Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1882 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

People in New Alaany rre poisoning geese. The streets are strewn with them. A cloud-burst in the northeastern sart5 art of Washington comity, near Little ork,literally destroyed miles of fencing and hundreds of acres of growing corn. Less than 2,800 dog licenses have been issued by the eitv clerk of Indianapolis —badly one-half of the number issued during a corresponding period last year. W. C. Depauw, of New Albany, Ind.» offers to give $1,000,000 to Ashbury University on condition that a like sum be raised by the other Methodists Df the state. A mAN named Boyd, living a few miles east of Hagerstown, was terribly injured by a fall through a saw-mill. His injuries are so severe that they arc considered fatal. « A thorough examination of the accounts of Samuel Gibson, ex-treasurer of Delaware county, shows a shortage ol $302.91, instead of $14,000, as was at first currently rumored. Delphi offers $50,000 in bonds and eleven acres of land for the location of the shops of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago road; but Lafayette will probably get the shops on an offer of only half as much.

The wife of H. H. Cain, living « short distance south of Booneville, was severely bitten by a large copperhead snake recently. Though in a dangerous condition for several hours, the lady is now recovering. Louis Miller, a boy of 8, was playing with another boy on the bank of the canal in the western part of Fort Wayne, when his companion threw Miller’s hat into the water. The little fellow went after it and was drowned. Richard Weeks, a veteran Methodist of Indianapolis, who for years has been bent with rheumatism, walked upright into a revival meeting and announced his cure by faith, and annointing by Evangelist Barnes. The vacancy in the agricultural department of Purdue University, Lafayette, occasioned by the resignation of Prof. Ingersoll, has been filled by the appointment of Prof. William C. Latta, of the State Agricultural College of Michigan. Peter Rippetoe, son of J ohn H. Rippetoe, w'as seized by a fit while riding a horse on a road near his father’s house, at Terre Haute, the other evening, and fell from the animal, breaking his neck. The man was about 23 years old and unmarried. After four years’ litigation, Andrew Jackson, of Fillmore, Putnam county has accepted $450 and costs in a su, against the Terre Haute and Indianapi olis railroad for a ducking given toMr. J. by the hands on a freight train) in passing a water tank. The second colored camp-meeting of A. M. E. Church is holding a two weeks’ session at Hagerstown. Presiding Elder W. S. Hammond has been in attendance, and preached powerful sermons. The number oft tenters is larger than ever before, and the attendance very flattering. Judge James Hinchman, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Rush county, lied from the effects of a paralytic <troke, aged 83. He removed to this lonnty from Virginia in 1821, was the «e.*ond Probate Judge of this county ind the father of thirteen children, all •iving. His wife survives him. A Journal special from Oxford, Bel*on county, says that early last night a ooy named Edward Forbes, came nome wet, and explaining to his mother that he had fallen into the creek, she petulantly said he ought to have staid there. A few minutes after the boy got a revolver and shot himself through the heart. A lady at Indianapolis had a dispute with a oarpenter over a price on certain work done by him, in which he claimed *3O more than she says she agreed to *>av. She sat down and read the riot ct to him, and then paid what she had .greed to. He then filed suit against her for provoke, and the justice, having oeard the case, dismissed it. Amos Smith, who was formerly a orakeman on the Jeffersonville. Madijon and Indianapolis Railroad, and who was quite severely hurt in a collision with a train on the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Railroad, at the crossing of the two roads in Indianapolis, about two months ago, has brought suit against tQa latter for $20,000 damages. Mr. James D. Huff, a citizen nearShoals, missed a valuable horse recently, and upon investigation found that it had been stolen. Rewards for horse and thief were offered, and in a short timo word was received that the thief had been arrested, with the horse in charge, at Edwardsport, Knox county. The thief proved to be a brother-in-law to a brother of Mr. Huff. He is now in jail

Napoleon lIL, whose health was not of the best, used to make use of a preparation of iron, which came to be called “Syrupus Napoleonis,” and under that name crept into the German pharmacopoeia. In the new edition, however, of that work of interminable technicalities, the Syrupus Napoleonis has, for political reasons perhaps, been carefully excised. t The expenditure of revenue forms the great level from which all heights and depths of legislative action are measured.—James A. Garfield.