Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1882 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

A silver-plated iron dollar is d ceiving lowa. Nine daily papeis are published in the entire state of North Carolina. The late heavy rains have materially injured the wheat crop in Canada. Chicago has opened an institution for the reclamation of opium eaters and smokers. Governor Cullom is giving Commissioner Baum a hard fight for the Illinois senatorship. The National board of health is in trouble again, One hundred thousand dollar* is about to be spent by somebody else. England now has between 30,000 and 40,000 troops in the land of the Pharaos, and stirring times may be looked for in the near fixture. The Delaware and Hudson canal company at Albany, New York, paid a tax of $24,743.28 on their earnings in that state for the year ended June 30, which were $4,948,652.67. An Idaho, newspaper and a beer saloon are run by the same management. Fifty editors are said to be waiting for a vacancy in that office by death. All hope of a resignation is long dead.

Arabi Pasha is a great general. The Sultan issued a proclamation declaring Arabia rebel, and now Arabi has issued counter proclamation deposing tne Sultan from his position nd authority. The white pine supply in this country will only last twelve years, according to the census, and pinelands have doubled in value since then and the lumber dealers have marked up the price. Cypress lumber from he southei n swamps is suggested as a tubstltute. Ten thousand copies of the com plete set of census reports are to be published for general distribution. The reports will be printed in fifteen quarto volumes of about 1,000 pages each. Besides the usual statistics the series will include many elaborate reports on special industries. Mr. Thomas 8. Dana, an educated Indian, says: “The Indians never cook anything in the house where they live. They cook outside, and they give as a reason that if they cook inside the steam collects in their clothing and draws the lightning. Whether this is so or not Ido not know, but I know that an Indian wigwam is never struck by lightning,and no Indian has been killed by lightning in 100 years.

Theije is a marked tendency among farmer boys going to the city learning a trade or going west, and thereby leaving the father without sufficient help. In consequence of this drain on the farm, help is constantly growing scarcer. The deficiency has in a measure been remedied by improved machinery which is annually being more extensively Introduced. But in spite of all this there is an increasing complaint from year to year on account of a decrease in the supply of labor. The tide of immigration is constantly pouring into the far west. Should many of these young and healthy men and women go to Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois, they would find plenty of labor at remunerative prices. There is a loud call from the farmers of the above states for help. It is astonishing to scientists how great the difference in flora, mammals, reptiles and amphibia is between Ireland and the rest of Europe, although separated by a narrow sea channel. Comparing the total land mammals of the west of Europe, they find that while Germany has ninety species, Britain has forty and Ireland only twenty-two. The reptiles and amphibia of Germany number twentytwo, those of Britain thirteen and those of Ireland four. Again, even among the winged tribes, where the capacity for dispersal is so much greater, Britain possesses twelve species of bats, while Ireland has no more than seven; and 130 land birds to 110 in Ireland. The same discrepancy is traceable In the flora, for while the * total number of species of flowering ' plants and ferns found in Britain amounts to 1,425, those of Ireland number 970—about two-thirds of the British flora. '

Eight Jeffe'sun county potatoes fill a peck measure. The Sixty-third boys will hold their reunion at Waynetown, on the 29th. George Forthover had a hand shapelessly mashed in a planer at Madison on Monday. I A noticeable increase in the number of students at Wabash college this fall is expected. Postoffices have been established at Agate, Jasper county, and Vermont, Howard county. A piece of slate fell frum a burning building in Madison and winged William Fox’s nose. James M. Harrod has been commissioned postmaster at Sellersburg, and George H. Bond, at Oaktown. • Luther Benson is spoken of as th* democratic candidate in the sixth district to demolish Tom Brcwne. Workingmen arc busily engaged in remodeling the White house at Lafayette, Ito fit it for the use of the publta library. T. C. Pursel,has »old the Crawfordsville Evening Argus to R B. Wilson, who has been connected with the paper since its first issue. Byron Turner, aged thirty, living in the northern part of Lawrence county, shot himself through tho heart without knowing cause. While the Milroy excursionists were returning from Fort Wayne Bunday, Add Richey had his p icket picked of a fine watch and chain valued at $45. Henry L. Alling, bookkeeper of the Hakes bottling works, at Fort Wayne, was found dead in his bed. Death was caused|by an internal hemorrhage. Two Madison Alexanders built a skiff in a cellar where it was nice and cool, and are now working in the broiling sun excavating a hole to enable them to get it out. W. A. Krug, of Waynetown, Montgomery county, is looking around for an eligible farm where he can settle down and grow up with the country. His age is ninety-two. At a dance at Koleen, Greene county, a difficulty arose between James Eaton and Nathaniel King, which resulted in the latter oeing fatally shot in the bowels. The Democratic senatorial covention for the counties of Benton, Jasper and Newton, nominated Hon. Fred. Hoover, of Jasper, formerly a director of the northern prison. Mrs. Thomas Hillman, of Moore’s Hill, who is a very corpulent lady, was badly injured while returning from a country church Sunday night by being thrown from a buggy.

Albert Maritzen, twenty-one years old, while bathing in the river at South Bend,on Bunday.was drowned. The body was recovered and will be sent to his home in Coldwater, Mich. The eleven-year-old son of E. C. Bodwin. of Forest, Howard county, while playing at the elevators of R. 8. Gaskill, fell into a wheat bin, and was smothered to death before help could reach him. Mr. James B. Holmes, an old pioneer of Shelby count;,, died at his home, near Fairland, Sunday evening, at the advanced age of eightyfour years. Mr, Holmes has resided in the county since 1821. The foundry and machine shop of Joseph Dunkerly, at Covington, was considerably injured by fire on Saturday. Jersey Howell was considerably injured by being struck on the head by an iron kettle thrown from thereof. The shoemokers employed at the Murphy & Comstock and Herriman & Shockey factories at Lafayette, are out on another strike. Their alleged grievance is a proposed reduction on certain kinds of work. Anton Papst entered the stable of the man he is working for at Shelbyville, Sunday evening, in an intoxicated condition. He staggered against a horse and was kicked In the stomach. It is thought he can not recover. The children of Dr. Charles White, former president of Wabash college, among whom is Professor W. C. White, have presented to the Wabash college library three hundred volumes of the private library of the deceased president. The supply grocery of Ichabod Jones, on main land, near the Assembly buildings, at Rome City, burned to the ground Sunday night, with all its contents. Loss, $5,000. Insured in the Western Assurance of Toronto for $2,500. Cause unknown. Frank Fisher, who has had the misfortune to lose both legs, was found in a starving condition out in the Enobs, three miles from New Albany, and taken to the poor house He had become discouraged, and determined to starve himself to death, Mrs. O’Hara, of Richmond, known as “Aunty” O’Hara,one of the oldest and most faithful of the members of the First M. E. church, is dead. She was n her 87th year, had been a member of the church for more than 40 years, and had spent the greater Sari of her long and useful life in Richmond. J. R. Armour, who lives near Rich Valley, but who has been working a steam thresher in the neighborhood of Peru, was set upon at 3 o’clock by two footpads, who relieved him of his pocket-book and other valuables, and then tried to strip him of his clothes. He resisted and was shot by one of the tramps, the ball passing through his hand near his head. The tramps escaped.