Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1869 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Craw fordsville has a ladies’ reading room. lion. D. D. Pratt weighs 34C pounds. The school-fund of our State amounts to 88,259,341.34. The Indianapolis house of refuge has 108 inmates. Two fellows in Duboiu ifounty recently swapped wives, one paying three bushels of corn ‘to boot.' A.man near Terre llnute manufactured' 4,542 gallons of xx inc, last year. The Louisville, New Albany <t Chicago stockholders want the Legislature to remit about 1100,000 worth of taxis they are owing-the State. The South Bend Register says scarcely a night passes w ithout a house.being broken into in that city, and it demands a larger police force.

Velocipede is raging *t Indianapolis, Richmond, South Bend, Notre Dame, Winamac, and several oilier of the littly, out-of-the-way railroad tow ns oi the State.

On uit—that lion. S. E. Perkins, lion. 11. C. Newcomb and lion. G. H. Voss hrtve formed a law co-part-nership for the purpose of practicing in the State and Federal courts at Indianapolis.

Terre Haute has a fellow named Dollar, and South Bend once had a Shilling and now has several Franks, a Thaler and a Kreutzer. Rensselaer has’t a (s)cent, but she has one of tbe finest artesian wells in the State, besides being' surrounded with sulphur springs. The South Bend liegtster and the Plymouth Republican are quarreling about the comparative merits of the w agons manufactured in their respective cities. Nobody user hail occasion to quarrel over those manufactured in Rensselaer by Norman Warner. Their excellence is beyond competition.

Mattingly, of the Rochester Spy and Bonner, of the New York Ledger, arc atilt. Bonner is mad because Mattingly, calls the Ledger a “rat” office. Look out. Bill, or dexter-ous Bonner will either publish your biography, or advertise you as “a regular contributor” and have you sent to Congress. A slenderly built thief, wearing a long black coat, attacked a lady who was passing along Main street in South Bend, about half past seven o'clock in the evening, on the 25th uit., put his hand ’ over her mouth and robbed her of a set of furs, a breast pin and a purse containing fifteen dollars. IJe was immediately pursued, but succeeded in making his escape with his plunder.

rsrw e would suggest that the Legislature ascertain the number of divorces granted In the State during the past year. We sec by the papers, La Porte county grafted 57, and Elkhart 44. There were 11 granted in this county, making in al! for three counties 112. The number would be appalling in asocial point of view, were it not for the fact that the larger proportion were granted to parties properly belonging to other States. It would be well to let other States manage their own domestic affairs. We protest against our courts being burdened with their dirty work, especially— Lagrange Standard.

u .Riverside Magazine" .for February, opens with a frontispiece by that established favorite, 11. L. Stephens, who gives in a series of scenes the well known story of the “Three Little Kittens that lost their Mittens.” Mrs?. Week's story of “ White and Bed" introduces the historic character “Hoje-in-the-Day,” whose picture is given. F. S. Stockton, whose story of “Ting-a ling” in a former number has not been forgotten, follows the adventures of the little rogue and his burlv friend Turilira, introducing also five new characters, magicians of uncommon readiness. Bensell’s pictures, seven in number, fit in with the text admirably. F. R. Goulding has a curious mathematical Btorv. Abby Sage, the welcome relator of stories from Shakespeare, begins a new series of similar stories from

vChaucer and others. Phoebe C?arv has a poem; the pathetic story of “It” is finished; a short paper how to put out likenesses, supplies the mechanical element, and then at the end of the number conies a very large mouthful in she shape -of a ten page story byTHans Andersen, “The Dryad,” a tale of the french 'Exhibition, which is published here simultaneously with its appearance abroad. It has the fervor and fancy of some of Andersen’s best works. Published by Hurd and