Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1874 — INDIANA GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA GOSSIP.

Covington is boring an artesian well. Williamsport is to have a new SIO,OOO school house. The prospect for a good wheat crop arc brightening in Carroll county. “Potatoes are now dearer than a step mother.” is the wail of the Lowell Star. Hay is very scarce at Logansport, and has been selling as high as $25 a ton. All the drinking saloons in Valparaiso have been closed by order of' the Circuit Court. Grangers are quietly increasing their numbers in Fulton county, the Rochester Union Spy says. The demand for carpenters and builders is very active at Francesville, so the Home Banner says. Martha A. Donaldson, of Vincennes, wants: Thomas Erwin to pay her $5,000 for breaching his promise. There are 102 miles of railroad in Lake county, which is valued at $1,218,263. The rolling stock is worth $383,675. -Hr, Three boys got into a scrimmage at Iventland the other day, when one of them had his “snoot busted” so badly that pieces of the bone had to be removed. * Fancher’s Lake near Crown Point is soon to be stocked with fish; and bathing houses are to be put up on its shore for the convenience of those who make that neighborhood a summer resort. James L. Beatty and Mathew Mayer, boys 14 and 11 years old, were drowned in Mud Lake, Porter county, Sunday before last. There were six boys in a boat together, when they commenced rocking it for fun; it upset and the tAvo named above were drowned.