Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1869 — INDIANA MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA MATTERS.

The Greencastle nail factory is turning out nine hundred kegs of nails a week An interesting revival of religion* is in progress at Otwell, Dubois county, in the Methodist Church. One firm in Franklin has shipped 19,281 pounds of butter and 20,674 dozen eggs during the past year. Mrs. Asenath Clark, ninety years old, preached twice to the Friends in Richmond, Ind., Sunday before last Johnsbn county has a man wljose foot is of the.folfowing dimensions: 13 inches lopg, inches wide and 8$ inches high. A reliable “old woman’’ has counted the snows of the coining Winter, and says there will be nineteen. — Plymouth Republican. The Cawfordsvillc Journal says Wabash College has six acting Professors, and. has within the last decade given twenty-three graduates to the ministry. The hogs in thia county arc discouraged by their inability to see their usual allowance of coni and l>otatocs. The farmers propose to cheer their drooping spirits with Wheat. The hogs in town will be treated as family “-pets,” ami be supplied with the crumbs that fall from their masters table.— Plymouth. Republican. ' ' v >

Judge Chapman has given bis consent to a request that lie should preside at the trial of three men in Newton county, eltargcd with murder, which is to come o< in December. —S . St -® Mifton Thompson, oat west of town lost one thousand bushels of potatoes by the late cold snap. Jim Thompson lost six hundred bushels, and Mr. Halsey, down in the Gibson neighborhood, lost five hundred bushels. These potatoes were dug aud lying on tbe ground. The loss qf potatoes throughout the county will be considerable.— rtymoulh Republican. At the office of Dr. Hatch may be seen preserved in alcohol a young pig, perfectly developed, eight legs, four ears, three eves and two snouts, all complete. It is a curiosity, well worth preserving and seeing. It must be a lineal descendant of the species spoken of in the Bth chapter of Luke, 33d verse, if indeed, any escaped drowning in the lake.— Kentland Gazelle. The trial of Earney, the Terre Haute policeman who shot and nearly killed two editors in that city, named Smith and Brown, was concluded on Wednesday, so far as the charge of shooting Mr. Smith is concerned. His punishment is a fine of SIOO and imprisonment for thirty days. He is yet to be tried for the shooting of Mr. Brown, but we question the policy of putting the county to the trouble and expense for so small an affair. Shooting people in Indiana is getting to be regarded as a pleasant sport, and the only way to award punishment is by “shooting back.”— Exchange.