Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1879 — STATE ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

STATE ITEMS.

Flux has been fatally prevalent at Orleans. Center Lake, Steuben county, has been stocked with eels. A Steuben county hen recently hatched twelve chickens from eleven eggs. A tidal WAVE of horse-stealing has recently been sweeping over Eastern Indiana. The Merediths recently sold SIO,OOO w'orth of short horn cat tle, at Cambridge City. A large number of pleasure seekers, have taken summer quarters at Lake Maxinkuckee. - A recent enumeration show’s the population of Richmond and its suburbs to be 14,679. The wool clip of the State, this year, is large, but it should be doubled as speedily a»possible. In gradiug a street in Auburn, the bones of the first white man buried in DeKalb county were unearthed. Five persons were killed by lightning in Washington county, during the mouth ending about June 20th. A Kokomo grocer wasallow’ed SI,OOO fcw supplies to the poor of Center town■hip, at the June session of the County State Senator Reeve is the owner of two fine farms in Marshall county, which are cultivated under his direction.

A brother of ex-President Fillmore, was one of”the speakers at the recent old settlers’ meeting in uiG range county. Mary MungoaN, aged 15, committed suicide the other day, at Richmond, because she heard her lover was about to leave her. The press and people of Warsaw, are very anxious to build up the reputation of that place as a picnic and summer resort. George Rettig, of Peru, is preparing to engage extensively in the business of raising fine horses at his farm in Fulton county. The safe of the Treasurer of Kulton county has been secured against a plain danger, by the attachment of a time lock, at a cost of S3OO. The Board of Trustees of Moore’s Hill College have secured an endowment of $20,000 for that institution, which places it on a permanent basis. -

The Rock pert Gazette says that the acreage of tobacco in Spencer county will not be so large as usual, owing to the scarcity of plants, which the farmers say were destroyed by bugs. JAmes Maloy’s famous running mare, “Maid of Richmond,” died, the other day, at Renssalaer, of lung fever. She was one of the best young racers in the State, and w'as valued at $2,000. •A i.ate decision of the Supreme court, allowing County Treasurers five per cent, for certain delinquent collections, is putting considerable sums into the pockets of those officials that they scarcely expected to get. Mrs. Fannie Whitman, aged 90, and one of the pioneers of Sullivan county, died last week from the bursting of a blood vessel, brought on by violent coughing. gjhe was wellknown and highly esteemed. J ames Tuterow,of Brown township, Hancock county, thought to scare his brother, who was riding a horse, by shooting over the horse. His aim was admirable, as he shot the horse in the stomach, killing it almost instantly. An enterprising citizen of Argos has' fitted up a w'ugon with which he propose* to travel about tl e country, and engage in the business of greasing harness. If he has the requisite quantity of cheek, he oan make even that business pay.

A boy in Crawford oounty, married when he was seventeen, and was a father at eighteen. He lately married a second wife, and now, at the age of eighty, is happy with a second cnild. There is sixty-two years difference between the ages of the two children. Jlarry Young, a piano tuner and teacher, attempted to commit an outrage on the person of two of his girl pupils, aged respectfully nine and ten years, at Bourbon, the other day. It js to be regretted that the facts were not made known until the villain had

escaped. M. M. Moody, of Delaware county, found a land terrapin on the county farm in 1868 with “E. H. 1849” inscribed upon its back. Mr. Moody carved his own initials, “M. M. M.” 1868,” on the tellow,” and let it go. Last Saturday week, Mr. Moody found the identical terrapin upon the same farm, with both inscriptions still readable. It has been thirty years since the first inscription was carved. Recently, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Boub, of Versailles, Had their youngest child, aged about one and a half years, rather seriously scalded, by falling into a pot of soup Mrs. Boub had prepared for dinner. She had very carelessly placed the pot on the floor, and the child sat dowii in it. The Valparaiso Normal students are equal to' any emergency. One went fishing recently, and, as it happened, the owner of the pond came along and commanded a cessation of his sport. The young man looked at the austere farmer, and said “take your fish, I was only trying to drown this worm.” Plymouth Republicam : The fastest time ever made by a railroad in America, was made we believe by the fast train which passed through here on the P., F. & C. railroad, Wednesday of last week. It ran from Chicago to Ft. Wayne, one hundred and forty-nine miles, in one hundred and forty-five minutes.

James McDonough, of Anderson, has in his possession a chicken with four legs. It was hatched about a week ago. Two of the legs are in the position occupied by legs upon fowls, while the other two protrude from the place where the tail is expected to grow' upon good healthy chickens. It is living, but will hardly survive the hot season There is growing in Wayne county a colossal grapevinte so large in its proportions that a brief description of it will prove interesting. It x is growing upon the farm of Mr. John Copeland, near Hagerstown, Wayne county. A few feet above the ground it measures forty-two iuches in circumference. This large trunk grows upward thirty feet, and separates into two branches, each of which is eight inches in diameter. The vine has spread itself over the tops of two large beech trees which stand near, and during the grape season the trees are overloaded with the fruit. A fabulous number of bushels of grapes are said to hang on the tops of the trees, seventy feet above ground, quite out of the reach of the fruit gatherers, who, no doubt, pronounce them “sour,” as they hang so tempting beyond his reach. Mrs. Eliza Mendenhall, of Winchester, Randolph county, nas been in poor health for the past twenty years, contending all that time that a snake or something of that kind in her stomach w’as the cause of * her miseries, for which she was hooted at a great deal by her parents and other friends. About two w'eeks ago she took to her bed on account of it, complaining of the most nauseating taste arising from her stomach which almost stifled her. Her mother placed an electro magnetic plaster on the affected part, giving her a powerful emetic at the same time, which resulted in her vomiting up something about six inches in length in an advanced state of decomposition, with the head of a lizard and a body resembling that of a snake. Becoming deathly sick, she fell back completely exhausted, but* was soon revived and has been steadily improving ever since, feeling better than for the past fifteen years.