Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Dwelling houses for rent are very scarce in Peru. ; i —A catfish was recently caught in the river at Lawrenceburg that weighed forty pounds. -.: j.. Ont of the 11,000 dogs owned in Evansville, only eleven have owners who hare Applied for licenses, so far. . ’ x —Elder M. M. Vanoleve, of the Baptist Church of Crawfordsville, performed his 531st marriage ceremony on Sunday. —Lucky Baldwin, the California millionaire, is an Indianian, says the South Bend Times, having left Olive Township, St. Joseph County, a little more than twenty years ago. , —Oren Van Winkle, of Markleville, Madison' County, a man about 24 years of age, committed suicide with a shot-gun. Disappointment in love is supposed to have induceddheact __ ' —The prospect of silver in paying quantities in the central part of Pike County is attracting attention. A test of the quartz has shown 10 per cent., or §lO per ton, of the ore, and lead shows 10 per cent. —Abiah Hayes, aged 71, of Elizabethtown, was married to Miss Anrelia J. Millon, aged 17, of Harrison. The affair was very quietly arranged, and not a single member of his family knew a word about it until the man drove homo with his bride. —A farmer’s wife in this State who runs a vegetable garden of half an acre, not only kept a large table bountifully supplied, but sold last year more than §IOO worth of vegetables to the town folks a few miles _ away. _ This half acre was of more profit than any four acres which the husband cultivated. Officers from Ohio arrested at Rich- - mend a lady who was formerly the wife Of a wealthy citizen of Cleveland named Cobb, charging her with kidnaping her own son, 9 years of age, the heir to a large estate. She has mairied again, and the administrator of Mr. Cobb’s estate seeks to obtain possession of the lad. The mother and child were discharged by Judge Kibby on the ground of defects in the requisition. —Tho late Schuyler Colfax, nt a meeting of the Daughters of Rebekah in Indianapolis last summer, declared from the rostrum that it was his pride to say that the Rebekah degree wqs the best kept secret in the order. Men had been expelled from the'order (Odd Fellows) for divu'ging the secret work, but there was no instance on record of a woman having ever proved recreant tb her obligations.— Albany Express. ‘ A —The Ledger has received from R. O. Brown, of Pike County, some handsome specimens of Pike County lead ore, plumbago or black lead, white kaolin, and fireclay. The lead ore is a fissure galena, almost pure. The plumbago is a very rich specimen. The kaolin is equal in quality and whiteness to any found in the West. The fire-clay is of a quality that may also be used in the manufacture of the finest stoneware.— New Albany Ledger. —The report of the State Board cf Agriculture for 1884 is now being distributed. It makes a volume of 495 pages, and contains, besides a .detailed statement of the business transacted by the board, a number of papers of interest to agriculturists. Among the subjects treated are “The Farmer and Higher Education, ” by Prof. C. H. Hall; “A Farmer's Recreations and Amusements,” by Miss Lulu A. Davidson; “French Agriculture and the Breeding of Norman Horses,” by Col. J. A. Bridgeland; “Food and the Adulteration of Some Articles of Diet,” by Dr. John N. Huity; "The Fish Interest in Indiana,” by Eno? B. Reed, State Fish Commissioner; “Fish Culture and the Profit of It,” by Isaac N. Cotton; “Fertilizers and Their Relation to the Growing Plant,” by F. G. Wiselogeli; “Destruction of Crops’by Insects,” byJ. G. Kingsbury; “The Value of Birds as Insect Destroyers,” by Fletcher N. Noe; “Road Paving Material,” by John T. Campbell. The , volume also contains reports from the officers of county societies regarding the condition of agriculture in different sections of the State. The volume will compare creditably with the reports issued by the agricultural boards of other States.