Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1879 — INDIANA INKLINS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INKLINS

Hon. W. H. English, of Indianapolis, owns over 300 tenement houses. Mishawaukee is soon to have several new manufacturing establishments. The next session of |he American Poultry Association will be held at Indianapolis. -1 Jacob Heath is in jail at Salem for brutally beating his eighteen-year-old daughter. - , 1 The |AngoJa papers both have libel suits on their hands, brought by offended women. The artesian bore at Rochester been stopped for want of funds, at a depth of 245 feet. A woman with a full blonde beard recently created a sensation on the streets of South Bend.• Wm. Hudler, of New Point, had a fit while fishing, the other day, and fell into a shallow pool oil water and was drowned. Whitley county supports opulent paupers. A young man in its county asylum recently had S4O„ stolen from his trafik. f The Btate House commenced laying 2,000,000 bricks, a fewi days ago. They employ about 300 men on the building and in the quarries. A locomotive caught a horse at lArwell, a few days ago, carried it one hundredCyards on the pilot and dropped it ofT uninjured, j ?J. “ A horse at Turkey Creek, Steuben county, which was left standing in its stable perfectly sound in the morning, was found to be stonie blind at noon.

Mail Agent Chabib Patterson, whose arm was broken by an accident on the Vandalia road last March, has sued the company for 125,000 damages. Edward Fishback, an old negro slave, lying at the City Hospital, of Indianapolis, is literally covered with welts from whippings received while in slavery. A band of fifteen men visited the negroes In the vicinity of Bloomington a few nights ago and ordered them to leave thecoufity. Some of the men upon whom notices were served are well-to-do lantf holders. A young man from Ada, Ohio, took an active part in the camp meeting at

Warsaw, in the beginning, hot was arrested a few days afterward for stealing books from the stand. It was finally decided that he was of unsound mind and he wee released. At Vincennes, Knox county, a fiendish attempt was made recently to abduct two young girls, which was frustrated by an alarm being given, when the men, discovering they were followed, loosened their hold upon their innocent prey and fled to the woods. The Courier states that during the pest year $2,000 worth of opium, in its different forma, has been sold in Wabash county. One drug store in Wabash sold 500 bottles of morphine from May let to August 20th, sixteen of

which were purchased by one man, in one week. The celebrated Huokleberry Queen was married to a boy sixteen years old, the other night, at Tyner City. The ’Squire who performed the ceremony was called up out of bed by the loving couple, and said the solemn words that made twain one flesh, standing in his door clad in his sleeping clothes. Miss Anna King, of Acton, lived last winter and spring for thirty-five days without food or drink. At the end of that time she rallied and recovered her appetite; recently she relapsed into her former abnormal condition. On August 19th, she died, after living twenty-one days without a partible of nourishment of any kind. When the new additions to the State Ihsane Asylum arc completed there will be accommodations for 1,100 persons, and the superintendent is issuing circulars to county officers for the purpose of ascertaining how many incurables are confined in the alms houses, poor houses and private asylums cf the State, for the purpose of seeing what will be required of the State Asylum. While passing through a strip o woods a quarter of a mile west of Palestine, a few days ago, John Rogers discovered the body of a man hanging to a tree. He went back to town and returned to the place with k crowd of men. Upon examining the body it was found to be that of a white man about forty-five years old, and well dressed. The body was greatly swollen and decomposed, and is supposed to have been hanging three or four days. It was hanging by a piece of clothes-line to a small hickory tree, the feet touching the ground.