Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1869 — INDIANA MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA MATTERS.

Peaches are selling in Gosport at one.dollar per bushel. Spotted foyer has made its appearance al Jeffersonville. Kokomo has fixed the price of liquor license at five hundred dollars. Ilog cholera is playing sad havoc with the hogs at and near Corydon. The Fifth Indiana Cavalry hold a reunion in lndiana|>olis on the 3d inst. ( New Albany offers 3250 for the recovery of a pistol stolen from one of the city officials. Four farmers living six miles east of Crawfordsville have four thousand bushels of wheat to sell. It is estimated that there will be a surplus of 1,000,000 bushels of wheat iu the Second District this year. Col. T. 11. Bringhurst, of Logansport, has received the appointment of special mail agent for the State. There is a young lady in Jeffersonville who can easily swim across the Ohio River and back again without stopping to rest. The Evansville Journal is responsible for the statement that Joseph Ranch of that city, cut down a stalk of corn last Friday, which had thirteen cars of corn on it. The Good Templars of Greensburg are circulating a petition, which they propose to present to the City Council, asking that license for retailing spiritous liquors be raised to SSOO. TippCchnoc county gave seven hundred aud forty-eight majority for an appropriation of $373,000 to aid in the construction of the Lafayette, Anderson and Bloomington Railroad. Mr. Toller, of Terre Haute, the owner of the horse “Billy Barr,’’ was offered $15,000 for him at Buffalo, but declined taking it as he had previously agreed to sell him for SIO,OOO. The town of Peru, Miami Co,, has appropriated $26,000 to assist in the construction of three gravel roads leading into that place from different directions. The stock is issued in 7 per cent bonds, payable in twenty years. The Secretary of State has received certificates from the clerks of all the counties in the State of the filing of the acts of the legislature. The last certificate is dated on the 16th ult., from which date the laws go into effect. Prof. Joseph Tingley, of Asbury University, has a microscope which magnifies a flea to the size of afsheep, a bedbug to the size of a horse; the wing of a fly is made to appedr forty feet long, and a common caterpillar appears to be about forty feet long when placed before it. By the enumeration just taken, there are two hundred and ninetysix children —one hundred and fifty inales and one hundred and forty-si x females—between the ages ot six and twenty-one years in Winamac, who are entitled to the benefits of our public schools.— IPinamac Democrat. The Terre ifaiite Express says: “A clergyman', residing near Fort Wayne, whom wc met a few days ago, casually mentioned, as rather a remarkable fact, that he had married one woman to five different husbands in fourteen years. She had been divorced from three and two had died.” The oldest man in Indiana, Mr. Benjamin Scalf, a resident of Millersburgh, Elkhart county, was born on the 10th day of May, 1764, in Johnson county, North Carolina. He lived in Tennessee in 1857, moved to McDowell county in 1833, and thence to his present residence in 1852. He is a fanner, still of sound mind, and has been a member of the Methodist Church for forty-six years. The death of Judge McDonald vacates the office of United States District Judge for the fourth time within ten years. Judges Elisha M. Huntington, Albert $. White, Caleb B. Smith, and David McDor aid, have all in succession held for a year or two each. Such fatality is unusual, and especially so in view of the fact that all the appointees subsequent to Judge Huntington were men of no very advanced ages, and of vigorous constitution, which iiromised unusual length of life, ludge McDonald has held the place four years.— lndianapolis Journal. A rough looking customer came to town on Monday drunk, and being still drunk on Tuesday, with the belief that “snaix” and the devil was after him, made a rope of his shirt, and adjusting one end of it around his neck, fastened the other to an iron loop at the top of a box car on the side track, jumped and—tore his shirt. It was too frail to “do the fair thing” by him, and he becoming disgusted, concluded to live a while longer, a very foolish notion, unless be quits whiskey.— Kentland Gatetie. On Tuesday of last week Caleb Leonard, living in Wildcat township, Tipton county, went to the woods to cut stave timber, and while chopping a large oak a limb fell upon him, crushing his skull causing instant death. He was alone at the time of the accident. His family becoming alarmed at his protracted absence commenced a search* in the Woods, and found his body about ten o’clock at night. Mr. Leonard was greatly respected in his neighborhood. A wife and several children mourn his untimely death.