Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEW S.

—Tipton has bnt one school-house #ad a talking of bnilding another. ? —High rents, it is complained in Martinsville, cause many honse3 to stand empty. —By a boiler explosion in a Brewery at Peru, Marcellus Burtch was killed and the sugine-fiouse demolished. —Terre Hante will employ no married women as teachers hereafter, and if any teacher marries she will be dropped. —Nathaniel McLanghlin, a resident of Lafayette; was killed by a Wabash train at Clymer’s Station. Both legs were cut off. * —Schwabacher & Selig, wholesale tobacco dealers of Indianapolis, have been closed on attachments. They owe $75,000. —Edinburgh has a clergyman who rides the bicycle, plays lase-lm.ll, and indulges in nearly every kind of manly sport, and isl a musician of fine attainments. —Henry Laudinbarger, of Wabasha, mowed into a bumble-bees’ nest, and while fighting tbe insects with his scythe cut a dangerous gash in the calf of his leg. —John Brock, aged ninety years, a pioneer of Crawford County, and a soldier of the war of 1812, died at his-home, near English. He was the oldest resident of Crawford County. —Madison is getting to be the finest and best produce market in the State, especially in butter, eggs, and chickens. One dealei says that his shipments are three times at heavy as last year. —Ed Smith (colored) formerly keeper of a gambling-house at Vincennes, has caused the arrest for gambling of ten young men who nsed to play there, and who refused to pay him hash money. Some boys were snapping match-heads at Delphi, in the tube of a shot-gun, thought to be empty- James Gordon aimed squarely at Walter Bachman, and ar old load was discharged into his neck, kill ing him instantly. ——_ —lndiana is the leading State in tbs. Union in the production of starch from com, having eight factories and producing more than one-third of the total amoant made. There are sixteen factories in ths other States manufacturing starch from com. —Charles L. Deen, of Louisville, Ky., killed himself in Oxford because separated from a Miss Mattie Hitman, with whom he had eloped. Mi3s Hilman was detained in the bouse of a friend, and Deen shot himself under her window. He was bnt 18 years of age. —The party that went down to explore the new cave, one mile from De Panw station, on lRe Air Line Railroad, have returned with fine specimens of stalagmites and stalactites. They were in the cave all night, and think they traveled about three miles. The cave is said to be a very fine one, and in many respects a rival of Wyandotte. * —The Columbus Republican, in a review of base-ball, calls to mind the Seymour club of twenty years ago. In searching for the reason of the breaking up of the club it was found that one of the mem. bers was in the Missouri penitentiary and four others had been hanged by a mob, for it was a club which enrolled five of the once, celebrated Reno gang in its membership. —Gen. Black, the United States Pension Commissioner, has appointed James Britts, of Gosport, Owen County, who served in the Federal army and was severely wounded, to be a special Pension Examiner without passing a civil-service examination. This appointment has been made to test the question whether veterans of the civil war are subject to the regulations of the civil-service law of Congress. —TJje other day a boy found an old gnn in a hollow tree eighteen miles south of Shelbyville, which was the first clew to the solution of a mystery of sixty years’ standing. The gnn was identified by Rev. J. 11. Edwards, pastor of the First Christian Church, Sbelbyville, as belonging to his grandfather, Jacob Edwards, who disappeared one Sunday in the fall of 1826, and was never seen or heard of since that time. . ... 4 —Mrs. James Foster, of Otterbein, on going into her garden was amazed at finding a full-blown rose of a beautiful green color. It was blooming among a large collection of roses of the ordinary lints, red, pink, and white, but this one stood alofie, the only representative of its kind. It was sent to Lafayette to a botanist of distinction, who avers that it is a marvel, as no works on floral culture speak of such a thing. If this new variety ean be propagated it will cause a revolution in the floral kingdom. —Rev. John Fender and his aged companion" a daughter of the late Morg.u McMahon, of Union County, celebrated their golden wedding at AbingtOn, Wayne County. Rev. Mr. Fender is a son of Henry Render, one of the very earliest pioneers of the Whitewater Valley, and is himself one of tbe oldest. native-born pioneers of Wayne County, having been bom in Abington Township January 9, 1814. He joined the Methodist Church in 1830, and was licensed to exhort in 1842, bnt it was not until 1873 that he was licensed as a preacher. He and his wife have lived at their present home since the year of their marriage. ■ ■ .. i.. ... i .. 1 —Jim Wilson, the "lead-mine man,” so called from the number of ballets he carried in his body, one of the most noted characters in Southeastern Indiana, died, at his home on Longhery Creek, a few miles from Lawrence burg, of blood-poisoning. '■ — The lumber business at Michigan City is falling off as rapidly as it increased prior to 1881. The arrivals in June were the fewest in that month since 1878. ■ s —Over one hundred lots in a New Albany suburb hare been scld this season. ■' ' ' i