Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1879 — INDIANA INKLINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INKLINGS.

The least spicy man in Warsaw is named Pepper. , Fisheksburgh is wondering over a “mysterious disappearance.” Ditching is “all the vogue” among Huntington county farmers. Milk sickness has broken out in .two townships in Wells county, i A cooking club has been organized in Peru, of the high toned variety. Butler is to have a military company, composed entirely of ex-soldiers. A company has been organized to establish another knitting factory in Elkhart. During the reoent drought many -Porter county farmers hauled water several miles. Scarlet fever is epidemic in portions of Shelby, county causing the closing of several schools. Rochester physicians have determined to enforce yearly settlements, either by cash or by note.

The Richmond street railroad has been abandoned, and all traces of it will soon disappear forever. Reports from various parts of the State show that the new com crop will not average A. 1 in quality.. A train of 80 cars, in one section, recently passed over the C. W. A M. railroad, from Warsaw to Goshen. Beil Green, of Fayette county, recently killed an eagle that measured seven and a half feet, from tip to tip. Robert SinclEjEton, of Tipton county, recently sold thirty pigs, seven months old, that averaged33sf pounds.

years James Callaway, a colored citizen of Carlisle, Sußivan county, died, the other day, a the ripe old age of 107 years. Marshal county has a beet that ' beats all beets.. It measures two feet, ten inehes in circumstance, and weighs 19 pounds. ! • The premium list of the Indians Poultry association has been issued,and hi rqpdy for delivery. The list is extensive and liberal. Martin Rider, of Connerevllie, has sold huf interest tn the patent iuvalid bed of his own Invention, to rfh Indianapolis firm for $4,000,

At Kent, Jefferson county, the other night, fifty masked men took Charles Johns, a bad penitentiary bird, from his house to the woods, beat him terribly and then departed. The merchants of Rochester are talking seriously of establishing a wagon line between that place and Denver, to escape the exhorbitant charges of the 1., P. A C., railroad, A young woman over in Blackford county was so anxious to get married that she prevailed upon her brother to gather hickory nuts with which to buy the liceense, her fellow not bfing able S' “putrup” the required amount. Miss Sally Winslow, of Jonesboro, Grant eounty, left a few days ago, for New York, where she sails for Madras, India. She is one of Grant county’s fairest and most cultured daughters, is about twenty-two years old, and goes as a missionary under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church. T. J. Foster, of St. Joseph county, a general agent of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, has received $5,000 from the company for inventing a tension to prevent the wire of a self-binder from running off too rapidly. Mr. Foster was only a couple of days evolving the discovery from his brain.

There is a new swindle on farmers reported from Elkhart county. One fellow takes a picture of a farmer’s home for sl. Cheap enough, and he always gets the order. In a few days after another chap comes with the picture all handsomely framed. He first gets the dollar, but will not deliver it until the frame is paid for, for which a good round price is asked. LaPorte Chronicle: Last week, while digging a hole in which to bury potatoes, Robert B. Armstrong, of Lincoln township, unearthed a skeleton. It was that of a medium-sized man, and was lying face downward at a depth of 2£ feet. A hole was found on the left side of the face, but, with that exception, the skeleton was in an excellent state of preservation. Fred Fisher, a wealthy and prominent farmer of LaPorte county, mysteriously disappeared from home a few days ago. He has since been heard from at Aurora, Illinois, from which point he wrote a letter to his wife informing her that he was going West and would not return. A young lady with whom Eisher had beeii on terms of intimacy for some time is also missing, and it is supposed that she is with him. Peru Republican: Friday afternoon, Samuel Bryson, who lived just northwest of the city, fell from his wagon loaded with wood, in the road just in front of his house. He was attempting to climb down and caught his foot in some way, so that bis side or back struck on the hub of the wagon wheel. Dr. Passage, who was called, thinks the spinal column was dislocated. The old man, who is 70 years of age, lived only two hours. At Peru, the other day, a child, aged about two years, fell from a chair and injured its spine so that on the following day it was attacked with spasms and died. What made the matter armo distressing was the fact that the mother was confined and gave birth to a babe an hour before the dreadful death of her child that was suffering from convulsions.

A clear case of hydrophobia is thought to be developed In one Frank Shields, a young man, of Bloomington, Monroe county. The first indications of his madness were discovered recently. Frank was sitting in the house of his widowed mother, when, all at once, he sprang from his chair through the closed window, taking with him the glass, frame and all. He wandered down in Salt creek township, some ten miles from home, returned, and again made a trip to Saltpreek, the last lime pursued by the Deputy Sheriff and Constable Reeves, but all in vain. He returned home exhausted. During one of his fits he shot a pet pig belonging to his mother, explaining that the pig was mad. He, at another.time, snarled and growled at a mule belonging to John Gilmore, and actually bit him. The Sheriff, accompanied by a few assistants, Went to the home of the young man for the purpose of arresting him in his mad demonstrations, when they found him as gentle and tract Able as a lamb, on account of physical exhaustion.