Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1879 — INDIANA INKLINS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INKLINS

The latest novelty at Peru, is a twelve toed baby. An Anderson man claims that the English sparrow feeds on bees. Muncib is all tom up on the gas question. Forty men are laying gas mains. Indianapolis has recently been receiving hundreds es car loads of coal per day. Gtandfather Polk, of Wabash, aged about seventy years, is “cutting” a new set of teeth. At the recent couuty fair at Crrefenburg, twenty-five pick-pockets and burglars were arrested. The Goshen School Furniture Company recently shipped $7,000 worth of school seats to one county in Ohio. John Welsh, of Anderson, got away from the torment of a whisky craze by taking an ounce of arsenic. The temperance people of Portland are charged with the destruction of a saloon at that place, th® other night, by stoning it.

Kokomokians have been expiating their sins of omission in the matter of cleanliness, by suffering the stings of myriads of mosquitoes. Baltimore peaches have been selling at $1.50 per bushel in the Indianapolis market. The home raised article brings a dollar more per bushel. James McLaughlin, of Coal Creek, Fountain county, recently killed a rattlesnake" that was five feet four inches long, and had twenty-three rattles. Recently, on a farm in La Porte cojjnty, when a well-known farmer was threshing his wheat, twenty church members were present, of whom fifteen were Baptists. Several cows were killed at Anderson, recently, by eating spoiled fish and fish-brine which some careless person had emptied on the banks of White river. Wm. Messier, of Elkhart, is raising muskmelous this year, a specimen of which is four feet feet In length and the largest part is not over one and a half inches in diameter. It Is called the snake muskmelon.

Thh wife of Granville Morgan committed suicide by drowning herself In Mud creek, near Castleton, in Marion county, recently. The supposition is that she committed the rash act because of one of her daughters becoming insane. Rev. J. Cole, a colored minister who resides Id Oorydon, this State, has a circuit that embraces three counties and yet he walks to all his appointment. He recently attended conference at Detroit, Mich., having made -the journey on foot.

found, and from its appearance it ie auppoeed the monster waa twenty-live feet in length. Secretary op State Sharkuh will have 1,500,000 tickets printed, to be need at the election on the constitutional amendments next ApriL These tickets will contain the amendments to be voted upon, with a No and Yes ao attached to each one of them that the voter can express his sentiments by “scratching.”

New Albany has a haunted house. The “spooks” amuse themselves by tossing the furniture around, slamming doors, kicking over the kitchen stove, and raising Cain generally. The moat critical investigation Calls to develop evidence that the racket is not caused by real ghosts. The Ledger-Standard Is authority or the statement that Mrs. Nancy Thurman, of New Albany, is endowed with the power to cure disease by simply laying her hands on the person afflicted. Mrs. T. has numerous letters in her possession from persons whose infirmities have been cured by her peculiar.method. A young lady of Corydon became so enangered at the County Treasurer, who had brought suit against her for debt, that she armed herself with a briek-tnt and an ax, and repairing to the office of the Treasurer, opened her batteries on him in real earnest. After dodging the dangerous missile which was burled at him with violence, he found himself attacked with the ax, and would doubtless have been injured had not the City Marshal arrested his assailant. She was heavily fined, aud held in S2OO bonds to show herself.