Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1869 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

•Very little ioe has been put up at Winamac this winter. . A Benton county fnrmcr has lost twenty hogs by the cholera. - A starch factory, just started nt Edinburgh, employ? fifty persons. F. B. Thomas has closed Ills connection with the Winamac Dtmocrat. F. S. Bcimngtoiiiof the Winamao Republican has been appointed Postmaster at that' place vice Pearson resigned. ° r «Vs t *• ' The editor of the Wii«u»ac Democrat says that swallowing die juice of a little gentian root coarsely ground, or iomb ether bitter Substance, and a. firm will, will core any man of the dirty, health-destroying' habit of tobacco chewing “that im debilitating, softening the brain, shortening Ihe lives of thousands of men annually.” ‘ > ’ ’ In the case of Mrs. Lucinda Evans against Dr. Benjamin Hewland, charging him with depriving her of* her lawful support by feloniously killing her husband at Bedford March, 1806, which was recently tried in the Circuit Court of Scott con My on a change of venue from* Lawrence county, and in which dun- • ages were laid‘in the iny nf Aicpthousand dollar?, tiro jury returned a Verdict for the defendant. -