Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1868 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

—The Michigan City Penitentiary contains 320 convicts. —New corn sells, at South Bend for fifty cents a bushel. —Small fire at Plymouth on the 17th innt. —.Good Wyjftr wheat flour is selling at Crown Point for $9 a barrel. • —Burglars and pickpockets at Plymouth. —Seven deer were killed in Pulaski county on the 18th. —The Lafayette people don’t like the smell of their Artesian.water. —Several thousand hogs will be slaughtered at Franklin this season. —The Odd Fellows of Winamac give an oyster festival on Thanksgiving evening. —A lump of copper ore, weighing nearly a pound, was picked up in an excavation at South Bend. - —The Terre Haute nail works are turning out two thousand kegs of nails a week. —Grant’s official majority in Indiana is 10,146, a Republican gain of 9,185 over tho vote in October. —The Sinking Fund sales take place at Indianapolis on tho first Tuesday in December. —Nine hundred dollar’s worth of peach brandy was seized by Collector Brown of Indianapolis on the 19th inst. —Win. Dair, of St. Joseph county, was fatally injured on the 15th by a colt he was breaking to ride rearing and falling upon him. —Col. G. A Pieroe, of the Valparaiso Vidette, is the most prominent candidate for Speaker of the lower House of thq State Legislature. —A special election is to be held in Carroll county for Representative. The regular election resulted in a tie between the rival candidates. —The New Albany Glassworks have commenced operations, and are manufacturing large quantities of bottles. They are the only glassworks in Indiana. —The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, in session at Indianapolis, passed the following resolution on the 18th mst: Resolved, That the annexed recognition of the respect we bear him as a distinguished Odd Fellow, be despatched to the Hon. Schuyler Colfax. TPast Grand Representative, Schuyler Colfax, Andover, Ohio: Your brethren of the Grand Lodge of Indiana congratulate you upon your civil honors, and wish you and your bride a life of unalloyed, happiness. [Signed.] E. JI Barry, - Grand Secretary. —The banner Democratic county of Indiana, is Allen, in which "Fort Wayne is located. It gave Scymow 2,54-7 mitjterUy.—The-banner Republican county is Wayne, in which Richmond is situated. It gave Grant 2,538/majority, a pretty even offset, The next largest Democratic counties are Floyd, which gave Seymour 1,179 majority; Franklin/ 1,193; Jackson, 904; Sullivan, 1,157. But they are overcome by Delaware, which gave Grant 1,691 majority; Hamilton, 1,964; Henry, 2,024; Marion, 1,409; Parke, 1,018; Randolph, 1,688; Steuben, 1,051; and Wabash, 1,393.