Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1879 — INDIANA INKLINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INKLINGS.

Wabash has a Pinafore Club. Large numbers of hogs are dying in Noble county. A perjurer and laroenist recently escaped from the jail at Angola. Thb Marshal County Guards have disbanded and will return their guns. The State papers note the birth of several children on Thanksgiving day. Thb corn crop of Rush county for 1879 will fall one-third short of an average. The wheat prospects in the counties bordering on the Ohio river are the best for years. Mas. Pratt, aFt Wayne milliner, has fallen heir to $15,000 by the death of a relative in Philadelphia. . The hog crop of Wabash county is very light this season. Hog cholera aud the scarcity of oorn did (t Robert Cannon went off a balcony at Rising Bun, while drunk, and broke his shoulder blade and collar bode. John R. EL Dunn was buried at Spencer last week. He was the first white child born in Owen coupty. The Hoosier Drill Company are manufacturing one hundred and fifty large sized drills for Moscow, Russia. Reason Lane has Just been indicted by the grand Jury of Washington county for a murder committed sixteen years ago.

Two highwaymen attacked Mr. Feathering! 11, of New Albany, on the Paoli pike, and robbed him of SB6O apd a gold watch. A brutk in North township, Marshal county, is accused of pulling his wife out of bed by the hair of her head, because she snores. **

Jefferson Searees, living near New Albany, was felling a tree when a splinter fiew striking him on the head killing him instantly. The Seymour Gaslight and Coke Oompany have filed articles of association with the Secretary of State. The capital stock Is $20,000. A THRKK-YKAK-OLD son of Silas Williamson, of Richmond, was choked to death, reoently, by a coffee grain he had attempted to swallow,. The Judge of the Madison oounty Circuit Court gave four attorneys of

aware county, on which the 11 pate en tee proposes to collect ton dollars royalty. William Hexdbbxdes started home from Eugene, drunk, and lying in his wagon, and was found dead when his destination was reached, two mites in the country. Thb receipts from sales of tickets at the Union depot, Indianapolis, in November were 812,842 in excess of the receipts from sales tlie corresponding month in 1878. Dr. James F. Mock, of Alexandria. Madison county, WM anested a few days ago for stealing hogs. The doctor once represented Madison ooonty in the Legislature. Samuel H. Hou°k, an attorney of Cambridge City, has been arrested on a requisition from the Governor of lowa for obtaining money under false pretenses in that State. The American Manilla paper company of Brookville, Franklin county with 830,000 capital, has filed articles association. A. J. Hodder is at the head of the list of subscribers. V

In a recent murder trial'&t Ft. Wayn one of the jurymen became a raving maniac while the case was in progress and was taken to the asylum at Indianapolis 'where he died a few days ago. . " •At four o'clock the other morning Joseph and Thomas Hughes, of Indianapolis, started out on a thieving expedition. Five hours later they were arrested, the spoils of the expedition being found in their possession, and at half-past ten o'clock they had been tried, found guilty, and each sentenced to the-penitentiary for three years. A few days sinoe a woman named Williams, living two miles west of Economy, Wayne County, while affected with a sudden attack of epilepsy, fell face downward on a very hot stove wt ich she was standing over, and was burned so badly, .especially in the face, that no hopes are entertained for her recovery. A young man living a few miles south of Rushville, named Ed. Wiley, attempted to shoot a coon, when ths gun buist and the breech pin went through bis head, killing him' instantly.

Joseph Wright, of Brownstown, as executor of the estate of Margaret Wright, has brought suit against the Pittsburgh, Chicago arid St. Louis railroad for $6,200 for killing Mrs Wright, near Franklin. John J. Stanley, a prominent farmer living near Arlington, Rush county, has been violently insane sinoe last Saturday. He has to be closely guarded, as he is bent on killing his father and brother. The farm house of Rufus Williams, about two miles northest of Muncie, was destroyed by fire Wednesday of last week. Tramps are supposed to have set the house on fire. Loss about SI,OOO with no insurance. Maggie Schelter, the insane inmate of the St. Joseph county asylum, upon whom an outrage was committed by some unknown person, has become the mother of a boy, and indignation over the event is renewed.

Washington county is probably the only county in the State that has no negroes within its borders. A negro causes more wonderment there than a whole menagerie of wild animals. No negro exodus there. A pet deer, belonging to a citizen of Bedford, got out of the enclosure in which he was kept and commenced an indiscriminate attack on all the children be met with in his rambles. He was captured before serious damage occurred.

A little daughter of George W. Young, of Rushville, was standing at the grate, a few evenings sinoe, when her clothes caught fire and were burned from her person. Her hair was entirely burned, but strange to say, her injuries are but slight Frank T. Thomas, a young married man of Winslow, with two companions, all drunk, started to drive home from Evansville the other night Thomas was thrown out on his head and Instantly killed. He was 25 jears pld, and haves a .charming young wife. ■, ■ L v '

The beauties of litigation are being exemplified in Roanoke, Huntington oounty. Two obstinate citizens recently “went to law” over a claim of flftycents. The costs already amount to nearly ten dollars and the case seems as far from settlement as when it was first begun. Mbs. Suffae, of Freedom, Gwen oounty, and her husband and numerous children are somewhat excited gver the appearance of C. S. Gray, in the role of Enoch Arden; Mr. Gray fled from the State during the war to escape arrest as a knight of the golden circle, and Mrs. G. supposed him dead and married Mr. HuflU.

The monumept to the mother of Abraham Lincoln was placed in position above her grave in the village of Lincoln, lu • Spencer oounty, on Thanksgiving day. It is a beautiful shaft of white marble, and bears the legend that beneath it rests in peace the remains of NatoyrLinooln, mother of Abraham Lincoln*, sixteenth President of the United States.. The Howard county Jail most be a dreadful place. Frfcnk Henry, who had been confined in the noisome den for nine months, was released the other day -on his own recognizance, his bond being placed at one thousand dollars. He entered the jail a stout, bale and healthy man, but when released was almost in a dying condition, the result of his confinement in the foul place.