Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1869 — INDIANA MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA MATTERS.

TJh; peach market i* u oil (Supplied at Indiattpolis. 0 i iuSlulgßkg fa lu.Mirv of a hoothlack. r * i The,Ltiiliwr of Michigan City is j ' now ah established fact. Corn is worth a dollar a bifshe-l at Winamac find very scaixic. 'Die market of South ( lic'ml is exceedingly well applied. The Slate Hoard oT Agriculture is ■ j making extensive preparalioiiß fori the State Fair. The wet weather has destroyed j all prospects of a cranberry crop in Pulaski county. William (lildey Leroy Franklin I Kincaid Floras Dawson .Moore is a i barber at Anderson. Hon. M. C. Kerr is talked of as] tlio next democratic candidate for Eight hnndVed Chinese are to he j imported into Jennings county to work on tlie railroad. David V. Buskirk. of Monroe county, is six feet ten inches talj, and weighs 383 pounds. Last Wednesday a man by the name of Marcus Merchant, a persirrt of 'drtinken and elrsolutc liabits ccm m i Wed «n rc i d.e a I .dieliigaiiCity, hy shooting himself wilJi ;i revolve f. Our physicians now have considerable practice in this place ami vieinHy. Tlie ailments most prevalent arc cramp colic, chills' and fl--_ ver, and cholera morbus. — I)maniac Democrat. The smoke house of Wheat, Fletcher A Co., containing 1,.500 shoulders-and lvtlOO sides, weighing | about !>o,oilo pounds, valued at 13,- ] 090, wifs hiuiied at Indianaj>olis last Thursday morning.

Attorney General Williamson Ims decided that colored children in this State are, under the act of May 13, 1 P.(!9,entitled to be enumerated and organized into Separate schools having all tlie rights and privileges of other schools iii the township. The trustees of the State University have purchased thu Geological and Mineral cabinet of the late David Dale U wen, for $20,000. Tlie collection consists of 85;000 specimens and is tlie most complete and valuable one in America. George Gaytlier and Julia Arm McGill,colored, having lived together happily for twenty-seven years, and raised a family of children numerous and interesting, concluded | to marry at Ind'vuiapolis last Thursday evening. They wanted their children to inherit their property. The Kendullville, hiohde County, Standard says that a dentist of that place.removed from a lady’s mouth,' tartar that had accumulated to the. thickness of half an inch, on both sides of the teeth, and two inches in length, . As a rusty tooth, that one will hear the palm. The Michigan City Enterprise says that a convict in the State. Prison, at that place, named Holsinger, attempted to “shuffle-off this “mortal coil,” one day last week by butting .his head against the walls of his cell. lie didn't succeed but managed to do considerable damage to Iris head-piece. It is not often that ball spelling makes so apt a blunder as that related hy the Fort Wayne -flfarrttoA man living at ltoanoke, near the Wabash Railroad track, finding his house surrounded hy water in the recent freshet, and disliking so moist a neighborhood, put. up a sign inscribed, “For Sail.”

The Monticello Heralds ays: “Arrangements are being made for holding a Horse Fair, at Chnjmersthis county, on the ‘24th and 25tTi days of September. The object of the Fair is to encourage the improvement of the stock. The arrangements will he good, and everybody is invited to attend. All the “blooded” stock of this and* adjoining counties is expected to be eneutered.” The Now Albany Commercial reports the following case: “At Jeffersonville, on Sunday afternoon, a soldier named Ebers, while drunk, went to bed in. his house on Chestnut street. He laid face downward on the pillow, and was thought to he asleep. It was discovered, however, some time alter lie bad laid down, that he was dead, having smothered to death upon the pillow. Another victim of whiskey.” '» The Crown Point Register says: “Judge Hathaway, all in a mac lawyer, who says he “does” the inside writing for "the "\\ in a mac Democrat, was locked up in our jail last week for reasons, elsewhere given; On entering the cell he said, “I sentenced the first man sent from Pulaski county, to the State prison, and now here I am chucked into this miserable jail at Crown Point, dennuit! “The deputy Sheriff M. G. Bliss eoiild only console him with the remark that “sieh is life.” The County Commissioners of Marion county have ordered an election to be' held on Monday, September 13, lbr tlie purpose of voting.on an appropriation of of one percent, to aid in theconstrucVion of the Indianapolis, Delphi A Chicago Railroad. Marion county -has $40,054,516 of taxable#, and the levy-if vc4<jd, will give to the road abuiil $30i1,400. There is no doubt but this amount, with the amounts that have already been voted and will be voted by "the other counties along the line will secure the road.