Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1879 — INDIANA STATE ITEMS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE ITEMS

A BIBLE in Fulton county bears the printing date of 1748. A towel 115 years old was exhibited at the recent Miami county fair. A choral society, wlthsixty members, was recently organized at Muncie. . A Farmer near Angola has a peartree that blossomed three times, this season. The coal oil inspector is abroad in Fulton county, having failed entirely to enter an appearance there. TfiE North west Indiana conference will not admit any young mau into the ministry who uses tobacco. A vethran of the war of 1812, aged 104 years, attended the soldiers’ reunion in Steuben county, held recently. Kosciusko county is out of debtdoes not owe a dollar—and has $30,000 on hand to vard the erection of the new court house.

Warren township, St. Joseph county, has had a bloody tragedy. A twelve year old lad shot a man who was assailing his father. Six misbehaving young men were taken from their beds by a mob at Wesley Chapel, tied to a fence in a row, and whipped almost to death. On a recent Sunday at Dunreith, nineteen of the Smith family were engaged in pitching horse shoes, and it is said that they were not missed from the family circle. Five members of the Elkhart county Anti-Drive-Well Association recently paid $440 of judgements and costs arrising from their war with the driven well patentees. The Union District Agricultural Association, which includes the the counties of Marion, Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Shelby, Johnson, Morgan and Hendricks, under the management of colored people, have filled articlesof nssbeiatisn.- , . Esquire Demuth, while intoxicated, attempted to mount his horse at Ferdinand, Dubois county, when the animal gave a sudden spring, throwing him to the ground and causing his death by fracture of the skull. He* was a prominent citizen of that section of the country. . A Harvest-home festival was held in the Episcopal church at LaPorte, on a recent Sunday. The edifice was decorated in the most, attractive manner with agricultural products of all kinds, and the exercises were extremely interesting, the musical programme being one of the principal features of the festival.

Elisha Grimes said in a praye meeting at Little Vork, Washington county, that he was wholly prepared to die. George Jones called him out of doors a few minutes afterward, and killed him with a knife. It is conjectured that Jones thought Grimes’, professing readiness, might ss well die at once, for no other motive has been discovered. There is a “settlement” of Indian farmers in the south part of Wabash county where the laws against seining fish have heretofore been very lightly regarded by the male portion of the community. Recently a number of these men were arrested for this infraction of the law, whereupon their alarmed and disconsolate wives held a consultation which resulted in an edict of destruction against the seine as the disturber of their domeetio felicity. It was accordingly hunted up and offered as a sacrifice upon An altar of burning wood.

Incendiarism prevails to an alarming extent in the vicinity of Terre Haute. Within a recent period of seven weeks and four days, a total of 92 barn, sheds and out-houses have been burned down or so Jjadly damaged as to need entire renewing, and in the same time about 1,400 feet of fencing, two carriages, one wagon, two valuable horses, three railroad freight cars, several tons of hay, also of coal, stovewood, harness, and implements and four sleighs have been destroyed, and three dwellings have been dam-

aged. The to’al loss is very closely estimated at $25,000 - A searcher after curious information has been taking the measure of our State officials and reports aa follows: Eight of them me—uro 584 inches, being an average of six feet and one Inch. Gov. Williams takes the lead and is six feet and four inches In his stockings; Attorney General Woolen, Secretary of State Bhanklin and Adjutant General Rues are each six feet two; Superintendent of Public Instruction Smart, Supreme Court Reporter Martin and State Treasurer Fleming are each six feet; State Auditor Man son is five feet eleven inches and a half and Clerk of the Supreme Court Bchmuch is five feet ten and a half. These are certainly a lengthy set of officers.