Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1869 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Twenty-nine hundred kegs .of becT and 23,358 pounds of tobacco were manufactured at Indianapolil last winter. The common council of Franklin has passed an ordinance forbidding the running of velocipedes on any of the sidewalks or pavements. . William llarbaugh, of Blnffton, who was a soldier in the Mexican war r has recently obtained back pay and bounty from the government to the amount of $2,000. A Gibson county man, 60 years old, lias married a girl of 18, and insured his life for SIO,OOO. The second husband will thus get a fair start in a little grocery.-’-”-A mrui by the name of Smith, who livei at Ilazeltou, one day week carried a seven-bushel ba; r 1 of salt, weighing about 3SO pound.', a distance of 200 yards,thereby wonabet of SSO. A man iq Fountain county separated from liis wife one day recently, ami, court being in session, he obtained a divorce the next day, and the next day waa in pursuit of another wife. All this in three days! The Bloomington Express *aye: — “The hoop-pole crop has ripened, and is being gathered in, from the state of Brown. It was refreshing to learn that the frost had not nipped the hoop-poles, if it has killod the peach brfds.”

The Michigan City Enterprise says they have the velocipede’bad in that city. There was a well attended temperance lecture in that place, last Monday a week. An amateur troupe of colored minstrels made up of local talent, wHI soon make their appearance before the public for favors. The fish law that was passed March 0, 1867, making it unlawful to trap, act, or seine nsh in any river or strcam v for the period of two years, has expired, so far as its gen. eral operation is concerned. Hereafter it is only unlawful to trap, net, or seine fish between the first day of May and the first of September in each year. The religions feeling in this community » manifest everywhere. Qn Monday morning a large number of religions ladies visited all the saloons and had conversation and prayers with the. proprietors. Several persons cease down on their knees that morning who had not to humbled themselves before for many a day.— Kokomo , Tribune. Elijah C. Davis, who was *entto the penitentiary for life, from White county for murder died about two weeks ago. The Monticello Herald says that there arc reports that he committed suicide by taking poison end made a full confession besom he died. His remain a were taken to Reynolds Station for burial. • 7 • .-

The Laporte Union and Herald “The lioppist who ha.i been astonishingMftaMfrtighJiaring villages by measuring off, on in nine minuter, amazed and delighted tbo children of this city, on Thursday afternoon, by a similar feat. Dressed in black breeches and scarlet -hirt, and hatless, with a white handkerchief iu Iris right hand, he started of on his left down South Main, amid the shouts of something less than 1,000 schoolboys and girls, bobbing along in the thickly-falling snow. On hia return, when within about a square and a half of hia goal, ho ‘pegged out,’ fainted, ‘keeled over,’ and was carried into the Teagarden." Jesse Meharry, of Tippecanoe county, who, sometime since, offered tb donate a farm of two hundred acres for the Agricultural College, now offers through the Lafayette Courier , to donate a farm of three hundred and twenty acres, including Shawneo Mound and forty acres of timber laud. He says:— “The Mound stands in the prairie, has an elevation of abont seventyfive feet, adjoining tho old Shawnee village, and has an inexhaustible supply of tho very best sand and gravel. My farm is all prairie.— There is good spring, and an abundance of good water, and it is not surpassed iu the county or State for health, fertility and beauty. It -ia™wurth "fcao,OQtti„ JMjr,. neighhoM stand ready to pledge themselves for $50,000 more, if said college should be located on my farm."

. 🖝The trial of Abrams for the murder of Young and wife in September last at Cold Springs is set for the 14th inst. . ————●●●———— . ☞ There seems to be no probability of the tenure-of-office-law being repealed this session of Congress.