Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1879 — STAT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

STAT ITEMS.

THE Trees Greys, a military company at Anderson, has disbanded. BUTTER has been selling in Wabash, recently, at six cents per pound. A SIXTEEN YEAR old girl in Decatur county, weighs 325 pounds, and is still thriving. A YOUNG man was killed in La Grange county, the ol her day. by falling from a swing. A THIEF mean enough to rob a church contribution box, pollutes the at Vincennes. AN Irishman named James Martin, died at Rushville, a few days ago, at the age of 104 years. A WARSAW walkest named Wm. Grim, is winning fame and money in Ohio pedestrian contents. H. S. POWELL killed seven rattle

snakes in Henry county last week, the largest of which carried ten rattles. IT is said that Barnum’s show will be in La Porte a week while the Temperance camp meeting is in session. KOSCIUSKO COUNTY was represented in the late war in forty-three regiments, and one independent cavalry company. An eel was caught in Eel river, near Columbia City, the other day, that was four feet three inches in length, and weighed 71/2 pounds. THE fine residence of W. C. Taylor, near Larwill, was struck by lightning a few days ago, and burned to the ground. The Presbyterian Church at Plymouth has adopted the hour of six o’clock for evening service, during the summer. A recent discussion of the matter shows that the publication of legal notices in ready-print papers is perfectly lawful and valid.

John Roche, of Huntington, is the owner of 2.660 acres of land in that county, of which 1,600 acres are fenced in, and 900 acres are under cultivation. One of Warren Tate’s attorneys has stated that he knows of $35,000 expended by his client in defending the indictment for the murder of William Love. AUGUST JAMMENROTH, a Fort Wyyne lad aged 12, was pushed into the river by some young companions, and, being unable to swim, was drowned. GOSPORT wears the ribbon on the biggest fish of the season. A fisherman took a cat-fish from the river in that vicinity, a few days ago, that weighed 61 1/2. pounds.

A TRAIN of 1,200 empty freight cars passed over the L. S. & M. B. road a few days ago. The train was ten miles in length, being the longest ever hauled on any railroad in the world. The Kokomo stave and heading factory has suspended operations on account of the financial embarrassments of its operators. The city of Kokomo has $5,000 invested, as bonus money, in the factory. REV. GEORGE WASHINGTON VES SELS, pastor of the Rensselaer M. E. church, took offense at a negro lad a few days ago and struck him over the head with a glass pitcher. The negro rallied, and seizing a club knocked the minister down.

A DENTIST of Indianapolis, two weeks ago while experiment in tooth-graft-ing, inserted in each of the combs of two healthy roosters a human bicuspid tooth. Since that time the teeth have become firmly imbedded in the combs, and look as if they had grown there. The chickens take kindly to the graft, and look as if they were of a new strain. WILLIAM JAMES committed suicide near Etna Green, a few days ago, by cutting his throat with a razor. Mr. James was sixty years of age, but one of the most powerful men in his county, there being but one taller man, and possesssing immense strength corresponding to his herculean build. The undertaker had to furnish a coffin seven feet in length. A PATENT hay fork swindler recently called on Mr. John Barrows, a Steuben county farmer, and expressed a very earnest desire to appoint him as an agent. John reads his county paper; he knew what the agency meant, and taking down his doublebarreled shot gun he told the hay fork swindler that he would give him five minutes to get beyond the boundaries of his (John’s) farm. The swindler got, and had three minutes to spare. IN making the big ditch to drain the prairie west of Fort Wayne, a channel will have to be cut through solid rock for a distance of three miles, to the width of twenty-five feet at the bottom and six feet deep with a slope of one foot to one. The length of the ditch is a trifle over twenty-two miles and the collaterals are fifteen miles more, making a total length of over thirtyseven miles. It will take text months to complete the work, which is to be commenced at once.

Richmond Telegram: The conductor of a Pan-handle freight sent in telegram last Thursday night, announcing that his train had been captured near New Madison by about twenty tramps, who had complete control. Accordingly the depot yard was lined with police to gather them in on the arrival of the train, but they had been just smart enough to jump before getting here. Several cars had been broken open and their contents desordered, but there was no telling what they had taken or whether they had taken anything or not. ISRAEL HOGELAND, of Indianapolis, comes to the front with another surprising invention. It consists of an adjustable die or dies attached to the ordinary tile mill, through which clay is to be forced out in the shape of coffins of any size and length from the same dies. An outside earthen box is to be made to hold the casket. They are to be burned as other pottery, and finished up to suit the trade, Japanned or finished similar to slate metals. The coffins are to be hermetically sealed, and will be made as cheaply as wooden ones. The patents are granted, and he machinery being fitted to go on with the work.