Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1868 — Indiana News. [ARTICLE]

Indiana News.

—Governor Baker has appointed Thursday, November 2Cth, as a day of Thanksgiving and prayer. —Laura Kean is to visit Logansport, this winter, with a theatrical troupe. —Tho growing wheat crop in Central Indiana is reported iu fine condition; -—Track laying on the Crawfordsville and Danville Railroad will bo commenced this week. —Governor Baker has written a letter declining to bo a candidate for United States Senator. —The Wabash Democratic Standard reports the potato as a half crop in that vicinity. The potato crop is abundant in Grant. —Tho Rochester Union Spy nom inates General Walter Q. Gresham of New Albany, for United States Senator from Indiana. —There aro moro vacant dwelling houses ‘now in New Albany than at any previous time during the last three years. —A young man named Freeland was killed in Jackson township, Porter county, last Friday, by a tree being blown down on him at a httskipgbgSt ; . —Hofi Solomon Meredith and bis son Henry returned home on the 2d inst. from Montana where they have boon for two years. ■ —Captain John ,M. Commons, Governor Baker’s private secretary, has been appointed one of tho twen-ty-five’Supervising Agents ot the Internal Revenue Department, under a recent law providing for such officers. • —■Tho Indiana Home for Juvenile Offenders contains one hundred and five inmates, five more than it was intended to accomodate, and there are several more applicants for admission. —The Indianapolis and Vincennes railroad is progressing." If llnr weather continues favorable, the cars will probably bo running to Spencer by Christmas—otherwise, next spring. —Tho Election Board of Sullivan threw oulihevoteeflsflacM. Brown, editor of the Union, because he had written on the.hack of the ticket, “I. M. Brown, Editor Union*” The Board decided the two latter words “distinguishing marks” in the meaning of the registry law. of Indiana may witness a, meteoric shower between, the hdurs ofmidnigbTand sunrise on the mornings oftho 12 th and 15tb of this month, it they keep awakciand watcb, and the weather is favorable. The place to watch is a patch of tho hoavons Huffb u udin gtbo const el latio n “EecT for twenty fire degrees. Weston, tho Walkest, has written to learn diog_far it is from Indianapolis to New Bethel. He is to start from Bangor, Maine, and walk to St. Paul, Minnesota, and return, a distance of five thousand miles, within ana handled days-op ft, wager~of twenty thoußand-TfoTTars. —A serious affray occurred in Marion.J.county, about six miles south-east of Indianapolis, lastj Fri—day night, in which s Republican named Smith had hie wrist badly shattered by a pistol-shot from a Democrat named Turpin, and TurEin was disemboweled by an unnown man. Smith loses his hand and Turpin died. Cause of the difficulty, politics. —A most dastardly and cowardly attempt to murder some members of the Order of Good Templers was made on last Monday night, by some ruffians throwing into their midst through the window at their lodge room. Mr. Samuel Quigley, who happened to be sitting near the window, was struck with a large stone upon the back part of the bend, wnich prostrated him to the floor.— Winamac Republican. —The Fort Wayne, Muncie and Cincinnati, and the Fort Wayne, Richmond and Cincinnati Railroads will be put under contract in a short time. The City Council of Fort Wayne has adopted a resolution that whenever the Fort Wayno F Richmond and Cincinnati Railroad Company shall complete the whole line of said railroad, and tho cars shall be running thereon, and jn connection therewith from Cincinnati thro’ Richmond into Fort Wayne, the said city will provide by ordinance for a subscription to the capital stock of said company of SIOO,OOO, and will issue the bonds therefor payable to said company in an equal amount and with like interest as the bonds authorized to be issued to the Fort Wayne,Muncio and Cincinnati Railroad. Wm. Bryan o£Bellevue, Ohio, has raised some potatoes from seed sent to him from Belgium, by Bayard Taylor. The tubers average a pound apiece, and sixteen weighing sixteen pounds grew from a single eye. L'.