Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1879 — INDIANA INKLINGS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INKLINGS

Thus are 280 ratoon* In IndianapoUa. Ths Kokomo spoke factory ha* resumed operation*. Ths ladies of tbs Kokomo Woman's Suffrage Club are preparing a woman’s department tor (he next county tflr. The Ship-yards at Jeffersonville asv crowded with work, and orders enough ahead to keep them busy for many months. Ik Wabpsh county, the other day, commencing after dinner and working until dark, Mr. J. 8. & Oonothers thrashed 710 bushel* of wheat. Dr. A. McTfKZL, of New Albany, h«« received the SIOO prize from Chisago, for the best essay on diphtheria from a homeopathic standpoint. Tftß largest riogle transaction .In cash meats ever made in Indianapolis was made by a jobbing house, a few days ago. One million pound* of clear rib sides were sold for cash at $4.25, per cent. - John Rrd linger, a farmer living , five miles east of Decatur, while on his way home from town, a tew days ago, being drunk, fell from his wagon and received Injuries which caused his ' death in a few hours. Hoag are dying In immense numbers in several townships around Acton, in the northwestern part of Shelby County, and the edge of Marion. Whole herds in that vicinity have been diseased, nearly all of which died. . , At Seymour, the other night, Miss Theodora Durham discovered a burglar cutting the slate of her windows, when she took up a revolver and fired two shots at him. Blood on the window the next morning told that he had been hit but not sufficient to prevent his escape.

' Rochester Union-Spy: The excursion train that left here last Sunday for LaPorte, carried with it 000,1 passen gere, Dr. Terry. There were five or six persons down to see him off. Times are so hard that if there was an excursion to heaven for two dollars the round trip, we doubt if there could be * coach filled In this city. Among the more remarkable wheat yields reported this year by the State papers, were the following: Luther Johnson, of Miami county, threshed 35 acres of the Fultz variety, which averaged 46$ bushels to the acre; Wm. Rotherick, of Crawford oounty, threshed S 3 bushels, the product of 40 pounds of seed; Dan Marion, of CarroU oounty, had 45 bushels to the acre, which weighed 66 pounds to the bushel; Wm Lukens, of Madison county, from lees than 2] acres, had 132 measured bushels, which weighed out 149 bushels; Samuel Patterson, of Knqx oounty, bad 35 bushels per acre from 50 acres; A C. Simpson, of the same oounty, had 40 bushels to the acre on 33 acres; W. F. Murray, of Fayette county, had 76 bushels from less than one acre and a half of ground.