Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1868 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

—The Grecian Bend has appeared at Bdnth Bend. —lndianapolis is trying to get up a bowling alley prayer meeting. —lt will take another year to complete the State Normal School at. Terre Haute. —A pumpkin vine 1100 feet in length was grown in Posey county this year. .—More handsome residences are being built in Atlanta, Ga., than at any previous period. —Burglaries and high-way roberies arte becoming very fashionable at Indianapolis. —-Ah old man was found Starved to death, in the woods tte'O 1 miles south of Indianapolis, last Saturday night. i—Z.- - - —A new daily evening paper is to be started at Indianapolis, next Monday. It is to be called The Mirror. . t -—Ninety-one meteors of nnnsual brillianey were counted at Indianapolis, about three o'clock Saturday morning.. * . j~’-' James F. Watson, of Lafayette, plc-ad ggilty to the charge of forgery and was sentenced to a t<?rm of four years in the penitentiary. —Dr. Orpheus Everts, of Michigan City, has been elected’ Superintendant of the Indiana Insane Asylum, rive Lockhart, resigned.

—Ths toxaMe vacation of New Albany, Mover $f1,800,000. —An attempt is being made to start a Democratic paper at Laporte. Pork packing has commenced at Indianapolis. It is estimated that between 60,000 and 70,000 hogs will be slaughtered in that city this season. town contains eighty soldiers and seventy-two orphan children ©fUeoeased soldiers, p —The' Lafayette Journal has recently changed hands—Messrs, James and Kinmons have retired from its business management, and Mr. J. G. Thompson takes their place, while Mr. r. D. Hammond, formerly of the Danville Commercial, takes general editorial control. It has also put on a new dress which very materially improves its typographic al appearance. In politds it remains Republican, and is, altogether, one of the best papers in the State. —Major R. H. Litson, of Madison, disappeared from his residence in that city some dnys since, and all efforts to ascertain his whereabouts have proved unavailing. —At Huntington, Indiana, on Saturday night last, the jewelry store of T. W. Gardner was entered by -burglara, who carried off three thousand dollars’ worth of watches, diamonds, etc. Nojcluc to the thieves yet. Important Abrert. —David Powell, an officer of the Cleveland, Columbus & Indiana Central Railroad, arrested at Warsaw, Illinois, on Friday of last week, Lucien Radcliffe, a young man formerly agent of the road at Kent Statioh, Indiana, on a charge of embezzling funds of the road to the amount of twentyone hundred dollars.