Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1879 — INDIANA INKLINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INKLINGS.

A Vihcphm lunatic is working on an air ship. The Marshal county cranberry crop is reported to be the finest ever gathered than. The ladies at Peru are preparing to do the calling on New Years Day.-*-Leap Year. Aboct 8,000 persona passed through Plymouth enroute to the Grant recept-

on at Chicago. Thk Polish Catholic church at South Bend was destroyed by a whirlwind a few days ago. Indiana block coal found a ready mai ket in Cincinnati while the Ohio was down so low. ' Vistula, Ind., claims a farmer who goes into trances and preaches remarkably fine sermons. Concentrated lye mixed in the food and water of hogs is said to be a very effective cure for hog cholera. The residence of a Mr. Straw, of Fremont, was entered a few night* since and about S3OO taken therefrom. A woman with a full grown mustache and chin whiskers created a sensation on the streets of New Castle, the other day. A train on the Lake Shore railroad stops twenty-five minute for supper at laPorte, whereat the eating-house man complains. . Castleman Rankin, of Leesburg, was found dead in his bed a few mornings since. He was perfectly well an hour before the discovery of his death One week ago last Saturday night the residence of a Mr. Gugular, of Tippecanoe township, was entered by burglars and SBOO in money, and a watch taken. The Treasurer’s offlee of Marion county was robbed in open daylight, recently, the thieves getting away with $905 in cash and a quantity of valuable papers. Mr. Allen Hunt, an aged artist of Marion, who.has been long addicted to habits of intemperance, died upon the streets of that city, a few days ago. from alcoholism. . : Hon. Isaac Odell, of Shelby county, a prominent lawyer and politician, was stricken with paralysis the other day while pleading a case, and died two days afterward. •• • } Recently a six-year old daughter of F. M. Hunt, who residesseven.miles n6rth of Muncie, was instantly killed by the falling as a cave, used as a cellar, breaking her neck, shoulder and one . arm. So deeply was she buried that it required an hour's digging to reach her. William Kirtlky. jr., and Miss Amy Moore, both of Peru, were secrectly married at Bturgis, Mich., last September and managed to keep the matter mun until last week, when a lost letter laid bare the truth. The denouement was a grand surprise all around. Tipton Times: Therehas never, in the history of Tipton county, been a season in which so much tile has been manufactured and used as during the present one. The tile factories throughout the county, of which there are . some fifteen or sixteen, have all been . run to their fullest capacity. ’ A St. Joseph county physician directed a youth whom he had in his employ to clean out his. horse stable, and his order was implicitly obeyed. On going to the barn the doctor found the floor of the stable split up and neatly piled outside, and the man chopping away at the stall partitions. A colony which left Lawrence county, this State, for Kansas, two months ago returned last week, having in their possession much less .lucre than when they left, but a far greater stock of wisdom. They caution the people of Indiana to stick to their homes, and to go anywhere else but to Kansas. The last car load of a large order from Wm. H. Vanderbilt were shipped from Bedford to New York a day or two since. The stone is to be used in the construction of a fine private residence. Since the stone begun, to arrive in that city several orders have been received from other parties, and a large trade is anticipated for next " season. Miss Jennie Huddleson has under taken a commendable work of charity at Rushville, this State. Some time ago she proposed to the county commissioners to take the children at the poor farm between the ages of six and fourteen and send them to school, *. furnishing the necessary board, clothing, etc., for the sum of twehty-five I cents a day for each child. Her terms were acoepted, and to-day Miss Hnddleson has one of the largest and happiest fomiliee in Rushville. . For the past week or ten days there s has been a woman, giving her name as Fanny Parks, or Parker, living around in Howard and Read’s woods in the neighborhood of Jeffersonville, Clarke county. She applied to several of the neighbors for help, telling them she was about to become a mother. A few days ago the woman dissappeared, and nothing more was thoubgt about it until Nov. 15, when one of the neigh-

’x>re was attracted by the continuous bellowing of the cows and the gathering of the pigs in a particular spot. He went to the scene, and was horrified to find the mutilated remains of a new born male infant, nearly devoured by the hogs. LaPobte Chronicle : A genius has been discovered in our midst in the person of a young lady. Her name is Paulina Kugler, and she is about sixteen years of age. Like all true geniuses she is modest and diffident. Hhe lets another and not herself praise her efforts. We were permitted last week to see one of hsrhandsomedrawngs, a portrait of Rubens. It is indeed a masterpiece, and will surely be the means of leading this talente

uljl Mj j to which her genius entitles her. The young artist resides in the Fifth ward She is of German extraction, and doubtless inherited some of her artistic ability from her father, Martin Kugler, who was a leading bank notoeugraver in Europe. A gentleman who can appreciate talent wherever he finds It la

interesting himself in Mias Kngler’s case, and has placed her portrait of Rubens in one of the art collections of Chicago. He informs us that wellknown connoisseurs there speak In eulogistic terms of the portrait, and express glowing opinions of Miss Kngler’s future success. Albert Woodard, of Jefferson county, with his wife and two daughters—Melissa, aged eighteen, and aged eight yCare—had been visiting a married daughter, at Jeffersonville, foa several days past. They started home Nov. 18, about 8:30 o’clock, in a a spring wagon with a mule team. About two miles southeast of that city they had to cross the Clifty river, an ugly fording place at the best, but that morning the river was an angry, swollen torrent after the late hard rains, and Mr. Woodard, not knowing how treacherously deep the water was, made the fatal attempt to cross, depending on the strength of his trusty | team. But as they neared the opposite shore the current bocame too strong, and the mules became entangI led in the harness which was about to throw them down. Mr Woodard then got out on the wagon to cut the harness in which he partly succeeded, I hoping to loosen the mules, and thereby save his family. The water swept him off his feet before he accomplished I bis purpose, and he sank and rose several times. He says the last thing he saw was his wife and children, with I agonized faces, clinging to the upturnj ing wagon. After he was swept enJ tirely away from them, he beard their ; piteous cnes to him. but he was enable ito do anything. He was swept down ! the stream quite a distance and dashed I against thebank. As soon as he recovered himself he looked around, but saw no 6igns of his family or team. He then hurried to'the nearest house, that of Mr. Lingsmith’s, and told his terI rible story. Mr. Lingsmith hurried ! for town for aid, and in a'short time *a great number of citizens were at the j place of the accideht with boats to try I and find the bodies dead or alive. They succeeded in fiuding nothing but the mules and some loose clothing that was'in the wagon. The rnuhrs were dead.