Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1879 — INDIANA STATE ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE ITEMS.

Sportsmen report a very small crop of prairie chickens this year. A mas was fined the otherday in Kokomo for profane swearing. The value of manufactures in Evansville in 1878 was <10,000,000. The heavy rains about the Bth inst., raised the water in Lake Manitouthree feet A lad named William Leisure has mysteriously disappeared from Anderson. -1 Frank Elder has been appointed coal oil inspector for Wayne and Henry counties. . A totally blind ex-soldier In Howard county receives a pension of |76 per month.

The public library in Indianapolis contains 30,507 volumes of books and 4,152 pamphlets. A number of Wabash county women “made hands” as binders during the late wheat harvest. At Kingsbury, recently, John Good capght three pickerel weighing 14, 8, and 5 pounds, respectively. Anonymous letters, threatening personal violence, have been worrying many citizens of Whitlye oounty. Several Instances of the destruction of wheat shocks by lightning are reported in various parts of the State. A party of boys found a twentyfive pound shell while bathing in the river near Richmond, a few days since. The praying crusade has been renewed in a new format Auburn,where /women enter saloons and pray so .drink. Hoover Bros., of Laporte, are shipping brick by the 100,000 to South Bend for the new Notre Dame College ; building. Rev. Dunham, a former rector of Trinity parish, Peru is now blowing tiis bazoo in the brass band of a traveling circus. YiEi.na of from thirty to forty bushels of wheat are frequently reported results of the late harvest in Southern Indiana. It is estimated that the farmers of Klkart county have been swindled to the Amount of $20,000, by patent right and other sharpers. At the celebration of the Fourth at Denver, a highly respected j young school teacher, named Miller, dropped dead of heart disease. Mis« Rosemarx Green, one of the most efficient teachers in the public schools of Richmond, has entered the convent at Notre Dame. The Mayor of Richmond paid over $235.22 as the amount of fines collected by him in State cases during the six months ended with June. A few days ago Mrs. James Cavanaugh, of Ft. Wayne, killed her three-year-old child by giving it a dose of morphine, which she mistook for quinine. " , • Fred Graft, one of the oldest residents of Peru, is suffering from injuries received in a runaway scrape, caused bv a Fourth of July fire cracker.' Thk Wayne Agricultural Works have been granted a patent on an improvement for force feed drills, a valuable iuveutlou made by Jesse P. Fulghum. f

A recent excursion from Indianapolis to Niagara Falls, over the Wabash railway, consisted of two trains of twenty coaches and four sleepers in each train. Should the railways projected to be bnilr this season in Indiana be pushed to completion, the railway milage of the State will be increased 582 miles. About sixty per cent, of the new roads is narrow-gauge. The court expenses of Howard county last year were 5,753.78; the county offlcere were paid $6,852.06 exclusive of ees and perquisites. The debt of the county is $2,731.74 and there is $47.748.37 in the treasury. * 4N the month of June there was billed eastward from Indianapolis, 33,040 tons of grain, 4,891 tons of lumber, ,798 tons of meat, 808 tons of lard, 724 tons of staves, 593 tons of bran, 244 tons of starch, 130 tons of wool and 2,212 tons of flour. Trami*s attempted to outrage two respectable women near Veed era burg; tills State, a few days ago. The women screamed for help, and their cries being heard by some section men near by, the latler came to their assistance and drove the tramps away, first giving them a severe pounding. . Mr. Asa Woodmansee, of Seymour, this State, has sustained a heavy loss in the death of his famous pacing hogße, “Greeley." The animal posed to have died from the effects of poison administered by some enemy of Mr. Woodmansee. “Greeley” was five years old at the time of his death, and was regarded the fastest pacer in the United States. Richmond Telegram : A small boy was hoeing corn in a sterile field by the roadside, up near Bethel, a passer-by stopped and said, “’Pears to me your corn is rather small.” “Certainly,” said the boy, “it is dwarf corn.” “But it looks yaller.” “Cerainly we planted the yaller kind.” ,‘But it looks as If you wouldn’t get more than half a crop.” “Of course not,” said the boy, we planted her on shares.”

Recently at Salem a party pi vigi lent* went to the house of a doctor living in Howard township, ten miles south of Salem, took him out, tied him to a tree and whipped him severely. The reason given was that he did not provide for his fiunily. He graduated from a Louisville modieal college some time ago, but had contracted the habit of eating opium, and he took all the money he and his wife could earn to buy that drug. A tramp stopped at the residence of Mrs. Thornton Meriwether, near Chriatlansburg, the other evening, and called for something to eat, when he in- I salted her and demanded hot food

immediately. He further demanded that he should be let in the house to a certain room, saying, if his request was not complied with, be would burn the house or barn, and on being refused went to the barn and set it on fire, entirely consuming it together with a new reaper, plows, hay-rakes, ten acres of hay and various other acres of husbandry. He escaped. A week or twe ago the wife of Horace Jones, a farmer living sixteen miles south of Greenshurg, was bitten by a rat. The wound healed over, and no further attention was paid to it until a few days ago, when the wounded hand began to swell and turn black, the swelling and mortification soon extending over the entire body. Physicians who have seen Mrs. Jonej say that she can not get well. About $2,000 was stolen a few days ago from the Adams Express office at Tell City, Perry oounty. The money was sent from Evansville to Mr. Huthsteiner, representative in the Legislature from Perry county. It is not known how thb money disappeared, a cloud of mystery surrounding the robbery. The express agent, Mr. John Baumgartner, it is stated, promptly made the loss good, and detectives are at work trying to solve the mysterious robbery. There is a good deal of excitement about the matter at Tell City. In the cornet of Marshal, St. Joseph, La pore and Starke counties, about twelve miles fr >m Plymouth,is situated an Immense huckeli>erry field, containing several hundred acres. The bushes are loaded down with fruit, and the yield this year will be very large. The work of gathering them commenced last week, and about six hundred bushels a day are now shipped to the Chicago market. v The labor of gather- ' ing these berries will give employment to a large number of persons and disi tribute several thousand dollars in this county. The field is principallj’owned by parties in Chicago and lowa. A brother-in-law of John F. Berhings, who resides in lowa, Is the lucky owner of three hundred and fifty acres of this ’ marsh. *

Kokomo Dispatch : There died at Anderson, recently, a mechanic who had worked on the M. E. Church of this city many years rgo. Before death he disclosed to a friend that he had helped to make the brass globe that surmounts the cupola; and before hermetically closing it up, he had placed therein a bottle of whisky, a deck of playing cards, a cigar, and a pair of old socks. In the course of time, when he and his generation were crumbling to dust, mayhap a century hence, he expected the discovery of his fanciful prank to be made known —when a new building would supplant the one on which he worked. These articles are now snugly resting over the sanctuary, and the worshippers, never dreaming of their near presence, piously send up their prayers to the White Throne for deliverance from the sad and ruinous consequence of their uses and abuses. John Barnum, a well-to-do farmer of Shelby county, is under bonds to answer the charge of committing a rape on Miss Mary C., the flfteen-year-old daughter of Elias Gardner, also a resident of Shelby county. The circumstances of the case are rather singular, and read more like Action than truth. Mary is now the wife of Joseph Crim, a prominent farmer and politician, the marriage having taken place two or three weeks ago. In three days after the marriage Mrs. Crim gave birth to a child, and it was then that she -confessed that the child was the fruits of an outrage committed on her nine months previous by Barr.um. Mary’s most intimate friends had.no suspicion of her condition.