Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1874 — INDIANA GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA GOSSIP.

Says the Indianapolis Sun, redhot Republican, “Politics is ujighty uncertain this year.” Pulaski county has 3,253 inhabitants between the ages ot 6 and 21 years-=an increse ot 87. sinee last enumeration. Mr. John Turpie died in Carroll county on the 4th insant, of dropsy of the heart; aged 84 years. lie was father of Hon. David Turpie. Michigan City fishermen have caught 100,000 pounds of lake fish during the past four weeks. This has been a good fishing season thus far. Lowell people are now regaling themselves with “square bottles of stump water, labeled tonic.” It is not supposed to be stomp water that is' put into bottles of that diseription over this way#

Indianapolis and Valparaiso made temperance an issue at their municipal election, and the whiskey party triumphed in both cities. At Lowell, the Star says, “there is only about ten cents discount between a small potato and a gold j dollar,” with a fair prospect of the potatos reaching par before another crop matures. In a suit recently brought by Mrs. Freeman,_against the town of Westville, to recover damages for injuries received by falling through a defective the jury returned a verdict of $4,000 for the plaintiff. While the wheat crops upon clay land in nearly all counties of the State has been badly damaged, ours never looked more promising. Pulaski is one of the best wheat producing counties in the State.— Winamac Democrat. Some very favorable reports come to us of the growing wheat. Here and there is a poor field, hut the general outlook is good. The weather of the last six weeks"damaged .the wheat more than all the winter weather we had.— Winamac Republican. White Loon is 105 years old, as straight as an arrow, lives 16 miles from Fort Wayne, calmly smokes his peaceful calumet, drinks firewater straight, and stoically waits for the conquering hero to comefor his dusky prey. A few more moons and White Loon will be' gathered to the happy hunting grounds of his ancestors. Last Saturday evening, says the Rochester Spy, a young married man was enjoying himself hugely at a game of billiards in a saloon in the north end of towh, when in marched his better four-fifths, and grasping him not gently by the coat collar, screamed “G. L. gittest thou out of here !” G. L. bravely replied that he “could’nt see it.” Where upon she immediately produced a fomidable looking horsepistol, and ramming the muzzle under his nose, repeated her command. George became cognizant of the fact that if ho did’nt see it he was pretty liable to feel it, and took up his line of march well protected in the rear. A very serious accident happened at Monterey on Tuesday last, by which Mr. A. Hay had both of his logs broken below the knee, both bones in each limb being broken in two places,..the left leg being the most serious, it being a compound comminuted fracture, involving serious destruction of the soft parts. The accident occurred while Mr. Hay was helping to move the old school house to the villagej and was caused by the breaking ot the rope attached to the roller, allowing the beam to fly back with great force. Amputation may be necessary to save his life.l—Winamac Republican.