Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1869 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Logp>ta*>rt * having * new jail built Rensselaer needs one. The wheat ettp is reported very promising In Harrison fotnty. Wheatfields look finely in Daviess, Washington Clark counties. • The ftichmond fnlyram claims a population of inhabitant* in that oxtyj Governor Baker willjOatt. qn tra session of tfiC‘ Legislature for the 12th ofAprik Thc Vineenncs Reports that very rich silver ore sns beep discovered in Knox county. The Kcntland Gazette says thcro’ aro over 100,000 bushels of corn the cribs at that place awaiting shipment. It is said that large quantities of maple sugar have been manufactured in the Northern part of ana this season. A man named wa* severely stabbed at a oountry dance iif St. Joseph county week ago last Friday night by a rough named Sam. Cottrell,

At Muiicie, colored children attend the public schools by common consent, and, the city papers say that as yet no fatal consequences have resulted to the “superior race” from (t. Hon. David S, Gooding, of Indiana, United States Marshal of thq District of Columbirf, was the first officer appointed by Mr. Johnson to tender his resignation to the new Administration. A little soh of John Stohl, of. Logansport, undertook to crack a walnut with his father’s loaded! pistol, Saturday before last. The 3nsto) waSi discharged anti" killed the child. I* "• •-

A company advertise in the Indianapolis Journal that “a black hear M ill be cut into steaks; also choice venison from Minnesota, choice cranberries, pitted cherries, dried peaches, turkeys and chickens, oranges and lemons.” make queer steaks. Next thing will be potato slabs, turnip shingles, cabbage fencing, beet joists, parsnip rails, pea chops, cauliflower cutlets, wheat roasts su)4 QUifWi fricassees. Johnny Mac Arthur, a < lad of four teen, son of Councilman J. B. Mac Arthur, of Indianapolis, and one of the pages of the House of Representatives dnring the repent, session of the Legislature, accidentally shot and killed himself Thursday. He yras out hunting and when about a mile from the city, in attempting to climb a fenco he slipped and fell his gun was, discharged, the entire load entering his body in the region of his hoqrt. An incendiary attempted to fire the Knight House at Delphi a week ago last Saturday morning before ered by a hoarder who happened to be up at the time and were extinguished before serious damage was .lone. Acitizenby the natpe of Tim Plant was arrested on suspicion of having s«t the fire, and was held to bail by the mayor in the sum of one thousand dollars, for his appearance in the circuit court for JttfcLJKajling tO give bqij he >yas committed. ’ ■ -iThe Delphi journal says: “It is rather uncomfortable for our citizens when they lay down at night to expect every moment to have their premises fired by the jncendiary—hut it is a great deal rporc uncomfortable to have the arson king scattering his fire brands nlmostbeneatli where humanity is sleeping and they not made aware of it un*. til their homes are wrapped in flames and all chance of escape cut off.” We should think so. Wonld it not he a good idea to send, for two or three of the citizens of Anderson to ccunqup' and stay un’tjl’ the “arson king” is caught? The South Rend Register says citizen of that county is circulating a report that land in Warren township of St. Joseph eouutyis *o that they have long since quit trying to raise white beans on it and now “keep the fences up to prevent cattle and other stock from waudering in and starving to death,”. Let your land become delinquent and sold for taxes and come tojasper county where forty bushel* corn are faised ou an acre. 1 The son of Rev. Mr. Montague, residing at Whitewater, Wisconsin, was delivering a College valedictory* address, a short time ago, when in taking his handkerchief from Wg pocket, he pulled out a pack of cards which fell to the floor. 1 “Hullo,” he exclaimed, “1 have got on ray father s coat,** *l'he Whrthy divine,‘who sat in front of his promising shn, we* more confused thaa bis *uio*. ,