Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1879 — INDIANA INKLINS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INKLINS

A Lady in Kosciusko county) recently gave birth to bar fourth pair of twins. Two cornets take part in the instrumental masks of a* Mancie Sundayschool. A grand soldiers’ reunion is to be held at Winchester, on the fourth of October. A IX)vino couple were married, the other day, In Greenfield, while setting in w buggy. Mrs. Henry Lawrence, dropped dead, the other day, while attending to her household duties. Peter HuNTsiNGKR, of Rush county, claims to have threshed 750 bushels of wheat in three hoars. A steer, with horns eight feet apart, from tip to tip, was killed at Auburn, the other day. The champion wheat yield of this season, in Elkhart county, was fiftyfive bushels to the acre. In the month of July, 1878, Schmidt’ brewery, at Indianapolis, sold 2,978 barrels of beer; during the same month, 1879, 4,035 barrels were sold. This would indicate that beer drinking is on the increase. %.

While Wm. Carico was moving a saw mill engine from Linton to his form near Paxton, it was accidentally overturned, foiling partly upon him in such manner that a one-inch bolt was driven into his heart, penetrating his lungs. He was fotally wounded. The latest dodge of the peripatetic swindlers, is to visit farmers and contract for their wheat, ‘for future delivery, at a price away above the market value. This contract is so worded that it can be changed into a promissory note. All the swindler needs is the farmer’s signature. A woman at Greensburg, Decatur county, was not sure that she wished to die, but thought she did, so she put her neck into a noose and stepped off a chair, taking the precaution to hold a sharp knife in her hand. The choking left her no longer in doubt that she still desired to live, and she hastily cut the rope above her head.

Some of the women in the Methodist congregation at Laconia, recently volunteered to clean the church, and on an appointed day gathered for the purpose. Two of teem essayed to direct tee job, and the division of authority brought on a quarrel, which was followed by a fight, in which brooms, mops and pails of water were freely used. An Indianapolis rascal, who claims to be connected with the office in which the question lists* for teachers, to be used at the examinations for license by tbe county school superintendents, are printed, to sending out circulars to teachers, offering to furnish these lists at $5 and $lO each. Ofooursethe Indianapolis chap to a fraud and a swindler. Henry Enfield was at work on a purline at the Studebaker wagon shops, In St Joseph county, fifty feet from the ground, prying with a crowbar. The bar slipped and Mr. Enfield fell backward; but with great presence of mind bent hto knees and caught himself on the purline, hanging there head downward, until some of hto fellow workmen rescued him from bis perilous position.