Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1879 — STATE ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

STATE ITEMS.

“Elephant short-cake,” is one of the attractions of ponnersville festivities. * A colony of bees hi Marshall county, has made fifty pounds | of honey4lhis season. A pike was caught in the Wabiph, a few days ago, that weighed twentytwo pounds. f The Jefferson county veterans are David Patton, aged 101, and Sarah Mosby, aged 104. The artesian well at Rochester has become a tremendous bore to all parties concerned in its progress. v A LUMBER HEALER at Kokomo bought and measured 60,000 feet of lumber in one day, recently. Too close, application to work and study, has' made Charles Doherty, a Connereville printer, insane. A calf at Waterford, Elkhart county, aged seven weeks, weighs two hundred and eighty-eight pounds. It is said that during a recent hailstorm, in Owen county, chunks of ice six feet long came down with the hail. A Ft. Wayne man is charged with having burned out the eyes of his horse, which had offended him by running away. . % * The public square in Valparaiso is considered one of the finest places in the country for holding picnics and celebrations. It is' said that a young man at Rochester, eats fifty cents worth of opium, and drinks from one to two quarts of whisky daily. ■ Thieves broke into the Lutheran church, at Elkhart, recently, and took the Sunday-school contributions amounting to about sls. The officers and members of the Christian Church at Kokomo have ds-

termined to raise SIO,OOO for the com-' pletion of their chinch edifice. Two hundred and twelve teachers are employed in the Indianapolis public schools, and the expenses of the schools amount to about $200,000 a year. Southern Indiana, produced an enormous wheat-crop this year. Specimen counties are Gibson, estimated at 1,500,000 bushels; Harrison, 500,500 bushels. Hoodlums have damaged the machinery in the planing mill of James Wampler, at Peru, to the amount of $250. The mill has been standing idle for some time. William Walters, ex-County Superintendent of Adams county, has “vamosed the ranche,” leaving a wife and large family, and about S4OO worth of mourning friends. Four fine stallions are owned at Wabash, as follows: Blue Bull, jr.; a five-year-old imported Clydesdale; a magnificent Membrino Patcher and Blucher, an imported Norman Percheron. The Kokomo Dispatch calls the Common Council of that city “The Cave of Winds” and says it recently held an all-night session, resulting in the exemption of a policeman’s dog from taxation. I

A local preacher, at Akron, gives his marriage fees to the bride with instructions to purchase a family Bible with the money. This has been his custom for years, and he has married many couples. The Sportsman’s Club, at Wabash, numbering one hundred and twelve members, is preparing to erect a <"luh house at Syracuse Lake, in Kosciusko county, that will contain sixty commodious rooms. Samuel Boroff, a once prominent citizen of New Albany, was hustled off to the Floyd county poor house one day last week. Too much whisky reduced Samuel from affluent circumstances to wretched beggary. Aaron Stanton, of Valparaiso, is quite extensively engaged in bee culture. having near seventy swarms, and is usiDg very successfully double stands of his own device which he considers of inestimable value for propagating. Goshen has a musical prodigy, Miss Madge Wickham, eleven years of L age, has been declared by Theodore Thomas to have wonderful execution* on the piano. She will complete her musical education at the Cincinnati conservatory of music. Mary Reuter, wife of a gardener near Indianapolis, died the other daj from a fright, which brought a premature labor and brain fever. The fright was caused by a tramp who twice invaded her residence, coming in the last time through a window.

Wabash Plain Dealer: The yield of flax seed in this county, last year, was reported to tlie State Board of Agriculture at 70,000 bushels —larger by 23,000 bushels than any county in the State; Tne number ot pounds of bulk pork packed in the county was 4,262,823 —fully twice as large asfthat of any # county reported. In Indianapolis, a few days ago, a woman named Jane Beard, called on her neighbor, David Trapnell, and borrowed his little four-year-old boy After reaching home she packed up her things and left for parts unknown, taking the child with her. Her whereabouts is still unknown, and Mr. and Mrs. Trapnell are almost distracted over the loss of their little one. Kokomo Tribune: Mr. William Moore, of this city, has been invited by the Ohio Mechanics’ Institute, of Cincinnati, to present his new invention; a slide valve for engines, mention of which was made in our last issue, and his straw-burning engine and boiler, for the purpose of investigating their merits. Patterns and castings of the straw-burning engine and boiler have already been made and a practical test will soon be given of it.

Bile Doty, one of the oldest thieves in the country, was unearthed from a cave the other day, near Elkhart. He had pccupied the cave for two months. He would go out among the farmers and do odd jobs of Work. He was taken to Coldwater, Mich., where he is wanted for some crime. He does not steal for personal benefit. He steals from the rich and gives to the poor. If he happened to hear some poor person say he wanted this and that if they could only have the money to buy it, the next morning the wishing person would w r ake up and find it at the door. He has probably served more terms in Jackson prison than any other person living. A veritable Enoch Arden case was developed In Albion the other day. During the war a man named Matthews enlisted in the service, leaving a wife and two children at home. The war closed, but the man did not return, and she supposed that he was dead, although she had no positive proof that such was the case. Years passed, and the supposed widow concluded to marry agaiu, and to provide against all possible contingencies, procured a divorce from her supposed dead husband. The marriage took place, and several children are the fruits of this uuion. On Saturday the supposed dead soldier returned. He hails from the Soldiers’ Home at Dayton, Ohio. He sent for his children to come and see him at the house of a friend, and on Monday took his departure. A large sum is due him as arrears of pension. He made no explanation of his long silence.