ornaments the columns of the press land. She ,is the discoverer of a “Ladies’ Tonic.” Sarah knocks the colored hosiery right oft of Lydia E. Pinkham for beauty and of course will sell the most medicine. A European art journal says that Mlle. Louise Abbema will send to the Salon this year four female figures representing the seasons. They are all portraits of celebrated actresses: Barretta posed for spring, Samary for summer, Bernhardt for aityimn, and Reichsmberg for this winter. This strikes us as liable to be a very thin picture of autumn.

The May Century presents the third of the five covers designed by Mr Vedder, the chief items of which are the figure of a young girl (Spring) with sunlight, flying bird, and a frame of blossoms, the three appropriate signs of the zodiac being combined aS before in a medallion at the left, and the blossoms are carried up into the borders of the title. ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ The legislature of Tennessee has evidently been vaccinated for the governorship and it has taken pretty thoroughly. Out of seventy-eight members whom a newspaper man tried to .interview, sixty-three refused to talk because they expected to be nominated for governor and didn’t want to oflend anybody, while the other fifteen were busy running for congress. ' A noted physician says many per sons simply by deep and rapid inhalation of pure air can become as intoxicated on oxygen as if they had taken .a drught of alcoholic stimulants. This, in connection with the fact that a scientific paper has proven that there is alcohol in rain water, should reduce the number of saloons. All a fellow will have to do is to go to the rain barr.4 with a section of gas pipe, and then take a breathing spell. It wont cost so much money.

Some of the English journals have been much exercised by the statement that found its way into the newspapers that Mr. Gladstone had recently gone to the London Tabernacle to hear Mr. Spurgeon preach, and that he had, after the sermon, gone to the vestry and, drank the preacher’s health in a glass of wine. When that story gets fairly started in this country we will read how Gladstone had the delirium tremens in the vestry and that Spurgeon was found dead drunk under the table. If the A merean Journalist can not improve on the English version then is our profession indeed in vain, I

A madlson cat habitually adopts a young chiCK every year and rears it as tenderly as if it were its own offspring. •« Willie Summers, for a longtime engineer at the Terre Haute water works, was found dead in an alley the other night, from over indulgence in stimulants. Mr. M. D. Helm, an Indianian, business manager of the Washington Critic, has accepted the foremanship of the Congressional Record division of the government printing office. Frank Wright, a son of Mr. Carter C. Wright, of Evansville, car inspector of the E. and T. H. railroad, fell overboard off the tug Isabella on Thursday morping and was drowned. It seems that somebody at Kokomo has remembered Long’s request, and is trying to keep his grave green, A few meek wild de were lifted up their timid heads last Sabbath on the spot where the remains are buried. The mines in the vicinity of Stanton are still closed. Theie seems to be a determination both on the part of the miners and operatori. Some predict serious results if they continue closed for any length of time.

On Thursday, near Sum lan, a German carpenter by the name of Gideon Reible was killed by engine No. 58 C. 1., St. L. and C. It is supposed he sat down on the track and went to sleep. He was about thirty-five years of age. Hon. Joseph E. McDonald is one of the incorporators of the Florida Mill Land and Lumber Company, which starts out with a capital of $500,000 and 625,000 acres of timber land. There is not much politics in the scheme, but large prospective profits, built upon a yellow pine platform. Harry G. Thompson, a son of Col. R. W. Thompson, and George M. Allen have purchased the Terre Haute Express, the sale to take effect May 1. The paoer will be edited by Samuel P. Bullen, now of the Washington Capital, who will arrive soon. The price paid is unknown.

A six-year-old son of Mr, Joseph Geiman, residing a short distance northeast of Madison, met his death in a painful and distressing manner. He had a grain of corn in his mouth, and in coughing sucked it down his windpipe. It lodged in his lungs, causing hemorrhage, and resulted in death a few hours later. Two tramps, entered the residence of Jacob Ratclifte, at Greencastle, Saturday night, and, finding Mrs. Ratclifte alone, they demanded money. On her refusal to comply they choked her almost insensible, ransacked the nouse and left. A. A. Milligan, a liquor dealer of Muncie, is in trouble for shipping eighty-five whisky barrels to Cincinnati without removing the brand of the inspector. The penalty is severe unless he can show conclusively that there was no intent to commit fraud. Yesterday Mr. Paul Hendricks was fifty years old. He Is living in the same house he was born in, and yesterday he went into the same room in which he first saw the light and the same woman was there yesterday that was there fifty years ago.—Madison Star.

Will Beverly, of Henderson Ky., sot into an altercation with Frank 'inch, of Evansville, at a saloon in the latter place, and hit him over the head with a bluilt instrument, fracti ring his skull. Beverly was arrested, and Finch will probably die. A few nights since a serious cutting affray occurred at the Clarkesville school house, in Clarke county, in which Joseph Criswell was stabbed four times by Oscar Kelley. The wounds are considered quite dangerous. Kelly is still at large, having probably fled to Kentucky. George Higgins and Arm. Malone became involved in a quarrel over a game of billiards, in a saloon in Carlisle, when Higgins cut Mahone across the abdomen, letting his bowels out, from the effects of which he will die. Higgins was arrested and lodged in jail at Sullivan. The examination of Miss Asn an, of Albion, on charge of poisoning Mrs. Kettlebar, has been continued until May 15, for the purpose of allowing time to exhume the body and hold a post mortem examination. She was held to bail in the sum of $5,000, which she gave, and she has been released from jail. The township in which Columbus is situated on Saturday voted $70,000 to aid in the construction of the Columbus, Hope & Greensburg railroad. Work is already begun on the east end of the r >ad, and trains are prorflised to be running the entire line by May 1, 1883, or sooner if the bonds are immediately placed.

Geo. Sipes, aged ninety-one vears, died near Bedford a lew days" ago. He was born in Kentucky in 1791, and served in a Kent.ic cy regiment during the war of 1812, being present at the battle of New Orleans in 1815. He was one of thepioneer settlers of Lawrence county, and died upon the farm he cleared over 50 years ago. Julian Simonds was found lying dead on t’e pike about two miles south of Farmland, in Randolph county. There was a bulllet hole in the side of his head and a revolver lying near the body, with one chamber Mr, Simonds was a young man, twenty-eight or thirty years of age, and resided in Henry county. It is not, known whether, he committed suicide, or was murdered for his money.