Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1869 — INDIANA WATTERS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA WATTERS.

Plymouth lias a six-footed colt. They have .a [nil nrut eating dog in Wlnumuc. 1 • Pipe apple* are coming Into market at l.a]N*r(i', G«>n. Lew. Wallace has gone hack to Mexico. South Bend has a concert saloon.--The Benders are becoming meU'ijtoliUm. Clover *hdks have grown eight feet In length in laqiortc county this season. The county scat of Martin countv bus been removed from Hover to West Bhoals. Mr. J.oroy Templeton, of Benton county, has a cornfield 1,150 acres in extent. Two hundred ami fUfy reaping machine* have been sold at Indianapoli* this season. Terre Haute papers say tbe yield Of |M>tutoc.slii that Vicinity is immense, ibis season. It is announced that Senator Morton will canvass Ohio for the Republicans this-full, TMic merchants- of Waterloo City have purchased 120,000 ]>oundrt of wool this season. Henry Smith, a little boy about twelve years of age is in jail at Lafayette for horse stealing. The real estate of Indiana is valued at $4ft,440,0-12, heiug nil increase of 10] per cent, in five years. L«i>ortc county Ims 100 opium caters. A congenial society for the coining mail and brother from China. ltemster, theinsune Covington murderer, dug out of jail WetUiesday night of last week and is now at liyge. Spring.chickens arc reported very scarce in Monroe county, owing to a disease said to lie generated by the wet weather. Dr. T. \V. Fity7"of Crawfordsvillr threatens to be an independent candidate for Congress if Mr. Orth is renominated. The engineers are surveying the route of the Indianapolis, Delphi and Cl) ieago railroad at the rate of four miles a day. A young blood in Logansport lias sued his barber, laying the damages at S3O, for spoiling his, moustache in attempting to dye it. Mr. Jacob Hire, of Elkhart Bottom, placed himself in front of a reaping machine while in operation and had his leg taken off us the result. The appraisement of Marion county property foots up, $42,054,510, of which over $12,000,000 is real estate.— The rail roads are appraised nt $674,305.

Gen. Morton C. Hunter, of Bloomington, it is said, lias accepted a lucrative appointment under General Fremont on the .Southern racitic railroad. TRe Board of Trustees have decided to locate the Indiana ''Agricultural College, alias Purdue' University, within two miles and a half of Lafayette. John P. Hearth, an ex-Union soldier, of Clinton county, had his left arm .torn out by a threshing machine near Jefferson, week ago l:vst Wednesday. fsomeFratildin gentlemen went into Browircnunty for a-littie safe seining atml donated fifteen dollar* and costs. each, lor the protection of a magistrate’s court. A widow, residing near Colburn, bound eighty dozen sheaves of wheat one day last week. She, should not be permitted to remain in her widowhood another day. _ In Sullivan county some of the farmers are planting a second crop of potatoes, the first having already ripened and been gathered. They plant the Early Hose variety. Hon, Albert Lange, cx-Auditor of State and Cl SI Consul to Amsterdam under President Fillmore’s administration, died at his residenciTln Terre Haute, Sunday evening. ' * ■ Oil Sunday aftornoorr a little boy eiirht years old, was found lying on the Peru railroad track at Indianapolis, very drunk. It would have been better to have left him there. Speaking of wheat, the editor of the Stark County Ledger says, “Such nil universal tine crop never before blesscd the emitineut-oC the United States!’ ’ How is that for geography? Major General Ambrose Burnside, was l>orn at Liberty, Inti., in tbe year 1824, and marie tailoring his profession in 1842. Hon. Caleb B. Smith procured his admission into West Point.

The Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana railroad is appraised at $9,500 per mile for taxation where running through this State; the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne and Chicago road at SIO,OOO. * A cook at a farm house near Franklin by mistake dressed some onions with whiskey instead of vinegar and they were so. well relished by a sedate old dcacon that he was unaided to' work until late in the afternoon. A couple of fellow’s got tired travelling from one saloon to another in Indianapolis, the other evening, and sat down on the railroad track to rest; a train of cars passing soon after one was killed and the other lost a leg. Four townships in Carroll county voted township appropriations, to be raised by tax, to aid in the construction of the Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago railroad, on the 19th. In one township it was defeated by five majority. A man in Tippecanoe county having been invited by a doting mother to kiss her baby, extended the token of admiration to said d. m. The husband proposed blood and things, but was finally contented with having him fined S2Q. A large meeting of the citizens of Boon county was held at Whitestown, on the Lafayette railroad, last Saturday, which passed resolutions favoring a county appropriation in aid of the Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago railroad,"and circulated jietitions asking the county commissioners to order an election for that purpose. The Indianapolis Journal says: “The sum of the whole matter,’ as near as we can arrive at any sum at all, is that the crop in the center and south part of the State, off sthe .fiver bottoms, looks finely. On the high lands it is not very bad either north or south, but in the north it is generally bad, and on low lands utterly ruined.