Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1869 — INDIANA MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA MATTERS.

From the October apportionment of the school fund Lake county is to receive $2,060.52. A cornstalk is on exhibition at the office of the Delphi Journal which is fourteen feet nine, inches high. It is stated that forty-eight fives have been lost on the Ohio river bridge by accident sincq the work was commenced. Laporte connty takes considerable stock in the divorce business. There were fifty-five cases on the Circuit and Common Pleas dockets. The Vernon Banner claims that a negro residing in Jennings county, named Gregg Harper, is one hundred and twenty-four years old. A new paper, to be devoted to the interests of women’s rights, is soon to make its appearance in Crawfordsville, and is to be called the Avenger. One of the oldest settlers of Floyd county, Captain C. H. Meekin, says that the snow of last Tuesday waa the heaviest that has fallen in that latitude in October since 1830. The corner stone of the Second Presbyterian Church at Laporte was laid on the 18th inst., the address was made by Hon. Jasper Packard, who is a member of the church. A young man named Stanley Clarke committed suicide at Cannelton, Indiana, last week, by shooting himself through tbe head with a pistol. He belonged to one of the beHt~ flmiiließ, ajn(l was only nineteen years of age. It was a singular case of suicide, as no reason oan be assigned for the rash aot. The fearful tragedy created a great sensation in the usually quiet town of Cannelton,

..up if .i ..... " """ Miss Alathea Munroe sued Walter 0. Leed* in the Laportc Circuit Court for breach of tho marriage contract, claiming $50,000. The trial came off last week, when tho jury gave her a verdict tor $1,500. Tho Ohio ami Mississippi R. R. Company have mortgaged to Allen Campbell of Now York, and Samuel L Odell of Brook'liii, theirbranch line from North Vernon to Jeffersonville, in the sum of SBOO,OOO, to facilitate the building of the jroad. In Warsaw, in thi* State, according to the Northern lndianinn j there i* an egg on exhibition, within the ■hell of which, when broken, a snake or worm, four or five inches in length and about a quarter of an inch in diameter, was discovered. The egg was perfectly formed, with tho exception ot a small protuberance at one end of the shell, having the appearance of the tail of the worm, only that it hail acquired the consistency ot the shell. It is not known whether this strange inmate was alive or not, at the time of breaking the egg. The Attorney General is looking nfter a case in which Marklc, former Treasurer of Jasper county, drew $3,400 from the State Treasury. Nat. Cunningham was State Treasurer at the time, and now, the warrant is brought forward, and the money claimed again. The money appears to have been drawn, originally, without a warrant. Thu books show the sum to have been paid, and the question is asked, in pencil runrk on the margin, “Where is the warrant?” The question now is, who got the money, and who wrote the question about tho warrant?—lndianapolis Journul. The shipment of mules south from this section of Indiana is larger this year than in any previous year since the close ol the war. Several large droVes pass through the city daily for the stock yards at Portland, whence they are shipped by boat or rail to Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia. Many horses are also being sent south from this section. It i» noticeable that the quality of the stock this year is superior to that of last year. —New Albany Commercial.

By reference to our advertising columns, it will be seen that Judge Osborne has ordered a special term of the Circuit to commence on Tuesday, the 14th of December. We ! presume the special session *ill occupy the week in trying the case of Robert blew art and Mary Stewart for the murder of James Tillotson. One hundred jurymen have been summoned for this case, the per d<em alone of whom for one day will amount to two hundred dollars, to say nothing about mileage. The Stewarts have already cost the county about one thousand dollars, and by the time this trial is through with, Lake county will have nearly three thousand dollars invested iu the same\ind of security.— Crown Point Reyister.

Judge Chapman made an order yesterday morning for the removal of the tollowing prisoners to the Northern Prison; Wm. J. Abrams, murder in the first degree, sentenced for life; lieed McDaniels, manslaughter, fourteen years; Beiij. Summit, assault and battery with intent to kill, two years; William Andersou and Dan. Jones, grand larceny. —lndianapolis Journal. Ben. Summit spoken of in the above paragraph is the contraband captured on Cheat Mountain by the 9th lnd. Itegt. from an Arkansas regiment. At that time lie had but the given name Ben., the boys of the Regt. christened him Summit. Ben. Was always a worthless, vicious “nigger” and the Northern Prison will be an appropriate home for him.