Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1869 — INDIANA MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA MATTERS.

Evansville employs colored teachers lor the colored schools. The trial of Abrams, for the murof Jacob Young and wile, is set for the 31>t. It is said that the crops in the middle and southern parts of the State are suffering from drouth. Whooping cough is said to be prevailing to a great! extent and rapidly spreading at Indianapolis. Dr. Max F. A. Hoffman,-the State Treasurer, is preparing an elaborate report of the resources and wealth of Indiana. The horse fair to be held at Chalmers Station. in White county, has been postponed until the 15th and Ifitli of October. The colored people of Indianpolis protest against the action of the School Board in appointing white teachers for the colored schools. Rev. Thomas B. Wood, A. M., late President of the Valparaiso, Indiana College, is about td sail as a missionary to Buenos Avres. • • Many fa fine rs_ of Pulton' county will be compelled t 'fatten their hogs this season wit): wheat, the corn crop being almost a Jvtal failure in some localities. * . i- . ■ The Fort Wayne Democrat of last Saturday says: “New wheat is coming in rapidly. One dollar and tw enty-srx'cents was offered for a good article of red wheat this morning.” \

Rev,. Henry Ward Beecher was the pastor.of the Second Presbyterian Church at Indianapolis, on the west side of the Circle which is now used as a city school house, twenty-five years ago, The Indianapols Sentinel says: “Noah Harding, a farmer in the neighborhood of Mt. Jackson, Wayne township, garnered this year | from off four acres of ground, one I hundred and seventy-two bushels of English wheat. Beat it, who can.” ; There are 75 soldiers in the Home at Knightstown,, aud 17+ soldier’s orphans in the Orphans Home at the same place. Under the resolution of the last Legislature, pro-* viding for the transfer of soldiers to the Daytpn home, not more than two or three have been taken there, the soldiers refusing to leave the State.

' Tliere arc only sixty-eight liceneoil'retailers of intoxicating liquors lin UiiA rnnnty. Twenty-six others have halt licenses granted to them, but have fhiled to pay the fee and take them out, syliile a number more than double the above cissse* arc selling without tile leaet fegani I to auv form <>t the law. Theschool I fund "sftflt rs to the cxjuit pf several thousand dollars by this state of things."- 'Jtrie Haute .Express. There was a called session of the , Hoard of Cowinissioners, in Monticello, on last Tuesday, to consider the subject of ordering an election, upon making a donation to the 1.1). <1 C. Kailroad. I An election was ordered to be held on the second Tuesday of October, upon the subject of making a donation of one per cent, on the tax- ' nbles of the county.— Monticello Herald. j\ collision took place in Lowell a slifirr time since, w I'ich . ought to be recorded in the chapter of accidents. Two sons of St. Crispin came in contact on the sidewalk in [ Clarks Addition to Lowell. (By the way, we always expect sad results Irom the streets being sonarrow in said town.) A genuine Hoosier, with a timber toe; and a s<>n ofthe Queen's dominions collided. At the first shock .John Bull was thrown to | middle ofthe street by tliereac’ii n ofthe right limb of Brother. Jonathan. •There was but one round, I and no “stake" but one fence-stake, : which came down on Brother Jonathan where the bump of veneration ; ought to be. To make a long story short, our city Marshal gave John , j Bull a polite invitation to attend a I select party before Justice Gregg, I where he donated a small amount to j defray in part the expenses of these j ■ colonies.— Crown Point Register. Captain Zach. Bedford and Isaac Dyson, both soldiers in the Union army during the rebellion, have had a little unpleasantness existing -between them for several years, growing out' of some business transactions which occurred whr’e i Bedford was a detective ottieor .be- ; fore' the war, at which time he ) I caused the arrest of Dyson, and ; to-day they decided to settle the trouble by entering the prize ring t and shewing who was the best man Tfr~a ' cougir-aTiff-wflhte” was arranged that the mill should take place on the base ball grounds I West of the river, and the principals, | w ith their respective friends, start- ’ ed for the proposed battle-field, but i tlie police- arrested them while ; crossing the river bridge. They were taken before Judge Kimmel, I who, after a patient hearing ofthe ease, decided that Dyson was the aggressof, and fined him iti the sum of-510. Captain Bedford was' fined §ti. We regret that this ill ; feeling exists between the parties, as both were good soldiers during the war— Lafayette Courier. Quite a serious adeident occurred just northwest of town, last Mon--day forenoon. Mos e s Livingstoil was hunting tor chickens, shortbilled snipe, “thunder pumpers,” or something else, when lie drew bead on a covey-and blazed away, lie brought down two very large sized birds, weighing in the aggro-, gat e a bout one hun <1 red and li !'ty | pounds. The “birds” made a'great 1 outery, and on going to. secure 1 them he v> as etmsider-airly- aston- ■ ished and somewhat alarmed to find that he had “winged” two of; bur boys from town, sons of Mr. | Laws and Mr. Granger. Mr. Laws’; boy was pretty well peppered, be-1 ing shot in the face, arm and chest, ; and it is a happy escape for him I that he did not loose one of his eyes. The son of Mr. Granger was shot in the arm, body and legs. They managed to make their way back to town, when the shot was . extracted by Dr. Higgins. Hunters should look well before they shoot, and little boys should look well that they do not get in a position to receive shot intended for birds ot an entirely different plumage. — Crown Point .Register.