Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1882 — INDLANA. [ARTICLE]

INDLANA.

Decoration day will be generally observed. There is promise of an abundance of blackberries. Oakland, Gibson county, boasts of a building boom. • Horse-shoe pitching is a favorite sport at Hazleton. The Hazleton saw mills are running at their full capacity. Tuere are now 709,424 children of school age in Indiana. The chintz bug has put in an appearance near Cynthiana. Albany is to have three mounted policemen. , The Herdlc coaches have been put in operation at Lafayette, and are expected to be popular. The Edwardsport miners are out on a strike against a reduction of about five per cent on their wages. Manufacturers of briok at Frankfort have suffered great loss on account of the heavy rains. One yard lost 16,000 in one day. The postoffice at Heilman, Warrick county, has been discontinued, and mail lor that place will hereafter be sent to Selvin. William Barley and Thomas Culaertson fell from a scaffold on B. F. Holmes’s house at Marion, and both were seriously injured. There are about fifty cases of measles in Wabash, though the disease is in a very mild form, aud none of those afflicted are seriously sick. John Deitz was arrested at Tipton, charged with shooting a saloonkeeper named Hughston atEllsworth, Kan., in February last. Wife-whipping seems to be still cultivated as one of the fine arts,by some of the brutes who have the semblance of men, in Princeton. Vincinnes is to have a Herdic coach line. The coaches have been purchased and the line will begin operations in about two weeks. There seems to be a pretty fair equilibrium of sexes among the school children *f Gibson county The number of males is 3,992 and the females number 3,716. Good steam-makiqg coal is furnished to the manufacturers of Evansville at 75 cents per ton, on the line of the Belt Railroad and at from 94 to 97 cents per ton, delivered by wagon in any other part of the city. Hon. William Baxter was thrown from his buggy, near Richmond, and considerably bruised, thougn it is thought he is not dangerously injured.

While David Simonton and his wife, of Liberty Mills, Wabash coun - ty, were out driving night before last the horse ran away and threw Mr. Simonton out ot the buggy, inflicting serious and perhaps fatal injuries. The house of Mr. Ed. Brown, at Gibson Station, was entered the other day by thieves, during the absence ol the family, and quite a large amount of clothing taken, the loss amounting to about $75. It is believed that Edward Young, who was found dead from morphine, self-administered, at the Worsham bouse, Memphis, was no other than the defaulting agent of the C.,-1., St. L. & C. railway. The large mill of the Nelson Bros., eighteen miles south of Wabash, was totally destroyed by fire. Loss,s9,ooo. There was not a dollar of insurance. The fire originated in the engine room. “Uncle Bob” Harrison,,of Salem, is now over eighty-lour years old, and has worked on a newspaper at Salem ever since 1817—a period of sixty-five years. He is doubtless the oldest printer in the state, if not in the country. The Variety Bracket-works,at South Bend, assigned for the benefit of creditors, and Chicago parties closed Plummer’s ninety-nine-cent store, which came to the city a few months ago from Kalamazoo. Lemuel Hatton, of Connersville, was walking along* the high river bank with his ten mouths’ old baby in his arms, when the embankment gave way, precipitating him several feet. The child fell under him and was badly bruised, having one leg broken. Louis Kuhns, confined in the county jail at Anderson for shooting Samuel Young, escaped on Bunday. His wife and a colored man visited him in jail and blacked him up as a darkey, and the turnkey allowed him to pass out with his wife without suspicion.

Two boys, sons of a widow named Scott, aged respectively twelve and fifteen years, are in jail at Greencastle for robbing Frank Hay’s store, where the mother is employed, of a quantity of jewelry, which was found iu their possession. They have both been Fu tne house of refuge. It appears that Joaquin Miner lived near Rochester in this state in his earlier years. He writes to Mr. Robert R. Reed, of that place, in response to an inquiry, that he remembers his home near there, and his visits to the grain warehouse of Pollard & Wilson, where Mr. Reed was then employed. Mr. Millar’s father, Joaquin says, was then very poor, aud the boys had a hard time of it, in proof of which he told how they sold hickory-nuts and bought each one of them a book with the proceeds. t