Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1869 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Tho StKte Legislature convenes to-day. ■ Fresh fish sell for a bhilling A pound in LaPorte. There are 337 prisoners in the | Northern prison. J. A. Burbank, of Indiana, has been confirmed Governor of Dakota. W. It. Holloway, of the Indianapolis Journal, is to be postmaster nt Indianapolbh —i , Alice Kingwbftry is running - a nice little form very nicely, near Aurora, Indiana. The Mishawaka Furniture company have received nn order for their , ' goods from Foo Chau, China/ Jno. S. Bender has assumed e.velusive control of the Plymouth ' lUpililican, S. I’. Ihmieroy retiring, j The Laporte Union and f/rraldho.n ' : recently been enlarged and is now i 1 one of the largest and ablest coji- j ducted papers in Indiana. Isaac K. Julian, brother to the Congressman, has been nominated by the postmaster at Richmond, Indiana. I A terl . in LaPorte. It will be called thf Aryus ami conducted in the interests of the democracy. About 1850 cords, or 5,550 tons ■ of icy, has been stored up for the i use of LaPorte people during the coming summer. The Crawfordsville City Council 1 proposes trW —-appropi-i.-ite seven i hundred dollars for eafalry boots j for rhe use of citizens as ti '-sttbsti--tute sos sidewalks. An extensive fruit grower us I Spencer county reports that the ’ peach buds in that County have been but little injured, and if no bad ' weather intervenes hereafter to injure them, the crop will be as large as was ever grow n in that county. ~~Thi're lives in Eawrcnce county a-MiSs Ritter, who is only twentyfour inches high and weighs but thirty-three pounds.' She is 41 years old, but looks much older than that. She is very ehildTsTi in her manner, and destitute of education. A son of Colonel Bemusdatfer, of Brookvi'le, aged about twelve years, broke his left leg just above tin- ankle, while playing with some other boys, on Alonday last, under and old rickety- shed opposite* the Seminary building. The shod fell down suddenly, ami his leg was accidently caught by one of the heavy timbers. Barnabas C. Hobbs, State Superintemleirt Public Instruction, lectured to the Young Men's Christian Association in the Presbyterian Church of this city, on, laut Sunday evening. Tho church was crowded. The lecture is spoken of in the highest terms of commendation by all who heard it. Air. Hobbs is, everything considered, the best Superintendent of PuTdic Instruction our' 'State has ever had.—ColuiiiUus Union. One <liiy last week' aneldl'fly llliin came into Terre Haute for the purpose of having tested a piece of mineral ore which he had found at some point not more than iifteen mites from: the city. It -was examined by experts and pronounced to be a mass of nearly pure silver.— The old man was singularly reticent about the location where he found "this specimen, but he'stated that there was plenty more of it in the same place. Mr, Isaac Sluder, of Little York, AVashingtoumounty, is supposed to be the oldest man in Indiana, being 10C years of age. He walked to church the other day, a distance of four miles, John Longfellow, of Bethel, is the oldest man in Wayne j county, and perhaps in eastern Indi-1 He was 103 years of age on his last birthday, ami is as spry and active as most men at 70. x He has the use of all his faculties, and bids fair to survive another score. i

| The Huntington Democrat says ' that Thomas La Fontaine, the last 1 of the male line of the descendants of the Chief La Fontaine, of the Miami tiibe of ludiuis, died on Thursday last-, and was buried on . Saturday. Prince Tom \vas in every essential a gentleman,.and ever niaini tained a dignified decorum with those among whom he was thrown i into association. Hq was one of , the best educated and most intvlli-; ; gent of his race, and passes away ( lamented by all who knew him.

■I ■ There is now, in running order ! within the borders of/ this State j 2,560 miles of first class railroads. The tracks, engines, shops and -all their property complete was valued ’ due year ago at §164,224,000.'* The. J. three roads that have the' greatest ; number of miles of track are- the j Ohio Louisville, New I Albany Chicago and the Indian- ' apolis, Cincinnati Lafayette, ac- ‘ cording to the old plats;. but since , j the consolidation of tire Indiana ; Central, Peoria & Logansport, and > Chicago Air, line into the Columbus ■ and Indiana Railway, the letter takes the lead of all; and iu a few ■lays the track to Vincenucj will j be added also. , - i