Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1869 — INDIANA MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA MATTERS.

Now Albany claims a woman six feet, three inches tali. Franklin proposes to slaughter fifteen thousand sheep tliis season. Whooping cough is prevailing to a considerable extent in Mishawaka. A New Albany sportsman killed forty quails in three hours, last Friday. Gold is reported to have Jieen found on Seins creek, Franklin county. Columbus is to have an extensive pork packing establishment put in operation this winter. Terre Haute has just come into possession of a large steam “stave and heading” establishment. A beautiful marble monument has been purchase to be placed over the remains of tho late General Wagner. A Woman’s Suffrage Convention will be held at Lafayette November 11th and 12th. Mrs. Livermore is to be present. Mr. John Veal brought to this office a turnip raised by him, measuring 27 inches, and weighing six pounds. — Knox Ledger. Among the curiosities recently deposited in the Evansvile Library rooiqs, are a petrified ham, a shark's tooth, and an Indian scalp. White county roted dDvRi the proposition to donate a tax of one peFctfnt to aid in the construction of the Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago Railroad. R. J. Chestnutwood, Collector of Revenue for this District, assumed the duties of his office on Tuesday morning last. His room# are the same formerly occupied by Col. Eddy.— ksouth Bend Register. It is remarkable that wheat is selling at W aterloo to-day ’ for less per busbeljlhan corn; and some are buving wheat instead of com for chicken feed. 90 @95 bid today. — Air Line. Work op the Grand Rapids and Indian.-! Railroad is progressing rapidly, • Jaygo Ibrce being now at work on dtfiirwß co«traoM between this city and Ft, Wayn« z .We understand that it h the ipteDUon to put one thousand nteu DJI this end of the road, immediately, if they oan be obtained. — Kendalh>ille StW' ' fard.

Thomas Jackson, a colored mao, weul to New Albany last Saturday, committed larceny, was indicted on ■Wednesday, was sentenced <m Thursday to two years in the penitentiary. A threshing machine and 175 bushels of wheat were destroyed by fire, near Washington, Ind., on Friday last. The Gazette says the fire originated from the friction of a belt. The Warsaw, Ind., Union says: I*. W. Holman, of Franklin township has a little pet calf four months old, that weighed the moderate sum 0f654 pounds. Mr. Holman says he cau raise a bigger calf than any man in Kosciusco county. The hunting is remarkably good in the vicinity of Waterloo just now. Three men and two dogs, with the assistance of a team of horses, bagged two red squirrels in half a day’s hunting, last week.— Preu. In the case of Tippecanoe county vs W. F. Reynolds, for damages for an alleged fraudulent purchase of the county’s bonds of the Lafayette & Indianapolis Railroad, Judge Wilson has given a decision in favor of the defendant. Prof. Cox, State Geologist will visit Laporte county next week and will make an inspecting tour around about with a view of hereafter investigating the mineral resources of that county, if the people manifest any interest in the matter. The total receipts of the Indiana State Fair amount to (22,362, being (3,8*2 more than last year. The attendance reached 80,000. The net profits will be about (10,000, which will be expended in improving the grounds. Last Sunday a inan named Wm. Slade while gathering hickory nuts met with a serious accident. The limb on which he was standing broke, and he fell to tho ground, a distance of fifteen feet, striking on his head. Dr. Higgins pronounces him in a very critical condition. Crown, Point Register. The sneak thieves held high carnival on Monday night. Several stables and out houses were broken into and any amount of pilfering done. If some measures are not soon tried to capture these petty thieves our citizens will be obliged to try what virtue there is in metallic Bend Reg.tier. The election held yesterday upon the proposition to donate (75,000 by Center township to aid in the construction of thu Indianapolis, Delphi «nd Chicago Railroad, excited much interest, and a heavier vote, by over two hundred was polled than at the previous election. The whole number of votes cast was 3,079, of which 894 were for the appropriation, aud 2,185 against it. Majority against, 1,291. This result undoubtedly puts a quietus upon all propositions to raise money by taxation to aid in the construction of tliis or any other railroad from this city, for the present, at least. — Indianapolis Journal. The Democrat State Central Committee met at Indianapolis on the 30th ult., and decides on holding a Delegate Convention on Saturday the eighth day of January, 1870, at nine o’clock in the morning. They also recommended that the Democrats of the different counties hold conventions on the first Saturday in December next, for the purpose ot appointing delegates to the State Convention. It was decided that the basis of representation for each county should be one delegate for one hundred and fifty votes cast for the Democratic candidate for governor in 1868, ami one delegate for fractions of one hundred or over. The safe of Mr. Kent, at his store, and that of Mr. West, at the Clerk’s office, were both blown open with pow der on Tuesday night, and robbed. Mr. Kent loses about seven thousand, and Mr. West, in notes and valuable papers, between Ibur aud five thousand dollars. The burglars entered Mr. Kent’s store by cutting a piece out of the pannel in the front door, through which they thrust their hands and took the lock off. A hole was drilled through the thin iron panel in the safe door through which powder was poured into the lock, and thus the door blown open. A few of the notes and papers were found scattered, on Wednesday morning, in an alley. Two suspicious looking strangers were seen on Tuesday afternoon and at night on the streets, who were gone on Wednesday morning. The supposition is that they did the work. Several saw them, but no one knew them. — Kentland Gazette. ••One may exnnst the domain of medical virtues aid medical promises, without finding any remedy, so simply compounded and at lbe sumo time possessing such invaluable properties as the “Pine Tree Tur Cordial” of Dr?. W ISHART. It ia a common-sense medicine, sad will cure, not because of puffery, but becouse it is a simple and healthful natural agent. The diseases It will cure aro those which appertain to disordered stomachs and an unhealthy condition of the blood. Their namais “logon.” Tiie Cordial is no experiment; it is a long established aud widely circulated remedy, supported by the best testiinouials of both patient and physician. Its action is powerfully aided aud expedited by a concurrent use of Wie!iart*s“American Dyspepsia Pilis,” where the nature of the case requites it* At No. 232 North Second Street, consaltstions may be had free of charge with eminent physicians. For more special claims of the Pine Tree Tar Remedy, we invite ateention to our advertising columns, aud request the afflicted tv call or address, as there directed.JPorney'e Weekly Press, Oct, 9th.