Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1874 — INDIANA GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA GOSSIP.

A great deal of sickness is reported in Porter county. It is a slim prospect for a wheat crop they have in Lake county. The Kentland Gazette favors the construction of a gravel road from that place to Morocco. A couple of men are talking of commencing the manufacture of patent beehives at Winamac. Caryoll county ’estimates' there are about four hundred voting Grangers within her borders. “HanncraHn” thinks Winamac needs a board of trustees with a little backbone and enterprise. A lady in the southern part of Porter county is preparing to raise 2,000 chickens this season. Ten new graves have been mado in the Crown Point Cemetery in eight weeks, and it is not considered a very sickly season either. The snowfall of this region during the past winter is estimated at about five feet. That of the winter before was nearly twice as ranch. On the 20th day of May the semi-annual communication of the Grand Lodge of I. O. O. F. of Indiana, will convene at Ind* ' ianapolis. Mr. F. Alkire, of Brookston, has I nine four years old steers which average 1,812 pounds apiece. The heaviest one pulls down the beam ! at 2,090. They are one-fourth Durham stock.

The Odd Fellows are making great preparations for the celebraof the 55th anniversary of their Order, in several localities in Indiana. The anniversary occurs next Monday. Hon. P. M. Kent’s dwelling at. Brookston was baVnt on the night of the lltli. Loss estimated at $16,000; insured for sll,lOO. Burning soot from the chimney fell on the roof and ( started it. About four hundred shade treps have been planted in the Carroll county fair grounds this season. — There is lots of room in the fair ground of Jasper county tor like improvement and ornamentation. Temperance meetings are being held with most encouraging results at Elkhart, Delphi, Monticello and other towns in the State hitherto notorious for the inebriety of many : of their prominent citizens, Pulaski eoanty with a - staunch old reliable .Democratic majority of about 400 reaches to the front with current expenditures during the last year, exclusive of the last term of court, amounting to $29,000. ■ r David Hickman, Silas Hughes and George Cutler, recently arrested in White county charged with counterfeiting nickel coin, have their trial se't for the 9th day of May, in the United States Circuit Court at Indianapolis. Some person tired inloJ.be rear ear of the westward bound express train as it was passing Crooked Creek, White county, last, Thurseav night, and severely wounded, in the back of his head Mr. Heckatliorn, of Mdnt'fcdlo, who was a passenger thereon. Owners of submerged lands bordering on the Calumet river and it 3 tributaries in Lake and Porter counties now have reason to rejoice. The dam across that sluggish stream in Illinois has been removed by order of the Legislature of that State. It has taken about fifteen years of constant fighting to accomplish this end.