Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1879 — INDLANA INKLINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDLANA INKLINGS.

Ft. Wayne capitalists are talking of eataMtahing an immeoae furniture factory in that city. Tn Elkhart starch company recently shipped a ear load of stareh to London, England. ; Thk shipments of hay from Misha waka for the srannn were five hundred tons, and. a hundred tons more would be shipped if the season would permit. 1 A young man named William Dale, was killed by lightning while chopping wood near Indianapolis, on the 9th teat

Lavi Newman, who was shat at Evansville last week, will recover, in ail probability, with a bullet in his brain. Habsy Ecphrat, a cigar maker living in Counersville, baa fallen heir to SIO,OOO by the death |o a wealthy aunt. The employees at the New Albany Bail Mill were agreeably surprised, recently, by a voluntary advance of ten percent, in their wages. John Montgomery, of Washington, Daviess county, dim ted a tree while coon hunting, fell to the ground and waa killed instantly These children of Robert Craig, of Union City, were badly poisoned last week by eating cabbage on which Paris green bad been sprinkled while growing. .

Last week a stray shot from some huntsman’s gun killed a S3OO colt belonging to Elihu W. Shrader, of Rush county. J. J. Miller, a “weather prophet” living in Jay' county, this State, says there are fourteen “tracking snows” to fall jet this winter. The Jail at Peru has been condemned by the grand jury as unhealthy and unfit for occupancy, and the prisoner confined there was removed to the Wabash jail. Charles Sellers living near Orleans, Orange county, cut down a large tree which fell on bis wife. She was ho seriously injured that her life was despaired of.

The people iu the vicinity of Huffman’s Lake in Kosciusko county,have discovered a monster inhabitant of those waters. Perhaps it to the same old devil that used to haunt Lake Manitou in Fulton county. Michael Stapleton, a fugitive from justice who to wanted at Bloomingtou, 111., was arrested at Ft. Wayne the other day. He was identified by a figure of Christ which to marked in In dia ink on one of hto arms. A pull set of signal service instruments nave been received at Purdue University, and observations according to the rules of the service will hereafter be taken by Professor Ingersoll. It to estimated that the tobapco crop .of Brown county will fall for short of an average, perhaps not more than a half crop. There was less put out than usual, and the dry season materially injured it.

John Rowe, a wealthy farmer, living three miles north of Hagerstown, Wayne county, was poisoned by Inhalation of vapor from red oak timber with which he was working. After suffering terrible agony he died. Henry Globe, a colored youth of Rising Sun. while practicing on a horn the other evening, blew so hard that leading educationalists of the State, he ruptured himself. An operation was performed on him, and he died next morning from the effects of it. Mrs. Williams, living near Connersville, was reoently attacked by a ferocious dog, which tore off the lower portion of her ear, and terribly lacerated the side of her face and one arm. So great to the demand for scrap iron at the mills of New Albany that \even the formers in the vicinity turn out to t> u y it for them, and large quantifies are imported direct from England. During the year ending September 1, 1879, 503,892 children were enrolled

in the public schools of Indiana. The ooet of educating them was $3,002,617.64. Among others, there are 635 private schools in the State. The twenty-fifth annual meeting of the Indiana State Teaahers’ Association will be held at Masonic Hall December 29, 30 and 31. Ex-Governor Hendricks will deliver the opening address, and during the session of the Association addresses will be delivered by Farmers in Dear bora and Ohio cou c ties have been marketing directly from the field, and selling at the distillery in Aurora. The corn is not as thoroughly ripened as could be desired, therefore they are rushing it market at thirty-five cents. As one of Mr. Geo. Stockberger’s boys was riding through the streets of Bloominsburg, Fulton county, a few days since, his horse—a very fine mare —stepped en a stick, one end of which flew up and striking her under the flank, just in front of the hind leg, severed a large artery and caused her to bleed to death in ten minutes.

Brown James, of Webster township, Wayne county, went to Rich- * mond, the other day, to procure a marriage license, and got on a drunk. He was arrested with the document on his person, and spent the night in a drunken sleep in the station house, while the company waited at home for his coming. < Tbe guests concluded, about midnight, that his courage had failed him and he had skipped out, and they separated. Next morning Mayor Bennet fined him and sent him home to smooth it oyer with the young woman. "Shoot me, Lon, right in the mouth,” is what Mrs. Buck, of South Berd, said Tuesday morning, to her husband, who held in his hand a revolver belonging to his brother, which he had been examining. Accordingly, Alonso, in a playful way, supposing there was not a cartridge in IV raised

him, he hud discharged a load into his Mn 2aT condition ethical, though hopes are entertained of her recovery. Wabash The county of Wabash hardy escaped an interesting law suit, this week. George Mullen, the trump, so long kept a wit-

ness in the Abbot murder case was the disturbing dement. Mullen having consulted attorneys, concluded to demand damages for his incarceration, but first moved on the Board with a view of a compromise. Ihis was finally agreed upon, and Mullen received “in full of *ll claims,” the munificent sum of $66.00 together with rail-road transportation to Detroit, for his summer’s residence in the county baa tile. Tn Peru Republican gives the following sample of successful farming: “John Cook, of Richland, sold twentyone hogs whom Peerage weight was 409} pounds each. He sold at four cents and received a premium of sls on the lot. Lust year his hogs averaged 425 pounds, but he fed them longer than this year. One field of his corn this year averaged eighty bushels to the acre, and twenty-two acres avraged just seventy bushels per acre. This is good, even for Richland town-

ship. Mrs. Klkcknkr, a patient in the Hcapital for the Insane, from Warsaw; who had been there onlv three days, committed suicide, recently. It seems that the attendant had just left the apartment to get the woman her dinner. She was In the bed at the time, and was apparently very quiet and doing well. When the attendant returned and opened the door, the body fell to the floor with a thud, and upon examination life was found to be extinct. She bad torn her night dress into sheds and made a rope, from whiich she was suspended until the jar of the door opening caused the body to fall. A barn owned by Thomas Peck, near Shoals, was destroyed by fire a few nights since. Seven head of horses, harness, and considerable grain were burned. Loss about $4,000. The same evening a tramp called and requested lodging, but was refused. The opinion is that he took his revenge by setting fire to the barn. ; '