Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1879 — INDIANA INKLINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INKLINGS.

There is a prayer book in Angola, that was printed in 1770. Wild turkeys are said to be numerous at many points in the State. A Street railway between South Bend and Mishawaka, is being “talked up.” The last footing block of the Statehouse foundation, was set Friday afternoon.

The old State House sold for $691.81, according to the report of the State House commissioners. The fly did some advantage to wheat in the Southern part of the State, during the warm weather. George Gray, a Rush county farmer, has two steers which weigh 3,700 and 3,315 pounds respectively. A Steuben county four-year-old heifer weighs 1400 pounds, and a one-year-old pig weighs 515 pounds.

The grocery store and post-office building at Rob Roy, Fountain County, owned by Reifer A Hadden, burned Thursday night. • . ]

OBUTTE W Fdlp of Rush county ! and contains 1,362 grains, and 2$ rows. Who eaa beat it? “Alkaloid,” a Blue Bull stallion owned by Dr. Pugh, of Rushville, was sold last week for $6,000, a Chicago man being the purchaser. Samuel E. Nickkry, formerly city marshal of Union City, this State, is under sentence of death at Dallas, Texas for horse stealing. Two men who were trading new feathers for old, have disapeared from Covington, leaving the citizens with the tickets to hold, amounting to about'

lie change will be made in the arrangements for the Grant’s reception, in Indianapolis, on the 20th of November, notwithstanding the request made by the Washington authorities. T. A. Taylor, editor and proprietor of the Connersville News for the past year, has said the office to W. H. Green, editor of the Brookville American, and George Bacon. Stella Weir, an Indianopolis young lady of the town, was found dead in her bed. Too much morphine. \ Father Sorin, of Notre Dame University, has started to enjoy the European trip from which he was recalled from New York last spring, by the burning of the University. He will pass the winter in Paris and Rome. Mrs. Dan Bryant, of Harrison awnship, Knox county, walked too near the fireplace, and her drees caught in the blaze, and before she knew it her alothee were in flames. She ran out into the yardj creaming, but no help was near. The stiff breeze which was blowing at the time only fanned the flames, which burned as long as a shred remained on her person. She was found suffering a thousand deaths, her body being burned to a black crisp. F. Pierce Harbach, aged twentyeight, a paper-hanger employed in Hopkin’s store at Evansville, committed suicide last evening at 7 o’clock. He shot himself first under the heart. A friend heard the shot and ran to his assistance. The determined man acknowieged that he had shot himself, and gave consent to the friend to go for a physician. While the friend was The jury in the case of Alonzo Bryson for the mifrder of Willis Toole, tried at Rushville, rendered a verdiet of murder in the first degree, fixing bis punishment at imprisonment in the States prison for nireteen years. The murder was committed without provocation, and if Bryson bad not been drunk at the time of the murder, he would doubtless.ha ve to hang.

Nearly 1,600 carloads of fine building stone have been shipped from Bedford to New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Louisville this season. Two of the quarries there will operate all through the coming winter. John Kline, employed in putting on the slate roof at Notre Dame university, slipped, and would have fallen to the ground, had he not caught the eavetrough andhunguntil rescued. His fingers were cut to the bone. A narrow escape from impending danger. A State exchange gives account of a branch of an apple tree, showing the third bloom duriug the present season; also a branch from a plum tree fully clothed with a second bloom, and also a branch from an ordinary black cap raspberry bush on which are a number of full grown berries, which are just beginning to ripen. One of the mildest tempered women of the present age lives at Greensburg, this State. Her name is Elizabeth Goodwin, and not long since she distinguished herself by kicking her husband out of doors and then throwing their three children out after him. Great excitement prevails in Catholic churches at Evansville over a revolt which has sprung up against an order issued with the approval of the Bishop Chataid, to remove 1,000 bodies from the old Catholic cemetery to the new St. Joseph’s Cemetery. Over at Hagerstown, a silly girl—not sin-stained but indiscreet and susceptible—they say, fell In with a Cincinnati drummer and became “mashed on him. That is to say, she loved him and he feigned love in return—but it was of that sort that blights and kills. The other day the drummer got the girl drunk on wine and prevailed on her to tattoo his name on her leg. The young lady caught cold in the leg and serious consequences are t h eatened. From this cause the disclosure was made of her folly. She deserves o lose her leg and ought to be compelled to wear a very clumsy, unattractive, wooden one the remainder of her days as a frightful example and warning to he sex. Eleven years ago Barbara Silber horn, wife of a worthy farmer residing in Jackson county, had a tooth extracted by a Cincinnati physician, who administered laughing gas as an antidote Iq allay the pain, and soon after her health becan to foil, her whole physical system seeming to be affected. The flesh inside her mouth and down her throat began to get sore and slough off and finally she became so reduced and afflicted, that for five yeans past she has been scarcely able to leave her bed. She suffered untold misery until relieved by death.

The report of the northern prison shows that the number of prisoners received from June 1, 1860, to October *1,1878, was 3,185; largest number received in any one year was 329, in 1876; the least was 17,in 1860. The grand total •f convicts received includes 498 who •ame from the southern prison; of this number only three remain, all serving life sentences, as follows: Wm. Robinson, better known to all inhabitants of the prison as Bob; Calvin Bunch and Charles Horton. Robinson was sentenced from Wayne county 22 years ago, and was prosecuted by the late Senator Morton, who was prosecuting attorney of the county at that time.