Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1879 — INDIANA INKLINS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INKLINS

Kokomo to suffering for lack of a brass band. South Benders enjoy band concerts every evening. , The marrying borineas is booming in Wabash eoanty. A Goshen ben to credited with laying soar eggs a day. A soldier’s monument is to be built in Randolph county, forthwith. A Gcshbm butcher recently killed a five-months-oki calf that weighed 826 pounds. A UTTUBMAKJ! was discovered in a ear load of ice, at South Bend, the other day. The Louisville, New Albany A Chicago, is the longest railroad in the State. It has 228 28-100 miles of main track. ‘Thb destruction of many barns filled with the new crop, by lightning, to reported in the State papers. Are the lightning rod men all dead? It is said that weeds from four to five feet high grow along the principal streets of Warsaw, and the advertising columns of Warsaw newspapers confirm the credibility of the report. Among the best wheat yields reported in the BUte to that of William McAlister, of Gibson county, who got 550 bushels of Fultz wheat from ten acres. p. E. Studebaker, of South Bend, has given SSO as the start of a subscription to erect a stone above the grave of the mother of Abraham Lincoln, at Lincoln, seventeen miles from Rockport.

A human beast at Rochester ate thirty-three raw eggs and then drank a quart of cider. Unfortunately he survived the dose, but there is some oomfort in hairing that it made him “mighty sick.” Mbs. Dr. Haverfield, a highly educated lady of Indianapolis, has been appointed state medical examiner for Indiana for a large foreign insurance company. She to the first woman ever choeen in this country for such a position. Carney, of Fayette county, recognized on the streets of Connersville the other day a horse stolen from him thirteen years ago, and recovered his property by replevin. The man in whose possession the horse was, was entirely innocent of crime, having purchased the animal ten or twelve years ago. _ During the recent harvest, Miss Charlotte Bruce, a comely Scotch lassie, living near Lexington, in Jefferson county, cut 100 fibres of wheat with a reaper, keeping five binders, and a part of the time six, “humping themselves,” as they expressed it. She had six horses, remly harnessed, and when one pair got tired she got another. Kokomo Dispatch : An i nterestlng law suit is pending before Justice Bennett at Fairfield. A member of the legal fraternity of this city brought suit against an aspiring young man of Taylor township for consultation and other legal services. Among the items of the attorney’s bill is ten dollars for writing ten love letters for the defendant. The young gentleman thinks the eharge too high for writing the epistles of love, and irmaking fight to the action. Much fun Is expected at the trial of the cause.

At Leesville, Lawrence county, recently, the Transatlantic Circus had a performance not on the bills. Some sharpers got hold of a man by the name of Dare anc tried to beat him out of his money with games, but Ending that he would not gamble, snatched his money from him. Then a shot was tired into the canvas, after which the showmen caught three citizens, dragged them inside the tent and lashed them to a wagon, and beat them nearly to death. By this time the citizens raised, and with shot guns and revolvers, soon succeeded in releasing the men from the hands of the showmen. Over 100 shots were fired, resulting in mortally wounding four showmen and severely wounding several others. One citizen was dangerously shot. Peru Herald: John Spangler, a respectable and worthy farmer of Pipe Creek township, was approached by two agents for a Kalamazoo wind mill

company, and as he expected to erect a Wind mill bn his farm the agents exi ercised all their arts to induce, him to i award them the contract Finally he .. said that he would take articles to the ' amount of S4O, and willingly signed the contract they handed him. Spang- * ler cah neither read or write, and therefore trusted to the honesty of the agents. He was much surprised Saturday to find them on hand at his farm prepared to erect a wind mill oom pie te that would cost him $270. He declared positively that he only ordered the pump, while they produced the original contract signed by him for a wind mill and pump complete. The old gentleman came to town Saturday and compromised the matter by paying the men S9O to release him from the contract. So be is minus money, pump and all. Peru Herald: Adgil Newman and Adam Eberley live over on the South Side. There was a matter of indebtedness of twenty-five cents between the families, and Eberley sent his little son for the money. Newman gave him a beating, but no quarter, which resulted In a “set-to” between the father of the boy and Newman, in which a >nife and some stones were used. Complaints and coimter-complaints were plead before Esquire Antrim, and both parties were fined according to law. Newman was unable to pay or stay bis and he was obliged to go to JaiL A very dramatic scene was enacted at the time of his incarceration. He carried his little babe in his arms to the jail door followed by his wife. The lady fainted, the prisoner was heartbroken, and the child knew not whether to cry or to laugh. Getting down on his knees, Newman passion-

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