Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1879 — INDIANA INKLINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INKLINGS.

Ft W ayne has a five legged dog. The sparrows have become pests at Goshen. The pumpkin crop of the State is immense. ' Nelson Prentess, of Albion, has a cat that weighs sixteen pounds. A law department has been added to the Valparaiso Normal School. The barn-burner is still getting in his work extensively in this State. Two car-loads of hickory nuts were recently shipped from Indianapolis. A St. Joseph county cow recently swallowed a pocket book containing SIOO. The removal of the Singer works from South Bend, is among the probabilities of the future. There are forty-seven more students at Notre Dame this year, than there were last year. Fifteen horses died from the effects of heat, in Tipton county during the late, fall heated term. At the recent stock sale of James Wilson, near Rushville, yearling Blue Bull colts were sold at SSOO each. The south fork of Yellow river is to be ditched for a distance of about twen-ty-five miles, in Marshal and adjoining counties. A Rochester shoemaker has drawn $l5O in the Louisiana lottery, and his neighbors are watching for the beginning of his downfall. The Wabash county Board has decided to build a new jail upon the plans and estimations of architect Enos, of Indianapolis. Oscar Boglby, of Hebron, has a pair of tongs that are 200 years old, they have been in the Bogley family for eight or nine generations. William Crim, of Anderson, re cently had peas for dinner that same up voluntarily and matured after the first crop had been gathered.

Recently, in Huntington, Emmett Shark and William Briant, lifted a sate that weighed 1500 pounds, three feet upward, and placed it on a window sill. Wm. McCove, of Portage township, Porter county, recently lost 500 bushels of potatoes. He had dug and piled them in a heap, and the warm weather caused them to Mr. and Mrs. Barbour, of Peru, expect to celebrate their golden wedding in February. Mr. B. can read fine print without using spectacles. Mrs. Isabelle Okey, a convalescent patient at the State Insane Hospital, committed suicide, the other day, by strangling herself with a string. A young man, named Henry Forman, had one of his eyes burned out by a red-hot cinder at the Ohio Falls Iron works at Jeffersonville a few days since.

S Wm. Gentry, in jumping a fence a Bloomington, the other day, with an unsheathed dirk In his pocket, fell and ran the hlade of the dirk into his breast, inflicting a very dangerous wound. A lightning rod agent named Powner, recently got into trouble in Rush county, and, it is said, threatens to show up the crookedness of a large number of county and township officials in the purchase of rods for public use.

A driven well case has been sent from the Elkhart Circuit court to the United States courts. The transcript of the case covered 872 pages of foolscap and cost $262. The point at issue Is whether a man has a right to patent a hole in the ground. [ Lee Morgan, who murdered Patrick Carroll in a bagnio at Cambridge City the last day of August, was captured at Springfield,Ohio, and brought to Richmond the other day by Detective John C. Norris. The county gives a large reward for his capture. A large edge tool and implement manufectory in New Albany has just •ioeed a contract for 5,000 picks and mattocks. The impetus given railroad eonstruotion by the revival in the times has created a heavy demand for all tools used in railroad building.