Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The Indiana and Hoosier Htate Polo Leagues have united. —The federated miners in the Btate have united in an organization and secured a charter. —The State House at Indianapolis will be decorated by statues set up in appropriate places. —Granville Carter, colored, who ran a nail in his foot while working on the new State House, died of loekjaw. —On Dec. 29 the scientists of the State meet at Indianapolis for the purpose of forming a State Academy of Science. —lndiana was one of very few Stages wherein there were no seizures of for violations of the internal revenue laws. > —Eva Adler has brought suit qjgainst the city of Evansville for SI,OOO damages sustained in the overflow of her cellar from a defective sewer. —The senior class of the Purdue Mechanical Institute took a trip to Chicago. They visited the large manufactories for lessons in practical mechanics. —Lon Scott, formerly well-known as a traveling man, and proprietor of a country store near Richmond, has made an assignment. His assets are said to be worth $14,000. —Thomas Harrison, the evangelist, will visit New Albany some time daring the winter, and remain a month, holding meetings at Wesley Chapel, Centenary Church, and the Opern House. —Among the effects of the late Governor James I). Williams was found a due-bill for forty dollars, signed by L. L. Watson, of Vincennes, Oct. 13, 1840, payable “when Martin Van Bitren is elected President.” —The work of drilling for natural gas at the DePauw American plate-glass works in New Albany will soon be commenced. If there is natural gas within 3,500 feet of the surface at these works Mr. De Panw will find it. He intends to make a thorough test of the matter, regardless of cost. —A “Law and Order Club” has been organized in Harrison County with over three hundred members. The object is to detect and bring to punishment the members of the mob known as the “Knights of the Swith.” whose acts have of late brought so much disgrace upon the county. —A preacher at Terre Haute has come to grief through a slight eccentricity. After due consideration he concluded that Theodore Parker's sermons were better than his own, so Be preached them, and won great renown. Finally the congregation heard of the cheat, became wroth, and kicked. The erratic preacher is now without the pale of the church. —There are nine churches of the Mormon faith in Southern Indiana. They belong to the .Joseph, Smith, or anti-polygamy, wing of the church. There has been a churclv jn Floyd County ever since 1868, and it is said the sect is growly slowly but surely. Elder Morris Scott, of Galena, Floyd County, is head of this branch of the church in Indiana. —Boone County has issued a county order for $23,500, in aid of the Midland Railroad, to be placed in the hands of a committee, who are to use the proceeds to purchase materials to complete the road to Westfield, the company agreeing to at the same time furnish money to purchase all additional materials to finish the esatem end of the road, and to at once proceed to lay track. —lndiana farmers are experiencing an attack of the Bohemian oats disease. In Tippecanoe County one of the sharpers has been at Work, and has fleeced many of the fanners. He sells the oats at $lO a bushel, taking a negotiable note, and gives a contract to take double the number of bushels at the same price from the first crop. The oats are worthless, the seller never shows up, but the notes appear all right in the hands of the bank.

—A wealthy stock-raiser from Indiana, named Theodore Fowler, complained to the Chicago police that he had been held up in a dark street and robbed of $1,500 in bank notes and two watches by two “friends” whom he had picked op. On a description furnished by him, the police arrested Louis Doutrie and Ed Hardy. Fowler's pocketbook and several promissory notes were found in their room. The man ■with the “boodle” is still missing, —The Indianapolis Time. s speaks as follows of the City Council: “The session last night was no exception, but was rather the climax of the confusion and disorder that have reigned atpre viops meetings. Two members were present in-so drunken a condition that they could not speak nnderstandingly, nor stand squarely upon their feet. Several other members were also under the influence of liquor: Instead of the sober and level-headed members endeavoring to frown down the disreputable actions of their besotted colleagues, and upholding the dignity •of the representative body of Indianapolis, they merely laughed at the drunken antics and allowed the stultifying imposition to go unchecked.” —Miss Melissa McClery, a well-known young lady of Fort Wayne, answered an advertisement two years ago from a gentleman advertising for correspondents with a view to matrimony. Correspondence progressed until photographs were exchanged, followed by a matrimonial engagementTnesday Mr, Wilbur Richards, of Clarksburg, arrived at the residence Of the young lady and,introduced himself to Miss McClery as the expectant bridegroom. Hurried arrangements for a wedding were commenced, and Wednesday afternoon they were married by the Rev. vD. A. Northrop, of the Jefferson Streep BaptistChnrch, and started at once for their fntdre home in Virginia. The gentleman famished letters of recommendation from prominent men in his State, among them Senator Mahone. He is editor and proprietor of a newspaper at Clarksburg Springs, and was, until a few weeks since. Postmaster at that place, r •'•4.’