Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1879 — INDIANA INKLINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INKLINGS.

LAPorTe has three women who practice medicine. A medicinal spring has been discovered within the city limits of South Bend. Huckleberries to the value of $lO,500 were shipped from Walkerton, this season. Y■ ; . During the past year four hundred mortgages were recorded in Steuben county. CAreful estimates show that the wheat crop of this State will aggregate 55,000,000 bushels. Absolem Green, near Waldron, recently had thirty-seven hogs driven off in one week by stock thieves. William H. Pipe, a-wealihy Gibson county fanner, committed suicide recently by eating wild turnips. During a storm, a few days ago, near Cambridge City, twenty sheep belonging to Elias Morris were killed by a bolt of lightning. Emeline Noble, the Steuben county young lady who went to Washington to marry President Hayes, has been taken to the insane asylum. Elder Z. T. Sweeny, of the Christian Church of Columbus, has just received a call to go to the pastorate of a Christian Church in London, Eng. The Lutheran Synod, at Ft. Wayne, adopted resolutions looking to the erection of a general university, to combine the faculty of each synod into one. Starlight Rose, a celebrated Jersey cow, valued at S2OO, fell down a hundred-foot cliff on J. F. Miller’s stock form, near Richmond, the other day, and broke her neck. Sometime ago a mare, at Muncie, jumped on a shade tree stake, which penetrated her body, to the depth of eighteen inches, but she recovered and is none the worse of the wound. . Union county talks of organizing a Sfedfora* Monumental Association, the the object being to erect a monument hi the court yard to the memory of the deceased soldiers of that county. A few days ago Samuel Platt, a desperate character living near Washington, this State, brutally assaulted two respectable ladies, and had their screams not brought assistance the brute would have outraged their persons. He was arrested aud fined heavily. Captain H. W. Smith, formerly connected with the Goshen Times, and Edwin Hubbell, son of a well-known grocer, wound up a drunken spree tiie other night by repairing to the court house square and swallowing the contents of a vial of morphine. They were both found dead the next morning. . « At Columbia City, the other day. the Deputy Sheriff went into the jail on business, leaving the door unlocked. The only inmate incarcerated there quietly walked out, locking the door behind him, and leaving the officer in his place, but the offender was recaptured and again changed places with the officer.

Madame Veit, a noted professor of astrology, and who had accumulated a valuable property in New Albany by fortune telling, died a few days ago. She was a woman of great enterprise, as well as sagacity. She built and owned the steamer Elizabeth, and also built and ownjxl a little coasting trade boat. People came hundreds of miles to see her, and she made many wonderful Revelations that staggered the unbelievers in her astrological science. She died of cancer. Huntington Herald: We hear many large stories told these days about an immense yields of wheat per acre and the tremendous growth of corn, but herds something that beats them all. Week before last Long John Miller, on the Warren road near the Wabash, hauled to the railroad ware-' house, in this place, with a single twohorse team one hundred and twentyfive bushels of wheat at one load. He started with 130 bushels, but one of the sacks fell off, and one was wasted in the road. In this connection we may add that one of the horses that pulled the load was eighteen and the other tweuty-two years old. Now, who can beat that?

A bold attempt was made to burn the residence of Mr. Charles H. Coffin, at Richmond, recently. The building was fired in three places. The curtains of the library were ignited, and when discovered were past redemption, while the window (being was also ruined. Lighted candles were fonnd near the back stairway placed so as to communicate their flames with the wood work, and a third fire- had been kindled on a kitchen shelf. Mrs. C. discovered them and summoned some men working near by, who put out the fires with buckets of water. No clue to the perpetrators of the nefarious act has as yet been discovered.