Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1869 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Indianapolis ban 36 churches. Martinsville in infested with thieves, The Oxford Court House has a new bdl. Laporte county has 113 school houses and 200, teachers. . .1.... , Red foxes arc prevalent in the country about New Providence* Laportg county has fl liquor shops. Liike coilnty'has but 60. A Madison firm shipped 200,000 bushels of potatoes into the South this season. The M. E. Church at Medaryville received forty in a recent revival, A Mishawaka parSnep measures 2 feet in length and 164 inohes in circuference. It is generally reported that the peaches are all killed in the vicinity of Terre Haute. ■> The salt of Crawford county have a producing capacity of 400 barrels per day. New Albany has exported more than 100,000 heads of cabbages for Southern consumption, this winter, The, number of school children ih Floyd county is 8,487, of whom. 3,864 have attended school the past year. A farmer in Jennings county raised two and one-half tons of tobaooo on eight acres of ground, last season. A blooming matron of sixteen, in Dubois county, is already the mother of two boys aged respectively two and one years. Bloomington has just hung a four-hundred-dollar, one-thousand-and-ten-pound, sweet-tonpd bell in its courthouse.

Noah Freeman has snCcl F. S> Remington, proprietor of the Wihamac Republican, for libel. Damages laid at $3,000! ' Whew I • Barny Barnum,of Jennings county has fallen heir to two and ope? seventh million' dollar's worth of an estate, located in Germany. Thirty or forty members have been added to the Methodist Church iq Vincennes during the protracted meetingl which is still in progress. Mr. Cramer’s little child'wafcr seriouslypoisoned, at Fort-Wayne( last w eek, by 1 hating iqe 'seeds 1 of the “gimseu” weed, (datura stramonium.) The BentCu Tribune man says the Christinas present at his house was a copy of his faithful sjro.” Call him Adonis, Pan, at a venture. . William Mcßride, a printer, of Princeton, has been indicted for forgery, in siguing q physician’s name to a requisition on a druggist for whisky. Virginia oysterpien claim that it is death t 6 Cat raw oysters immediately after eating of sugar op molasses. Certainly, to the'oyster. Tlie Methodist Church on the Wea has been having a very interesting series of meetings for a week of two past. Two hundred and fifty new converts have been received. The Protestant Methodists have just completed a meeting Louse 30 by 40 feet in size, in Medaryville. Some thirty additiona have been made to their church this winter. A conductor on the Lopisil)n> Indianapolis and Chicago road inquired of a tipsy passenger where he wanted to go. M To hell*” was the reply. The conduetpr let him <0 at tfUfeystt*, a

Vice President Colfax has com sented to addtess the Odd Fellows of Fort Wayne, at their celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Order in America, which occurs on the 28th of next April. Three thousand four hundred dollars have been subscribed towards building a Methodist Episcopal Chapel atKentland. The edifice is to be 38 by feet iu size. '{'he church there nas had a very encouraging revival this winter, about 100 converts having joined- The Sent: land Gaoeite says that.the wapts o| the plaoe demand two new ttwefing

got preachers house, ate a breakfast which the miiiister’s wife got up at fotir o'clock to get, and then wtnt away without even thanking tljsj ; poor shepherd forlili ! h^p4tallty SWC+ 1 Ala.; 'ffftihatng Ms tick 100, lUot. ThCodOTeMaxWOH, ttf'tifi? regular army; writes home that LlWit Maxwell is not yet improving. The Lieutenant lias beeh vety f6w, anty his recotory is still inf dduWJ-^JPrwfj land QaztUt. i • ~ (i i : fl r '1 .(foil IWn.7«*>:<« A lady visited Lafayette, the other <lay, who in gathering up her drew tp escape the m«d, pxposed to ..yiatg a beautiful white skirt,, the rear breadth of which was made of a half barrel flour sack, upon.p'hiqh the in dpllible brand of tips miller waa ,*sl visable, “Ninety-six pounds, extra superfine—warranted.’! YV. K. D. Barnett, fate Treadtnvf of Putnam county, against whom suit was brought for ('moneys unaccounted for,” has couiessod judg incut tor t?,00(k Barnett was a shrewd Democratic official, who had several women.on his tax duplicates marked as “soldiers,” to account for the,non-payment of ihpir taxoa, , The Lafayette Jjil|rJl'ai days, - ,r A ‘Teias catfTc’ rheetmg at RepssA laer, Jasper Coilntv, recently 'ftesolved, That wc will obey the law.* Probably they will.” AM of which is strictly true, frith the foil paving exceptions: ,fl ' > " ’; <r ' Ist. The “Texas cattle”'ijever held a meeting ib Rensselaer. 2d, Nobody die lias held a ‘Texas cattle* meeting ht Renslelaer,” or in Jasper county. 3d. Nobody ever WUI a meeting in Rensselaer at which sflpfc '% resolution was introduced. ,4th. No‘“Texas tattle* meeting at Rensselaer, Jasper County,’ l ever “Resolved, That WC will ghey the law'.” ft