Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1882 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

A big blackberry crop is predicted. A big pawpaw crop is predicted. • Pike county will hate a larger acreage in corn than usual. Warrick county will have an increased acreage of corn. Rockport will have a chair factory in operation by August. v Mt. Vernon supports 22 saloons and two bakeries. An immense crop of watermelons is being planted in White river bottoms W. S. Lamar has assumed editorial control of the Rockport Journal, Capt. Palmer retiring. , Hazel ton ahd Petersburg are soon to be connected with the Princeton telephone exchange. Bennett Williams, of Cynthiana, says the fleas are devouring his corn that is up. Indiana has 186,361 farms. Of these 147,963 are occupied by owners and 276 of these contain over 1,000 acres. Four cases of small pox are reported from Michigan City. Mr. Irving Armstrong has sold the Vevay Democrat to P. T. Hart and F. M. Dalmazzo. Al 2 days’ camp meeting will be held by the Methodists at Hartford City, commencing July 28. Ou the farm of Michael Owens, near Reynolds, from a newly bored well, 100 feet in depth, escapes a stream of gas which burns like coal gas. The city council of Lafayette is In fa /or of supplanting gas in that city with the electric light, and so voted in a recent meeting. During a storm at Bedford, a few nights since, a veritable shower of atones fell. They were of various sizes and shapes, some being as large as a man’s fist, and others quite small. W. 8. Culbertson, of New Albany, paid his $6,463 57 taxes the other day. W. C. DePauw, of New Albany, {>aid his taxes the other day ainountng to $,226 51. The deficiency of Samuel Gibson, ex-treasurer of Delaware county, now foots up over $15,000. A stranger leaped from the ferry boat in Jeffersonville into the Ohio river and was drowned. By actual count there are 235 persons at Wabash at the head of and conducting business on their own account. ' * A $3,000 school house, at New Corner, Delaware county, was demolished by the recent gale. It will cost sl,600 to reconstruct it. The third trial of F. A.’Fisse, for the murder of Conrad Shafer, terminated at Brookville Saturday night in a verdict of acquittal. Rachal Coward, a colored woman ot Jeffersonville, aged 107, appreciating the necessity of early piety was baptized into the M. E. church. Herman Wittkernber, aged about 65 years, living in Butler township, Franklin county t was accidentally drowned in Pike creek.

The finest elm in Richmond, near the Indiana yearly meeting house, was ruined by lightning during the recent storm. The meeting house was slightly damaged. C. 8. Ratliff, a farmer of Grant county, who was a few days ago kicked by ahorse, has just died of his injuries. Nearly every bone in his (face was broken and all his teeth were knocked in. The river and harbor'appropriation bill, as prepared by the committee, gives $50,000 to the improvement of ae Wabash river, and $20,000 to that of White river. - Michigan City harbor gets $80,009. The First National bank, of Peru, has just opened a branch establishment at Monticello, with W. T McLean as cashier. This bank will occupy the field of the defunct First National bank of Monticelle. Dr. Burke a brother of the murdered under secretary for Ireland, lives In Lafayette, and at a meeting of the land league protested against the idea that the crime was caused by friends of the league. Frank Long, of Rising Sun, a young man 18 years of age, was severely cut In the neck and arms at a dance a few miles above that town. He claims that he does not know his assailant but it is thought by many that he does, and is afraid to squeal. Wm. Allen, while walking in the woods, near Richmond, discovered a collection of fenakes of all kinds and sizes disporting themselves in a marsh, and killed 27 of them with a club, many more escaping into the swamp. Somebody shot at Lemuel Long, a resident of Cementville, near Jeffersonville, while he was in his house standing near a light. Long is the man who killed Mitchell, a negro in that hamlet a few months ago. It is charged that Mitchell’s wife did the shooting. Long was not hit. Major Warren D. Tackett, prosecuting attorney of Decatur county has returned on his wav home from Virginia, on an unsuccessful search f..r St. Clair Bryant, a witness if. the Walton murder case at Greens burg.