Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1874 — LNDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LNDIANA ITEMS.

The Lowell Star reports that growing wheat looks badly in that portion of Lake county. lee is ten and a half inches thick on a mill-pond in the Arctic region near Valparaiso. The Kentland Gazette boasts that there is not a liquor saloon—licensed or unlicensed—in Newton county. A new soap factory disinfects the air and corrects miasmatic exhalations at Valparaiso, besides providing a home market for soap-grease, ashes and the local newspapers. Under the law of last March the Attorney General has recovered to the public $913.07 of unclaimed fees in Porter county. White county officials were compelled to disgorge nearly $3,000.0f these perquisites. Hou. <L A. Netherton, formerly joint representative in the General Assembly for the counties of Starke and Laporte. has reformed and engaged in a respectable employment.— He ih teaching school this winter at North Judson. The WinXmar Democrat savs that agentleman recent)}' sold his farm within three miles of that place for $28,000. He did well; now let him invest it judiciously in Jaspe rcounty, and he will do better, as this is a Republican county. The Mishawaka Enterprise says:— **A yttle unpleasantness occurred at Notre Dame the other day between seme students and one of the Brothers, in which the boys ‘bounced* that individual, as they call it The result was that some thirty of the scholars got their walking papers-” In 1849 the trustees of Delphi passed an ordinance forbidding citizens of Lafayette from entering the town, on account of the cholera in the latter pfoee. The ordinance has never been repealed, and it would be a good idea tn enforce it oeeassionally if they are as badly afflicted. with her drummers as some of the neighboring towns are. On the 15th Instant Robert Todd, a eenviet, made his escape from the penitentiary at Michigan City in a daring, ingenious and almost miraeutess manner. He cut through the Mark wall of his cell into a ventilating flue, thence passed to the roof of tfeeeell house, and then reached the ground eighty feet below, by means nf a rope. He then spliced two ladders together, sealed Ute prison wall and was once more at liberty, A Michigan City deacon is said to flare delivered the following exhortation in meetin’ recently; “Now let us prey that the coffers of our church may be replenished with a profusion of greenbacks, and may the grace of our Lord for the year 1874 come very nigh unto our hearts.” That deacon qmy lacks opportunity to develop into a first class Christian statesman, or Christian financier. Had he U ved in the daysof Naaman he would have quarreled with Gebaza for the spoils of mtavTad them “** * ' ' ■ '

A turfmen and officers of agricultural associations was held at Peru, on the 14th instant, and made preliminary arrangements for horse races next summer as follows: At Cambridge City, June2d; Kokomo, June Oth; Peru, June 16th; Laporte, June 23d; Huntington, July Ist The races will be held four days in each place. No purses were determined on, but these and the programmes were left for their committee to arrange. Mr. L- L. Lawrence of Cambridge City is president of the association, ana Mr. E. G. McCollum of Laporte is secretary.