Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Ocrexchangee are still puzzeld over the number of boy preachers, and evangelists, and converted drunkards. The latter class jt.Baid not to be as popular its it was, bill bov preachers are' on the increase. One paper bluntly says: Ihe business pays. We have known several dead ducks in business, not to mention a few consummate rascals, who have done well at it. Most of the ‘boys’ are from 30 to t>o years old. They were hove once, td be sure.” This is a rough way of putting it. But while there are some nqble exceptions, it is, probably about the truth in general terms. What we need is business honesty and common, honesty and less gabble 'about pur sins in Adam, and the consequences a thousand years from now. We arc 1 suffering for a deluge of every-day religion over the counter and in the count ingroom.

It is a curious illustration of monarchical institutions that the German condemnation of Dr. Mackenzie is based largely on the fact that lie held free intercourse with the press. It is considered as highly odious and indiscreet, as well as demeaning to hisdignity. Whatever takes place, and whatever opinions are held about the Court circles,%nay be guessed at by the press, but no one of rank must speak to a reporter, even to correct an erroneous rumor. It is cveh said that “the press considered that Sir Morell Mackenzie showed weakness and condescension in communicating with its representatives.” Bah! All this belongs to the cowardly old tumble-down system of mediaevalisoi, that was safe only in the dark. The press condescends when it gives space to the ricketv concerns of kings and queens.

We owe the Boston Transcript the interesting report of an experiment made by a Paris philanthropist to determine how large a proportion of beggars are really desirous of working, if they can get work, and how many are professional mendicants. This gentleman first secured good openings for a large number of laborers. Then he assembled as man}’ as 737 of the “unemployed" aud offered them work at remunerative prices. About one-half went to work for a day, or half a day, and then clamored for pay and quit. At the end of three days, exactly, eighteen men proved by their attention to business that they were genuine. The experiment should systematically be tried in this country. It is probable that of our tramps, anarchists, street orators, professional ranters, and other disaffected and troublous sorts, the proportion would remain IS to 736 of honest laborers. Will Mayor Roche see of what stuff the Chicago anarchists are made?

New Albany claims 23,680. Greenfield votes for water works. i There is scarlet fever at Huntington. Flower thieves infest Michigan City. Burglars are burglarizing Shelbyville. A savings bank is talked- of for Anderson. The towns of the State are full of tramps. Terre Haute faro banks are running, wide open. Idaville young ladies have organized a brass band,' The Crawfordsville Y. M. C. A. has 237 mem here. Wabash is assured that it will have gas for winter use. Bartholomew county has.a big apple crop this year. The Pendleton window glass company has been incorporated. *_ The Texas fever has broken out among the cattle west of Brazil. Warren Jones fell through a hatchway at Wabash, and was fatally injured. Farmers around Portland are suceumong in largenumbers to organ swindlers. Crawfordsville working girls are accused of "rushing the growl&r” too frequently. -• Cutler cizens elevated their saloon with powder, Sunday night,* totally destroying the building. - The child of William Alford, who live6.hear GonnersvUie, was bitten by a pet cat, and shows symptoms of hydrophobia: It is said that the 654 sections embraced in Allen county are divided up into from 7,000 to 8,000 parcels of the size of ten acres and upward. Private Wm. Hoynes, a professor of law at Notre Dame University, has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the thirteenth district.

Some one entered Sheriff Bence’s bed room at Corydon on Saturday night, secured ,the keys to the jail and liberated John Dillard who was confined on a charge of larceny. , .... Miami county will have one of the largest com crops ever known. A magnificent appearance is presented by tl e fields, the stalks in many cases rising to a hight of fourteen feet The Republican State Central Committee has a list of nearly 2,000 local speakers, ayeraging twenty to a county, who will deliver occasional addresses after the Ist of next month. The State House Commissioners announce that the Capitol building is absolutely completed and they are ready o turn it over to the State, which they

will do as soon as the Legislature meets. Michigan City people waste a good deal of money on lotteries, and the fact that a peddler jin that place drew $5,000 a few days ago encourages further investment . It is said that $20,000 in lottery money has gone froip Michigan City in six months. John M. Cassadav has brought suit in the Huntington Circuit Court against the Chicago A Atlantic railway, claiming $20,000 damages for the loss of a legwhile in the employ of the company as brakeman. The company will, it is understood, allege carlessness on the part of the plaintiff. The patent roller flour mill of the Ellsworth Milling Company, near Terre Haute, burned Thursday. The building was entirely consumed, the new machinery destroyed, and 10,000 bushels of wheat and 10,000 barrels of flour burned. ' The loss is placed at $50,000, with $25,000 insurance. Salamonic No. 3, a powerful gas and oil well, has broke loose two miles east of Montpelier, and the farmers within a half mile radius of the well are panicstricken. No fires have been lighted at their homes since the well broke loose, and it is unsafe to strike a match within half a mile of the well. The fields and outstanding crops are saturated with oil over the entire section. Patents have been granted to the following Indiana inventors: Solomon Draper, Sullivan, cultivator, Harmon H. Fulton and W. F. Cornelius, assignors to Da L. Whittier r Indianapolis, liquid mixer; James Miller, South Bend, hose coupling; James W. Park and W. E. Sanders, Sullivan, gate; Chas. M. Keed, near Connersville, and \V. C, Frazee near Clermont, spring motor for pumps; Jolm G. Shaffer, Clay City, post dor veranda railings.

The wheat in Wabash county is practically all threshed and nearly every bushel has been marketed. It is stated by elevator men that the total receipts of wheat which will grade No. 2 red will not exceed 10,000 bushels, while the receipts of all grades are not more . than one-third those of last year. Millers there are having some trouble in procuring enough to run on and farmers have already began importing wheat from the North and West for seed. Corn is in magnificent# condition, and is out of danger so far as weather influences, excepting frost, are concerned. .The exercises of the Maumee Valley Association, held near the site of old Fort Wayne, last week, was very interesting. In his address, ex-President Hayes paid a glowing tribute to the late Chief Justice Waite, who \yas president of the association. Chancellor J. F. Long read on exhaustive review of the early settlement of the valley. Judge Cox, of Cincinnati, delivered an interesting address, aqil General Lee, of Toledo, read the annual report. The guests were welcomed to the State by Judge Zollars, of the Supreme, Bench, speaking for Governor Gray, and to the city by Mayor Mulder. Hon. F. T. Randall, of Fort Wayne, was elected President and Colonel E. S. Robertson Vice President for the ensuing year.

The Grand Lodge of Indiana Knights and Ladies of Honor, convened at Indianapolis last week. The officers, reports show the order to be in the most prosperous condition of its history. The membership during the past year has-grownJrom. 2,tiM ta 3,21>5 _ and the lodges from 40 to 52._ This is one of the largest beneficial organizations in existence. In the ten years since its organization it has grown to a membership of 00,000, distributed oyer nearly all the States! in the Inion. An average of SBOO,OOO per year is paid in benefits, requiri ng an income of above 82,000 per day. The average cost to members is sl2 per year to the SI,OOO of insurance guaranteed, though this varies greatly* according to the age of the person payin £- ■} *

A remarkable and accidental discovery of natural gas was made at Petersburg last week. The Fair Association had ordered a well to be dug at the grounds for water, and when the diggers had reached a depth of 100 feet they were startled by a sudden, sizzing, steam-escaping sound. Becoming alarmed, they hastened out of the well and informed the managers. Having a suspicion of the true cause, they threw a lighted match into the well, when the gas ignited 'arid shot up a flame ten feel above the surface. It continued to burn, and reports from the locality state that it is still burning with increased intensity. This evidence of natural gas so close to the surface is almost ineomprehensiole, and it is said to be the first instance of the kind vet discovered.

On the first day of September a party of thirty-one young men will leave Indiana for Washington Territory, where they will form a stock company for the purpose of carrying on a stock ranch. A peculiar feature of their agreement is that no member of the firm can draw his moneys out of the general fund during the first five years after the date of organization. Any one leaving the business Will forfeit his investment of; SSOO, which is the sum put in by each member. The young men will do their own herding, branding and dealing, and will thus be enabled to avoid the expense of employing a large number of cowboys. It is a noteworthy fact that every one of the party is politically a Democrat Those interested in the move live mainly in the vicinity of Richmond.