Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1879 — INDIANA INKLINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INKLINGS.

Connersville consumes about three barrels of whisky per week. From April to November, Madison had 25 fires, mostly incendiary. Twenty-five lawyers eke out an existauce in the little city ofßushviile. Counterfeit daddy dollars are troubling the people of Howard county. The "pop” of the slaughtering shotgun makes Sunday music on the Kankakee. A yield of 75 bushels of corn per acre, on twelve acres, is reported from Hancock county. The prowling horse thief has been getting in his work extensively, recently around Richmond. A panther at large, makes the life of timid persons a torture, in a neighborhood near Hagerstown. Millions of pigeons made a halt in this years migration, at Heuryville, Clark county. A party killed 65 dozen of them in one night The almost incredible statement is made that the Mississiunewa river was frozen over at Marion, on the night of£he 10th inst. Several of the manufacturing establishments of New Albany were compelled to suspend operation by the recent coal famine. TnE pipe of a coal stove in- the sleeping room of a family in Elkhart became unjointed, and the entire family came near dying with asphyxy. Thomas Meatick died in Rush county, the other day, at the age of 80 years. For three days previous to his death, he had taken no nourishment whatever. Two ruffians made a deadly assault upon Michael McMahon, near Laporte, the other night, clubbing him nearly to death, Robery was supposed to be their object. The Madison city council recenty voted $50,000 in twenty year 7 per cent, bonds to aid the building of the Bedford, Brownstown and Madison narrow guage railroad. In one of the yolks of a double-yolk-ed egg, laid at South Bend, a few days ago, the half-formed, but clearly deformed body of a lizard was found, instinct with life. The brain of Joseph W. Barker, the Huntington couuty dwarf who died a few weeks ago, weighed fifty-nine ounces-, or seveu ounces more than th* brain of Daniel Webster.

Jacob Bixler, of Mitchell, threw a plank from a scaffold on the top of a house, where he was bdildiug a chimney, arid struck Daniel Davis on tbs bead, injuring him fatally. Samuel Bradfield, a one-armed man from the western part of Nobis county, was arrested recently charged with incest with his daughter. He went to jail in default of bail. ' Wabash county boasts of not less than a half dozen families, whose members range in numbers from sixteen to twenty. In the latter family there * are twelve males and eight females. li The Commissioners of Blackford county have ordered that bonds to the amonnt of SB,OOO be issued, of SI,OOO each, for the purpose of building a turnpike in that county. The bonds to bear 6 per cent interest, A school house was burned to the ground in Grant county last week. The fire was the work of an incendiary, and is supposed to have been prompted by a way that had sprung up between rival teachers who were applicants for the school, Three children of a man named Vanee, at Millersburg, were terribly scalded by the stove falling down and turning a boiler of boiling water upon them. Two of them died, and at last accounts there Was no hope of the recovery of the other. V. T. Malott, geneial manager of the Indianapolis, Peru A Chicago

ro«l t hM«»feMtod with the Cam-1 bridge City ear worka for 100 box’care, to be delivered in 50 days, to be used in the local business of the road. ; Township Trustees are considerably puzzled over the laws which requires them under a penalty of S2OO One for failure, to foroish the Geological Bureau with a list of the proatititutes, bed men, deed beats, drunkards etc., In their townships.; The convicts In the prison a present time by birth, represent twenty-eight states. Indiana fru-nishee 135; Ohio 118; New York 64; Pennsylvania 27 ; Illinois 52; Kentucky 21; while New Hampshire, Alabama, Deleware, Nebraska, South Carolina, furnishes one each. In addition to the states, Austria furnishes 1; Bavaria 1; Canada 6; Englaud 15; Fnanoe2; East Indies 1; Germany 13; Ireland 21; Prussia 10; Portland 2; Scotland 3; Sweden 3; and Switzerland 8; An extensive gang of robbers operating in Deleware, Henry, Randolph and Wayne counties, with headquarters at Winchester, Mancie, and Richmond, has been broken up by the arrest, of Dr. McCrUlis, of Muncie, Lyle and Cain, at Winchester, A. Gates, at Pennville, and Sarah Ann Rhodes at Richmond, about three thousand dollars’ worth of stolen goods was recovered, and information obtained vhich will lead to the recovery of much more.

Two months ago a couple of finelooking men visited the farm of Moses Smith, a worthy colored man, in Hanover township, Jefferson .county Finding him at work in the field, the strangers proceeded to compliment the old man’s farm, and wound up by offering him the agency for selling a certain kind of baiter, saying that they would give him one for every one he sold. They showed him a paper which he refused to sign or put his mark to, and leaving a few halters they departed, saying that they would be back again, but they never returned. Last week, however, a bank notice was sent to Mr. Smith from Cincinnati, saying that they had a note of SSOO left with hem for collection, which note had "X" mark on it. The note had been left at the Fir»t National Bank of Madison for collection, and it looks like the unfortunate old man will have to pay it even at the sacrifice of his farm. Mr. and Mrs. Smith were slaves at one time, and by hard work raised SI,OOO each with which they bought their freedom. The farm they now live on they paid $2,100 for. Two years ago they were burned out of a house, but haye since erected another Much sympathy is expressed fdr Mr Smith in his dilemma.