Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1879 — INDIANA INKLINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INKLINGS.

The total receipts of the Howard county fair were $2,254.85. An illicit still was seized a few days ago, in Knox county, by the revenue authorities. A great many valuable barus have been destroyed by fire in this State since harvest. An unsuccessful attempt was made to break into the Jail at Peru the other night, for the purpose of releasing the the prisoners.

rado. It has wonderful power on the bowels, liver and* kidneys! What? Kidney Wort. Try it. The military spirit Is up in Hooaierdom, and a great many military companies are organizing. . Four years in the penitentiary waa the mockery of a penalty recently inflicted in a Franklin county verdict for killing a man. Rarah Mosely is the oldest person in Jefferson county, and probably in the State. She is in hsr one hundred and fifth year.

Recently at Wiltshire, Allen county, burglars broke into the store of Henry Althmen and robbed the safe of $4,000 in notes and $1,500 in cash. At New Castle, the other day, three one-year-old colts weighed respectively 1,000 pounds, 1,035 pounds and 1,080 pounds. All three were the progeny of the stallion, Glencairo.'" Three persons—two men and a woman—of the big-foot tribe live near Wabash. The men wear, respectively, numbers fourteen aud thirteen and the woman number ten. Willie Schitler, a seventeen year old boy of Dubois codnty, a member of the Silver Star base ball club, was hit in the temple by a ball and injured so that he died next day. John Nuesbatjm, living a few miles south of Wabash, is 105 years of age. His sight and hearing are good, and he moves about as nimbly as many a young man of seventy or eighty.

A dog that was taken from Peru to Kansas City Mo. last tall, turned around and came home afoot and alone. The journey occupied a week of the faithful dog’s valuable time. Charles Blanchard, of Ripon, Wis., passed through Muncie, the other tlay, following a cart which was propelled by sails and steered by a third wheel. The cart carried his *‘kit,” aud helped to pull him along at the fate of forty miles a day, but he couldn’t ride on it. A year ago one Scully, a pedestrian, gave uu exhibition walk in Indianapolis, ostensibly for the benefit of the yellow fever sufferers, and decamped with the money. A singular coincidence, and one which illustrates the justice of fate, was his death in Memphis recently, of the fever.