Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1879 — INDIANA INKLINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INKLINGS.

The young ladles of Wabash, have organised a Cooking Club. Hom. D. R. Beans, gave a Thanksgiven dinner to the oolored population of Peru, Nov. 27,1878. The Pullman Palace Car Company will shortly erect a spacious factory at Indianapolis, employing 600 men A thrke months old child of J. P. Johnson, of Ligonier, has won eternal fame for itself by "shooting "two double teeth. i

POTTER, the wheelbarrow tramp, peered through New Albany a few days ago on tie return to New York from San Fraoetoco. . A little girt of Richmond got A grain of roasted ooffee lodged In her windpipe and died. The operation of tracheotomy' was resorted to without sucoeos. - * - •, _. v -- A shrewd thief Baade a big raise in Decatur last we££y stealing seventyfive head of sheep and selling them to a stock dealer. The thief made good his escape before the theft was discovered.

•‘A well known married lady, of this vicinity,” says the Laporte Argos, ‘ celebrated her twentieth wedding anniversary one day last week by Wilting her first letter to her husband, who to now away from home. - Dr. Lindlby, of Brookville, has been sued for $5,000 damages by Simon Allen, the latter claiming that he was damaged in the above amount in oonsequence of Undley’s carelessness in setting a broken arm for him. Emma Welson, daughter of Dr. J. F. Wilson, a dentist at Charlestown, Clark oounty, went out on Monday evening after some wood and has not aiuoe been heard of. She had previously been reproved by her father for walking home from school with a young man.

Miami County Sentinel: The Hon. Wm. Zehiing’s boys have threshed 85,000 bushels of wheat during the past season., They kept an account of the number of aofes from which the wheat was cut, and find the average yield te he over twenty-six bushels per sere. Mr. Zehring says the average yield of corn, in the same section of oountry, will not be much more. A very light orop having been raised. The citisens of Paoli, this State, are vigorously protesting against the opening of a saloon la that place. The town has had no saloon for many , years, and ths party at present applying for license to fill the “soiling void” will encounter an to likely to defeat bis application. Rochestob Sentinel: A s->apped-dler did a thriving business here for a few days. He took in the greenies by putting a $5 bill in a package and selling another package thatjdid not con tain the bill, for $3. He caught several suckers, as any sharper can who comes to Rochester. Rochester is a smart town, but like all others it has its greenies.

St. Joseph county, particularly South Beud, is greatly agitated over a scandal which has just come to light at the county poor house. A young German woman confined there, who has been hoplessly Insane since girlhood, and is kept locked in a oed, has been found enciente. All citizens, but especially the Germans are very indiguant over the affoir, and are determined to have the perpetrator of the awful crime severely punished, if he can be found, j * Four months ago a stranger persuaded Samuel Lillie, a former of Sullivan county, to sign an apparent agreement, 'whereby he became responsible for some washing machines left in hto care, and of which he was to assume the agency. Facts since coming to light proved it to be a note for SIBO, which the unfortunate farmer was compelled to pay. The stranger also persuaded another well known farmer to sign a similar note for a similar amount, but the former having since become insolvent, payment cannot be enforced. Wabash Plain Dealer: Perry Warren, the shoemaker at Lake ton, while erazy drunk last Friday night aweek, drove hto wife and children out of the house, and fiendishly bit hto little baby’s hand until it still bt&rs the $m arks of its savage treatment. The wife has taken her children and returned to her father’s. Warren has not yet been punished, but It to hoped that the Grand (Jury will investigate his conduct. If half as bad as reported to us he deserves to be quartered, and the good people of Pleasant Township ought to rise in their might and treat him to a cold bath in Eel river.

The Goshen correspondent of the Chicago Times telegraphs that paper that at the wedding ot Mr. George Kapp, of Goshen, to Elisabeth Sarbaugh, at Leesburg, on the evening of the 28th, a blood-curdling tradgedy was enacted, which has caused a great sensation there and at Leesburg. The wedding was quite a society event,and more than one thousand persons, including many of the best people of Goshen, Warsaw, and Leesburg witnessed the eeranony and were congratulating the happy couple, when Mr.Jaoob Lichter, of Goshen a nephew of the bride, who had gone outside, got into an altercation with a party of roughs who were hanging about the house, during Liohter was knocked down and assailed by a barber with a razor, a baker with a butch-er-knife, and another man, who puremeled him fearfully with hfes fists. Charley Merrls, a baker in Stephens’ restaurant, plunged* a butcher-knife twice into Lichter’s Body, once in the region of the heart and again in the shoulder. Lichter’s clothes were almost torn eff him. He tumbled into the Louse, shrieking with agony, and crowded his way through the room

among the horrified guests, who were completely paralyzed by the spectacle. He called loudly for his sister, saying that he was killed. At each step the blood spurted from the ugly wounds and over the clothe* of the guests. The Injured man dropped upon a bed apparently dying, A perfect panic prevailed, and the sister of the wounded man fainted. The chances for the recovery of the wounded man are only one in ten. Morris has fled. It to said that Licht»r proveked the assalut, and that Morris stabbed him hi selfdefense. 1 i