Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—New Albany furnished twenty-two Coroner's inquests for 1885. —At Vancouver, Oregon, Conrad Lennihan, of Lafayette, was t*iken for a burglar, and shot dead. —Nineteen persons have been sent to the Hospital for the Insane from Floyd County dnring the past year. r —The last tree of the dense forest tjjat once, filled Pogue’s Creek bottom, at Indianapolis, was cut down a few days ago. —The sixtiefh anniversary of the marriage of Iter. Joseph Htaats and Sarah Cummins was-celebrated by the happy pair at Dana. —At Layfayette, two highwaymen threw John Martin, a farmer, into the river after robbing him of a few dolbrrs. Timely assistance from strangers saved tht man’s life. —Alexander Jameson, an old citizen of Marion County, died last week. He had filled many important local offices. His five children, all well-known citizens, survive him. —Gen. Lew Wallace, in a recent interview, said tba* this country should, in diplomatic correspondence and in all negotiations, be styled “American,” as the United States are never spoken of in Europe. —A special from Little Rock, Ark., states that a peddler named Spalding, from Indianapolis, had been murdered near Springfield, Mo. He had several hundred dollars in his possession when he left Springfield, and it is supposed that he was murdered for his money. —Dr. Bretese, of this city, says the Journal, who is a Welch scholar, informs us that the two versps of the Welch poem we alluded to in a recent issue, written by Rev. Davis, would read in the English language something like this: A ilark load of heavy grief Han through these United States, Black the agony covering all light. When strong-hearted Grant succumbed tc •fates. Under the heavy blows of dark death Our hearts grew deep with sorrow o’er: Joy died within our bosom strong. And sorrow reigned from shore to shore.. —Adjutant General Koontz’s annual report, which the law requires lnm to make to the War Department, shows that in Indiana there are 371.522 able-bodied men from the age of 18 to 45 years, who could be nsed for military service if necessary. There are forty-seven military companies in the State, with an average membership of fifty, divided into four regiments; three infantry and one artillery. Congress appropriates $200,000 for arms and ammunition, and Indiana is entitled to $6,565. —“Reflecting Citizen,” in Indianapolis Journal: “I don’t think I am nndnly fastidious, but in passing along she street all appetite I may have for oysters is destroyed by the heaps of dirty oyster shells that restaurants place before their doors to advertise the juicy bivaivff. Certainly a display of'thitf” kind" is fhV from appetizing, and after such a sight I should think only a stomach wholly without remoras could be induced to partake. It would be in equally good taste for the restaurateur to advertise his beefsteak by displaying at the entrance of his refectory a fresh and bloody ballhide with the horns attached.”