Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1883 — A Good State for Fish. [ARTICLE]

A Good State for Fish.

Calvin Fletcher, of Spencer, State Fish Commissioner, yesterday hied the first report from that department., He says that Indiana enjoys particular advantages for propagating fish in her numerous medium sized lakes and moderate sized rivers, and an approximate estimate gives the shore line of the waters,of the State 30,000 miles. While fcheae waters do not provide shad, salmon and brook trout, they are stocked with bass, eight varieties, of trout, twenty kinds of suckers, and fifteen kinds of cat, and, in all, the waters produce 186 did inct fishes. The surprising st* ement is made that fish-foul in IV iana waters has increased, and t<£ tay a bass, a buffalo, or a cat 'A. ( grsw more rapidly in the same denjam, than the same fish would f ent 3 grown fifty years ago. Mr. r im cher says that adequate proteci th of the stock the State now has, nsie do more, for the supply of fishiecir all the propagation that can tat i soured. Nothing lias been" atr renot >ted in the way of propagation Ayo igh natural or artificial propromi s. A good stock of German jmed for breeding purposes has jemen acquired/ As a nucleus of «»ted i itionft, Mr. Fletcher places at ithe state’s disposal, Lis private ifirge w lfi c h are well-stocked with >m F< as kinds of fish- Six thousmafarp have been distributed mid Vyette are in winter quarters ready jkty-« distribution.—‘‘hogansport Fan ye s.” Va . . .

This bohoolswill be-opkn.—We are authorized to announce that the public schools will re-open, positively, next Monday morning. The scare caused by the measles, and the alleged scailet fever cases has about subsided, and was indeed unnecessary from the first.

We announce with a great deal of pleasure that the Swedish Lady Quartatte and The dramatic and humorous reader Miss Eda Eliel, who were to have given a performance at the Opera House upon the evening of the 3d, inst, but were unable to reach here on account of the high water, will be at the Opera House next Tuesday evening, Feb., 27th. This combination, we know from reading over exchanges, seldom visits so small a town as Rensselaer. Their appointment was made here, in the first instance, because Rensselaer happened to be right upon their route and no larger place available for that Evening. And of course after the proprietors of the Opera House had gone to the trouble and expense of preparing the hall apd advertising their appearance once, and been disappointed, they would feel in honor bound to appoint another evening here if possible. Justice’ Court. Binnie DeBoer of Keener tp., was brought before Squire Wood yesterday charged with assault and battery upon the person of a school teacher. F. W. Babcock and ‘V. AY. Watson for the state and Jas. W. Douthit for the defense. On motion of the prosecutor the hearing of the case was postponed until March 2d. J . The high water in the Ohio river is at las t abating. For a distance of four hundred miles the country upon both sides of the river has been desolated. The loss of property and consequent suffering are simply beyond computation At Cincinatti alone the damage is estimated $10,000,000.00. At New Albany 300 houses have been swept away The Indiana Legislature has appropriated $140,000.00, for the relief of the sufferers in this state.