Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1879 — INDIANA STATE ITEMS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE ITEMS

The estivated cost of the new bridge ! across the Wabash at Peru is $42,000. I Tin: young ladies of Warsaw and : Kokomo have organized a cooking ' club. I The saiinon'i’lanted three years ago i in the lakes hear Goshen, are being j caught for use. The tobacco crop in Southern Indi- [ aua. has been seriously damaged by the j late heavy rains. Jim Means, of Peru, sold a black, . four-year old horse to Mrs. Lake, Bar- : num’s lady rider, for $260. * , ! The amount of unreported taxable*) ‘ discovered by the experts iu Howard | county, was only $3,G<>9.63. Mr. Peter D. Z.ur.v, a Huntington County farmer, two thousand | bushels of potatoes this year, j A book the .Smith "family, | was arrested iu Richmond, the other | day, on a charge or* attempting to outrage his land-lady, Mrs. Martin. An old lady named Smith was a work in Columbia City, the other day, picking tomatoes, vheu, feeling badly, she went into the house, and expired almost immediately. A jury at South Bend recently, called to determine whether a person charged with being insane was really a ), returned a verdict, “Not insane but possessed of the devil.” A wealthy New Albany merchant offered his son $5,000 for the latter’s promise that he would forever abstain from the use of tobm eo. At last accounts the young man was considerin on it.” “HoosfEß Tom,” a somewhat noted trotting horse, fell dead on the track at the Dunkirk fair. The animal had given uo sigus of being uuwell, and fell dead just as he was being driven up to the score. Pastor Little, of Wabash, married a couple the other day, standing at the gate of his residence, while the twain sat in a buggy, but, sad to relate, the newly made swain drove off without

to Richmond a few days ago and got outl&ndiahly drank. Being in delicate health the Mayor declined to send him to prison In default of paying a fine, fearful that the confinement would kffl him. Wabrkm Tate, the murderer of Wm. Love, at la'fenflk. has paid the widow of his victim $2,500 and released a mortgage of $1,500 on some property owned by Love. In consideration of this Mrs. Love withdraws her salt against Tate for $5,000 for killing her husband. The new oompaay, organised at Evansville, for the purpose of manufacturing iron or steel rails, will soon have tbeir immense rolling mill in good running condition and in operation on double turn. The company have the promise of all the orders they can fill for iron and steel rails. Captain John B. Ford, of Jeffersonville, the inventor and patentee of the new process for manufacturing gas, water and sewer pipes of glass, has organized a company of large capital for the purpose of putting up extensive works for the manufacture of glass pipes. He claims that glass pipes will not cost more than half as much as iron.

A Huntington man got drunk the other day, traded for a mule, and then traded the mule for a bird dog t sold the dog for one dollar, took the money and bought a jug of “forty rod” whisky, took a “pull” therefrom, fell down and broke the jug, and then got kicked out of the saloon. Plymouth Republican: We see that a correspondent of the Indianapolis Journal says the terrible rain in the northern part of Marshall county last Friday night is supposed to have been a water spout. It was nothing of the kind. We saw or heard at least most of that rain, and it was only a steady rain, the water falling as fast for hours as it usually does in heavy rains for a few minntes. Home idea of the quantity of water that fell can be given by stating that a man who had left a barrel standing out reported the water in it the next morning 11J inches deep. Peru Republican : Mrs. Fitzgerald, of Butler township, shot a big horned owl Monday night, and with a revolver, too. The barking of the watch dog aroused her in the middle of the night and, without calling ether members of the family, Mrs. F. seized the revolver and went out of the back door, where she saw a huge owl perched on the hen house intently watching the dog that was trying to get at him. Taking aim she fired aud the owl rolled to the ground to be torn to pieces by the dog. Prowling burglars wouldn't find that a very healthy place.