Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1889 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Andrew D. White’s “Warfare of Science,” which has been so long furnished by installments to Popu’ar Science Monthly, estimates the number burned as witches in Europe from 1550 to 1650 as not less than 100,000. The witch was forced to confess, then to confess to and name aecomnlicea, and each of these implicated others under compulsion till towns were riddled with peraecvtiop. The effect, however, was not wholly in the way of burning victims,, but thousands were rendered insane, and lunacy under the doctrine of everbesetting devils seeking to “possess” mortals became a mental cyclone. No wonder that enlightened men dread every tendency toward reaction from civil liberty. ■ It is somewhat surprising that there were but two ex-Pretidents —Hayes and Cleveland—living at the time of the hundredth anniversary of the inauguration of the first President. That was just the number, however, who were alive when the semi-centennial of that event took place in 1839. The New York Historical Society got up a celebration that year, and John Quincy Adams delivered the oration. Seven men, up to that time, had sat in the Presidential chair, exclusive of the existing occupant—Van Buren; but all were dead except John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. The chances are that we will not be much better fixed in the matter of ex-Presidents at the bicentennial. The growth of electric lighting is something wonderful. At the Convention of the Natural Association, President Duncan said that one ago there were 4 100 plants in the United States; these now number nearly 6000. One year ago there were 175,000 arc lamps in use; ther are now 219,924. One year ago there were 1,750,000 incadescent lamps in use: at the present time there are over 2,500,000—49 per cent increase. The growth in el ectric railways is quite as startling. The country is committed to an electric age. St-am and gas,which have headed civilization, are being displaced. One more quarter of a century and every township, as well as city, will be illuminated by electricity. The American Public Health Association demands that the immediate attention of State Boards of Health be given to those relations which exist between men and animals in the way of communicating dangerous disease. It is now well known that glanders, trichinosis and tuberculosis may be communicated from horses or cattle to man; and it is highly probable that diphtheria and scarlatina are also diseases of animals as well as men. The diteases of the cow, especially, demands thorough consideration, from the fact that her milk constitutes so universal a factor in diet At present milk consumers are living and buying in a state of terror. It is absolutely demanded by public health that the milk product of the country be under rigid sanitary control. Why is it thatold-fasLioneddrinks which put our forefathers and mothers to sleep should now be received in fashionable circles, as afternoon beverages, is net easy to explain. In Revolutionary days egg nog was common 1 mixture after a sleigh ride to go to bed on. It would probably raise the mischief with meet of the present generation, and instead of sleep secured a bewildering wakefulness or a positive drunk. But to serve it to waitzers is simply comical. At a recent fashionable party in New York, it is said that only four young ladies were able to waltz after drinking the third mug of this rum and egg mixtue. The lesson is not easy to learn, but nevertheless has to be learned, that stimulants do not remove nervousness or brace up people nowaday, as they did, possibly, in the cooler, quieter days of our fathers. The .only course for a beautiful women is to prat'ce rigid temperenoe and moderation in all things or she is a wreck before she is married, and then wrecks her family in the bargain. ___________ It appears that wood pavements have met with greater success in some of the countries of Europe than in our own.the reason assigned for this being the fact of their having a foundation of concrete to rest upon in the former, at the same time receiving more attention there, in the way of maintenance, than here. Owing to its hardness and resinous quality, American yellow pine, it is stated, ha? become the favorite wood for this purpose in Berlin and Hamburg, and off cial report says that Frederick’s Bridge, Berlin, which was paved in the spring of 1879 with the wood in question, is still in good co . dition, while the approaches, paved with granite blocks, have twice since required repaving. The Opera plafz also, in front of the Emperor’s palace, was paved seven years ago partly with yellow pine and cypresi, at a point where the traffic iAgreatee\ while at other points stone blocks were used, the laying of the different hut faces with these several materials be’i g it the same time. According to the repor' the i rea covered with the wood pavement is at present the one which is best preserved.

Ft, Wayne sighs for a free library. Lebanon charges $250 for liquor license. Snowed at Crawfordsville on the 22d. Heavy frost a£ Jeffersonville Thursday. ' o' - ...-li—- - Valparaiso has secured a violin factory. ■ .... '. : _ - is enforcing the cow ordiance.- • Thieves are following the Forepaugh circus. Winchester is building a soldier’s monument. Wabash farmers are complaining of ravages by cut worms. Albert Pulley, living near Marion, was killed by a falling limb. David 8. Watson of Rockville has received a life sentence for murder. Capil alists are talking of erecting a large cement-mi] 1 at Lexington, Scott county. Jeffersonville physicians are blacklisting people failing to pay for medical services. ■ I —-- Terre Haute’s oil craze continues. They are puncturing the ground in every direction. , Wife-shooter John F. Fossett, of Hilisbdro', has been sentenced to seven years’ imoritwiment. Crawfordsville and inany other cities and towns have taken advantage of the increased liquor license. Frosted clover is credited with killing several cattle belonging to S. H. Logan, who lives near Greensburg. There are 7,927 school children in Lawrence county, of which number Bedford has 265 and Mitchell 250. The seven year old son of L. Martin, near Hartford City, was crushed to death by falling under a field roller. A slight trace of natural gas has been discovered in the Crawfordsville boring, and the drill will be seat still deeper. A proposition to increase Ifquor licenses under the new law to $250 was defeated by the Logansport City Council. Seymour parties have a contract to furnish 1,009,000 feet of clear sycamore lumber for Louisville tobacco-box manufacturers. Lightning struck the barn of Calvin Barnes, near Seymour, last Thursday, and killed two horses owned by Gordon Hartwell, and valued at $350. The manager of the Music Hall at Crawfordsville refuses to rent to Uncle Tom’s Cabin troupes, and the people there have voted him a medal. The physicians of Jeffersonville have settled on a scale of charges, and staited a black list of persons who do not pay for medical services rendered them. The trotting colt,-“Sequajah,” belonging to Captain Fugit, of New Albany, died this week of an unknown malady. Probably the name killed him. The animal was valued $2,000. William White, aged eighteen, colored, of Evansville, who fatally crushed the skull of Alexander McFarland with a boulder, has been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. While assisting in sawing lumber in Douglass’ mill five miles east of Angola, Wednesday, David Ruth fell on the saw and was nearly cut in two lengthwise. He died in fifteen minutes. Alexander Spereisen and wife celebrated their silver wedding at Fort Wayne last Thursday, in the same clothes, and with the same attendants as on the occasion of their first marriage. Rochester is said to contain a greater variety of churches than any other town of its size in the State. All the denominations are represented, and the New Lights and Soul-Sleepers have thrifty congregations. The Goshen Times says that a prominent business man of that place induced his mother to sell her property for $1,900, after which he appropriated the proceeds and caused her removal to the Caunty Asylum. Absconding cashier Will Schrieber, of Columbus, is reported as living at Windsor, Canada, and cultivating his taste for fine horses. It is stated that his stealings will aggregate $50,000 instead of SB,OOO, as was first reported. Thirteen tramps indulged in a riot near the depot at Crawfordsville, Saturday night, and six were captured by Marshal Esminger and posse, in which one of the prisoners was shot in the leg by an associate, who was trying to kill an officer. School teachers should know that for each teachers’ institute held after March 2,1889, they are entitled to full pay—a regular day’s wages—provided they attended such institute during the entire time it was in session and did the work assigned them by the township principal. Joshua Mullen, an inmate of the Charlestown poor asylum, built a wagon and ran away with Lucinda True, another inmate, taking with him her baby and trunk, When last seen, Mullen was in the wagon with the baby and trunk, smoking a pipe, and Lucinda was pulling the equipage. The last gas well at Jonesboro is putting out eighteen million cubic. feet per day, and the flow will be increased by going deeper into Trenton rock. The cas was first struck at the depth of 450 feet, and it reclamed that the well demonstrates that Jonesboro lies in the greatest gas belt in America. Patents were granted to Indiana inventors Tuesday, as follows: John Hiroriimus, Mt. Vernon, carriage-spring; George W. Kelly, Goshen, carpet--Bweeper; Joseph A. Minnis, Evansville, safo-aiar n; Marshall T. Reeves and M. O. Reeves. Columbus, spilt pulley; Sigourney Wales, TerA Haute, pencilho der. The dormitory attached to the OiE bans’ Home at Wabash was destroyed y fire, Friday night, but none of the children were in the building at the time. The Commissioners have alreedy appropriated money for the erection of a more substantial structure, : and the loss is not material in conseI quence. : The new city marshal of Shelbyville has notified saloon-keepers that herei after the liquor law will be enforced m that city on Sunday, and there is great surprise, in ccnrtnquer.ee, i s Shelbyville i has always been u “iireial” place. The' palo n men are threatening to retaliate by .irose uti >g every other kind" of bur’noM < iak.rg sales on Sunday. ' Wancounty lias an oath-bound

farmers alliance which transacta all business of the organization through a committee, the same making purchases for the members. This committee waits upon merchants and receives bids for supplies needed, and care is taken that the seller is not permitted to realize more than 15 per cent, profit. Knightsville, Clay City, Saline City, Ash boro, and perhaps , other points in Clay county, have the oil fever and are busy with preparations for drilling. At' Saline City it is claimed that some years ago gas was struck on the McKeen farm by drillers in a well, Near the same place evidences of oil have been apparent. The well was abandoned through fear, and the oil was not appreciated till the discovery at Terre Haute. —lndianapolis News. The economical European excursions, which are conducted in alternate years by the Librarian of the State University, have enabled scores of persons in moderate circumstances to visit the most interesting countries across the water. The one this summer is the sixth, and its itinerary includes Bngland, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland and Spain. The party will sail from New York June 15, and be absent three months.