Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Ths decay of American teeth, and to some extent the loss of teeth of allcivilised racee, has been accounted for by the ablest English authorities on the score of the heavier draughts made by the brain on our general physical and nerve systems. It is supposed that the force that would be applied to repairing the teeth is used eisawhere. Bat it is known that the material of the teeth is among the least perishable of all the parte of the body, and it seems hardly probable that for the above cause they should chiefly fall. Dr. Pohlman now answers that they decay from lack of use. Animal teeth are held in perfect order in proportion to the use of natural food. Feed a cow slops and she will lose her teeth; feed her grass and hay, and she will retain them to old age. It is therefore not improbable that Pohlman is right, and our toothlessness follows the introduction of soft foods that need little or no mastication. “If I can succeed in workings magnet ten miles I can go around the globe.” This remark of Prof. Mone to Judge Vail is quoted in an article on “The American Inventors of the Telegraph” in the Century. The whole story reads like an extract from the “Arabian Nights.” It is next to impossible to grasp the fact that the telegraph, which now docs go around the world, was in 1837 iusids a barn or shop ai Speedwell, where it was being constructed, as a rude model to be exhibited before a committee of Congress. Exactly fifty years of the magnetic telegraph from its inception, aud it seems that the wor d could never have gone on at a'l w ithout it. When the shop was rebuilt, several years ago, this room, where the firjt model was built, was pfaserved intact. and the descendants of Judge Vail still cherish it as memorial of the in’ancy of one of the “grand achievements wh ch mark the progress of modern civi ization.”

Michigan City la to nave a new woolen mill! Natural gas is now assured at Peru, and fuel will be supplied by next winter.' Knox eounty peach, cherry and strawberry crops have been damaged by recent cold weather. .1 amee Nixon, a store-keeper at Greentown, Tipton county, killed his wife Fiiday and then committed suicide. Dr. J. F. Maddox, of Shelbyville, who has considerable time recently in Florida says that the sentiment m that locality strongly favors General Harrison for President. He says Gray stands well, also, among the Democrats, for Vice President. At Crawfords? i le, on Sunday evening, L. C. Moore and Miss Alice Pinkston were married by Rev. J. P. Ewing, at the Christian. Church, immediately after servicae. The bride and groom had never met each other until last Friday, the love-making being carried on by correspondence. Montpelier is the center [of the Indiana oil field. The field covers an area of probably ten miles in length and three miles in width. Nowhere else in the State has oil been found in paying quantities, and at no other point are found flowing oil wells. It is believed that the oil industry will develop into one of the greatest of the State. Fruit, corn, wheat, natural gas, stone, coal, forests. Indiana is a good State not to emigrate from. Warden Patten, of the Prison South, in his quarterly Report, shows receipts $18,902.34; expenditures, $17,724.78; net receipts, |1,177,56. The receipts of the previous quarter were also in excess of expenditures, demonstrating the fact that Warden Patten has succeeded in placing the institution on a paying basis, and this in face of the fact that large sums have been paid out for repairs in finishing the chapel, constructing a bath house, etc. Last winter Rev. Edward F. Wilson came to Morgan Prairie and Wanatah, near Valparaiso, and held revival meetings. A widow named Nickerson was smitten by his charms. They were married on St. Valentine’s day, 1888. A few days ago Wilson deserted his wife, taking her buggy and span of horsesand $l5O in cash. Nothing has been heard from him. He had given his home as in Kentucky, but letters sent to that address elicit the information that he is unknown there. The opening of the Indiana oil field, near Montpelier, has filled the Salamonia river with oiL For miles down the river the banks and rocks are slippery from nature’s grease that has flowed out of the Citizens’ well down Oil creek. Farmers complain bitterly that it has made the raising of ducks and geese a heavy ex pente-..-.Heretofore these fowlshave obtained their food out of the Salamonie, but since the oil production and the oily condition of the fed from the granary. The town of Elletsville, eight miles north of Bloomington, is greatly excited over a dastardly outrage committed upon the e'ght-year-old daughter of

Newton May by a negro porter who is employed at the Reeves House, a country hotel. The child was left in a room alone, when the brute seised her and committed a criminal assault He left at once for Bloomington, and when pursued by the officers started for Martinsville, but was captured about ten miles ouh He admitted hie guilt and has been recognized to court. About forty White Caps called at the home of W. H. Toney, at English. Crawford county, on the Air Line Road, Tuesday nijht, dragged him to a telegraph pole and lied and whipped him unmercifully with hickory Withee. Blood was spattered about the telegraph pole and the man’s body was lacerated in a horrible manner. He begged piteously. His recovery is doubtful. Hois a prominent citizen of that county, and is a man of considerabe means. He has a wife and family. The charge against Toney was drunkenness and abuse of bis family. When Judge Mack, of the Vigo Circuit Court, was untying his horse preliminary to driving home from court Monday evening, he felt a light stroke of a whip across his shoulder, he turned and found Tracy Owens, a character about the courts, trying to hoisewhip him. Tire Judge caught his antagonist and threw him across the sidewalk. He then took the whip from his assailant and held him down until a deputy marshal came along, to whom he delivered his prisoner. Owens has been a professional juror, and was angry at the Judge for off a jury. The people of Urbana, Wabash County after repeated efforts to destroy the station of the Cincinnati, Wabarh & Michigan Railroad at that point, succeeded Thursday night. Two weeks agofa pound of dynamite was exploded beneath the structure, blowing out the center. This was repaired, and Sunday night the windows were smashed. At midnight Thursday night the torch was app'ied, and the stat : on and a two story business room adjoining were burned.

The loss on the stat'on is probably S3OO, andon the store-room $1,500. The tickets and books of the railroad company were saved. The citizens claim that the railroad was given several acres of land, on condition that a new station should be built. The company’s deeds do not show any conditions. The refusal of the company to erect a building compelled the burning of the old one. The station has never been a paying one. The Indiana agent of the agricultural department sends the following report on the condition of farm animals in the State: "Scarcity of feed Las caused a much larger pgr cent to be in thin flesh than in former years, but horsts are generally reported in good health and in fair condition as regards flesh. The loss from all cauies is not above the number for ordinary years. With cows, oxen, attd other cattle the loss may be somewhat higher, principally from want of sufficient feed and one. With the exception of some cases of foot-tot sneep have wintered well. The loss is principally from exposure and dogs. There has been no serious loss of hogs since the beginning of winter. Their condition at this time is higher than one year ago, yet not in so good flesh.” Professor Dodge, the statistician, maars the following estimates of the losses: Horses, number lost, 10,909, or 1.7 per cent, of total number, 641,716; cattle, 23,221, or 1.6 per cent, of all, 1,451 305; sheep, .47,144, or 4 7 per cent, of all, 1,003,068; swine 213,398, or 9 per cent, of all, 2)371,085.