Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1872 — State Items. [ARTICLE]

State Items.

The fashionable? of Valparaiso are just beginning .to practice on the gay and prancing velocipede. TheF., FL W. & C. R. Co. is preparing to ferect a large brick passenger depot at Valparaiso,, so the Vidette reports. The sarviving members ofjhe 63d Reg, Ind. Vol*, will hold their first reunion at Covington, Tuesday, .October 10th. Jerry Kenny, of Lake county, to have grown corn this season which yields 142 bushels and four pounds to the acre. The Winamac Democrat reports that.tbe whole amount of the capital stock—sl,soo —of the Pulaski county agricultural society was taken up in only a few days after it was put on the market. The Kcrfiland Gazette says that Mr. Job English, of Jackson towh—fillip, Newton county, ‘'threshed out just 24§ bushels of clean wheat ; to the acre this year —of winter red, nice and plump."’ the excavation and piling for the Michigan Central round house of Michigan City has been coniplcted and the masons commenced laying the foundation last week, says the Michigan City Enterprise. ‘ ‘ Hon. Anson Wolcott is engaged -in building a new grain Warehouse at Wolcott, White county, 4.4x96 feet in size, three stories high with steam elevator and steam flouring mill and a capacity for 60,000 bushels of grain. The Lowell Star says “The new flag that was presented to the Valparaiso Turners by Schuyler Colfax the other day, is pronounced the handsomest of the kind in the United States. It was made in Germany at a ebst of one thousand francs,” which is equivaleht to S2OO. A special dispatch to the Indianapolis Journal from Michigan City, October oth, states that Alfred Leonard, clerk of the Northern Penitentiary had decamped with funds of that institution estimated at from $20,000 to <40,000. Warden Mayne thinks that it will not eventually prove a loss to the State as Leonard's sureties are good fur the amount. J