Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1879 — STATE ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

STATE ITEMS.

There is not a licensed saloon in Crawford county. There are in Wayne county 13,034 school children and 126 school teachers. The printing and binding of the acts of the last legislature amounted to $2,345 71. A new Orphans’ Home is to be erected at Jeffersonville this summer at a cost of $5,000. A skein of wool seventeen inches long, was sent to the Wabash Plain Dealer, a few days ago. Potato bugs are doing great damage to the growing potato crop in Floyd and Harrison counties. . j; The work of improving the navigation of the lower Wabash has been resumed by the Government. t Forepaugh squealed on a s2l city license at LaPorte, but a writ oi attachment brought him to terms. Ike Crisman, of Porter county, shot a wolf in his door yard, a few davs ago, while it was catchipg e ickens. Forty trains a day furnish the inhabitants of LaPorte with all the Whistling they can possibly endure.

The town of Winchester has passed an ordinance requiring saloon-keepers to pay a corporation license fee of SIOO. There is a case litigating in the Howard Circuit Court over a $1.50 shawl, the costs on which to date aggregate S4OO. Some inhuman wretch cut the tongue out of a cow belonging to Ephraim Fouty, in Shelbyville a few nights since. Somebody cut the entrails out of the only horse owned by Mr. Rodman, a Porter county farmer, the other day, and the horse soon afterwards died. Parties who have sustained injuries by their horses taking fright at the incessant locomotive whistle caused by the new law, are commencing suit against the state. A lamentable state of affairs exists at Walkertown in St. Joe county. The citizens there go armed* and prepared for any emergency. It is thought that the developements brought out by therecent scandal in that village is the cause. H. B. Sleik, who resides near Waterford, a villiage three miles south of Goshen, has a calf only thirteen months old,that is all ready the mother of a young calf. The mother is not yet weaned herself! .■ The newspapers of the State are cautioning Odd Fellows to beware of an imposter who calls himself Daniel Peck, and carries credentials from Sherlock Lodge I. O. O, F. of Madison.

Two married woman of Rushville, occupying high positions in society and members of the Disciple Church engaged in a rough and tumble fight at Rushville on Wednesday evening of last week, which ended with the husbands taking a hand and punishing each other severely. One of the women, the wife of a leading grocer and capitalist, had become jealous of the other for stealing away the affections of her husband, as she thought. A fully developed case of leprosy exists near Salem. Her name is Chriseson, and she lives twelve miles north of that place. Her skull in places has actually decayed away, so that the brains have protruded and been removed. The bones of the leg have gradually decayed until they are only from one-quarter to one-third their natural size. She is, as it were, a walking pestilence. The physicians say. that it is a real case of leprosy. The unfortunate person has been a resident of this county for nearly thirty years. Bethel, Wayne county, has some rather remarkable women. One of them, Hannah Hyde, wove I,s77yards of carpet from Feb. 22, 1878, to Feb.. 22,1879, besides doing her housework. Another, Mrs. Sophia Lawrence, is almost ninety years of age and can read any kind of print withoutglasses, and does the finest of quilting and needle-work. She is intelligent, and has been a member of the church fortythree years and attends church regularly. She can walk a mile about as soon as many young ladies. Richmond Telegram : E. H. Jinkens, father of the Messrs. Jinkens whoJiave been in the jewelry business for a number of years at No. 278 Main street, where he is now employed, has this week completed a very ingenious attachment for clocks, on which he has been working for a number of years. It is a clock calender, recording the day of the week, the month of the year and the day of the month, and will record the same for one hundred years without a single change of the machinery. It is operated by the dock work, to which it is made continuous by one small wheel, and, as before stated, will make accurate record for a century without any attention, if the clock to which it is attached will only hold out to run for that length of time without stopping.

An immense audience assembled at Fort Wayne the other evening to witness a class of twenty graduates from the High School receive their diplomas. The exercises were interrupted at the stage by a scene of great excitement, which for a time threatened serious results. When Master Wilson, who was second on the programme, finished his speech, an elegant bouquet was handed to him, in violation of an order of the Schodl Board, who had expressly prohibited any floral offerings. The young man took the bouquet and refused to give it to the Chairman of the School Board, Hon. A. P. Edgerton. The scene which ensued baffles description. The vast audience rose up, standing on chairs, etc., and shouts of “Stick to it!” “Hold on!” “Don’t give up!” were heard on every side. Mr. Edgerton attempted to speak, but hisses drowned him out, whereupon a squad of police went to the stage and Master Wilson gave his bouquet to the officers. He then left the stage, followed by several other members of the class, with shouts, cheers, hisses, etc. After some time a slight degree of order was restored, Mr. Edgerton made a brief explanatory speech, and the exercises were then concluded amid considerable confusion. A couple of convicts in the northern Indiana prison have confessed that they killed a man near Crawfordsville, two years ago for a month’s wages, which he was known to have on his person. They placed the body on a railroad track, and a passing train mingled it and relieved them of suspicion.